Premiums
Subtitle: The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums, to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29977
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Awards; Science; Societies
Notes: Followed by rules and conditions adopted by the society for the disposition of premiums issued in conformity to the intention of the donor, "Mr. I.H. De Magellan, of London."

Signed: Republished by order of the society, W. Barton. John Bleakley. Secretaries. Philadelphia, May, 1796.

Evans 29977

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 951