Premiums : 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.

Author/creator American Philosophical Society
Other author Barton, W.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1796]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 29977. ^A478749
General noteFollowed 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."
General noteSigned: Republished by order of the society, W. Barton. John Bleakley. Secretaries. Philadelphia, May, 1796.
References Evans 29977
References Rink, E. Technical Americana, 951
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29977).
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