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Title: Notice sur la séance publique du Cercle des Philadelphes, tenue le 15 août 1788. [Page 2:] Programme des prix proposes par le Cercle des Philadelphes
Identifier(s): text:1156; local: APSimg6618; local: 27
Description: Lists several prizes proposed by the society, including: a means of manufacturing paper resistent to insects, a method of determining the point of "lessive" in the manufacture of sugar, the most efficient use of slave labor in the cultivation of sugar, a discussion of the maladies produced by different species of worms and fish, and a method of preventing insects from infesting the Royal grainhouses.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1101, no. 15.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelpheset al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Awards
Date: 1788

Title: Sujets de prix, proposés par l'Académie...pour l'année 1782.... [Page 2:] Pour l'année 1783. ...A Lyon, le 5 septembre 1780
Identifier(s): text:63; APSimg6386; Goodman Number: 1; 973 C683 No. 207
Description: Gives details of two prizes proposed and funded by Abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal. The first, to be awarded in 1782, offers 600 livres for the best entry relating to the prosperity of manufacturing in Lyon. The second, to be awarded in 1783,offers 1200 livres for the best entry discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of the discovery of America. Signed in type by [Marc-Antoine-Louis Claret de Fleurieu de] La Tourrette, perpetual secretary of the academy.
Creator: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Awards; Organizations; Discovery & exploration; Industry
Date: 1780

Title: To the public. ...Conditions...upon which said annual [Magellanic] premiums will be awarded. ...Published by order of the society, at Philadelphia, the 19th day of November, 1786
Identifier(s): text:994; APSimg6748; Goodman Number: 10
Description: Signed in type by James Hutchinson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Magaw, and John Foulke, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. Originally enclosed in letter from Samuel Vaughan to [Jean] Hermann, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg, March 20, 1788. The Magellanic premium was begun in 1786 with a 200-guinea donation from John Hyacinth Magellan, a Portuguese member of the Royal Society, and was awarded periodically to "the author of the best discovery, or most useful improvement relating to navigation, astronomy or natural philosophy, mere natural history only excepted."; Located in folder: 1788 March 20. Samuel Vaughan to Professor Hermann.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Astronomy; Navigation; Physics
Date: 1786

Title: 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.
Identifier(s): text:1770; APSimg6516; Goodman Number: 11; 973 C683 No. 251
Description: Includes information on seven premiums offered by the society for the best entries in the following categories: system of liberal education, method for computing longitude by lunar observation, improvement of a ship's pump, improvement of stoves, method of preventing premature decay of peach trees, experimental treatise on vegetable dyes, and improvement of lamps. Also includes a notice of the conditions of the Magellanic premium. Note at base of this broadside requests printers of "newspapers and other periodical publications, in the United States and in Europe" to "republish the above information." Signed in type by W[illiam] Barton and John Bleakley, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Education; Longitude; Inventions
Date: 1796