"Navigation of the United States": suggestions "for settling the Navigation laws of the United States permanently upon the ground of principle and for the improvement of commerce and navigation"; includes a calculation of naval expenditures made by Great Britain from 1688 to 1788; [docketed]: "Mr. Coxe's suggestions for the Improvement of Commerce & Navigation."
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.
