Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Vol. 33

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Vol. 33: January to December, 1894 Section 1. John Hyacinth de Magellan, in London, having in the year 1786 offered to the Society, as a donation, the sum of two hundred guineas, to be by them vested in a secure and permanent fund, to the end that the interest arising therefrom should be annually disposed of in pre miums, to be adjudged by them to the author of the best discovery, or most useful invention, relating to Navigation, Astronomy, or Natural Philosophy (mere natural history only excepted) and the Society having accepted of the above donation, they hereby publish the condi tions, prescribed by the donor and agreed to by the Society, upon which the said annual premiums will be awarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.