 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1818 - 474 pages
...conferred, I take the liberty to request that it may always be given in two medals, struck in the same dye, the one of gold and the other of silver, and of such dimensions as that both of them together may be just equal in intrinsic value to the amount of the interest of... | |
 | Meteorology - 1828 - 888 pages
...interest of the same may be by them, and by their successors, received from time to time, for ever, and the amount of the same applied and given, once...and of such dimensions, that both of them together mav be just equal in intrinsic value, to the amount of the interest of the aforesaid five thousand... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Chemistry - 1831 - 582 pages
...LIGHT. In regard to the form in which this premium was to be conferred, he requested that it might always be given in two medals, struck in the same die, the one of gold, and the other of silver. Should not any discovery or improvement be made during any terms of years, he directed that the value... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...LIGHT. In regard to the form in which this premium was to be conferred, he requested that it might always be given in two medals, struck in the same die, the one of gold, and the other of silver. Should not any discovery or improvement be made during any terms of years, he directed that the value... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1833 - 814 pages
...it is laid out in the purchase of stock, to augment the original bequest. The premium is directed to be given in two medals, struck in the same die, the one of gold, the other of silver, both of them together of the intrinsic value of £60. They have been awarded as... | |
 | Augustus Bozzi Granville - 1836 - 300 pages
...any part of Europe during the two preceding years, " on Light and Heat." The sum in question is to be given in two medals, struck in the same die, the one of gold, the other of silver. The medals more recently founded are those which, by a spontaneous act of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1848 - 442 pages
...the good of mankind." He further requested, that the premium " might always be given in two medals, one of gold and the other of silver, and of such dimensions...interest of the aforesaid five thousand dollars." Several years passed away without any discoveries being made, which seemed to meet the intentions of... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the publick, in any part of the Continent of America, or in any...be just equal in intrinsic value to the amount of interest of the aforesaid Five Thousand Dollars stock during two years : that is to say, that they... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 746 pages
...to the advancemen' of a branch of science which has long employed my attention, and which apr cars to me to be of the highest importance to mankind ;...years, that is to say, that they may together be of th«! value of three hundred dollars. The Academy will be pleased to order such device or inscription... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 908 pages
...12, 1796. To the Hon. John Adams, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: SIB, — Desirous of contributing efficaciously to the advancement...be just equal in intrinsic value to the amount of interest of the aforesaid five thousand dollars stock during two years: that is to say, that they may... | |
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... in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands during the preceding two years, on heat, or on light; the preference always being given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the academy, tend most to promote the... 
