The Rumford Fund of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesThe Academy, 1905 - 32 pages |
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200 WILLIAM Academy of Arts Addition to former American Academy AMORY Anomalous Dispersion apparatus Application Appro Appropriation not called ARTHUR G Arts and Sciences award BENJAMIN Benjamin Peirce Bolometer CHARLES construction Count Rumford Daniel Treadwell Diffraction EDWARD EDWIN H ELIHU THOMSON Equivalent of Heat ÉTIENNE LEOPOLD Experiments GEORGE HALE HALL HENRY CREW HOLMAN HUTCHINS important discovery infra-red investigations JAMES JOHN TROWBRIDGE Joseph Lovering Joseph Winlock JOSIAH LANGLEY Magnetic Mechanical Equivalent medals Metallic spectra Method Nathaniel Bowditch NOYES Observatory PEIRCE PENROSE Photographic Photometer Photometry PICKERING plaintiffs Propagation of Heat purchase radiant energy Radiation Researches on radiant RICHARDS ROBERT ROWLAND Rumford Committee Rumford Fund Rumford Premium SAMUEL SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY SEARLE SILAS sodium vapor solar eclipse Solar Spectrum Spectroscopic Standard of light stars stellar THEODORE THEODORE W Thermal Conductivity Thermo-electric Thermometer Thomson effect tion TROUVELOT WEBSTER WILLIAM H WOLCOTT GIBBS xxxi xxxix xxxviii Zodiacal Light
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Page 4 - American funds, may be employed to augment the capital of this premium ; and that the interest of the sums by which the capital may from time to time be so augmented, may regularly be given in money, with the two medals, and as an addition to the original premium, at each succeeding adjudication of it. And it is further my particular request, that those additions to the value of the premium arising from its occasional non-adjudications may be suffered to increase without limitation.
Page 6 - And it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the plaintiffs may appropriate from time to time, as the same can advantageously be done, the residue of the income of said fund hereafter to be received, and not so as aforesaid awarded in premiums, to the purchase of such books and papers and philosophical apparatus (to be the property of said Academy) and in making such publications or procuring such lectures, experiments, or investigations, as shall in their opinion best facilitate and encourage...
Page 3 - ... the one of gold, and the other of silver, and of such dimensions, that both of them together may be just equal in intrinsic value, to the amount of the interest of the aforesaid five thousand dollars...
Page 3 - ... to the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement, which shall be made or published by printing, or in any way made known to the publick, in any part of Europe 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 President and Council, tend most to promote the good of mankind.
Page 3 - I take the liberty to request that it may always be given in two medals, struck in the same die ; the one of gold, and the other of silver, and of such dimensions that both of them together may be just equal in Intrinsic value to the amount of the interest of the aforesaid Five Thousand Dollars stock during two years ; — that is to say, that they may together be of the value of Three Hundred Dollars.
Page 2 - Academy. 1804, subsequently married the widow of Lavoisier, and died in 1814. By a bequest in his will he founded the Rumford Professorship of the Application of Science to the Useful Arts in Harvard University. The Rumford Fund had its origin in the gift by Count Rumford to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of the sum of $5,000 ; which was simultaneous with the gift of a like sum, £1,000, to the Royal Society of Great Britain.
Page 10 - Allegheny, for his application of the spectroscope to astronomical problems, and especially for his investigations of the proper motions of the nebulte, and the physical constitution of the rings of the planet Saturn, by the use of that instrument.
Page 3 - Fellows of the Academy, to the end that the 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 every second year, as a premium to the author of the most important discovery, or useful improvement, which shall be made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America...
Page 3 - ... to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made and published by printing or in any way made known to the public in any part of Europe during the preceding two years on Heat or on Light, the preference always being given to such discoveries as, in the opinion of the President and Council of the Royal Society, tend most to promote the good of mankind.
Page 2 - SIR, — Desirous of contributing efficaciously to the advancement of a branch of science which has long employed my attention, and which appears to me to be of the highest importance to mankind, and wishing at the ваше time to leave a lasting testimony of my respect for the American Academy...