The American Philosophical Society 



ainnoupws.that an award will be made in the year 1921 of the 



HENRY M. PHILLIPS PRIZE 



The subject upon which essays are to be submitted is 



The Control of the Foreign Relations of the United States : 

 The Relative Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities of the Presi- 

 dent, of the Senate and the House, and of the Judiciary, in 

 Theory and in Practice. 



The Essay shall contain not more than one hundred thousand words, 

 exclusive of notes, and must be in the possession of the Society on or 

 before December 31, 1920. 



The Prize for the crowned essay will be Two Thousand Dollars, in 

 gold coin of the United States, to be paid as soon as may be after the 

 award. 



Attention is called to the following regulations governing the award 

 of the Prize: 



Competitors for the prize shall affix to their essays some motto or name 

 (not the proper name of the author, however) and when the essay is forwarded 

 to the Society it shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing within 

 the proper name and address of the author and on the outside thereof the 

 motto or name adopted for the essay. 



At a stated meeting of the Society in pursuance of the advertisement, all 

 essays received up to that time shall be referred to a Committe of Judges, to 

 consist of five persons, who shall be selected by the Society from nominations 

 made by the Committee on the Henry M. Phillips Prize. 



Essays may be written in any language, but, if not in English, must be 

 accompanied by an English translation. 



No essay which has been already published or printed, or for which the 

 author has received any prize or profit of any nature whatsoever, shall be 

 accepted in competition for the prize. 



Essays must be typewritten on only one side of the paper, and six copies 

 must be furnished by their respective authors for the use of the Committee 

 of Judges. 



The literary property of such essays shall be in their author, subject to 

 the right of the Society to publish the crowned essay in its "Transactions " 

 or "Proceedings." 



The Society reserves the right not to award the prize if none of the com- 

 peting essays is deemed worthy of it. 



John Bassett Moore, 

 David Jayne Hill, 

 Simeon E. Baldwin, 

 John Cadwalader, 

 W. W. Keen, 

 William B. Scott, 

 President ex-officio. 



Committee. 



The essays must be sent, addressed to the 

 President of the American Philosophical 

 Society. No. 104 South Fifth Street, Phila- 

 delphia, U. S. A. 



