JAN 20 1896 



173 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXIV. July, 1895. No. 148. 



HENRY M. PHILLIPS PRIZE ESSAYS. 



[Circular Issued by Committee.] 



Philadelphia, 104 South Fifth St., May 1, 1893. 



The American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for 

 the promotion of useful knowledge has the honor to announce 

 that an award of the Henry M. Phillips Prize will be made during 

 the year 1895 ; essays for the same to be in the possession of the 

 Society before the first day of January, 1895. The subjects 

 upon which essays ai-e to be furnished by competitors are as 

 follows : 



1. The sources, formation, and development, of what is gene- 

 rally designated the Common Law of England. 



2. The theory of the State, treated historically, and upon 

 principle, with a discussion of the various schools of classical, 

 mediaeval, and modern thought, upon the subject. 



3. The historical and doctrinal relations of the Koman Law and 

 the English Law, illustrated by parallels and contrasts. 



The Prize for the crowned essay on either of these subjects 



will consist of the sum of five hundred dollars lawful gold coin 



of the United States, to be paid upon the awarding of the prize. 



The Society invites attention to the laws governing said prize, 



which accompany this circular. 



EiCHARD Vaux, Cliairman ; \ 



Henry Phillips, Jr., ) 



William V. McKean, / Committee on the 



FURMAN ShEPPARD, l „ „ du.iiv, 



Joseph C. Fraley, / Henry M. Phillips 



— and — \ Prize Essay Fund 



Frederick Fraley, President of the Society, \ et„ ^^^.v, ) 



J. Sergeant Price, Treasurer of the Society, J J^-^-ojficiis.j 



The essays must be sent, addressed to Frederick Fraley, President of the 

 American Philosophical Society, Hall of the Society, No. lOlt South Fifth Street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa, 



PROC. AMEK. PHILOS SCO. XXXIV. 148. W. PKINTED NOV. 9, 1895. 



