LIST OF PRIZES 



OFFERED BY THE ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS, 



FOR SESSION 1845-46. 



The Eo YAL Scottish Society of Arts proposes to award 

 Honorary Medals, and Pecuniary Prizes, for approved Com- 

 munications. 



No Prize to exceed Thirty Sovereigns. 

 The attention of the Fellows and of the Public is directed to Inven- 

 tions, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Mechanical and Chemical 

 Arts in General, and also to means by which the Natural Productions of 

 the Country may be made more available ; and, in particular, to, — 



1. Inventions, Discoveries, and New Processes in the Useful Arts. 



2. Inventions, Processes, or Practices from Foreign Countries, not 

 generally known or adopted in Great Britain, 



3. Notices of Processes in the Useful Arts actually practised in this 

 Country, but not generally known. 



4. Experiments applicable to the Useful Arts. 



5. Practical Details of Public or other Undertakings of National im- 

 portance, — not previously published. 



6. Methods of Economising Fuel, Gas, &c. — of Preparing Superior 

 Fuel from Peat, — of Preventing Smoke and Noxious Vapours from 

 Manufactories, — of Warming and Ventilating Public Edifices, Private 

 Dwellings, Ships, &c. — of Constructing Buildings on the mosf correct 

 Acoustic Principles, — of Constructing Economical and Salubrious 

 Dwellings for the Working Classes, especially in Towns, — of Gilding 

 Brass equal in Colour to the French. 



7. Inventions or Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron, and other 

 Metals, simple or alloyed; in the Making and Tempering of Steel, — in 

 Ornamental Metallic Casting, — in Calotype, Daguerreotype, and Elec- 

 trotype, — in the Production of Artificial Light as nearly of the quality of 

 Day-Light as possible, — in the Dissolving of Caoutchouc, and applying 

 it to Useful Purposes, — in the Preparation of Lime and Plaster for 

 Fresco Painting, and in appropriate Tools for laying the Plaster with 

 precision, — in Electric, Voltaic, and Magnetic Apparatus, — in Artificial 

 Pavements, — in Balance or Pendulum Time-keepers, — in Screw-cutting, 

 — in Die-sinking, — in W^ood-cutting, and other methods of illustrating 

 Books to be printed with the Letter Press, — in Printing from Wood- 

 cuts, &c. — in Printing-Presses, — in Stereotyping, and in cleaning the 

 plaster from the Types, — in Furnaces and other Apparatus used in 

 Stereotyping, — in Type- Founding, — in the Composition of Printers' 

 Rollers, — in Engraving on Stone, — in the application of Daguerreotype 

 and Calotype to the Stone for Lithographic Printing, — in Ship-building, 

 with regard to Ventilation, both for the Crew and the Timbers, — in 

 Currying and Tawing of Leather, — in Glass and Porcelain, whether for 

 useful or ornamental purposes, especiallj' for the best account of the 

 Manufacture of Glass Pipes for conveying Water, Gas, &c. — in Station- 

 ary and Locomotive Engines, — in Railway Carriages, and particularly 

 in their Axles, — in Railway Telegraphs and Signals, — in Smith-work 

 and Carpentry, — in Tools, Implements, and Apparatus for the various 

 trades. Also — 



The KEITH PRIZE, value Thirty Sovereigns, 



For some important '■' Invention, Improvement, or Discovery, in the 

 Useful Arts, which shall be primarily submitted to the Society." 



Edinburgh, 1845. 



