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COUNT RUMFORD'S DONATION. 



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ESIROUS of contributing efficacioufly to 



the ad- 



vancement of a branch of fcience, which has long employed 

 my attention, and which appears to me to be of the higheft 

 importance to mankind ; and wifhing at the fame time to 

 leave a lafling teftimony of my refpedl for the American 



Academy of Arts and Sciences, I take the liberty to requeft 



that the Academy would do me the honor to accept of five 

 thoufand dollars, three per cent flock, in the funds of the 

 United States of North America, which flock I have acftually 

 purchafed, and which I beg leave to transfer to the Fellows 

 of the Academy, to the end that the interefl of the fame may 



be by them, and by their fucceffor 



d from time to 



time, for ever, and the amount of the fame applied and given, 

 once every fecond year, as a premium to the author of the 

 moft important difcovery, or ufeful improvement, which fliall 



be 



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ade and pubhfhed by r 



or 



y way made 



n > X public, in any part of the continent of America 

 any of .he American iilands, during the preceding twc 



years, on heat, or on hght, the preference always being 



to 



