above donation, they hereby publish the conditions, prescribed by tlie 

 donor and agreed to by the Society, upon which the said annual premiums 

 will be awarded. 



CONDITIONS OP THE MAGELLANIC PREMIUM. 



1. The candidate shall send his discovery, invention or improvement, 

 addressed to the President, or one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, 

 free of postage or other charges ; and shall distinguish his performance by 

 some motto, device, or other signature, at his pleasure. Together with 

 his discover}^ invention, or improvement, lie shall also send a sealed letter 

 containing the same motto, device or signature, and subscribed with the 

 real name and place of residence of the author. 



2. Persons of any nation, sect or denomination whatever, shall be ad- 

 mitted as candidates for this premium. 



3. S'o discovery, invention or improvement shall be entitled to this 

 premium, which hath been already published, or For which the author hath 

 been publicly rewarded elsewhere. 



4. The candidate shall communicate his discover^-, invention or improve- 

 ment, either in the English, French, German, or Latin language. 



5. All such communications shall be publicl3" read or exhibited to the 

 Society at some stated meeting, not less than one month previous to the 

 day of adjudication, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of such 

 members as shall desire it. But no member shall carry home with him the 

 communication, description, or model, except the officer to whom it shall be 

 entrusted ; nor shall such officer part with the same out of his custody, 

 without a special order of the Society for that purpose. 



6. The Society, having previously referred the several communications 

 from candidates for the premium, then depending, to the consideration of the 

 twelve councilors and other officers of the Society, and having received 

 their report thereon, shall, at one of their stated meetings in the month of 

 December, annually, after the expiration of this current year (of the time 

 and place, together with the particular occasion of which meeting due no- 

 tice shall be previously given, by public advertisement) proceed to final ad- 

 judication of the said premium ; and, after due consideration had, a vote shall 

 first be taken on this question, viz. : Whether any of the communications 

 then undm- inspection be worthy of the proposed premium ? If this question 

 be determined in the negative, the whole business shall be deferred till 

 another year ; but if in the affirmative, the Society shall proceed to determine 

 by ballot, given by the members at large, the discovery, invention or 

 improvement most useful and worthy ; and that discovery, invention, or 

 improvement which shall be found to have a majority of concurring votes 

 in its fixvor shall be successful ; and then, and not till then, the sealed let- 

 ter accompanying the crowned performance shall be opened, and the name 

 of the author announced as the person entitled to the said premium. 



7. No member of the Society who is a candidate for the premium then 

 depending, or who hath not previously declared to the Society, that he has 

 considered and weighed, according to the best of his judgment, the compara- 

 tive merits of the several claims then under consideration, shall sit in judg- 

 ment, or give his vote in awarding the said premium. 



8. A' full account of the crowned subject shall be published by the So- 



