and the Arts, subject to such condition as the said Committee, with the approval of the Institute, may propose."

The Certificate of Merit.-At the stated meeting of the Institute, held on June 21, 1882, the following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That the Committee on Science and the Arts of The Franklin Institute is hereby authorized to award, and issue to persons by said Committee adjudged worthy, a Certificate of Merit for their inventions, discoveries or productions, which certificate shall read as follows:

"The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion

of the Mechanic Arts, awards to

this

Certificate of Merit. This award is made pursuant to the recommendation of the Committee on Science and the Arts.

Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts.

-President.

[SEAL]

-Secretary."

The John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal.-John Scott, chemist, late of Edinburgh, by his will, made in the year 1816, bequeathed the sum of four thousand dollars in the funded three per cent. stock of the United States, to the corporation of the City of Philadelphia, directing that the interest and dividend to become receivable thereon should be laid out in premiums, to be distributed among ingenious men and women who make useful inventions, but no such premium to exceed twenty dollars, and that therewith shall be given a copper medal with this inscription: "To the most deserving."

The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, by an ordinance passed February 17, 1834, vested the award of the aforesaid premiums and medals in The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.

The Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, by an Act passed and approved June 30, 1869, created a Board of Directors of City Trusts, to whom was referred the charge of administration of all estates dedicated to charitable uses.

The control of the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal was (by the Act of 1869) transferred to the Board of Directors of City Trusts.

This Board, by a resolution passed April 12, 1882, referred the matter. with instructions, to its Committee on Wills' Hospital and Minor Trusts.

The Committee on Wills' Hospital and Minor Trusts, by a resolution passed April 12, 1882, resolved that "They will favorably receive the names of any persons whom The Franklin Institute may, from time to time report to the Committee on Minor Trusts as worthy of receiving the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal."

The Franklin Institute, by a resolution passed June 21, 1882, accepted the above, and referred the duty of making examinations, etc., to the Committee on Science and the Arts.

FORM A

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

OF THE

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

FOR THE

PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS.

(The following form must be filled in, signed, and promptly returned to the Secretary of the Institute, at 15 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia, by the applicant for an examination and report upon an invention or discovery.)

In the matter of your application to The Franklin Institute for a consideration of your invention or discovery entitled

the following data are requested for the

information of the Committee on Science and the Arts:

1. What is the specific purpose of the invention?

2. What is the condition of the prior art in this regard?

3. What improvement is claimed to be effected by the invention?

4. How is the improvement effected?

5. What patents, if any, have been issued for this invention?

6. What citations, if any, were made in this regard by the Patent Office before allowance of patent claims?

7. Is the invention now in actual use?

8. If so, since when?

9. Where may it be seen in operation?

10. Are you prepared to submit drawings of the apparatus or device? 11. Are you prepared to submit a model of the apparatus or device?

12. If the invention is a composition of matter, are you prepared to submit specimens of the ingredients and of the compound sufficient for the purpose of experiments?

13. If the invention is a chemical process, are you prepared to give a demonstration of the same?

This report is to be signed by all members of the sub-committee who participated in the investigation.

TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS:

Your sub-committee appointed to investigate the above subject reports as follows:

The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, acting through its Committee on Science and the Arts, investigating

Philadelphia Board of City Trusts shall award the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal-or-the Institute awards the

Countersigned

Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts.

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE AWARDS.

September, 1911, to September, 1912.

THE ELLIOTT CRESSON MEDAL.

JOHANN FRIEDRICH ADOLPH VON BAEYER, Ph.D., F.M.R.S., of Munich, Germany, in recognition of the many important results of his extended research in organic chemistry and of his discovery of synthetic processes of great industrial value.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, SC.D., Ph.D., LL.D., of Washington, D. C., in recognition of the value of his solution of the problem of the electrical transmission of articulate speech.

SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Ó.M., of London, England, in recognition of his important discoveries in inorganic and analytical chemistry and of his pioneer work on the discharge of electricity through gases. GRAY NATIONAL TELAUTOGRAPH COMPANY, of New York, N. Y., for their Telautograph.

ALBERT A. MICHELSON, SC.D., Ph.D., LL.D., of Chicago, Ill., in recognition of his original and fruitful investigations in the field of physical optics.

EDWARD WILLIAMS MORLEY, Sc.D., Ph.D., LL.D., of West Hartford, Conn., in recognition of his important contributions to chemical science and particularly of his accurate determinations of fundamental magnitudes.

ALFRED NOBLE, C.E., LL.D., of New York, in recognition of his distinguished achievements in the field of civil engineering.

SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., of London, England, in recognition of his extended and important researches in the domains of inorganic, physical, and industrial chemistry.

MAJOR GEORGE OWEN SQUIER, Ph.D., of Washington, D. C., for his inventions in Multiplex Telephony.

SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON, D.Eng., Sc.D., of Washington, D. C., in recognition of his distinguished and directive work in physical science and metrology, and its application in the arts and industries.

ELIHU THOMSON, Sc.D., Ph.D., of Swampscott, Mass., in recognition of his leading and distinguished work in the industrial applications of electricity.

WALTER V. TURNER, of Wilmerding, Pa., for his Air Brake Inventions and Developments.

THE HOWARD N. POTTS MEDAL.

T. LYTTLETON LYON, Ph.D., and JAMES A. BIZZELL, Ph.D., for their paper on "The Relation of Certain Non-Leguminous Plants to the Nitrate Content of Soils" in the JOURNAL.

THE EDWARD LONGSTRETH MEDAL.

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PROF. CHARLES BASKERVILLE, Ph.D., for his paper on The Chemistry of Anæsthetics in the JOURNAL.

EDWIN M. CHANCE, for his paper on "The Examination and Physiological Action of Pathogenic Mine Atmospheres, with Considerations Governing the Use of Breathing Apparatus" in the JOURNAL.

JULIAN H. GRANBERY, for his Stadia Rod.

JOHN PRUE KARNS, for his Tunnelling Machine.

PROF. EDWIN F. NORTHRUP, Ph.D., for his paper on Study of Vortex Motions in Liquids" in the JOURNAL.

An Experimental

OSWALD SCHREINER, Ph.D., and ELBERT C. LATHROP, A.B., for their paper on "The Distribution of Organic Constituents in Soils" in the JOURNAL.

PROF. CARL C. THOMAS, M.E., for his paper on "The Measurement of Gases" in the JOURNAL.

THE JOHN SCOTT LEGACY MEDAL AND PREMIUM. Awarded by the City of Philadelphia on the recommendation of The Franklin Institute.

SHERARD COWPER-COLES, of London, England, for his Process of Depositing Metals on Metallic Surfaces and the Product Thereof.

GUSTAV DIETZ, of Yonkers, N. Y., for his Between-Lens High Speed Photographic Shutter.

LOUIS W. DOWNES, of Providence, R. I., for his Process of and Machinery for Insulating Wire with Asbestos.