The Bufalini Prize.

  • United States. Bureau of Education.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The Bufalini Prize. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Legation of Italy, New York, July 3, 1883. Mr. Secretary of State: The Royal Institute of Higher Studies at Florence, by a resolution adopted on the 1st of May last, declared that all persons were at liberty to compete for the prize of 5,000 francs which was offered by the celebrated scientist Maurizio Bufalini to the person presenting the best essay on the subject of the ex- perimental method in science. In pursuance of the instructions which I have just received from my government, I hasten herewith to transmit to Your Excellency the programme relative to the com- petition, begging you to be pleased to have it brought to the notice of American sci- entists, to the end that they may be enabled to compete for the Bufalini prize. Thanking you in advance for the steps that you will be pleased to take in connec- tion with this matter, I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you, Mr. Secretary, the assurance of my highest consideration. A. DALLA YALLE, Charge d'Affaires of Italy. His Excellency Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER PRACTICAL STUDIES AND IMPROVE- MENT, AT FLORENCE. Resolution adopted by the section of medicine and surgery of the Royal Institute for Higher Practical Studies and Improvement, at Florence. AVhereas the will of the illustrious scientist, Maurizio Bufalini, dated September 12, 1874, provided that a legacy should be left to the above named section sufficient to en- able it to offer a prize to the author of the best essay on the subject named by the testator, the section has resolved: (1) Competition for the Bufalini prize shall be open from this 1st day of May, 1883. (2) The time during which essays may be presented shall expire on the 31st day of October, 1884, at 3 o’clock p. M. (3) The amount of the prize shall be 5,000 lire.1 (4) The chancellor of the section of medicine and surgery of the Institute for Higher Practical Studies and Improvement (whose address is via degli Alfani, No. 35) is officially designated to receive the essays of competitors and to give his receipt for the same. (5) Thenotice, the problem on which essays are to be written, a list of certain works, and the rules relative to the competition, which were laid down by Professor Bufalini in his will, shall be published. They are as follows: NOTICE. The constant experience of my long life has fully convinced me of three great truths, Vlz: C1) That all principles of reasoning called a priori are entirely false, or at any 1 The lira = 19.3 cents; the value of the prize is therefore $905.