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Letter, 'Announcement of his decision to give £1000 to provide a medal' from Benjamin Thompson to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/11/19

Date: 12 July 1796

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Also contains Council's acceptance of this offer.

Subject: Medals

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letter from Sir Benjamin Thompson, Knt. Count of Rumford, F. R. S. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. announcing a donation to the Royal Society, for the purpose of instituting a Prize Medal'

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L&P/11/19
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12 July 1796
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Letter, 'Announcement of his decision to give £1000 to provide a medal' from Benjamin Thompson to Joseph Banks, 12 July 1796, L&P/11/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_19/letter-announcement-of-his-decision-to-give-1000-to-provide-a-medal-from-benjamin-thompson-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 10 April 2026

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