1 Academy of Sciences at Turin) c$£. £§i 



<5ih, The Works of the celebrated poet Gram!, entitled 

 Divan, 



ACADEMY OS* SCIENCES AT TUR*N< 



The class of the physical and mathematical sciences has 

 proposed the following prize questions : — 1st, The phaeno- 

 mena of electricity and galvanism present on the one hand 

 so many analogous circumstances, and on the other such a 

 great number ordifferent effects, that many philosophers con- 

 sider them as identic, while others suppose that there are two 

 different fluids. The Society therefore requires new expe- 

 riments, which may determine in a definitive .manner whe- 

 ther the fluids are the same or different. 



The prize is 600 franks ; and the papers must be sent in 

 before the 20th Dec. 1804. 



2d, It appears by the Connoissance des Terns, an 12, 

 p. 217, that the refraction assumed does not make the ob- 

 servations of the summer and winter solstice of the years 

 7, 8, and g, to coincide so exactly, as to give to the 

 ecliptic that obliquity which it ought to have; and it is 

 evident that a difference of eight seconds, found in the- 

 result of the calculations, not of one or two, but of all the 

 observations made, on different days of different years, 

 must arise from some cause or other :. a satisfactory expki-r 

 nation of this subject is required. The prize and period 

 the same as above. 



The class of literature and the arts have proposed the 

 following question: — To show whether the science known- 

 under the name of Statistics be new; and what advantage 

 states derive from it. Prize and period as before. 



The papers may be written in Latin, French, or Ifalian f> 

 and must be sent to the Academy post paid. 



THE MARKISH ECONOMICAL SOCiETr. 



This society has offered a premium of twenty- five rix- 

 dollars for the surest and best means of extirpating cater- 

 pillars. The premium will be adjudged in the spring of ; 

 the year 180G, but the papers must be transmitted to^the 

 society before May 1805. 



ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 



Paris, Auguft 8th. 

 Equally desirous of conferring the blessings of order 

 a*nd the happiness derived from science, his Imperial Ma- 

 jesty has decreed a National Institute for the Italian repub- 

 lic. This body of scientific men opened their sittings at 



Bologna- 



