Prizes founded hy the FirJI ConfuL zfy 



points properly diftributed on the anterior, lateral, and poste- 

 rior parts of the furface of the body fubje&ed to experiment 

 and placed at different depths in the fluid ; to determine it5 

 velocity in different points of the ftreams which are neareft 

 the body; and, in the laft pjace, to determine the curves 

 which thefe dreams affecl, the point where they begin to 

 deviate from the generaL direction of the progreffive motion 

 of the body, and that where they unite behind it. 



The prize will be a medal of the weight of live hecto- 

 grammes, about 70 1. fterling, and will be adjudged in the 

 public fitting of the month of Nivofe, year 13. No papers 

 will be received after the 30th of Fru&idor, year 12. 



Pbyjfcs. — The clafs propofed on the 15th of Germinal, 

 year 8, as the fubjeft of a prize the following queftion :— » 

 " <c To determine, by accurate experiments, the influence 

 which atmofpheric air, light, water, and earth, have upon 

 vegetation." As two memoirs only were tranfmitted on this 

 fubj£e% neither of which was thought worthy of the prize, 

 and as the clafs apprehend that the Extent of the queftion 

 may have difcouraged thofe capable of examining it with the 

 belt fuccefs, they now confine it to one of its elements, and 

 propofe as follows : — " To determine, by experiment, the 

 different fources of the carbon in vegetables. " 



The prize will be doubled, and conlift of the value of two 

 kilogrammes of gold, about 280 1. fterling. The determina- 

 tion of the clafs will be publifhed in the public fitting of the 

 month of Nivofe, year 13. The papers mull be tranfmitted 

 to the fecretary of the Inftitute before the id of Vendemiaire 

 the fame year. 



The clafs has thought proper alfo to remind chemifts of 

 the fubject. propofed for the firft time on the 15th of Ger- 

 minal, year 8, ttie renewed period of which will expire on 

 the ill of Nivofe, year 12. It is as follows: — M What arc 

 the characters which in vegetable and animal matters diftin- 

 guifh thofe which ferve as terment from thofe in which they 

 produce fermentation?" 



Report made to the Clafs of the Mathematical and Phyfieal 

 Sciences of the Injlitute on the Prizes founded by the FirJI 

 Cur/fa I for Difcov cries in regard to Electricity and Gal- 

 z'anifm. 



The firft conful, who even amidft the cares of war has 

 caufed the fciences to flouriuS, being deiirous that the peace 

 Ihould carry them to the higheft degree to which they can 

 attain, has given to the National IniUtutc the means of acce- 

 lerating their progrefs. 



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