Royal Academy at Stockholm, &c. 87 



p'rovement, but tend to fprcad a tafte for philofophical (Indies, 

 which cannot fail to prove eventually highly beneficial even 

 in a commercial point of view, as leading to fcicntific im- 

 provements in the various manufactures of the neighbour- 

 hood. We wifh fimilar inftitutions were more general. 



ROYAL ACADEMY; OF INSCRIPTIONS, FINE ARTS, 

 HISTORY, AND ANTI GlU ITIE S, AT STOCKHOLM. 



As the fociety received no anfwer to the following queftion: 

 A hiftorico-critical treatife on the printed and manufcript 

 works written by individuals of the royal family; it has 

 been again propofed for the year 1802. 



The following prize queftions have alfo been propofed : 



Foreign languages. — An examination of the advantages or 

 difad vantages of the new methods invented in modern times 

 ibr facilitating the ftudy of the fciences; and whether thefe 

 methods are prejudicial to real learning. The prize is a gold 

 medal of the value of twenty-fix ducats. 



Antiquities. — An eflay on the origin of the arts and ma- 

 nufactures in Sweden, and on the progrefs of them, to the 

 acceflion of Guftavus I.; with a general view of the laws and 

 regulations which relate to trades and companies. The prize 

 is a gold medal of fifteen ducats. 



InJ'criptions and Devices.— Sketch of epitaphs for king 

 Charles VIII. ; Knutfon, Eirger Jarl, and Terkel Knutfon, 

 regents of the kingdom during the minority of king Birger. 

 Sketch of medals on the mod remarkable events which took 

 place in Sweden in the courfe of the 18th century, to be 

 choi'en at the pleafure of the author. The prize is a gold 

 medal of twelve ducats. 



The papers mult be tranfmittcd to the academy, in the 

 ufual manner, before the 20th of January 1803. 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN. 



On the 28th of January 1802 the academy held a public 

 fitting, which was opened by M. Merian with a difcourfe 

 in French ; after which he read the eulogy of M. Selle, the 

 late director of the philofophic clafs. He announced alfo 

 that his intimate friend M. Gerhard had difcovered that, in 

 galvanic experiments, nickel combined with zinc produces 

 the fame effect as filter and copper. 



Prof eflbr Bode read a hifiory of the difcovery of the new 

 planet Ceres, obferved by him on the 15th, 23d, 25th, and 

 26th of January. 



Klaproth, in a memoir on galvanifm, gave fome details on 

 the laft experiments made on a large fcale on that fubject by 



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