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tributed at the public fitting of Vendemiaire in the year 13. 

 Memoirs mull be tranfmitted to the Secretary of the Inflitute 

 before the 15th Mefiidor of the year 12. 



The queftion propofed by the Oafs of Moral and Political 

 knowledge is, 



■* To determine how the faculty of thought can be decom- Decompofition 

 pofed; and what are the elementary faculties which can be o( tlM) ught. 

 difcovered in it ?" 



The prize is a gold metal of the weight of five heclo- 

 grammes (about 1700 fr.) : it will be adjudged at the public 

 fitting of Germinal in the 12th year of the Republic. 



The works cannot be received after the 15th Nivofe of 

 the fame year. 



Prize for Geography. " To compare the geographical Geography 

 charts by Ptolemy, of the interior of Africa, with thofe which P"" 1 

 have been tranfmitted to us by fubfequent geographers and 

 hiftorians, with the exception of Egypt and the coafls of Bar- 

 bary from Tunis to Morocco." 



This fubjeft had. been propofed in the year 9, but the me- 

 moirs fent not correfponding to the conditions of the notice, 

 it was renewed. 



The prize is a gold medal weighing five hectogrammes 

 (about 1700 fr.), and will be adjudged in the public fitting of 

 MefTidorin the year 12. The memoirs muft be fent in before 

 the 15 th Germinal of the fame year. 



The Medical Society at Montpellier has propofed two Med. Soc of 



prizes of 500 francs each, of which the firft is to be adjudged Montpellier. 

 •f-., .,,.,.», i r 1 1 • Ptizt queftions. 



in May 1803, and the fecond in May 1804, on the following 



queftions : 



1ft. In what kinds of difeafes, and under what circum- Inflammation? 

 fiances, is inflammation favourable or dangerous ? and, in the 

 treatment of fuch difeafes, in what cafes ought it to be ex- 

 cited or checked. 



2d. To afcertain by experiment and obfervation, what de- Medicines by 

 gree of confidence can be placed on the ufe of certain fub- frMft,on * 

 fiances, by friction, which are generally adminiftered inter- 

 nally ; to determine the effect of fuch remedies, in both me- 

 thods, and alfo the quantity of the dole; to point out the dif- 

 eafes and cafes in which one method is to be preferred to the 

 other; and finally, to determine, in the different maladies, 

 to what parts of the body the application of thefe remedies, 

 are moil efficacious. 



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