gi Electoral Academy of Munich. 



Orleans, Dalmatia, Sec. The third clafs are dill uncertain, 

 as it is not known whether they are real foffil bones of the 

 urus, buffalo, and amis. From this quantity one may judge 

 what may be hoped from the united refearches of all natu- 

 ralifts, when it is confidered that thefe fpecies of animals, now 

 loft, were collected or determined in the courfe of two years 

 by one man, who employed no other means for that purpofe 

 than his own zeal and the afii fiance of his friends. The 

 moft celebrated foreign naturalifts, my colleagues in France, 

 thofe in France as well as in foreign countries who poffefs 

 cabinets, and the keepers of public collections, have all been 

 fo good as to aflift me with their advice, and to communicate 

 to me the facts which were known to them. By the degree 

 of perfection to which my work has been brought, I flatter 

 myfelf that I am entitled to the fupport of all the learned in 

 Europe. I am now in porTefiion of more than 300 draw- 

 ings : 50 copper-plates are finifhed, feveral others are begun, 

 and I expect, before the work is publifhed, to enrich it with 

 important matter, which this notice may procure. 



ELECTORAL ACADEMY OF MUNICH. 



In the fitting of April 20th, the following prize queftion, 

 propofed by the Philofophical Clafs for 1801, was again pro- 

 pofed for 1803, as no fatisfa&ory anfwer had been received : 



Are the azotic gafes produced by fo many means totally 

 unlike, and in fo many different ways, perfectly the fame 

 in all their chemical properties and fundamental principle 

 (fimple azote) as that of the atmofphere ? And, Has the 

 nitrous acid the fame azote for its acidifying principle as the 

 azote of the atmofphere ? 



The following have alfo been propofed for the year 1803 

 by the fame Clafs : 



To determine, by chemical analyfis as well as fynthefis, 

 whether manganefe be an eiiential component part of every 

 kind of fteel ; and particularly of cad Iteel, prepared accord- 

 ing to Clouet's method ? 



The Hiftorical Clafs, at the fame time, propofed the fol- 

 lowing queftion for 1802 : 



In what writings is any mention to be found of the Bava- 

 rian hiftory, from the origin of the Bavarian nation to the 

 15th century? who were the authors of them, and what are 

 their hiftorical authority and importance? 



Anfwcrs to the two queftions of the Philofophical Clafs 

 miift be tranfmitted, before the ift of November 1801, to the 

 feci etarv of the academy J. Kennedy. The prize is the uiual 

 gold medal of the value of fifty ducats. 



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