142 SCrENTIFIC NEWS; 



The value of thefe two prizes is doubled, and confifts itt 

 two kilogrammes of gold about 6800 francs each (c£289.) 



The clafs had propofed for the fecond time, the 15th Ger- 

 mmal of the year 10, as the rubje6l of a prize to be decreed 

 in the public fitting of Meflidor, the following queftion. 



Ferments. *« "What are the charaders which diftinguifli, in vegetable 



and animal matters, thofe bodies which ferve as ferments from 

 Ihofe in which they produce the ftate of fermentation," 

 ' The memoirs received not having anfwered the conditions 

 of the program, and the clafs confidering that this queftion 

 has been four years before the public, the fubjeft is now with- 

 drawn. 



Aftronomy. Aftronomy. Mr. Piazzi of Palermo has obtained the prize 



PUMi^^""'^^^ founded by IVl. De Lalande, in favour of the perfon who fhall 

 have made the nioft interefting obfervation, or written the 

 inoft ufeful memoir to the progrefs of aftronomy. Mr. PiazzJi 

 is the difcoverer of the planet Ceres. 



Readings. The readings delivered during the fitting were as follow: 



1. Notice of the labours of the clafs during the year; the 

 mathematical part by M. Deiambre. 2. Notice of their la- 

 bours ; the phyfical part by M. Cuvier. 3. Account of a 

 phytico-mathematical theory of currents of water, by M. 

 Prony. 4. A note refpe6ling the amelioration of Iheep in the 

 foulh of France, by M. Teffier. 5. General reffedtions on the 

 produ61ions of the vegetable kingdom in the Pyrenean moun- 

 tains by M. Raymond. 6. Refleflions on heat, by Count 

 Rumford*. 7. Extra6! of a memoir tending to illuftrate the 

 occonomical hiftory of vegetables, cultivated or naturally grow* 

 ing in the Canaries, by M. Brouflbnet. 



ExtraB f^f a Letter from Professor Bode, Ajlronomer Jtoj/al, 

 to Mr. A. K Thoelden, 



Datied Berlin, Sept. 1 8* 



Place of new ON the firft of September Mr. Harding difcovered, at 



pluiets. Lilrenthal, a new moveable ftar ; it appears to be of the eighth 



magnitude; its motion retrograde towards the South. Proba-> 



bly this may be another new planet m the orbit of Ceres and 



Pallas. 



I ft Sept. 



