33® Scitniific NetoSt Accounts of Booh, &c. 



1. To difcufs, by comparifon with a great number of good obfervations, the value 

 of the coefHcients of the lunar inequalities, and to give for the longitude, latitude, and 

 parallax of that luminary, formulas ftill more accurate and complete than thofe which 

 have been ufed as the bafis of the tables at prefent in ufe. 



2. To conftru^Sl, according to thefe formulae, tables of fufficient extent for the con- 

 venience and certainty of computation. 



The prize is fix thoufand franks (250I.) 



The Board of Longitude appoints no term for the decifion, but will award the prize to 

 the firft piece which fhall fulfil the conditions of the program. It declares likewlfe to 

 aftronomers and geometers that it will not ceafe to folicit the encouragement of the French 

 government in favor of the perfeftion and theory of the tables of the moon. 



The pieces muft be fent au Bureau des Longitude, Palais National des Sciences et Arts, 

 a Paris. 



They mufl not bear the name of the author, but merely a fentence or device. If the 

 author thinks fit he may fend alfo a fealed billet, containing not only the device, but the 

 name and addrefs of the author, which billet will not be opened unlefs the piece itfelf 

 fliall have gained the prize. 



The prize will be given without any formality to the bearer of the receipt which the 

 fecretary ftiall have given. 



(Signed) 



DELAMBRE, Prefident. 

 LALANDE, Secretary. 



TranJlaUa/i oj a M S. Note of Cit. G. Cuvier, relative to Fojfil SuhjeBs of Natural Hijlory. 



I am engaged on a large work upon the bones of quadrupeds found within the earth. 

 I have already colle6led a large quantity of thefe bones as well from France as front 

 foreign countries, and I have proved that feveral of them belong to fpecies at prefent 

 unknown to naturalifts. 



This is certainly the fa£t, not only with refpedl: to thofe fofTiis which were before 

 known, "fuch as the crocodiles or cetaceous animals of Maeftricht, the elephants and 

 rhinocerofes of Siberia and Germany, the bears of Anfpach, the elks of Ireland ; but alfo 

 with refpe£t to others which were firft difcovered by me, fuch as the tapirs of the ufual 

 Cze, and the tapirs of gigantic magnitude of France; the animals intermediate between 

 the tapir and the rhinoceros, three fpecies of which are found buried in the gjpfum in the 

 environs of Paris, whofe figures accompany this note *, to convey an idea of them to thofe 

 perfons who may interefl; themfelves in my refearches. 



• The engravings, which are five in number, and will undoubtedly compofe part of the work of the 

 learned author, could not, for many reafons, be given with this tranflation.— N. 



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