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Conditions of competition. — Tlio articles proposed for competition must fulfil 

 the following conditions : Be Avrittcn in French or Latin ; he received at the sec- 

 retariat of the Academy, rue Jean-Jac(iues Bel, before the 31st October, 1869 or 

 1870, as indicated in the programme ; be free of postage ; neither be signtxl by 

 the author nor contain any indication by which he can bo known ; they shall 

 bear an epigraph, which shall be repeated in a scaled note annexed to the article 

 to which it belongs. This note, besides the epigraj)h, shall contain the name 

 and address of the author, with the declarati(m that it has never been printed, 

 offered for competition, or communicated to any academic society. An article 

 ]»roceeding from any author whose name shall be previously disclosed, will, fi'om 

 that circumstance alone, be excluded IVoni competition. This condition is rigor- 

 ous. The sealed notes will not be o])ened except in the case when an academic 

 recompense shall have been ol)tained. From the observation of the above 

 formalities are exempt, the productions of aspirants to medals of encourage- 

 ment, and to prizes for obtaining which, local researches or the statement of 

 experiments performed by the authors themselves shall be essential. Compe- 

 tition is open to both foreigners and natives, even to such of the latter as per- 

 tain to the Academy b}' the title of corresponding members. 



Extract from the regulations of the Academy. — As soon as the Academy has 

 rendered its decision, if there be prizes or honorable mention to be conferred, the 

 president proceeds, in general assembly, to the opening of the sealed notes 

 annexed to the prize essays. The notes pertaining to others are detached from 

 the memoir, sealed by the president, and preserved T)y the archivist. The 

 authors of the prize essays are immediately informed of the decision of the Acad- 

 emy, and those decisions are made public. The manuscripts and all the docu- 

 mentary papers of whatever nature, addressed to the Academy, remain in the 

 archives after being marked with the initials and paraph of the president and 

 secretary-general, and can in no case be removed. As the Academy, however, 

 asserts no right of property over the papers, their authors may cause copies to be 

 taken from the archives, after first proving that these productions belong to 

 them. Independently of the prizes of which the subjects are named in the 

 annual programme, the Academy bestows medals of encouragement on the 

 authors who address to it works of real merit, and on persons who send to it doc- 

 uments on the ditlerent branches of science, letters and art. It may likewise 

 award a prize to the coiTcsponding meml)er who shall have best merited it by 

 the utility of his communications and the importance of the labors which he 

 shall have submitted to it. 



ROUX, President. ' 

 VALAT, Secretary- General. 



