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opened. 4. If the authors who shall have obtained an honorable mention desire 

 that the academy should publish their names, they must make a request to that 

 eftect witliin the four months following- the day on which the prize shall have 

 l)een decreed ; at the end of that term the envelopes will be burned without 

 being unsealed. 5. With the exce])tion of its thirty members in ordinary, the 

 academy invites the competition of all persons, whatsoever their nationality. 

 6. Each memoir, with its corresponding envelope, must be sent, free of postage, 

 to the academy before the last day of October, 1869, the date at which the com- 

 petition closes. 7. The prize will be awarded by the academy in the month of 

 January, 1870, and will consist of a gold medal of the value of a thousand 

 livres. 8. The successful memoir will be published whole, or in extracts, in the 

 acts of the academy, and the author will receive fifty copies. 



B. VIALE PRELA, President 

 P. VOLPIGELLI, Secretary. 



