PRIZE QUESTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 453 



qualia fuerint Latini sermonis idiomata in variis imperii Romani par- 

 tibus usurpata, quantum fieri possit, efticere inde lieeat. 



14. Disquisitio de T. Livii dictione, qua proprietas eius in verborum 

 usu et constructione, exemplis dilig-enter collectis ordineque dispositis 

 et illustratitJ, exponatur. et quatenus in ea couoztaao'j. queni Patavin- 

 itatis nomine ei obiecit Asinius Pollio, vestigia exstare videantur, 

 ostendatur. 



' A gold medal of the value of 30 ducats (13 pounds sterling.) or an 

 equivalent in silver, will "be accorded to the successful competitor. 

 This prize will be doubled for questions Nos. 2 and 13. The answers 

 must be sent in (post free) previous to the 30th of November 1861 — 

 those to the 13th only, before the 30th of November, 1863, addressed 

 to Dr. J. W. Gunning, the secretary of the society, at Utrecht. The 

 author is at liberty to write in the English. Dutch, German (in Italic 

 characters,) French, or Latin language; but in answering to ques- 

 tions 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, the Latin language is required. The 

 answers must not be in the author's own handwriting-; they are to 

 be accompanied by a sealed envelope, enclosing his name, and if a 

 member of the society, having- the letter "L" on the address. The 

 successful answers will be published in the society's works. 



Further information may be obtained on application to the secretary 

 of the societv. 



EXTRACT FROil THE PKOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF THE 



NE'fflEELANDS. 



The senate of the Royal Academy for the Promotion of Letters, 

 PhilosQphy, and History, received, pursuant to the bequest and testa- 

 ment of Hoeuflftian, during the past year eight poems from five poets. 

 The first is entitled "On the Divine .Excellency of Learning;" the 

 second, " Ode addressed to Bartholomew Burghesium on the Death 

 of John Marchetti;" the third, "On the Decay of the Gallic Lan- 

 guage;" the fourth, fifth, and sixth, bear the title in common, "On 

 Itahan Affairs during the years 1848 and 1849; Three Unpublished 

 Odes;" the separate titles of which are: a. "The Assault of 

 Peschiera and the Victoria Goidensis, addressed to King Charles 

 Albert;" h. " Griefs of Mourning Italy; " c. "Fortunes and Death of 

 King Charles Albert in Exile;" the seventh is, "The Tauric Peace, 

 a Mythological Poem, addressed to Poets;" and the eighth, "The 

 Hero Garibaldi." 



Upon these poems the academy, in its session on the 8th day of 

 April, pronounced the following judgment: 



The first is weak and dubious in its argument, wanting in poetical 

 coloring and spirit, and expressed in language very far from being 

 either pure or perspicuous. The second is unacceptable, for two 

 reasons: first, it consists of fewer than the fifty verses which are 

 expressly demanded: and secondly, because it has already appeared 

 in print'. The third, besides having all the faults of the first, some- 



