452 PRIZE QUESTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO COMPETITION BY THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND 

 SCIENCES ESTABLISHED AT UTRECHT. 



The questions proposed by the society, in reference to subjects purely 

 local, are not comprised in this programme. 



1. A series of researches into the warmth generated by plants. 



2. What is the state of our knowledge as regards the manner and 

 degree in which the air is vitiated by the respiration and perspiration 

 of men; and what are the means to be adopted for purifying the atmos- 

 phere in dwelling-houses and in buildings destined for large assemblies. 



3. The society requires investigfitions into the course of the filaments 

 of the nerves in the spinal cord, commencing at the roots of the 

 nerves in one or move animals. The competitors must not only make 

 use of the microscope, in combination with the mode of investigation 

 adopted by Waller, but also of physiological experiments. 



4. A dissertation on the life and merits of Christiaan Huyghens is 

 requested. 



5. Required an essay upon the affinity of the Greek and Sanscrit 

 languages, containing a critical and systematic exposition of the re- 

 sults of the linguistic investigations on this subject, and stating clearly 

 how far a comparative study of these two languages has promoted or 

 may yet promote the profound knowledge of the first of them. 



6. A dissertation on Justinian and his age. 



7. An historical and critical investigation of the various modes in 

 which the system of Hegel has been developed since his death, in 1831, 

 and what has been its influence upon other branches of knowledge, 

 in particular on the doctrine regarding God and the world. The re- 

 lation of that development and influence to other theories and systems 

 of later times should also be indicated. 



8. An historico-critical review of the Malayan literature. Not 

 only an examination of the published, but as much as possible also of 

 unpublished Malayan works is required. 



9. A history of the settlement of the Dutch in Guinea, or on the 

 west coast of Africa, from the beginning of that settlement to our 

 own day. 



10. Historia critica tribunatus Plebis, quce interiorem civitatis 

 Romanas conditionem per varia deinceps tempora spectandam prtebeat. 



11. Exploretur et diiudicetur Asinii Pollionis de C. Julii C^esaris 

 commeutariis sententia, quas exstat in Suetonii Ceesare c. 56: "eos 

 Pollio Asinius parum diligenter parumque Integra veritate compositos 

 putat: quum Ctesar pleraque, et quaa per alios erant gesta, temere 

 crediderit; et quas per se, vel consulto, vel etiam memoria lapsus, 

 perperam ediderit." 



12. Disquisitio de loco difficiliore vel controverso ad disciplinam 

 antiquitatis sive gr^ecfe seu latina^ pertinente. 



13. Eruantur ex Inscriptionibus Latinis, qute in variis Romani im- 

 perii regionibus sunt repertas, et e Grammaticorum veterum indiciis 

 ese voces et formjfi, in quibus proprii regionis cuiusque sermonis ves- 

 tigia agnoscantur, eaeque accurate collectae ita disponantur,ut quae et 



