PRIZE QUESTIONS. ^^^ 



■^Tbfn,™! must be presented within the month of rebn.-T. 1867 The 

 p2e Im consist of 1 Oo{li;e, and a -;|;;1 « ,|° ^el' uVmemo wi 1 ontLt 



&u u£ ™e./e tbe?ight of publishing, at their own expense such larger num- 

 ber of copies as may seem desirable in the interests of science 



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? raSonVf ie;t info mechanical labor, and vir.e versa, with app ication to 

 tSodynamic machinery." Time for presenting the memoir, month of Feb- 



'''slbilcf for the year 1867, announced in 1862 and again proposed in 1865: 

 "AiSi. the vai'ous forms of active credit, to determine which would be most 

 betS?l and '; table to the actual state of the kingdom of Italy, and which 

 Wd atiX at onc^ the three-fold object of disburdening the hypothecated 

 lebt prlotC the great meliorations of agriculture and furnishing relief to 

 the el's of simple tenants and cultivators of land." For the solution of this 

 auesdon the abstract and known theories of authors will not be su&cient; but 

 Sr;enui,'dl,th and practical application to the necessii^s 



Tnd in erects of the country, with proofs and illustrations, both statistical and 

 ::otmS totVc'compani^ed by t^e project of a law for a -. ^^^f ^^ 

 e T*.„Kr i,. t1i<^ a1iinp of an anoendix ov resume ot the whole tieause. -lu« 

 SJ fofthe pres ntS on of memoirs is limited to the 31st December, 1866 ; and 

 S phL tSe of the above topics is 864 lire. Publication is to be made 

 w^hrayeai- after the award, whei eight copies are to be consigned o 1^ ad 

 ministration of the great hospital of Milan, and one to the institute foi collation 



"' wLrSXti .n-.-For the prize of 500 lire, offered by the Cavalier 



Cefrcigi^^^ dSl^of the insan? asylum of Senavra the following sub- 



ectTs proposed : "A memoir upon meteorological studies and observations con- 



0'."t\i reference to some circumscribed territory in the kmgdom ot 1 aly, 



and preferably in Lombardy ; provided tl^^^^f ^^^^"^ ^^^/^^^^ l^^lslTfs t£ 

 be of real importance and practical utdity." The month of Apiil, Ibb /, is tne 



term of the competition for this prize. ,vitivps with 



General regalatrons regarding compeUtwn.-^ oreigneis and ^^^tive , with 

 the exception of active members of the mstitute, may compete foi tlie pnzes by 

 Semoirs'in Italian, Latin, or French. These should be t-smU^d fi.e of 

 Dosta-e, at the time assigned for each, to the secretary of the institute, at the 

 pa ace of B^^era, in Milan. They must be strictly anonymous, and bear only a 

 Ko! wMch is to be repeated on a sealed note, containing the name and domialc 

 S the author. All the manuscripts will be preserved in the archives of the m- 



