434 PROVINCIAL SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UTRECHT. 



PROGRAMME 



OF THE 



PROVINCIAL SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF UTRECHT. 



18G2-'63. 



The society has awarded no medal for the memoirs which have been offered 

 since its general session in 1661. The decisions which have been pronounced 

 on the four memoirs presented during that period by learned strangers are here 

 atimmarily given : 



1. A memoir in the German language on the heat of plants. 



Device: Etcnim experimentorum, etc. 



The author of this memoir has not placed himself at the point to which the 

 question had been carried by researches previous to his own. He has, more- 

 over, employed for his experiments a method which, in the present state of sci- 

 ence, seems insufficient for the profound study of the question. 



2. A memoir in Latin on the veracity of Casar. 



Device: Quanta majora cr ant, etc. 



This memoir has furnished but a slight sketch of the subject — a sketch which 

 is neither recommended by the order nor logic of its discussions. The results 

 of researches respecting the opinion of Pollio are not subjected to a judicious 

 and scientific appreciation. There is even no mention made of the recent at- 

 tempts which have contributed to elucidate this difficult question. Besides, the 

 Latin style of the author has given occasion to no slight animadversion. 



3. A memoir in German on ventilation. 



Device: Lztft mthr Inft. 



It was acknowledged that this memoir is not without merit. Yet it is defi- 

 cient in a critical discussion of the most important elements of the question : 

 the manner in which the enclosed air is altered, and the influence which the ma- 

 terials of constructioHS exert upon the working of the ventilating apparatus. 



4. A memoir in French on the same subject with No, 3. 



Device : II faut savoir tine fo'is pourtontcs, etc. 



This memoir treats only of the means of preserving the air in its state of 

 purity, while the question propounded on the nature of the alteration which 

 the air undergoes in dwellings is passed by without discussion. 



The new questions proposed for competition, the subject of which may be of 

 interest to learned foreigners, are the following : 



1. An exposition of the principles of sound policy which, dating from the 

 nineteenth century, have prevailed in the relations of Holland with its East 

 Indian possessions, especially the effect of securing an efficacious protection 

 against every sort of oppression, as well to the colonists as to the native popu- 

 lation. A comparison in this respect of English and French laws and ordi- 

 nances with those of the colonial system of Holland. 



