l94 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



and Chaldeans, and to illustrate and explain them as much as 

 possible by each other." 



The prize is a gold medal of 1,500 francs value. The essays 

 are to be written in Latin or French, and sent in before the 1st 

 of April, 1821. The prize will be adjudged in July following. 



The Society of Sciences, Arts, and Belles Lettres at Dijon has 

 proposed the following question as the subject for the prize to 

 be awarded in 1820 : — " What may be the most effectual means 

 of extirpating from the hearts of Frenchmen that moral disease, 

 a remnant of the barbarism of the middle ages ; that false point 

 of honor which leads them to shed blood in duels, in defiance of 

 the precepts of religion and the laws of the state ?" 



1 0. Prizes proposed by the Royal Academy of Copenhagen.—^ 

 Mathematics. — Num inclinatio et vis acus magneticse iisdem, 

 quibus declinatio diurnis variationibus sunt subjectse ? Niim 

 etiam longiores, ut declinatio, habent circuitus ? Niim denique 

 has variationes certis finibus circumscribere possumus ? 



Quibus naturae legibus rejetur primaria evolutio corporum 

 animalium,utforraam sive regularem, sive abnormem abscissant. 



The prizes attached to these subjects are 50 Danish ducats. 



Geology. — Quae Saxa ad montes ordinis secundi, seu transito- 

 rios,''pertinentia in Norwegia reperiuntur? 



This prize proposed by his Excellency S. G. Moltke, is of the 

 value of 550 rubles. The memoirs are to be written in Latin, 

 French, English, German, Swedish, or Danish, and should be 

 directed to M. H. C. Orsted, Secretary to the Academy, by De- 

 cember 1819. 



11. Scientific Questions. The Royal Academy of Sciences and 

 Belles Lettres of Brussels have proposed for competition, during 

 the year 1820, the following questions in the department of 

 science : 



1. Suppose a plate of a given figure, attached to a surface 

 either by means of screws of a known number, position, and 

 force, or by means of some intermediate matter capable of 

 uniting the one to the other solidly, and the specific tenacity of 



