^0 French National Institute. 



first Tuesday in December, 1804. — The same premium fot 

 1805, 



Seed Barley. — ^To the person who shallj by the mort 

 satisfactory comparative experiments, ascertain the proper 

 quantity of seed-bavley to be used per acre, in the common 

 or broad-cast husbandry ; not less than one acre to be ap- 

 plied to each quantity of seed — the gold medal. 



Accounts, coutaiuing a particular description of the soil,^ 

 and the preparation thereof, including the manuring, it 

 anv ; also the time of sowiui^-; the various quantities of 

 seed employed; with the respective products, verified by 

 certificates, to be produced to the board, on or before the 

 first Tuesday in December, 1804. — The same premium for 

 1805. 



Seed Oats. — The same premium, and on the same con- 

 ditions, to be given, for ascertaining the proper quantity of 

 seed-oats. 



Preparations for IF/ieat. — To the person who shall makfc" 

 and report to the board, the most satisfactory experiments, 

 comparing various preparations for wheat, on the sauic soil 

 — the gold medal: 



The preparations to include beans or pease, drilled and 

 horse- and hand-hotd; red clover; buck-wheat; tankard 

 turnips, eaten on the land ; winter tares, mown for soil- 

 intr; and buck-wheat, ploughed in for anianure. — Accounts, 

 contannin<T a description of the soil, previous culture and' 

 manure, if any, and the produce and value of the prepa- 

 ratory crops ; with the produce of the wheat ; verified bv 

 certificates, to be produced on or before the first Tuesday in 

 March, 1807. 



Cult'dre of JVlwat. — ^To the person who shall send to tha 

 board, the best essay on the culture of wheat, which shall 

 include the useful facts hitherto published, with such addi- 

 tions as the writer may be able to make, either from his 

 own expeiiments, or tliose of others within his knowledge 

 — d^l^U gii'^icas. — For the next best tsssiy — ihirti/ gumcas. 

 — For the next best — 4iventy giiweas. — Accounts to be pro- 

 duced on or before the first Tuesday in February, 180G. 



FRKXCII NATIONAL INSTITUTK. 



M. de IIumbt)ldt, correspondent of the institute, read, 

 in the last sitting of the physical and mathematit'al class, 

 » third mcmou- on his travels with M. Bonpland in the in- 

 terior of Souih-Am.'rica and Mexico. In the first he 

 triced out the obsenations made in the Atlaullc Ocean at 



the 



