358 Royal Academy of Belles Lettres, ^c. at Stockholm. 



The police of public health, therefore, is a most impor- 

 tant branch of the proposed inquiry ; and the events which 

 have recently happened in Spain and at Gibraltar have given 

 it additional interest. It may be treated of under the fol- 

 lowing general heads : 



1. Police of climate. 



2. Police of physical education. 



3. Police of diet. 



4. Police of public amusements. 

 3. Police of habits and customs. 



6. Police of public institutions. 



7. Police for the health of sailors and soldiers. And»' 



8. Police of medicine, and the means of promoting 



its improvement. 



CoNCLaSLON. 



Such is the plan of the intended work, which others might 

 doubtless have executed with more ability, but none with 

 a more anxious wish that it may prove suhstantkilly ser- 

 viceable to the interests of human nature ; or, at any rate, 

 useful to those who may apply their talents to render the 

 investigation therein carried on still more complete. 



LXVI. Proceedings of Learned and Economical Societies. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF BELLES LETTRES, HISTORY, AND 

 ANTiaUITIES, AT STOCKHOLM. 



JL HIS academy has proposed the following as prize subjects 

 for the year ISO*. 



I. History. — An account of the administration of the 

 finances in Sweden during the middle ages. The prize is a 

 medal of 2G ducats. 



II. Inscriptions and einhlems. — Sketches for an epitaph 

 on king Charles Knutson ; sketches of medals on the in- 

 teresting events which took place in Sweden under the reigns 

 of Gustavus Adolphus or Charles X. 'i'he prize is a gold 

 medal of the value of 1 2 ducats. 



III. Antiquities. — A complete collection of the Icelandic 

 traditions which relate to the history of the north, with an 

 account of their antiquity and of the authors. 7'hc prize is 

 a gold medal value 15 ducats. 



IV. Philoh oy. — A philoso[)liical comparison between 

 the Greek and" JRoman tragedy and comedy and those of 

 modt-rn nations. The prize is a medal of the value of 26 

 ducats. 



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