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XIV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



PRIZE aUESTIONS. 



X HE king of Prufjsia has proposed the foHo\vin2 prize 

 question in regard to the yeliow fever : — " Are there suffi- 

 cicut ground?, founded on indubitable facts, for beUeving 

 that the contagion of the yellow fever can convey its infec- 

 tion to substances destitute of life, without losina; any of its 

 -force, and in such a manner that the contact of these sub- 

 stances can communicate the infection to sound persons,^ 

 and by these moans convey the fever to other countries ? 



The prize for the best answer is 200 ducats, and for the 

 second best 100 ducats. The answers must be written ia 

 Latin, German, or French ; and transmitted to the Supe- 

 rior College of Medicine before the Ist of January 1807. 



NEW METAL. 



Dr. Richter, of Berlin, has discovered in the cobalt ore 

 of the Saxon mines a new metal which has properties com- 

 mon to cobalt and nickel, but which differs from both. He 

 has given it the name of mcculan. A particular account of 

 this metal has been published in Gehler^s Journal of Che- 

 jnistry, 



ASTRONOMY. 



A table of the right ascension and declination of Ceres 

 and Pallas. 



Jluio is not yd visible. 



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