Academy of Sciences at Berlin, 36g 



June 23cl. M.Bastide: A dissertation of professor Butt- 

 man on the philosophical meaning of the Grecian deities, 

 and particularly Apollo and Diana. 



June 3Cth. M. Bastide : A new commentary on Mon- 

 taigne. 



The Physical Class has proposed the following questions 

 as the subject of prizes for the year 1803 : 



I. Is JViariott's law a general law for all elastic fluids, or 

 only for atmospheric air ? 



II. What is the nature of that disease called inflamma- 

 tion of the spleen, which prevails so much among cattle ? • 

 whence does it arise ? and what is the method of cure ? 



The prize for each of the above questions is fifty ducats. 



III. As the lungs consist of a cartilaginous air-pipe and 

 cellular tissue, to which lymphatic vessels, bronchial arte- 

 ries, veins and nerves, proceed — and as the pulmonary ar- 

 tery and veins convey the whole mass of the blood through 

 the lungs, answers to the following queries are required : — 

 In what manner, and where, does the cartilaginous air-pipe 

 terminate ? Docs it proceed into the cellular tissue of the 

 lunjrs, or has it determinate boundaries ? Does it remain 

 cartilaginous in its minutest divisions, and, as such, does -vt 

 terminate in the surrounding cellular tissue ? Do the bron- 

 chial vessels belong merely to this cartilaginous pipe, or 

 to the cellular tissue and the lungs also ? — that is to say. Do 

 the bronchial vessels convey nourishment to the air-pipe 

 alone, or to the cellular tissue also ? Where does the pul- 

 monary artery of the lungs end ? Does it convey the blood 

 by help of the cellular tissue merely through the lungs, and 

 transmit it immediately to the veins of the lungs, or does it 

 expire a fluid into the cellular tissue of the lungs, which in 

 "breathing flows out through the wind-pipe? — or. Does the 

 pulmonary arter\' separate a moisture from the exterior sur- 

 face of the lungs ? Where do the pulmonary veins arise ? 

 Do they arise alone from the arteries, or, as absorbing 

 Vessels, do thcv take their origin in part also from the bron- 

 chia, the cellular tissue of the lungs, and from the exterior 

 surface of the lungs ? How do the nerves of the eight 

 pair and the intercostal nerves terminate ? Do those of the 

 eight pair terminate alone in the bronchia, or do they run 

 into the cellular tissue of the lungs ? Are the eight pair 

 connected with the branches whic^i the intercostal nerve 

 sends out to the finest vessels in the lungs ? The prize is 

 a golden medal of the value of 80 ducats, or SO ducats in 

 money. The answers nmst be grounded on microscopical 

 observations. 



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