Learned Societies. — Dcnmarh. 103 



friend Dr. Rollo, in regard to the converfation that pafTed at 

 tlie time, differ fome\\hat from mine, I choofe to avoid the 

 difcuffion of a queftion that refts on the memory of the 

 parties. 



Befides, the miftake once corrected, the public have no 

 farther intereft in it, and the perfon concerned ahnofl; as 

 httle. It did not in the leafl affeil the merit of the experi- 

 ment, whether it was made in one way or the other j and it 

 is equally evident that I could have no objeft in view, or 

 purpofe to ferve, in mifreprefenting it. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient fei-vant, 



JAMES CARMICHAEL SMYTH. 



Charlotte Street, Bloomfbury, 

 June 16, 1799. 



INTELLIGENCE, 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, 



LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



DENMARK. 



X HE Society of Agriculture at Copenhagen has propofed 

 three prizes, to be paid by the admiralty, one of five hun- 

 dred, one of a hundred, ami one of fifty rix-dollars, for the 

 bcft paper on the rearing of timber proper for {hip-building. 

 The points refpcfting which the fociety wiflies to be in- 

 formed are : i. What foil is beft fuited to the different kinds 

 of wood, and what care is required in the cultivation ot 

 them ? 2. Can the ncceffary form and degree of flexion be 

 by any means given to the timber without injuring it ? 

 %, What is the proper time for cutting the trees? 4. Is it 

 H 4 beneficial 



