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INTELLIGENCE 
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 
LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
FRANCE, 
Tue National Inftitute, in its public fitting Nivofe 15, 
An. VII, propofed the following prize fubjects: 
GRAMMAR. 
This clafs not having received any paper that feemed 
worthy of the prize before announced, have prolonged the 
term of competition to the next year, and propofe-the fame 
fubjeét under the following form: ‘¢ To examine what the 
French language has gained in clearnefs and elegance, and 
what it may have loft in zaiveté and energy fince the time 
of Amyot to the prefent day.’ 
The prize is a gold medal of the value of five heGto- 
grammes. It will be adjudged in the public fitting ‘of 
Germinal 15, An. VIJI. The papers muft be written in 
French, and tranfmitted before the 1ft Nivofe, An, VIII. 
. This clafs alfo propofed: ‘‘ To point out the means pro-' 
perfor giving new aétivity to the ftudy of the Greek and 
Latin languages in France.’ 
The prize the fame as the above, and will be adjudged in: 
the public fitting of Meffidor 15, Year VIIJ.. The memoirs 
muft be tranfmitted before the 14 of Germinal the fame year.’ 
MATHEMATICS. 
‘The Academy of Sciences had propofed as the fubject. of 
the mathematical prize, for 1794, an inveftigation of the 
erbit of the fir& comet of 1770. Aftronomers have tried, 
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