Feykrlan Society at Haerknt. 10$ 



experience to be efieftual. The fociety, however, will with 

 thankfulnefs receive papers of this kind ; the means pro- 

 pofed will be fubjeaed to a trial of two years j and if they 

 are then found to anfwer the purpofe, a fuitable reward will 

 be adjudged to the inventor. 



The eflays on this fubjeft, inscribed with a motto, and 

 accompanied by a fealed note containing the name of the 

 author, mull be tranfmitted to the fociety before Chriftmas 

 1798. 



HOLLAND. 



THE members of the Teylerian fecond fociety at Haer- 

 lem have propofed the following prize queftion for the year 



« What are the caufes why moft nations have made choice 

 of metals, particularly gold and filver, as the reprefentative 

 Cgns of wealth and riches ? What are the advantages of this 

 circulating medium, fo generally adopted, and what are the 

 difadvantages connected with it ? And can nothing elfe, 

 equally durable, and attended with benefxt and advantage, be 

 invented in its ftead ?" 



The premium for the beft anfwer is a gold medal equal iti 

 value to 400 Dutch florins. 



The anfwers in Dutch, Latin, French, Englifh, or Ger- 

 man, with a fealed letter containing the name of the author, 

 muft be tranfmitted to Teyler's foundation-houfe at Haerlem, 

 before the firft of April 1799 ; for the prize will be adjudged 

 on the firft of November, the fame year. 



The fociety have alfo announced, that as no anfwer had 

 been fent in before the expiration of the fixed period to the 

 prize-queftion of 1 796, refpecling the conftitution and form 

 of government of the Grecian republics, and their influence 

 on the happinefs or unhappinefs of their citizens, they pro- 

 pofe it once more in the following form : 



« What influence has a republican form of government on 



the happinefs or unhappinefs of citizens ? and, How far can 



this influence be explained and confirmed by examples 



H 4 drawn 



