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vapores calore mutata eft mijorem, quatn 212° Fahren. 

 temperaturam habere poteft ? 



" To determine, by experiments, what is the higheft de- 

 " gree of heat which can be communicated to other bodies 

 ** by the fteam of water ? Can that part of the water in 

 '* Papin's digefter which is not in the form of vapour ac- 

 •'« quire a higher degree of heat than 21 2° of Fahrenheit ?" 



IV. IN PHILOSOPHY. 



Quinam funt notabiliores gradus per quos philofophia 

 pradtica, ex quo tempore fyftematice traclaii ccepit, in eum, 

 quern hodie obtinet, ftatum pervenerit ? 



"■ What are the mod remarkable fteps in the progrefs 

 " which practical philofophy has made, "from the time it was 

 " brought into a regular fyftem down to the prefent period ?" 



The anfwers to thefe queftions mult be tranfmitted, poft 

 paid, before the end of June 1799, to Profefibr Abildgaard, 

 fecretary to the fociety. All men of letters, the members 

 of the fociety alone excepted, are invited to this competi- 

 tion, and their anfwers may be written in Danifh, German, 

 French or Latin. The authors are requefted not to infert 

 their names in the title of the papers, but to diftinguifh 

 them by a motto, which muft be inferibed alfo on a fealed 

 note containing their name and place of refidence. 



SPAIN. 

 The Royal Academy of Practical Medicine a\ Barcelona 

 has propofed the following queftion as the fubject of a 

 prize : 



To determine whether cold baths, adminiftered as a 

 prefervative or as a remedy to thofe attacked with dif- 

 orders of the bread, are ufeful or prejudicial ; and what 

 may be their effects and advantages according to circum- 

 ftances ? 



The prize will be a gold medal, value 375 rials ; and the 



memoirs muft be tranfmitted, with the ufual formalities, to 



Y 3 the 



