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INTELLIGENCE 



AND 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLED 



LEARNED SOCIETIES. 

 DENMARK. 



A HE Royal Academy of Sciences, at Copenhagen, in 

 confequence of Thot's and Claffen's Inftitutions, have pro- 

 pofed the following queftionc a8 the fubjects of prizes : 



I. For Thot's institution. 



The Society invites all thofe competent to the tafk, its 

 prefent members excepted, to tranfmit to it a complete effay, 

 founded on experience, . refpccting any point of agriculture, 

 to be chofcn at plcafure, l'uch for example as improving the 

 cultivation of corn land, meadows, pafture grounds, or the 

 planting of timber. It would give the Society particular, 

 pleaiureto receive complete anfwers to the following queftions. 



1. A catalpgue, with the botanical and provincial names, 

 of the different weeds, fuch as the common corn-marygold, 

 dog's-grafs, vetches, &c. which are found among the various 

 kind* of grain, in any of the provinces fubject to the Danifli 

 government; together with methods by which each of thefe 

 weeds may be moft effectually extirpated, and with the leaft 

 expence. 



2. A circumftantial account of the befl prpcefs by which, 

 poor or unfruitful foil, of a determined quality, may be fo 

 far improved as to be fit for cultivation ; together with an 

 eftin.ate, calculated on an average of fevcral years, of the ex- 

 igences and of the profits to be expected. 



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