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420 Prize Que/lions and Proceedings of 



The Ele&oral Jablowniki Society of the Sciences, at Leip- 

 fic, have propofed the following queftions, as the fubjeft of a 

 prize for the year 1799 : 



History. An explanation, proved by authentic docu- 

 ments, of the origin, rights and principal destination of the 

 dignity of Earl in the northern kingdoms. 



Mathematics. A more accurate determination, com- 

 pared with experience, of the laws of reiiiiance to fluid bodies 

 impelling in an oblique direction. 



Physical-economy. Application of our pre^-nt know- 

 ledge rejecting the different kinds of air, particularly to phy- 

 li'cs and cconomv. 



The prize is a gold medal of the value of 24 ducats. No 

 papers will he received hut inch as are written in French or 

 in Latin ; and they muft be accompanied with a fealed note, 

 containing the author's name and place of refidence. 



The following is an account of the Sittings of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Berlin, in the vear 1798 : 



On the 1 1 tli of January M. Sellc read a German memoir 

 on natural right; and on the 1 8th M.Frman read one in- 

 French on literary blunders, and their influence on biography. 



Jnthepublicfittingof Jan. 25th, M. Achard read, in French, 

 an account of fomc experiments made with a view to deter- 

 mine the influence of compreffed air on the germination of 

 feeds, and its action on animal life, with the description of 

 a. new method of injecting the veflels of plants which are ca- 

 pable of receiving a fluid within them. — M. Denina read a 

 French memoir on the ancient traces of the character of the 

 Germans, followed by a fhort companion between Marcus Au- 

 r'cliusand Fredertcl I . — M.Klaproth, a German memoir on the 

 gold ore of Tranfylvania, and the new metal it contains. — 

 VI. Baflide, Refearchcs, in French, on the word environ. — 

 Count de Guyon, an hiftorical view, in French, of the influ- 

 ence which women have had over the great actions of their 

 age and country. This formed the third epoch. 



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