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time to time, such additions to their own number as they may 

 think proper. For the present, Taylor Combe, Esq., Wdham 

 Hamilton, Esq., Lieut.-Col. Leake, the Earl of Mountnorris,and 

 Matthew Raper, Esq., have undertaken the responsibdity of this 

 office. 



" Subscriptions will be received by Mr. Yeoman, Collector to 

 the Society, No. 3, Lincoln's Inn Fields." 



THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES LETTRES, 

 PARIS, 



Has proposed the following prize subject for the year 1821 ; 



<' To compare the monuments which remain of the ancient 

 empire of Persia and Chaldea, either edifices, basso-relievos, sta- 

 tues, or inscriptions, amulets, coins, engraved stones, cyhnders, 

 &c., with the religious doctrines and allegories contained in the 

 Zend Jivesta, and with the indications and data which have been 

 preserved to us by Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers, on 

 the opinions and customs of the Persians and Chaldeans, and to 

 illustrate and explain them as much as possible by each other." 



The prize is a gold medal of 1,500 francs value. The essays 

 are to be'written in Latin or French, and sent in before the 1st of 

 April 1821. The prize will be adjudged in July following. 



THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF COPENHAGEN 



Proposes the following prize questions : 



Mathematics. — "Num inclinatio et vis acus magneticse iisdem, 

 quibus declinatio diurnis variationibus sunt subjectae ? Niim etiam 

 longiores, ut declinatio, habent circuitus ? Niim denique has va- 

 riationes certis finibus circumscribere possumus?" 



" Quibus naturse legibus regatur primaria evolutio corporum 

 animalium, ut formam sive regularem sive abnormem assumant." 



The prizes attached to these subjects are ."iO Danish ducats. 



Geology. — " Quae saxa ad uiontes ordinis secundi, seu transi- 

 torios, pertinentia in Norwegia reperiuntur ?" 



This prize, proposed by His Excellency S. G. Moltke, is of the 

 value of 550 rubles. The memoirs are to be written in Latin, 

 French, English, German, Swedish, or Danish, and should be di- 

 rected to M. H. C. Orsted, Secretarv to tiie Academy, by Decem- 

 ber 181[). 



DIJON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS, AND BELLES LETTRES. 



This Academy has proposed the following question as the sub- 

 ject for the prize to be awarded in 1820. 



" What may be the most effectual means of extirpating from 



the hearts of Frenchmen that moral disease, a remnant of the 



barbarism of the middle ages, that false point of honour which 



B b 2 leads 



