Koyal Societies of Naples and Goitingen, " (Jl 



to be adjudged in the last sitting of this year, for the best answar 

 to the following question : 



"Are the affections which maybe traced in the abdominal vis- 

 cera, after putrid or adynamic and ataxic fevers, the effects the 

 cause, or a complicated effect of these fevers?" 



The memoirs, in French or in Latin, to be delivered (free of 

 charge) to M. Girandy the Secretary before the 1st of October 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, NAPLES. 



This Academy has proposed the following as a subject for a 

 prize to be awarded on the 30th of next June. 



" Required a description and drawing of an instrument which 

 shall, 1st, unite in itself the properties of the largest and most 

 perfect meridian circles and meridian telescopes that have yet 

 been made; 2. the adjustment of which shall not depend on a 

 spirit level ; 3. which may traverse and turn with facility, so as 

 to admit of observation in two contrary positions; and, 4. which 

 can be made by any good workman possessing the means afforded 

 by the present state of the arts." The memoir may be written 

 either in Latin or Italian, without a name, but having a motto 

 and sent to the Secretary, under cover to the Secretary of State 

 for Foreign Affairs, before the end of February.— Prize, a gold 

 medal of the value of 600 ducats. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCIENCES, GOTTINGEN. 



A prize of 50 ducats value is offered by this Society, to be 

 awarded in November 1820, for 



"A critical Synopsis of the most ancient Monuments of all kinds 

 that have been found in America, to be placed in comparison 

 with those of Asia, Egypt," &c. The memoir is to be written in 

 Latin. 



X. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, 



LETTER FROM THE ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION *. 



fc A "Aug. 27, 1819.— At .lea. 



After passing the southern part of Greenland, named Cape 

 Farewell, we met with much ice ; but as it did not lie thick, little 

 difficulty was experienced in forcing a way through it, nor did it 

 prove so great an impediment as the contrary winds which still 



• Vvota Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. 



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