Society of Medicine at Paris.— Asiatic Museum. 459 
Prize in Mechanics founded by M. de Montyon. 
To the person who shall have shown the greatest merit in in- 
venting or in improving instruments useful to the progress of 
agriculture, mechanical arts, and sciences, a gold medal of the 
value of 1500 francs. 
The prize will only be given to machines the description and 
the plans or models of which, sufficiently detailed, shall have been 
submitted to the Academy, either separately, or in some printed 
work transmitted to the Academy. 
SOCIETY OF MEDICINE AT PARIS. 
This Society has offered two prizes for 1822 and 1823, for 
the best paper on the following subjects :—-On the symptoms, 
the causes, and the treatment of the malady known by the 
name of the cerebral or hydrocephalic fever. 2. The morbid 
alterations of which traces are found in the abdominal viscera, 
are they the cause or effect, or the complication of these dis- 
eases ? 
ASIAT{C MUSEUM AT ST. PETERSBURG. 
His Excellency the President of the Imperial’ Academy of 
Sciences at Petersburg, has ordered all the researches and re- 
sources of Eastern learning, that can be obtained, to be collected 
together, and placed in one of the rooms of the Academical Mu- 
seum. He has by these means formed an Asiatic Museum, which 
has been enriched by Imperial liberality with a uew collection of 
Oriental MSS., and, in other branches, by presents from indi- 
viduals, forming now one of the most useful and remarkable col- 
Jections in the Academical Museum. It has been arranged in 
three newly-erected rooms, and contains : 
I. Oriental monuments and antiquities: 1. A large collection 
of Mohammedan coins, divided into 28 classes; a complete ca= 
talogue of which is now in the press, and of which a particular 
account will shortly be given. 2. A collection of other Oriental 
coins, such as Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Sassanide, and Indian, 
3. Other Orieutal antiquities, as stones (bricks) with Persepoli- 
tan inscriptions ; and vessels with Arabic inscriptions. 
II. A very fine collection of Arabian, Persian, and Turkish 
MSS., arranged according to their different departments and 
languages: as poems; grammars ; mathematical, historical, phi- 
losophical, physical, and theological MSS. 
IIL. A rich collection of Chinese, Manshurian, and Japanese 
MSS., likewise arranged according to languages and subjects ; 
to which are added Chinese sketches and drawings. 
IV. A very rare collection of Mongol, Calmuck, and Tibetian 
: 3M 2 MSS. ; 
