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searches upon the modification of the voice produced by the organs 
situated above the larnyx, two thousand francs. 6. M. Deleau, four 
thousand francs, for a new instrument of his invention, applicable to 
the diagnosis and to the treatment of diseases of the ear. 7. M. Me- 
rat, fifteen hundred francs, for having contributed to make known in 
France, and encouraged the use of the bark of the pomegranite in 
tenia. §&. M. Villermé, fifteen hundred francs, for his researches. 
upon the comparative duration of human life, the development of the 
human form, and the frequency of diseases, in the two opposite condi- 
tions of ease and poverty. 9. M. Leroux de Vitry-le-Francais, two 
thousand francs for the discovery of salicine and of its febrifuge Psat 
erties. 
Prize in statistics. 2 This prize, a nal medal valued at five hun-- 
dred and thirty francs, was decreed to the “ Topography of Vigno- 
bles” of M. Julien, edition of 1832. 
5. Medals joundel by Lalande.—The Academy, awarded this 
year, from a legacy by Lalande, two gold medals of three hundred 
francs,—the one to M. Gambart, director of the observatory of Mar- 
seilles for the discovery, on the 19th of July, 1832, of a new com- 
et,—the other to M. Valz, of Nismes, for astronomical researches 
upon the diminution of volume, which the nebulosities of comets ex- 
perience, as they approach the sun. 
Montyon prizes, of a gold medal, of five thousand francs, are of- 
fered for each of the two following subjects,—the memoirs to be 
sent free of postage to the Sec. of the Institute before Jan. 1, 1834. 
Question i in Medicine.—To determine what are the alterations of 
organs in those diseases called continued fevers? . What relations 
exist between the symptoms of these diseases and the alterations ob- 
served? ‘To insist upon the therapeutic views deducible from these. 
relation ? 
Question of Medical Chemistry .—To determine the physical and 
chemical alterations of the solids and liquids, i in the diseases denom- 
inated continued fevers.—4nn. de Chim. et de Phys. Nov. 1832. 
6. Natural Philosophy—The Academy proposes a prize of a 
gold medal of three thousand francs, for a theory of the phenomena 
of hail, supported by positive experiments and various observations 
made, if possible, in the very regions of the productions of hail and 
which may be substituted for the present vague and unsatisfactory 
observations. 
