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searches upon the modification of the voice produced by the orgat]« 

 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. He- 

 rat, fifteen hundred francs, for having contributed to make known in 

 France, and encouraged the use of the bark of the pomegranite in 

 taenia. 8. M. Villerrae, 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 prop- 

 erties. 



Prize in statistics. — This prize, a gold 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 founded 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 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, in the diseases denom- 

 inated continued fevers. — Ann. de Chim. et de Fhys. JVov. 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. 



