PRIZE-QUESTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



SOCIETY FOE THE ENCOUEAGEMENT OP SCJEHCB, LIT 

 EEATUEB AND AET, DUNKIEK, FEANCE. 



Programme of subjects for competition, 1873. 



A gold medal for the best work on each of the following subjects : 



SCIENCE. 



Alcohol : its effects on the animal economy. What are the danger- 

 ous princiiJles left in the manufacture of alcohol from beets ? 



Investigate the means of neutralizing the injurious effects produced 

 on the mind and the moral nature of man. 



The gold medal will have the value of 300 francs. 



LITERATURE — HISTORY. 



Biography of the Flemish painter Jean de Eeyn, born at Dunkirk in 

 the seventeenth century. Give a systematic catalogue of his works. 

 The gold medal will have a value of 200 francs. 



ART — PAINTING. 



A sketch in oil, on a canvas called No. 15, being 65 centimeters (26 

 inches) long and 54 centimeters (21 inches) broad, the subject of which, 

 history, landscape, genre, &c., is left to the choice of the contestants. 

 The canvas not to be framed. 



The gold medal will have a maximum value of 300 francs. 



The successful competitor will be allowed to choose betvveen the medal 

 and the sum which it represents. 



Note. — The society will also offer one or more honorable mentions 

 inscribed upon medals of enamel, silver, or bronze. 



All the sketches except the one which obtains the prize will be 

 returned to the artists after the award. 



To secure the incognito imposed upon and guaranteed to competitors 

 who do not obtain a prize, and at the same time to enable them to receive 

 their works after the award has been made, the society requests them 

 to send, with their sketches and the sealed envelopes containing their 

 full names, &c., an address to which the articles can be sent. The works 

 sent should be directed (free) to the general secretary of the Dunkirk 

 society before October 1, 1873. They must not be signed, but should 



