PEIZE-QUESTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 427 



EDUCATION. 



X. Give a critical review of the laws in regard to educatiou. 



SCIENCE — GEOLOGY. 



XI. A description of the Post-Tertiary rocks of Hainaut, situated on 

 the left bank of the Sambre. 



XII. Give a correct list of the useful materials in the Tertiary and 

 Post-Tertiary deposits of Hainaut, with their industrial and agricultural 

 applications, and mentioning their locations and their economical uses. 



XIII. Give the history of the insects most injurious to agriculture, 

 pointing out the effectual, cheap, and ready methods of destroying them, 

 or at least of checking their ravages. 



MEDICINE. 



Xiy. Write a practical and popular manual on the first steps to be 

 taken in case of sickness or accident. The author must strive to over- 

 throw wide- spread prejudices. 



Xy. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the treatrhent of 

 sick paupers in hospitals of different kinds and at their homes. 



AGKICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. 



XVI. Examine the natural or physical causes of the degeneracy of 

 seeds in cultivated plants. 



XVII. The selection of seed and the good results which will result 

 from it in agriculture and kitchen- gardening. 



Part II. 



QUESTIONS PROPOSED. 



a. By the government : 

 / XVIII. A critical discussion of the works of J. E. Le Poivre, geome- 

 trician, of Mons. 



XIX. Discuss fully the subject of the treatment of iron-ore on a large 

 scale simply with coal. 



&. By the standing committee of the provincial council : 



XX. Point out and describe, in a general way, the location, the char- 

 acter, and the treatment of the different iron-ores worked in the province 

 of Hainaut. 



Mention the geological indications which may serve to guide in the 

 search for the deposits of iron-ore which may exist in the province of 

 Hainaut, and discuss their value. 



XXI. Point out and describe the cheapest chemical reagents and the 

 most simple methods for precipitating all the materials dissolved in the 

 waste-water from sugar, lamp-black, and chemical manufactories, and 

 from dye-houses, so that it will only be necessary to filter the water thus 



