432 PRIZE-QUESTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



tiite, auswers all the requirements of the first question, a premium will 

 be given of 1,000 lire ($186) and the large gold or silver medal of the 

 academy, according as the institute considers the production as 

 deserving more or less distinction. To the author of the article which 

 answers all the requirements of the second question, a premium of 1,500 

 lire (|279) will be awarded and also a gold or silver medal. The articles 

 receiving premiums and perhaps those also deserving honorable mention 

 will form part of the published acts of the academy. 



7. Each author whose article is published in the acts of the academy 

 will receive free, with an appropriate frontispiece, one hundred copies 

 of the same. Besides this, the author, after the publication of the acts, 

 will enjoy the copyright of his work. 



8. The institute will not refuse those articles which answer only one 

 part of the above questions ; but, in such a case, it reserves to itself 

 the right of awarding the corresponding premium or not, as it may see 

 fit ; as it also reserves to itself the right of conferring the large academ- 

 ical medal for those articles which may be honorably mentioned. 



The premiums which the institute proposes are not of much material 

 value, but it is evident that those who will attend to the solution of the 

 above j)ropositions will find in their work, by reason of the benefit 

 which it will produce, ample and noble reward. 

 Naples, Eoyal Institute, February 6, 1874. 



F. TEmCHERA, 



President. 

 F. DEL GIUDICE, 



Perpetual Secretary. 



EOYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, LITEEATUEE AND THE 

 FINE AETS, BEUSSELS, BELGIUM. 



CLASS OF FINE ARTS. 



List of prizes for 1874. 



LITERARY SUBJECTS. 



First subject.— The history of sculpture in Belgium in the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries. 



Second stibject.— The history and bibliography of musical typography in 

 the Low Countries, and especially in the i)rovinces now constitut- 

 ing Belgium. 



The values of the gold medals offered as prizes for papers on these 

 subjects are 1,000 francs ($200) for the first and 800 francs ($160) for the 

 second. 



Papers sent for competition should be legibly written, and may be in 

 French, Flemish, or Latin. They should be sent, post free, to tJie perma- 

 nent secretary of the academy before June 1, 1874. 



