2796.) 
Citizen Camus communicated to the 
Yoftirute his remarks omethe Illyrian 
tongue, either the parent or a dialect of 
the Sclavonic, and the fource of the Po- 
ith and Hungarian languages. “Thefe re- 
Searches are one of the fruits of the au- 
thor’s captivity. 
He mentioned afterwards the juflice 
done to France by the learned of Gérmany, 
and the great hopes they conceive from 
the formation of a national inftitute ef {ci-» 
eaces and arts; and thence proceeded to 
{peak of the arrangement of libraries. Qneof 
the principal regulations he recommends, is 
the making afyfiem of Bibdiegraphy, or an 
index of books, pointing out the works of 
real urility in every branch of {cience. 
~ Atreatife by Citizen Roederer followed, 
concerning tie funeral infitutions proper 
for a republic, whieh permits all kinds of 
Sworfbip, but antborizes rose. 
He would neither with to have the dead 
depofited on the high roads, as among the 
Romans; ‘not in catacombs, as was the 
cuftom of the Chriftians in the earlier 
ages; mor ia caves, as among the Ger- 
mans; nor in temples erected to the dead 
themicives, as Was the practice of the 
Greeks in Reroic times; aor in church- 
yards, as among the people of medern Eu- 
rope: he would have their remains laid 
to reli an 2 jacrcd wood. There trees, 
Aowerts, birds, air, and light would fur- 
round the manes of the virtuous; and 
there barcen and frightful rocks would 
prefent to the. wicked fepulchral caverns, 
baunied by vultures, the fymbels of remorfe. 
% 
ful way of difpofing of the dead, will be 
more approved of by philofophers on this 
ide of the water, than the cburiable piety 
of the legiflacor Pattoret, who propofed 
ten years imprifonment in ‘fetters, as the 
punifhment of thofe who fhould in any 
way violate their afhes. It would,. be- 
fides, be worthy Roederer’s ingenuity to 
thow how vultures can be compelled to 
Aly reund the tombs of the wicked /errer 
autour des cavernes fépulcbrales.) 
Inthe fame fitting Citizen Prony was 
to have given an account of the progrefs of 
regitter land (le cada/fire), and Citizen Fon- 
fanes was to have read his obfervatiens on 
fome notes written by Voitaire in his youth 
“upon a copy of Virgil, but time did not 
permit. : 
The following are the fubjeéts of the 
prizes propofed by the Inflitute : 
; - MatrHEMATics. 
The conflruétion of a watch for the pocket, 
eapadle of foowing the longitude at fea, tak- 
Account of the Skeleton found at Paraguay. 
It may be doubted whether-this fanei-- 
637 
ing care that the divifions indicate the dect- 
mal paris of the day; namely, the tenths, 
thoufandths, and hundred thoufandths , or that 
_the day be divided into ten hours, the hours 
into a bundréd minutes, and ibe minute ino 
a hundred feconds. 
ad Puysics. 
The comparifon of the nature, form, and 
ufo of the liver in the aifferent claffes of 
animals. 
Ea 
Porrtican and Morau SciENCEs. 
Lim Prize. Seta 
To determine the influence of figns on the 
formation of ideas. 
Second Prize. 
For what purpofes, and on what copdi- 
tions, is it proper for a republican flate to 
open public loans ? 
ao Cae ° 
LIreRaTtTurRe and Pine Anvs. 
Dae an ahee © ilies 
Beccomine ibe changes that the FrencP 
tongue bas undergone fiom the time of Mai 
berbe and Balzac to the prefent day. 
Second Prize... 
To examine what has been, and what 
may be, the influence of painting ox tbe man= 
ners of a free people? 

Species of Quadruped, hitherto unknown, 
found at Paraguay, and depafited in ibe 
Cabinet of Natural Hiftory at Madrid. 
“Drawn up by G. Cuvier. 
Notice concerning the Skeleton of a er large 
(SEE THE ANNEXED PLATE.) | 
wi Re fkeleton is fof” It was found a 
~ hundred feet beneath the furface of a 
fandy foil, in the vicinity of the river of 
La Plata. Jt only wants the fail, and - 
fome pair-bones, which have been imi- 
tated in wood; and the fkeleton 4s now 
mounted at Madrid, where the Citizen 
Roume, correfpondéent ef the National 
Inftirution, has examined it with atten- 
tion. 
This fkeleton, reprefented in the an-— 
et plate, is twelve feet (French) long, 
by &ix feet in height. ‘The fpine is com- 
pofed of feven cervical, fixteen dorfal, and 
four Jumbar vertebra: it. has, confe- 
quently, fixteen ribs. The facrum is 
{hort ; the offa ilia very broad, and their 
plane being almoft perpendicular to the 
{pine, they form a very open pelvis. 
There is no pubis er ifchium; at leaft 
they are wasting in this fkeleton, and 
there is no mark of their having exifted 
when the animal was alive. 
The thigh bones are exceifively thick, 
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