1799-] 
to itfelf fix months for the exarhination of 
the labours, and the repetition of the expe- 
fiments which it expeéted from the candi- 
dates. 
This fubjet, fo important, which the 
Academy of Sciences had propofed in 1792, 
and which the Inftitute judged it fhould 
again offer to the refearches and meditations 
of the learned, has not been handled as was 
expeéted ; only a fingle memoir has arrived, 
jn which the queftion is not even fo much as 
fetched out, and its author, who has neither 
perceived the fcope nor true {tate of it, has 
bewildered himfelf in the labyrinth of an- 
cient hypothefes, and has not profited by the 
anatomical and chemical refources which the 
Inftitute had pointed out in its programma. 
This fcantinefs of works on a fubject fo in- 
terefting to one of the fineft and moft ufeful 
branches of phyfics, has led the Inftitute to 
imagine that the magnitude and extent of 
this queftion, and more efpecially the difi+ 
culty of finding united in one fingle perton 
the anatomical and chemical knowledge which 
the folution required, were the caules why 
no candidate had as yet appeared. Not to 
check the zeal of naturaliits in the agitation 

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of fo important a queftion, the Inftitute has 
thought fit to divide it into two branches, 
and to make it the fubjeét of two prizes, by 
devoting to it, with the medal which was to 
have been adjudged in the year VII. on the 
totalaty of the queftion already indicated, that 
which is to be difpoled of for the prefent 
year; confequently it propofes for the fubjcct 
of the two prizes, to determine the functions 
of the liver, by feparating what has a rela- 
tion to the anatomical ftructure of the he- 
patic fy@em, from that which belongs to the 
chemical examination of the liquids and folids - 
of that fyftem. 
The firft of thefe prizes will have for its 
object the form, the fituation, the magnitude, the 
comparative weight, and the dejcription of tha 
paren-chyma, of the vefféls, of the canals of the 
appendices of the liver, confidered in the principat 
claffes of animals, from man to infects, the mollufcee 
and worms. : 
The fecond prize will have for its obje& 
the analyfis of the bepatic or cyftic bile in the dif~ 
ferent claffes of axtmals already noticed. 
The works may be written in French or 
Latin, or in any other language the authors 
chufe to adopt. 

IANA; 
OR, BONS MOTS, APOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND LITERA- 
TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL LETTERS, OF THE LATE 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 
NUMBER X. 
*,* This Article is communicated by a Literary Gentleman, for many years in habits of intimacy 
with Mr. WaLPro ce. 
It is partly draton up from a colleétion of Bons-Mots, &c. in his own 
band-qriting 5 partly from Anecdotes swritten down after long Converfations with him, in whice 
be would, from four oClock in the Afternoon, till tavo in the Morning, difplay thafe treafures of 
Anecdote with which bis Rank, Wit, and Opportunities, had replenifh 
from Original Letters to the Compiler, on fubjects of Tafte and Literature. 
ed bis Memory; and partly 

eit CERULINI'S BELL. 
NE of the pieces in my colle&ion 
which I the moft highly value, is 
the filver bell with which the popes ufed 
to curfe the caterpillars, a ceremony I be- 
lieve now abandoned. Lahontan, in his 
travels, mentions a like abfurd cuftoim in 
Canada, the folemn excemmunication, by 
the bifhop, of the turtle-doves, which 
greatly injured the plantations. 
For this bell I exchanged with the 
Marquis of Rockingham all my Roman 
coins an large brafs. The relievos, re- 
prefenting caterpillars, butterflics, and 
other infects, are wonderfully executed. 
Cellini, the artift, was one of the moft 
extraordinary men mn an extraordinary 
age. His life, written by himfelf, is 
More amufing than any novel I know. 
CXL. “ENVY. 
Envy, though one of the wort and 
meaneft of our paflions, fcems fomehow 
natural tothe human breait. This fenti- 
ment is well expreft by a French poet, in 
a drama on the banifhment of Ariftides ; 
Jenele connois point; Je Vexile a regret 5 
Mais que ne jouit il de ta glcire en fecret > 
CXLIEI. SULLY’S MEMOIRS. 
“‘ It is hiftory, madam: you know 
how the tale gues,’* faid Cardinal Maza- 
rine to the queen dowager of France. 
But in no refpect is hittory- more uncer- 
tain than in the defeription of battles. 
Sully obferves that when, after the battle 
of Aumale, the officers were ftanding 
around the bed of Henry IV. not two 
of all the number could agree in their ac- 
count of the engagement. 
Though the original folio edition 
c 
Or 
Sully’s Memoirs be very confufed in 
the arrangement, it is worth while te 
turn it over for mahy curious’ parti- 
culars. The account of his embafly to 
James I. is particilarly interefting, and 
lays open the politics of that day with a 
miatterly hand: 
Je 
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