Belgian • Academy ■of Sciences. — The Boyal Academy "of Sciences of Belgium has,, issued (remarks the " Mechanics' Magazine) the four following subjects for prizes of the value of one hundred francs, to be awarded in the year 1868:— 1- Examination and discussion of the methods in. use to. ascertain the delineation, inclination, and magnetic intensity of the earth, as well as the secular and diurnal vari ations. — 2. discussion and improvement with respect tti aiiy important point of the theory of the form" of waves. — -3. A complete study ofa natural organic" alkaloid/ containing: azote and oxygen; quinine ' in preference to any other ; the object being to elucidate the constitution of this substance, and to determine the place which it should occupy in serial classification,— 4. The anatomic composition of the egg in various classes of the animal kingdom, its mode of formation, and' the functions of the various, parts of which it is' composed, The papers to be written in Latin, French, or Flemish, and sent in before. August 1,: 1868, .with name oi author^ iii )& sealed letter, to M. Quetelet, pOrpQtufti aev;r§U\i^ r of; the Agftdeiuv v
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Southland Times, Issue 735, 11 October 1867, Page 2
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