of parturition, and after delivery, not having been satisfactorily treated, it is again proposed for the present year, the premium and other circumstances being as above.

The Medical Society of the Department of the Eure has proposed the following question :-" To determine the nature, character, causes, differences, and treatment of ascites." The prize a gold medal of 200 francs value; and a silver medal to the author of the second best memoir. The papers, written in French or Latin, are to be sent to M. L. H. Delarue, Pharmacien à Evreux, before the 1st of August, 1819.

9. Anatomical Prize Question. - The Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris have announced the following subject of a prize essay. The reward to be a gold medal of 3,000 francs value, to be adjudged in March 1821.

"To give a comparative description of the brain of the four classes of vertebral animals, and particularly of reptiles and fishes, endeavouring to discover and establish the analogy of the various parts of this organ, describing with care the changes of form and proportions which it suffers, and tracing to the utmost the roots of the cerebral nerves. It will be sufficient to make the observations on a certain number of particular genera, chosen from among the principal natural families of each class; but it is required that drawings be given of the principal preparations, so accurate as to enable others also to prepare them, and verify the observations."

The papers are to be sent to the Secretary of the Academy, free of expense, before January 1, 1821, each having a motto, or design, which is to be repeated on a sealed note, containing the name of the author.

10. Animal Magnetism. - It is curious to observe the different feelings with which this pretended science is received on the Continent. In Austria, at the latter end of last year, all those physicians, not matriculated at the University of Vienna, were called together, in order to be officially informed of a resolution taken by the supreme powers, by which the practice of animal magnetism is generally prohibited throughout that country; and several of the doctors of Vienna have been publicly censured as empirical practitioners of the art, and threatened with suspension of their functions, should they still resort to it. On the contrary, in Prussia it is encouraged, and the class of physical sciences of the Academy of Berlin has proposed, by order of the Prussian government, a prize of three hundred ducats for the best explication of the phenomena of animal magnetism, and of the experiments made down to the latest period, divesting them of the marvellous which has hitherto been mingled with them. It is to be feared, that thus purified, the science itself will disappear.

IV. GENERAL LITERATURE.

1. Pompeia. The workmen employed in making researches among the ruins of this celebrated city, have lately discovered a bronze vase, incrusted with silver, the size and form of which place it very forward amongst the articles of this description which form so interesting a part of the Bourbon Museum, and also a bronze statue of Apollo, of admirable workmanship, which is indisputably the finest in the gallery. The beauty of form, and the life of the figure, is described as being beyond description. The deity is represented as sacrificing, with his avenging arrow, the family of Niobe.

2. Roman Medals. - On the 1st of March, some monks of one of the convents of Namur, working in a piece of ground belonging to the convent, found, about a foot under ground, a vessel of baked earth, which contained about 2,000 Roman medals or coins. Most of them are of bronze, and some of silver. Among these medals there are some of Gallienus, of Gordian, Claudius, &c. They are in the possession of the directors of the convent to whom the monks delivered them. found is a small hillock, on the left quarter of a league from Namur. a multitude of small pieces.

The place where they were bank of the Meuse, about a The vessel was broken into

3. Hieroglyphics in Sweden. - M. Brunins, of the university of Lund, in Sweden, has discovered a considerable number of inscriptions cut in rocks, and which, according to the best judgment that can at present be formed of them, appear to be hieroglyphics of very remote antiquity. A programma of these has been published, and a more detailed work on the subject is expected.

In connexion with the supposed characters on what have been called the written rocks, in the state of Massachusetts, North America, these hieroglyphics possess considerable interest. They may perhaps determine whether those in America are really the results of art, or only the accidental effects of water. If, however, they do not clear up this point, they will still be very important for their own sakes, and for the illustrations they will offer of the progress of written language.

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