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OHIO.
BOSTON, Aagua 20.
8 PRIZE QUESTIONS.

excite Practitioners to bring those talents
TO light which mighr otherwise be useless
60 the community, Ward Nicholas Boyl
ston, Esq. hath, by an instrument, under
his hand and seal, given to the President
and Fellows of Harvard College in Cam
bridge, bearing date January 90, 1903,
empowered and enabled that Corporation
TO appoint, annually, a Committee skilled
in subjects connected with Melieal Sci
ence ; to propose annually sundry 9nesti-
ons upon such medical, anatomical, ply.
siological or chemical subjects, as they
may deem most useful, and the several
Authors Of the best Dissertations, IN the
Judgment of majority of said Commit
tee) upon each of said subjects, which
shall be transmitted or delivered TO them
On or before the goth of Nov. next, after
public notice given of said questions, are
entitled to receive of the Committee a
Prize Medal Tor the amount ia money at
their option) OF such value as to said Com
mittee shall seem proper Provided the
value OF all the Medals distributed, aud
money thus paid, in any one year, shall
not exceed one hundred dollars and the
said Corporation, having appointed Doc
tors Holyoke, Lloyd, Tufts, Danforth,
senr. Rand, senr. Fisher, Warren, senr.
Waterhouse and Dexter, DC Committee
to PROFOUND the cushions aforementioned
and to carry into effect Mr.. Boylston's
benevolent purpose, they 90 hereby pro
pose the following Questions to all who
cultivate Medicine or the Sciences con-
neaed with it, and do invite their artcn-
ton to discussion of the several subjects
here laid before them.
QUESTIONS.
/. Hozv does dir al upsn or iaFxenee
animal dodies tn originating, and eous,na-
ing reLbiyadea, maintaining organic mo
tiax, end 3ys/trvixg The exereys Of The Evi-
tai fasG;ans?
4. Wbat are The eagls, the nature,
and ere q tbe aatHmaai dJlla,ls Of IN
tauts, as preVaiixg IN the New England
States
3. Do any anatomieal faas or dgeave-
,;rs explain The nature efTetanus or Lack
ed jaw !? Wben the lp4jm arJss trom an
injured nrrve, IN oubat qUay is the nerve
a659edl Or, does Tttanus depend rather
on tb< es1a;xg .qate Of tbf .Aa<m than on
fbe particular mode in qvbieb The avound is
mR;a>a? Ind u ia, qvbat is that fafe Of
tbe .5yJqem msa favora6le to the production
of7sfan4s
Each Thesis or Dissertation on either
of these subjects, must be transmitted TO
DR.. E. A. Holyoke of Salem, on or be-
fore the goth Of November, 1903. and
with it, sealed ticket or packet, with
some device or sentence on the outside,
and within, the writer's name and deslg-
nation the same device or sentence must
be put on the Dissertation it accompanies,
and no Dissertation can be received which
has the writer's name affixed.
And this Committee do engage to de-
liver, agreeably to said instrument,
gold Medal, of the value of 80 dollars,
or its value i'll Money, at the option Of
the successful Candidate.
All unsuccessful Dissertations shall be
returned if desired, with the sealed pack
ct or ticket unopened.
Signed, by order of the Committee.
E. A. HOLYOKE, Chairmaa,
Boston, Aug. l9, 1908.
COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT.
Paris, .9aue 20. 1903.
DECREE OF If MESSIDOR.
no .Jaat.
Art. I. From the date of the present
decree, no commodities of the English
colonies, or coming directly or indirectly