Abstract
Imperial Academy of Sciences/ Russia The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Russia has published a clause of the will of an artillery officer, Count Araktsehejen, by which the testator established a fund of 50,000 roubles for the author of the best History of the reign of the Emperor Alexander. The work is not to be written until 100 years after that monarch's death, that is, in 1925. The author must be a Russian subject. The money will remain 93 years in the bank where it will accumulate interest. Ten years before the time appointed, that is, in 1915, the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh, will announce that competition is open, and that the prize will be awarded in 1925. Of the sum available one quarter will be devoted to the publication of the work, and the successful author will receive the remainder. (Gentleman's Magazine, Sept. 1834.)
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