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ACADEMIES AND LEARNED SOCIETIES.
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workmen being chartered to remove by the aid of snow-ploughs the incommoding
covering. — k) Hockey and Curling-Matches and Exhibitions.
On two evenings during the meeting, performances embracing Swedish
gymnastics, fencing, Swedish country dances, Swedish choir-singing, and
Scandinavian music, were given at the Royal Opera House, by amateurs exclusively.
On two other evenings, international fencing-matches were held. Sleighing
excursions were also organized in the evenings, when hundreds of sleighs would
drive abreast across the ice, causing it to ring again. The general effect of
these unique drives in the darkness of a Scandinavian winter evening was
heightened by the rows of flaring tar-barrels stationed on the boundaries of the
course. Torchlight processions of persons on skids, illuminations and fireworks at
the skating-rinks and at the open-air Museum of Skansen; besides preliminary
and concluding banquets, occupied the remaining evenings. Lastly, it should be
mentioned that a trip on an ice-breaker out towards the Baltic was arranged,
and an insight into the art of fishing through ice was combined therewith.
Northern Games are intended to be held every other year, with rendezvous
alternating between Stockholm and Christiania; hence, once every four years in
Stockholm. The games are, it will be seen, to be Scandinavian in the sense of
being held in the Scandinavian peninsula, but other nations will be invited to
send their champions to compete for the prizes and honours awarded.
7. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR
SCIENCE AND ART. PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
Academies and Learned Societies.
The Swedish Academy was founded by Gustavus III, March 20,
1786, on the model of the French Academy. Its purpose is »to work for
the purity, strength, and ennoblement of the Swedish language». The
King is the patron of the Academy and appoints its members after
their nomination by the Academy itself. The number of the members
is eighteen, among whom are also the three officials of the Academy,
the director (chairman) and the chancellor (vice-chairman), elected every
half year, and the secretary, who is permanently appointed and should
be resident in Stockholm. The anniversary of the Academy is on Dec. 20
(the birthday of Gustavus Adolphus). Its main source of income is the
publication of Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, the official organ of Sweden.
Out of the public funds the Academy annually receives 8,250 kronor,
of which 6,000 are intended as support for literary authors. — The
Academy annually awards one of the five Nobel prizes (cf. page 379).
The Royal Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 by a private
society, among whose members was Karl von Linné (Linnaeus). Its
statutes were sanctioned by the Government. Its object is the promotion of
natural sciences. The Academy publishes the almanacs and the State
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