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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
ral, with 40 members; for the science of artillery, with 24 members; for
the art of fortification, with 10 members; for the science of naval
warfare, with 20 members; for the commissariat, transport and hospital
departments, with 16 members; and for the departments of mapping,
communication, statistics, and technics, with 10 members.
The Royal Academy of Musio was founded by Grustavus III on
September 8, 1771. The number of Swedish members is at most 80 men
and 20 women, the foreign members at the utmost 50 men and women,
who are elected by the Academy. Furthermore, the Academy has a
right to elect at the most 50 Swedish men and women as associates.
The officials of the Academy are: the president, who is elected for a
term of one year at a time; the secretary; the director of the conservatory
of the Academy; the treasurer; and the librarian. At the Conservatory,
which stands under the supervision of the Academy, instruction is given
in all the subjects appertaining to a musical education. The regular
State subvention of the Academy in 1900 was 51,200 kronor.
Among other learned societies we may here mention The Swedish Society for
Anthropology and Geography, founded in 1873. It consists of both Swedish and
Norwegian as well as foreign members and honorary members, and corresponding
members (foreigners) besides. The number of members is about 1,000. On
the initiative of this Society, in 1880, the Vega Fund was collected, so-called
in memory of the first circumnavigation of Europe and Asia. This fund now
amounts to about 45,000 kronor, and its annual proceeds shall be used partly
for a stipend, the Vega Stipend, for the promotion of journeys of research in more
unknown regions, and partly for the Vega Medal to be awarded to persons who,
in an eminent manner, have promoted geographical research. It has hitherto
been awarded to Nordenskiöld (1881), Palander (1882), Stanley (1883), Przevaljskij
(1884), Junker (1888), Nansen (1889), Emin Pascha (1890), Sverdrup (1897),
Hedin (1898), Schweinfurth (1899), Nathorst (1900), the Duke of Abruzzi (1901).
and von Richthofen (1903).
Among other learned societies in the Capital, we may mention: The Royal
Association for the Publication of Manuscripts in regard to the History of
Scandinavia, The Swedish Paleographical Society, The Swedish Archeological Society,
The Swedish Historical Society, The Society of Swedish Physicians, The
Entomological Society, The Geological Society, The Society of National Economy, and
The Numismatical Society. — In the Provincea the most important are: The
Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (our most ancient scientific association,
founded as early as 1710 by the Archbishop E. Benzelius); furthermore, The Royal
Association for Literary Science, and the Society for Swedish Literature, at Uppsala;
The Royal Phvsiographical Society, in Lund; the Royal Society of Science and
Literature, in Gothenburg; and the Royal Naval Society, in Karlskrona.
The Nobel Foundation (Nobelstiftelsen).
The Nobel Foundation, established in pursuance of the will of Dr
Alfred Nobel, is one of the most notable of any country or any time.
Alfred Nobel belonged to a family of inventors and financial magnates
His father, Imanuel Nobel, born at Gefle (North-Sweden), in 1801, — the in
ventor of nitro-glycerine and of under-water mines — was an engineering geniui
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