Publications in the journal especially included submissions by winners of the Norwegian Society for Development Prize.
Among others, these include Nicolai Wergeland's prize-winning composition arguing for a separate Norwegian university in Christiania, Mnemosyne, which was published in 1811.
[1] Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus's older treatment of the same subject was also published in the journal in 1812.
[2] Some of Niels Hertzberg's meteorological measurements were also published in the journal.
The journal's editor was Ludvig Stoud Platou,[3] who was also chairman of the society's historical-philosophical section.