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VIII. — That if the Committee shall decide not to make any 

 award, or shall not award the whole sum of £20 in any one year, 

 such sum as shall remain shall be used for an award or awards in 

 the sixth or some succeeding year, and that no greater sum than 

 £20 shall be awarded in any one year. 



Your Committee hope that this mode of applying the fund so 

 liberally presented to the Club will meet with the approbation of 

 the members. It is designed to promote original research, and to 

 give a stimulus to the performance of good and useful work, at the 

 same time avoiding the evils consequent upon direct competition, 

 the introduction of which might possibly diminish the cordiality 

 which has hitherto existed in the Club, and which forms one of its 

 most attractive features. 



