200 List of Prizes, 



The SOCIETY also proposes to award the KEITH PRIZE, 

 value Thirty Sovereigns, 



For some important •' Invention, Improvement, or Discovery, in 

 the Useful Arts, which shall be primarily submitted to the Society," 

 betwixt and 1st April 1848. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



The Communications and the Descriptions of the various inven- 

 tions, &c., to he full and distinct^ and to be written on Foolscap 

 paper, leaving; margins at least one inch broad, on both the outer and 

 inner sides of the writing, so as to allow of their being bound up in 

 Volumes ; and, when necessary, to be accompanied by Specimens^ 

 Drawings, or Models. All drawings to be on Imperial Drawing 

 Paper, unless a larger sheet be requisite. The Drawings, and the 

 Letters or Figures of Reference, to be in hold lines, or strongly co- 

 loured, so as to be easily seen from some distance when hung up 

 in the Hall of Meeting. 



The Society to be at liberty to publish in their Transactions copies 

 or abstracts of all Papers submitted to them. All Models, Draw- 

 ings, &c., for which Prizes shall be given, to be held to be the pro- 

 perty of the Society ; the Value of the Model being taken into ac- 

 count in fixinor the amount of the Prize. 



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Communications, Models, &c., are to be addressed to James Tod, 

 Esq., the Secretary, 21 Dublin Street, Edinburgh, Postage or Car- 

 riage paid ; and they are expected to be lodged on or before \st 

 October 1847, in order to ensure their being read and reported on 

 during the Session, the ordinary Meetings of which end in April 

 1848; but, those which cannot be lodged earlier, will be received 

 up to 1st March 1848. 



By order of the Society, 



James Tod, Secretary. 

 Edinburgh, 12th April 1847. 



*^* Copies of this List of Prizes may be had from the Secretary. 



