1898] The Walker Grand Honorary Prize. 45 



on sugars in Louisianna and subsequent investigation pursued 

 in the laboratories at Leipzig, eminently qualified Dr. Lehmann 

 to speak with authority on this interesting and important subject. 

 The Toronto Globe of 26th April, devotes two columns to an 

 account of the lecture, which evidently was a most successful 

 effort and one highly appreciated by the large audience that 

 greeted this talented Canadian Chemist. 



THE WALKER GRAND HONORARY PRIZE. 



The members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club will 

 learn with pleasure of the great honour which has just been con- 

 conferred upon our friend Dr. S. H. Scudder, the eminent Ento- 

 mologist and Palaeontologist of Cambridge, Mass., by the Boston 

 Society of Natural History unaminously awarding to him the 

 Walker Grand Honorary Prize. The following data with refer- 

 ence to this prize have been kindly supplied by Mr. Samuel 

 Henshaw, of Cambridge, Mass. : 



" The Walker Prizes are awarded from funds given in 1864 

 to the Boston Society of Natural History by the late William 

 Johnson Walker of Newport, R.L In addition to the annual 

 prizes given for memoirs or subjects proposed, the Walker 

 foundation allows the Council of the Society to award not 

 oftener than once in five years a Grand Honorary Prize. For 

 this Grand Honorary Walker Prize the Council may award the 

 sum of five hundred dollars for such investigation or discovery 

 in natural history as may seem to deserve it, provided that such 

 investigation or discovery in natural history shall have first been 

 made known and published in the United States of America, 

 and at the time of said award shall have been made known and 

 published at least one year ; if^ in consequence of the extraordi- 

 nary merit of any such investigation or discovery, the Council of 

 the Society shall see fit, they may award therefor the sum of one 

 thousand dollars. ' '.' 7 



"The award of the maximum sum, one thousand doIIafs,on 



