464 PRIZE QUESTIONS. 



The society proposes to offer successively for competition analogous investi- 

 gations respecting hemp, wool, and other substances employed in industry ; to 

 be followed by memoirs on weaving and its incidents, on the manufactures 

 which interest at once the industry and agriculture of our country, such aa 

 sugar, oils, alcohols, beer, &c. Persons who may have prepared works on 

 these topics are requested to address them to the society, which, in case of 

 merit, will award recompenses. 



The answers will be directed yVee to the perpetual secretary of the Dunkirk 

 Society before the 1st of July of the year of competition. They must not be 

 signed, but will bear an epigraph or motto, repeated in a sealed note communica- 

 ting the name, profession and residence of the author, who will certify that /m 

 m('77ioir is uvjnMished and has never been offered in competition. This note 

 will not be opened unless the work should merit a prize or honorable mention ; 

 otherAvise it will be burned. Authors who make themselves known in advance, 

 by whatever means, will be excluded from competing. The works sent be- 

 come the property of the society, though authors may have a copy taken at 

 their own expense. The candidate who, having been successful at one of the 

 five preceding awards, shall obtain the first rank, will be entitled only to a 

 commemorative notice of the medal. In this case honorable mention, inscribed 

 on a silver medal, may be accorded to the memoir rated as second in point of 

 merit. The author who, for one of the subjects proposed for competition, may 

 obtain several recompenses, will be entitled only to the higher medal. 



The society reserves the right of awarding medals to persons who shall have 

 sent presents or memoirs which, although not invited by the programme, shall 

 appear to merit distinction. For all further information reference may be had to 

 the perpetual secretary of the society. 



TERQUEM, Presulent. 



VOR. DERODE, Perpetual Secretary. 



Dunkirk, November 10, 1865. 



