PRIZE QUESTIONS OP SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Extracts frovi the minutes of council, February 23, 1835. 



The principal subjects for which premiums Avill bo giveu are : 



1. Descriptions, uccompanied by phms and explanatory drawings, of any 

 work in civil engineering, as far as absolutely executed ; and which shall con- 

 Tain authentic details of the progress of the work. (Smeaton's account of the 

 Edystone light-house may be taken as an example.) 



2. Models or drawings, with descriptions of useful engines and machines ; 

 plans of harbors, bridges, roads, rivers, canals, mines, etc. ; surveys and sec- 

 tions of districts of country. 



3. Practical essays on subjects connected with civil engineering, such as 

 geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, mechanic arts, statistics, agriculture, 

 etc., together with models, drawings, or descriptions of any new and useful ap- 

 paratus, or instruments applicable to the purposes of engineering or surveying. 



Excerpt hy-laws, section XIV, clause 3. 



Every paper, map, plan, drawing, or model presented to the institution shall 

 be considered the property thereof, unless there shall have been some previous 

 arrangement to the contrary, and the council may publish the same in any way 

 and at any time they may think proper. But should the council refuse or delay 

 the publication of such paper beyond a reasonable time, the author thereof 

 shall have a right to copy the same, and to publish it as he may think fit, 

 having previously given notice, in writing, to the secretary, of his intention. 

 No person shall publish, or give his consent for the publication of any com- 

 munication presented and belonging to the institution, without the prcviouf5 

 consent of the council. 



Instructions for preparing communications. 



The communications should be written in the impersonal pronoun, and be 

 legibly transcribed on foolscap paper, about thirteen inches by eight inches, the 

 lines being three-quarters of an inch apart, on the one side only, leaving a 

 margin of one inch and a half in width on the left side, in order that the, sheets 

 may be bound. 



The drawings should be on mounted paper, and with as many details as may 

 be necessary to illustrate the subject. Enlarged diagrams, to such a scale that 

 they may be clearly visible, when suspended on the walls of the theatre of the 

 institution, at the time of reading the communication, should be sent for the 

 illustration of any particular portions. 



Papers which have been read at the meetings of other scientific societies, or 

 have been published in any form, cannot be read at a meeting of the institution. 

 nor be admitted to competition for the premiums. 



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