15 
KINGSLEY MEMORIAL PRIZES. 
Open to any Resident within the Society's District. 
The following is a list of the Prizes offered by the 
Committee for competition, and which have already been 
advertised in local and other newspapers :— 
1885. 
A PRIZE OF TEN POUNDS for the best collection of “* FOSSIL 
PLANTS FROM THE COAL MEASURES OF THE 
SOCIETY’S DISTRICT.” 
1886. 
A PRIZE of TEN POUNDS for the best collection of ‘‘ BEES 
AND WASPS collected in the SOCIETY’S DISTRICT.” 
1887. 
A PRIZE of TEN POUNDS for the best Essay on the ‘‘ PHYSIO- 
GRAPHY OF THE SOCIETY’S DISTRICT” (on the line 
of PROFESSOR HUXLEyY’s Physiography.) 
In addition to the above Prizes, the Committee have decided that, 
in order to encourage scientific research, they will make grants, from year 
to year, of sums not exceeding TEN POUNDS, out of the Kingsley 
Memorial Fund, for COLLECTIONS or ESSAYS illustrating the 
NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE SOCIETY’S DISTRICT. 
The Essays or Collections may be sent in to the General Secretary at 
any time, and the awards will be made at the Conversazione next succeeding 
the adjudication. 
NOTE.—The Committee have the option of retaining the 
successful Collections or Essays, or any part of them, 
for the Society. 
Intending Competitors should obtain all particulars, and the con- 
ditions under which the Prizes are offered, from the Secretary, Mr. G. R. 
GRIFFITH, Grosvenor Street, Chester; and all Collections or Essays must 
be sent in to him on or before the 1st September in each year. 
The Prizes will be awarded at the Annual Conversazione. 
