IS 



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 : — 



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 Imes 

 of Professor Huxley'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 Secretaries at 

 any time, and the awards wiU be made at the Conveisazione 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. 



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The Frizes will be awarded at the Annual Conversazione. 



