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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 : — 



1887. 



A PRIZE of TEN POUNDS for the best Essay on the " PHYSIO- 

 GRAPHY OF THE SOCIETY'S DISTRICT" (on the Unes 

 of Professor Huxley's Physiography.) 



1888. 



A PRIZE not exceeding TEN POUNDS for the most vahiable 

 COLLECTION OF OBJECTS IN ANY ONE BRANCH OF 

 NATURAL HISTORY made in the Society's District The 

 amount given will be proportionate to the quality of the Collection* 



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, ESSAYS, or NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS 

 illustrating the NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE SOCIETY'S DISTRICT. 



The Collections, Essays, or Notes of Observations may be sent in to 

 either of the General Secretaries at any time, and the awards wiU be made at 

 the Conversazione next succeeding the adjudication. 



NOTE.— The Committee have the option of retaining the 

 successful Collections, <&c., or any part of them, for the 

 Society. 



Intending Competitors should obtain all particulars, and the con- 

 ditions tender which the Prizes are offered, from either of the General 

 Secretaries of the Chester Society of Natural Science; and all Collections, &'c., 

 must be sent in to either of them on or before the 1st September in each year. 



The Frizes will he awarded at the Annual Conversazione. 



