Kingsley Memorial Prizes 
ARE OFFERED UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS :— 
CLASS I. 
TO ANY RESIDENT IN THE SOCIETY’S DISTRICT.—A Prize not exceeding 
TEN POUNDS for the best Collection of Objects, or Essays, or Notes 
of Observations, or Photographs illustrating the Natural Science of the 
Society’s District. 
All Collections must be made in Cheshire and North Wales, or the Seas adjoining thereto, 
by the Competitors. 
Collections, or Essays, or Notes, must be sent to the General Secretaries on or before 
September ist, and the awards will be made at the Conversazione next succeeding. 
The Committee have the option of retaining successful Collections, &c., for the Society. 
Prizes and Certificates for Nature Study. 
SPECIAL PRIZE OF FIVE POUNDS 
Offered to Members only of the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature, 
and Art (without restriction as to age), by THOMAS SHEPHEARD. Esq., F.R.MLS., 
for the Best Collection of Recent and Fossil Foraminifera of the Society’s District 
(Cheshire and North Wales). 
CLASS Il. 
KINGSLEY MEMORIAL and Mrs. GEORGE CHURTON PRIZE FUNDS. 
The following are offered by the above Society to Boys and Girls residing 
in Cheshire and North Wales :— 
The First Prize in each Class will be HALF-A-GUINEA, together with the 
Society’s Certificate. 
Collections, Essays, or Photographs not gaining a Prize may be awarded 
Certificates if found to be of sufficient merit. 
FOR SECONDARY AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 
1. For the best account of the Structure and Functions of Green Leaves, their structure 
being illustrated by sketches, and their functions by drawings and descriptions of 
experiments performed, if possible, by the writer. 
2. For the best account of the structure and functions of each part of a complete Flower. 
Name a Plant which has three kinds; another which has two kinds; and another 
which has no complete Flowers. What advantage is the peculiarity to the Plant in 
each case ? 
8. For the best list of Birds common in your district: (@) in Summer; (4) in Winter. Name 
the principal foods and general nesting place of each. 
4. For the best Four Photographs of Streams or Rivers. 
5. For the best series of Drawings illustrating the Young Shoots of our Native Trees just 
when the Leaf-bud is opening. (Special Prize offered by Dr. H. DRINEWATER, 
F.B.S. (Edin.), Wrexham). 
FOR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 
1. For the best account of the twelve most Common Weeds in your neighbourhood. Say 
why each is so abundant, and send a dried named specimen of each. 
2. For the best description of how Plants and Animals protect themselves against extremes 
of Heat, Cold, and Storms; and also against other Plants and Animals, 
3. For the best Collection of Land and Fresh-Water Shells. The specimens to be mounted 
on Cards, and the name and locality given. 
4. For the best account of the Life-Histories of the Lesser Celandine (anunculus ficarta) 
the Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis); the Coltsfoot (7«sstlago farfara) : 
and the American Water-Weed (Anacharis alstnastrum). 

CONDITIONS.—AII the actual work must be done entirely by the Competitors, who must 
be under 17 years of age. Of course, assistance and instruction from Teachers and Books is 
permissible and desirable, but mere copied or dictated Essays will be disqualified. The Essays 
and Collections should be sent under a om de plume, accompanied by a sealed letter con- 
taining the full name and exact age of the Competitor, to the under-noted at the Grosvenor 
Museum, on or before September Ist, 1910, free of any charge. 
The Collections, Specimens, &c., will be exhibited in the Grosvenor Museum after the 
awards have been made, due notice of which will be sent to each Competitor. No Competitor 
will be allowed to take more than two Prizes or Certificates. 
The awards will be made at the Society’s Conversazione next succeeding the adjudication. 
The Committee do not bind themselves to give the full Prize in case of insufficient merit. 
Any further information required can be had on application to the Hon. Secretaries. 
