PROSPECTUS 



PRIZE ESSAYS 



SUBJECT OF NOXIOUS INSECTS AND REMEDIES 

 FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION. 



XT being one of the principal objects of the Entomological 

 Society of London to render their labours practically useful, the 

 Council have resolved to appropriate the annual sum of Five Guineas, 

 or a Gold Medal of the like value, to the Writer of the best Essay 

 (to be drawn up from personal observation) upon the natural history, 

 ceconomy, and proceedings of such species of insects as are ob- 

 noxious to agricultural productions, to be illustrated by figures of 

 the insects in their diiferent states ; together with the result of 

 actual experiments made for the prevention of their attacks or the 

 destruction of the insects themselves. 



The subject of the Essays for the year 1834 to be the Turnip- 

 Fly*. 



The Essays must be forwarded to the Secretary, (at No. 17, 

 Old Bond Street,) with fictitious signatures, on or before the 

 Fourth Monday in January 1835, when they will be referred to 

 a Committee to decide upon their respective merits, after which, 



* " This part of our inquiry" (as to tlie transformations and early pi"oceedings 

 of the Turnip-fly) " is by far the most important ; and, important as it is, cannot, 

 in the present state of information, be fully answered." — Report of the Committee 

 of the Doncaster Agricultural Association on the Turnip-flii, 1834, p. 23. 



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