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as prizes for the encouragement of microscopical research, 

 and Professors S. H. Gage, D. S. Kellicott and W. H. Seaman, 

 were appointed a committee to prepare the conditions on 

 wnich they should be granted. The competition is open to 

 members of the society, and to those who make application 

 for membership before submitting their papers to the com- 

 mittee. 



1 and 2, — Two Prizes of 850 each. 



3 and 4, — Two Prizes of 830 each. 



5 and 6, — Two Prizes of 825 each. 



7 and 8, — Two Prizes of $15 each. 



The committee have prescribed the following conditions : — 



1. One prize of $50 for the best paper which shall give 

 the results of an original investigation relating to animal life, 

 made with the microscope, and of not less than 3000 words in 

 length. The methods by which the results were obtained to 

 be given in lull. 



2. One prize of $50 for the best paper which shall give the 

 results of an original investigation made with the microscope, 

 and relating to plant life, of not less than 3,000 words in length. 

 The methods by which the results were obtained to be given 

 in full. 



3. 4. Two prizes of $25 each, for the second best papers on 

 animal and plant life, respectively, upon the above con- 

 ditions. 



The papers, drawings, and speciments entered for the above 

 prizes to be submitted to the committee on or before July 1, 

 1893, and the papers and drawings to be published in the 

 proceedings. 



5. One prize of 830 for the best six photomicrographs on 

 some subject in animal or vegetable histology, whose struc- 

 tural features are to be illustrated by the photomicrographs 

 of the following amplification, viz., 50, 150 and 500; two each. 

 These are to be made by transmitted light, printed on albu- 

 men paper, from untouched negatives, which, with the speci- 

 mens from which they are made, are to be submitted with the 

 pictures to the committee. 



6. One prize of $30 for the best collection of six mounted 

 slides illustrating some one biological subject. These slides 

 must be accompanied with a full description of the method of 

 preparation of the specimens. 



7 and 8. Two prizes of $15 each for the second-best collec- 

 tion of photomicrographs and slides, respectively, on the con- 

 ditions above stated. 



