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SYLLABUS. 
The following subjects are offered for competition in 1897:— 
[The Judges are empowered to fix the value of the Prizes to be 
awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 
All Essays and Reports intended for Competition must be lodged 
with the Secretary not later than Ist June 1897. All Collections 
of Cones, Seeds, and Rustic Work must be in the hands of the 
Secretary not less than three days before the Annual General 
Meeting, to be held on 27th January 1897. Hach Essay, Report, 
Collection, or Article must bear a Motto, and be accompanied by 
a sealed envelope bearing outside the SAME Morvo, and the Class 
to which the Competitor belongs, und containing inside, a CARD 
with the Name and Avpress of the Competitor. 
Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 
Successful Competitors may either have the medals or their con- 
verted values, which are as follows:—Gold, £5; No. 1 Silver, £3; 
No. 2 Silver, £2; Bronze, 10s. | 
Crass I.—For Open ComPETITION. 
I. For approved Essays upon the best form of, and the best 
method of establishing, an Experimental Forest area in Scotland, 
for the exhibition of and for instruction—theoretical and 
practical—in scientific Forestry. (lst Prize, Twenty Guineas ; 
2nd Prize, Five Guineas ; offered by the President, R. C. Munro 
Ferguson, Esq., M.P., and the Society in equal proportions. ) 
Note.—Mr Munro Ferguson and Professor Somerville are the Judges in this 
competition, and if in their opinion the Essays are not of sufficient merit, 
the value of the prizes may be reduced, or they may be withheld. 
IJ. For an approved Report showing the Financial Results of 
the Cultivation of Woods and Plantations. (Zen Guineas offered 
by Isaac Bayley Balfour, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of Botany in the 
University of Edinburgh, formerly President of the Society.) 
It is not necessary that the names of the estates on which the woods 
grow should be published, but the reporter must give the annual 
value of the land previous to planting; statistics of the cost of 
forming the plantations, including draining and fencing; the 
expenses of management, the income derived, and the present 
value of the Woods, 
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