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SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS— 1912. 



[I'he Judges are enijjowered to fix the value of the Frhes to be 

 awarded according to the 7-espective merits of the Essays. 



All Essays, Reports, Models, or other Articles intended for 

 Comjjetition )nust be lodged 7vith the Secretary not later than 

 llth May 1912. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 must bear a Motto, and be accompanied by a sealed e^ivelope 

 bearing outside the same Motto, viith the Class in tvhich the 

 Writer competes, and containing a Card loith the Name and 

 Address of the Competitor. 



Essays should be written on one side of the paper 

 only ; the left-hand quarter of each page should be 

 left as a blank margin. The lines should not be 

 crowded together. 



Manuscripts for which prizes have been awarded, or ivhich have 

 been wholly or partly reproduced in the Transactions, become the 

 property of the Society and are not returned to their authors. 



Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 



Successful Competitors may have either the medals or their con- 

 verted values, which are as follows: — Gold, £5; No. 1 Silver, £3 : 

 No. 2 Silver, £2; No. 3 Silver, £1 ; Bronze, 10s.] 



The following subjects are named for competition in 1912 : — 



Class I. — For Open Competition. 



I. Suitability of any exotic Conifer for cultivation as a forest 

 Crop, and nature of the locality found, in the experience of the 

 writer, to be most suitable for it. {Five Guineas offered by 

 David W. Thomson, Esq., Nurseryman, Edinburgh.) 



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