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The President then announced that Lord Walsingham, in conjunction 
with other gentlemen, had placed at the disposal of the Council the sum of 
£100, to be awarded in two prizes of £50 each for the following subjects :— 
1. The best and most complete life-history of Sclerostoma syngamus, 
Dies., supposed to produce the so-called “gapes” in poultry, game, and 
other birds. 
2. The best and most complete life-history of Strongylus pergracilis, Cob., 
supposed to produce the “ grouse disease.” 
No life-history would be considered satisfactory unless the different 
stages of development were observed and recorded. The competition was 
open to naturalists of all nationalities. The same observer might compete 
for both prizes. Essays in English, German, or French were to be sent to 
the Secretary of the Society on or before October 15th, 1882. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan said that, with the greatest respect for the liberal offer 
made to the Society by Lord Walsingham, he nevertheless considered the 
Council had not held sufficiently in view the objects for which the Society 
was instituted when they entertained his offer. The Society was now (as 
almost always) languishing for want of funds sufficient to enable it to 
efficiently carry out its purpose—the advancement of entomological science ; 
and he thought that if this were properly brought undnr the notice of Lord 
Walsingham he might be willing to modify his offer so as to bring it within 
the scope of the aims of the Society. By accepting the offer as it stood he 
thought the Council had exposed the Society to the risk of ridicule. The 
subject belonged more properly to the Linnean or Zoological Societies. It 
was true that the subjects in which the Society was specially interested did 
not consist exclusively of Insects, but they were limited to that division of 
the Animal Kingdom classed under the comprehensive term Arthropoda, 
and in no case could the Entozoa come within that division. 
Mr. Stainton remarked that when he heard an announcement made 
from the chair, in which the Latin names of the species occurred, he fully 
expected that, for the information of the younger members who were 
present, the President would have stated to what order of insects they 
belonged. If the creatures in question were not insects, he could not 
conceive what the Entomological Society had to do with them. Insects, 
Crustacea, Arachnida, and Acari came properly under the charge. of the 
Society, but the Entozoa were quite foreign to its scope, and fell more 
strictly within the province of the Linnean or Zoological Societies, with 
which latter Society he believed Lord Walsingham to be connected. It 
was a case he considered of ultra vires, and when he used that expression 
he was in hopes that he should induce a lawyer whom he saw present to 
rise and say a few words on that text. 
Sir John Lubbock stated that the offer for these prize essays had first 
been made to him by Lord Walsingham, and, as President of the Society, 
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