KENWOOD MEDAL 



13n,*e for g>cienti<if Hiterature m ilToruiMall. 



GOLD MEDAL intrinsically worth more than Ten- 

 Guineas, is now, for the first time, offered for 

 competition by the Royai. Institution of 

 Cornwall, which has its head-quarters and Museum at Truro. 



Members and Non-members may alike compete for it. 



The written composition which is to win the Prize must be 

 original, and relate to one or other of 8 given subjects. It may be 

 illustrated if necessary, and must be forwarded to the Council of the 

 Institution in time for publication in some number of the Society's 

 Journal to be issued within the next 3 years. 



The terms of the Award are fully set forth in the Will of the 

 Donor, William Jory Henwood, F.R.S., the eminent miner- 

 alogist and writer on Metallurgical deposits, who for two years was 

 President of the Institution, and died in 1875 leaving certain 

 bequests to its funds. The following is an abstract from his will :- 



"To the President, Vice-presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries, 



and Council of the Royal Institution of Cornwall and to their 

 successors for the time i^eing, T give the sum of [cVc], the interest 

 thereon to accumulate to provide Dies, and in the third year next 

 after the purchase of the said Dies, and in every successive third 

 year, to purchase one Gold Medal of the value of Ten Guineas at 

 the least to be struck from the said Dies. And I further direct 



