HEN WOOD MEDAL. 



^Pn^e for Scientific Eiterature in (ttorntuaU. 



GOLD MEDAL intrinsically worth more than Ten 

 Guineas, is offered for competition every three years 

 by the Royal Institution of Cornwall, which 

 has its head -quarters and Museum at Truro. 



The first Medal M'as awarded to the Rev. W. Iago, on ajth 

 November, 1890. 



Members and Non-Members may alike compete for it. 



The written competition which is to win the Prize must relate 

 to one or other of Eight 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 3 years next following the last award. 



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 being, I give the sum of [&c.], 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 



