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RoLLESTON Memorial Prize. — This prize, which is of the 

 value of ^60, will be awarded in Hilary Term, 1888. The 

 prize is open to such members of the Universities of O.xford 

 or Cambridge as shall not have exceeded ten years from the 

 date of their matriculation on March 31st, 1888, and is to be 

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 the following heads : — Animal and vegetable morphology, 

 physiology and patholog}', and anthropology, to be selected 

 by the candidates themselves. Candidates wishing to com- 

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 of the University of Oxford before March 31st, 1888. The 

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 and should each bear the name and address of the author. 

 They may be printed or in manuscript, memoirs already 

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DIARY FOR NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, Feb. 13. — London Institution, at 5 p.m. — The Soman 



Conquest of fiidcea; Rev. William Benham, 



B.D. 

 Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society. 



— Life in a Turkish Province ; Mr. J. A. 



Doughan. 

 Bradfoid Naturalists' Society. — Pinus syl- 



sesiris ; Mr. J. Clayton. 

 Society of Arts. — Cantor Lecture, at 8 p.m., 



Yeast, its Morphology and Culture ; Mr, 



Gordon Salamon, F.I.C. 

 Tuesday, Feb. 14. — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Before and 



After Darwin; Professor G. J. Romanes. 

 Society of Arts — Applied Art Section, at 



8 p.m. — Principles of Design as Affiled 



to Book-bituiing ; Mr. H. B. Wheatley. 

 Birmingham Architectural Association. — 



Pompeian Art ; Mr. Whitworth Wallis. 

 Royal Colonial Institute, at 8 p.m. — Recent 



Impressions in India and Australia ; The 



Right Hon. Lord Brassey, K.C.B. 

 Royal Victoria Hall. — Earthquakes and 



Volcanoes; Mr. E. Wethered. 

 Wednesday, Feb. 15. — Society of Arts, at 8 p.m. — Type-Writers 



atut Type- Writing ; Mr. John Harrison. 

 Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society, at 



7 p.m. — On Sea- Water for Street- Jl'ater- 

 tng ; Mr. S. Harding Terry. 



Dundee Naturalists' Society, at S p.m. — 

 Geology of Dundee : the Glacial Period; 

 Mr. James Durham. 



Cardiff Amateur Photographic Society, at 



8 p.m. — Norwegian Sctiury ; Mr. C, II. 

 James. 



Thursday, Fib. 16. — koyal Society, at 4.30 p.m. 



Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Early Secular 

 Choral Music ; Professor C. H. H. Patry. 



Chemical Society, at 8 p.m. 



London Institution, at 6 p.m. — The Pic- 

 tures of the year; Mr. Henry Blackburn. 

 Friday, Ftb, 17. —Royal Institution, at 9 p.m. — Developments of 

 English Pottery ; Sir Henry Doulton. 



Royal United Service Institution, at 3 p.m. 

 — The Advantages of a Simple Drill- 

 Nomenclature Consistent for all Arms, 

 Apropos to an Incident of the Battle of 

 lel-cl-Kebir ; Colonel J. F. Maurice, R.A. 



Geological Society. Annual General Meet- 

 ing, at I p.m. 

 Saturday, Feb. iS.— Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Experimental 

 Optics ; Lord Rayleigh. 



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