June 8, 1888.] 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



551 



being present on the occasion. The annual meeting of the 

 Association will be held at Burlington House on Wednesday, 

 June 27th. 



Prizes for Art-Workmen. — The Council of the Society 

 of Arts have determined, on the recommendation of the 

 Committee of the Applied Art Section, to offer prizes to art- 

 vvorlimen, in certain classes of art-workmanship, under the 

 following conditions : — 



I. These prizes will be awarded to workmen only, and the 

 work must have been executed in the United Kingdom, or its 

 dependencies. 



3. The objects submitted for competition may be the work 

 of one workman, or of several workmen working in com- 

 bination. They need not necessarily be the property of the 

 workman or workmen sending them in. Manufacturers or 

 employers may exhibit articles on behalf of their workmen. 

 In this case, besides the name of the manufacturer, the 

 names must be given of all the workmen who have executed 

 portions of the work, with a statement of the portion exe- 

 cuted by each. If any prizes are awarded they will be given 

 to the workmen, and a certificate, enumerating the award or 

 awards, will be given to the manufacturer. 



3. The objects in each class may be : — 

 (i.) Copies of existing works. 



(ii.) Modifications of existing works, 

 (iii.) Original works. 

 It should always be stated under which heading (i.), (ii.). 

 or (iii.), the objects are to be entered. 



4. In awarding the prizes, the judges will take into 

 account the following points : — I. Originality or beauty of 

 design. 2. Fitness of treatment. 3. Excellence of work- 

 manship. 



5. Designs or working drawings will not be received in 

 competition. 



6. Before the award of prizes is finally made, the candi- 

 dates must be prepared, if called upon, to satisfy the 

 Council of their competency. 



7. The works will remain the property of the competitor, 

 or of the person from whom he has borrowed them for the 

 competition. 



8. Although great care will be taken of articles sent for ex- 

 hibition, the Council will not be responsible for accident or 

 damage of any kind. 



9. Prices may be attached to articles sent in and sales 

 made, and no charge will be made iin respect of any such 

 sales. 



10. All the prizes are open to male and female competitors 

 on equal terms. 



II. When two or more workmen combine in the production 

 of any article sent in for competition, the names of, and the 

 respective parts taken by, each must be specified when the 

 article is sent in, and the proportions must be stated in 

 which they may have agreed, if successful, to divide any 

 prize which may be awarded. 



12. All articles for competition must be sent in to the 

 Society's House on or before Tuesday, April 23rd, 1S89, and 

 must be delivered free of all charges. Each work sent in 

 competition for a prize must be marked with the workman's 

 name, or that of the manufacturer, or, if preferred, with a 

 cypher, accompanied by a sealed envelope, giving the name 

 and address of the workman or manufacturer. With the 

 articles a description for insertion in the catalogue should be 

 sent. The works .will be exhibited at the Society's House, 

 or, if the necessary arrangements can be made, at the South 

 Kensington Museum. 



13. The Council reserve the right of withholding any of 

 the specified prizes, or of substituting smaller prizes, or 

 varying in any way their respective amounts. Silver and 

 bronze medals may also be given at the discretion of the 

 judges. Certificates will be given to the winners of prizes. 



The following are the classes in which prizes are offered 

 for the Session 1888-9 : — 

 I. Pottery (Including Porcelain and Earthenware) : 



I. The body, any material. 



a. Thrown, not shaved, first prize, _^5 ; second prize, £7.. 



b. Shaved or turned, first prize, ^5 ; second prize, £z. 



3. Decoration. 



a. Modelled and glazed, first prize, ^10 ; second prize, 

 ^5 ; third prize, ^3. 



b. Painted under glaze, first prize, _^lo ; second prize, 

 ^5 ; third prize, ^3. 



c. Enamel on the glaze, first prize, ^10; second prize, 

 ^5 ; third prize, ^3. 



3. Stone salt-glazed ware. 



a. Plain; incised and glazed, first prize, ^10; second 

 prize, ^5 ; third prize, ^3. 



b. Coloured or otherwise decorated, first prize, £10; 

 second prize, £t^ ; third prize, ^3. 



The art-workman must have designed the body of the pot 

 as well as have executed the decoration. 



All the specimens of pottery sent in for competition must 

 be dated on the clay. 



II. — Stone Carving. 



First prize, ^25; second prize, ^15; third prize, ^10; 

 fourth prize, ^5. 



The capital of a column, with square, circular, or octagonal 

 abacus, not to exceed twelve inches in width. 

 III. — Wrought-Iron Grilles. 



First prize, £z'^ ; second prize, ^^15 ; third prize, ^5. 



A grille measuring not less than three feet superficial, nor 

 more than five feet superficial. 



The object for which the grille is intended must be stated 

 — whether for a protective purpose, for outside a window, a 

 street-door panel, or for inside as a window-screen, or for 

 coil case, ventilator, etc. 



Liverpool Astronomical Society. — The following 

 gentlemen were elected as President, officers, and Council 

 for the ensuing year : — As President, Mr. T. G. Elger ; as 

 Vice-Presidents, Messrs. W. F. Denning, J. Gill, J. Hartnup, 

 and H. Sadler ; as Editor and Librarian, Mr. I. H. Isaacs ; 

 as Secretary, Mr. W. E. Rowlands ; as Treasurer, Mr. W. 

 H. Davies. Council, Mr. T. W. Backhouse, Miss E. Brown, 

 Messrs. T. W. Clarke, J. L. Coxon, W. H. Davies, jun., J. 

 E. Gore, G. Higgs, Major E. E. Markwick, Messrs. W. H. S- 

 Monck, W. Sang, K. J. Tarrant, and Major Watson. 



Royal Geographical Society. — The annual meeting of 

 the Royal Geographical Society was held on May 28th| at 

 the London University, General R. Strachey in the chair. 

 The retiring Hon. Secretary (Mr. C. Markham) read the 

 report, which stated that during the year there had been a 

 net decrease of twenty-nine in the number of Fellows. The 

 total number, exclusive of hon. members, was 3,391. The 

 Chairman then presented the Royal medals for the encourage- 

 ment of geographical science and discovery. The Founder's 

 medal he handed to Mr. Clements R. Markham on his retire- 

 ment from the Honorary Secretaryship of the Society after 

 twenty-five years' service, and in acknowledgment of the 

 valuable services rendered by him to the Society during that 

 period. Also for his numerous and important contributions 

 to geographical literature during the last thirty-five years, 

 and in recognition of his merits as an active explorer in the 

 Eastern Andes in 1S53, and again in i860, when engaged in 

 connection with tlie propagation of Cinchona, and in 

 Abyssinia in 1866-67 when acting as geographer to the ex- 

 pedition in that country. The other Royal medal, known as 

 " the Patron's," was given to Lieut. H. Wissman in recogni- 

 tion of his great achievements as an explorer in Central 

 Africa, which he has twice crossed from the Atlantic to the 

 Indian Ocean, and especially for the arduous and adventurous 

 journey in which he traced the course of the river Kassai 

 from its upper waters to its previously-unknown confluence 

 with the Congo. The President also announced the follow- 

 ing awards: — The Murchison grant for 1888 to Mr. J. 

 M'Carthy (Superintendent of Surveys in Siam), for his ex- 

 cellent map of Siam and the paper giving a resume of his 

 e.xplorations in that country ; the Cuthbert Peek grant for 

 1886-7-8 to Major Festing, for his ser\'ices as a cartographer 

 on the Gambia river and the country in the neighbourhood 

 of Sierra Leone ; the Gill Memorial for 1888 to Mr. Charles 

 M. Doughty, as a contribution towards the expenses incurred 

 on the map of Arabia, illustrating the recently-published 

 account of his travels. 



