§dfast naturalists' guilt Club. 



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The Committee offer the following Prizes, to be competed for 

 during the Session ending March 31, 1868 : — 



I. For the Best Herbarium of Flowering Plants,... 

 II. For the Second Best, do., 



III. " Best Collection of Mosses, 



IV. " Best do. Seaweeds, 



V. " Best do. Ferns, 



VI. Best Collection of Cretaceous Fossils, 



VII. Do. Liassic do., ... 



VIII. Do. Palaeozoic do., 



IX. Do. Marine Shells, 



X. Do. Land and Fresh-water Shells. 



XI. Best Collection of Archaeological Objects, 

 XII. Mr. Plimmer offers a Prize of 10/6 for the Best Collec- 

 tion of any or all the above, collected at the 

 Excursions or Field Meetings of the year. 



... £1 







... 10 







... 10 







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... 5 







... 10 







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... 10 







All Collections to be made personally during the Session, within the 

 Province of Ulster. Each species to be correctly named, and locality 

 stated. The Flowering Plants to be collected when in flower, and classified 

 according to the natural system. The Prizes to be in books, or suitable 

 scientific objects, at the desire of the successful members. 



SPECIAL PRIZE. 



Professor James Thomson, Chairman of the Club, offers a Prize, open 

 for competition to all members of the Club, for the best satisfactory expo- 

 sition of any way in which flint flakes can be made, having all the special 

 features of configuration which are remarkable for their frequency of oc- 

 curence together in the same flake among the Toome flakes already well 

 known to the Club, and called unwrought flakes, and among similar ones 

 found at Belfast. The Prize to be One Guinea, if the best candidate 

 shall exhibit to the Club the making of such flakes without the use of 



