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XVI. Best Collection of Coleoptera, £0 10 



XVII. ,, ,, Crustacea and Echinodermata, 10 



XVIII. Best set of 25 Microscopic Slides 10 



XIX. 6 Best Field Sketches appertaining to Geology, 



Archgeology, or Zoology ... ... 10 



XX. Best Collection of Fungi ; names of species not 

 necessary. Collectors may send (post-paid, 

 from time to time during the season) their 

 • specimens to Rev. H. W. Lett, M.A., T.C.D., 

 Aghaderg Glebe, Loughbrickland, who will 

 record them to their credit, ... ... 10 



XXI. Best Collection of Fossil Sponges, 10 



In every case where three or more persons compete for a Prize, a 

 second one, of half its value, will be awarded if the conditions are 

 otherwise complied with. 



SPECIAL PRIZES. 



XXII. The President offers a Prize of £1 Is. for the best set of 



three or more original sketches, to be placed in the album 

 of the Club. These may be executed in pen and ink, or 

 water colour, and must illustrate one or more ancient 

 monuments somewhere in Ireland. In determining the 

 relative merits of the sketches accuracy in representing 

 the subjects and their details will have chief place. 



XXIII. Mr. William Swanston, F.G.S., offers a Prize of 10s. 6d. 



for the best Two Studies, illustrative of Geology, contri- 

 buted to the Club's Album. The subjects must be from 

 nature, and may be either in the form of Drawings or 

 Measured Sections. Size not to exceed 15x9 inches. 



XXIV. A Prize of 10s., given by the late Mr. J. W. Murphy, 



for the best collection of Recent Sponges, the conditions 

 being the same as those for Prizes 1 to 21. 

 XXV. Lieut.-General Smythe, R.A., F.R.S., M.R.I.A., &c., 

 offers a Prize of £1 Is. for the best list of names of places 

 in the Counties of Antrim and Down (not hitherto 

 published) giving their Irish meaning and derivation, on 

 the plan of Dr. Joyce's " Irish Names of Places," 



