July 2nd, 1897.'] Proceedings. xxxvii. 



Special Meeting, July 2nd, 1897. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., Past- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The meeting was held for the purpose of presenting the 

 Wilde Medals for the years 1896 and 1897, announcing the 

 award of the premium for 1897, and for the delivery of the 

 Wilde Lecture by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Bart., F.R.S., 

 and there was a large attendance. 



Dr. Schunck said : W r e are met to-day on a special 

 occasion. Some time ago Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., a 

 distinguished member of this Society, whose work is well 

 known in scientific circles, resolved to endow the Society 

 with a fund, to be invested in the name of the Society, 

 the income derived from which should be devoted to the 

 advancement of literature, science, and philosophy, and to 

 the recognition of meritorious work in the following manner, 

 viz. : — 



(1) By the providing of a Gold Medal, to be called the 

 Wilde Medal, to be awarded annually to a person to be 

 selected by the Council, who is the author or originator of 

 any discovery in natural science, or of any valuable inven- 

 tion in applied science, or is the author of any original 

 paper or essay on a literary, scientific, or philosophical 

 subject, which shall have either been published or accepted 

 by the Council for publication in the Memoirs of the Society, 

 or have been published elsewhere. 



(2) By the payment of a premium of £15. 15s., with 

 which a " Dalton Medal," in silver or bronze, may or may 

 not be awarded by the Council annually to a person to be 

 selected by the Council, who is the author of any original 

 paper on a literary, scientific, or philosophical subject 

 which shall have been published or accepted by the Council 

 for publication in the Memoirs of the Society. 



