SUBJECTS PROPOSED 



HONORARY PREMIUMS 



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Edinburgh, 2Qth April 1839. 



The WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY offers the following Honorary PREMIUMS; 

 open unconditionally to all scientific Naturalists. It is un- 

 derstood that the successful Essays, and such Drawings and 

 Specimens as accompany them, become the property of the 

 Society : Further, that, in the event of the Society not 

 publishing the Essays, the Authors may be allowed to pub- 

 lish them on their own account. 



HYDROGRAPHY. 



1. Ten Sovereigns, or a suitable Piece of Plate of that value, 

 tor an approved Essay on the Temperature, Magnitude, Chemical 

 Composition, and Geological relations of the Springs of Scotland. 

 This Essay must be founded on the actual observation and expe- 

 riments of the Author Time, February 1844. 



