122 Barclay Memorial Medal. [Aug. 



2. The Medal will be bestowed on that individual who, not having 

 been a recipient of the Medal during the preceding seven years, shall 

 be deemed by the Council of the Asiatic Society to have, up to the 31st 

 of December next preceding the award, made the most meritorious 

 contribution to Biology with special reference to India. 



3. The Council will, at the Meeting next preceding the General 

 Meeting in N^ovember of each year, appoint a special committee of five 

 members of the Society who shall include the Natural History Secretary 

 to the Society for the time being ; the other four members shall, as 

 far as is possible, consist of individuals who are not, at the time of 

 appointment, members of Council of the Society. 



4. This Special Committee shall be termed the " Barclay Memorial 

 Medal Committee," and the Natural History Secretary of the Society, 

 its only ex-officio member, shall be its convener and Chairman. The 

 members nominated by the Council to serve on this Committee shall be 

 persons known to be learned in different branches of Biology. Three 

 members of the Committee shall form a quorum. 



5. The Chairman of the Committee will call a Meeting of the 

 Committee on the first convenient date subsequent to the first Wednes- 

 day of December and will deliver to the Committee the instructions of 

 the Council. These instructions shall be : — 



(a) To assist the Council in awarding the Barclay Medal by 

 selecting from among those known or supposed by the Com- 

 mittee to be eligible, the names of at least three persons, but 

 not more than five, worthy, in the Committee's opinion, 

 of the honour. 



(6) Members of the Committee, and Members of the Council of 

 the Asiatic Society for the time being, shall be held ineligible 

 for nomination. 



(c) The names need not be those of individuals living, at the 

 time of recommendation, in India ; and they may be the 

 names of workers in any branch of Biology ; i.e., in Animal 

 or Vegetable Morphology, Physiology, including Bionomics, 

 or Taxonomy, and taxonomic work shall be held to include 

 Palaeontology. 



{d) The names selected by the Committee in any year should, 

 as far as is possible, be names of persons eminent in different 

 branches of Biology. 



6. In the event of all five members being unable to attend the 

 first meeting of the Committee convened by the ex-officio Chairman, that 



gentleman is empowered to communicate, or to depute one of the other 

 members present at the meeting to communicate by letter with the 



