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has long been a well-established fact, and nowhere is this more- 

 certain than in a comparatively new country like Sonth Aus- 

 tralia. There must be many persons, both in the centres of 

 population and in the outlying districts of this State, who have 

 both the intelligence and the will to devote some of their leisure 

 time to the investigation of phenomena, the knowledge of which 

 might be not only of considerable scientific interest, but also 

 of great economic value. 



It is believed that a large amount of such useful know- 

 ledge has been obtained by individual workers, but has been 

 lost to the community through want of publication, and that 

 such knowledge is often limited and not brought to a practical 

 issue, through inability of the worker to incur the expenditure- 

 required for making the necessary experiments, and so obtain- 

 ing clear and definite results. 



With a view to assist and encourage such Australians as 

 are anxious to devote their leisure and thought systematically 

 to any definite line of research, the Royal Society of South 

 Australia is prepared to make small grants of money to assist 

 in defraying the expenditure involved in such investigations. 



The conditions upon which such grants will be considered 

 are as under : — 



1. The applicant must write to the Hon. Sec. of the Royal 

 Society of S.A., Adelaide, stating definitely the line of investi- 

 gation which he wishes to pursue. 



2. He must, either by enclosed recommendations or other- 

 wise, satisfy the Council that he is competent to carry out such 

 investigations, and that any grant made will be usefully 

 expended and strictly for the purpose set forth above. 



3. He must from time to time, and whenever asked to da 

 so, report to the Council the progress which he has made in his 

 investigations, and the details of the way in which he has ex- 

 pended the grant. 



4. He must embody the results, whether they be large or 

 small, positive or negative, in writing, and forward the same 

 to the Council, who will decide whether they are of such a 

 nature as to be inserted in the publications of the Society, 

 and shall not publish them through any other channel, unless 

 informed that they will not be so inserted. 



5. If the Council decides to include them in the Society's 

 publications, either in the form of a paper contributed by the 

 worker, or in such other form, duly crediting him with the 

 work, as the Council may deem fit ; he will receive 25 copies 

 of so much of the Society's publications as refers to his work. 



6. It is distinctly understood that the Royal Society has 

 the right to distribute the information gained by the worker^ 



