900 APPENDIX—KEITH, BRISBANE, NEILL, AND GUNNING PRIZES. 
4. The Essays may be either anonymous or otherwise. In the former case, 
they must be distinguished by mottoes, with corresponding sealed billets, super- 
scribed with the same motto, and containing the name of the Author. 
5. The Council impose no restriction as to the length of the Essays, which 
may be, at the discretion of the Council, read at the Ordinary Meetings of the 
Society. They wish also to leave the property and free disposal of the manu- 
scripts to the Authors; a copy, however, being deposited in the Archives of 
the Society, unless the paper shall be published in the Transactions. 
6. In awarding the Prize, the Council will also take into consideration 
any scientific papers presented to the Society during the Sessions 1904—05, 
1905-06, whether they may have been given in with a view to the prize or not. 
Ill. NEILL PRIZE. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh having received the bequest 
of the late Dr Parrick Nem of the sum of £500, for the purpose of “the 
interest thereof being applied in furnishing a Medal or other reward every 
second or third year to any distinguished Scottish Naturalist, according as such 
Medal or reward shall be voted by the Council of the said Society,” hereby 
intimate, 
1. The Nem. Prize, consisting of a Gold Medal and a sum of Money, will 
be awarded during the Session 1907-1908. 
2. The Prize will be given for a Paper of distinguished merit, on a subject 
of Natural History, by a Scottish Naturalist, which shall have been presented 
to the Society during the three years preceding the 8th July 1907,—or failing 
presentation of a paper sufficiently meritorious, it will be awarded for a work 
or publication by some distinguished Scottish Naturalist, on some branch of 
Natural History, bearing date within five years of the time of award. 
IV. GUNNING VICTORIA JUBILEE PRIZE. 
This Prize, founded in the year 1887 by Dr R. H. Gunning, is to be awarded 
quadrennially by the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in recognition 
of original work in Physics, Chemistry, or Pure or Applied Mathematics. 
