﻿64 
  

  

  Anniversary 
  Meeting. 
  

  

  [Nov. 
  30, 
  

  

  That 
  the 
  recipients 
  be 
  designated 
  Gilchrist 
  Students 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  

   which 
  the 
  grants 
  are 
  made. 
  

  

  That 
  no 
  application 
  for 
  grants 
  be 
  received 
  except 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  approved 
  

   by 
  the 
  President 
  and 
  Council 
  of 
  any 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  six 
  Societies 
  — 
  namely, 
  

   the 
  Royal, 
  Astronomical, 
  Chemical, 
  Linnean, 
  Geological, 
  and 
  Zoological; 
  

   and 
  that 
  all 
  applications 
  be 
  submitted 
  to 
  a 
  Committee, 
  consisting 
  of 
  the 
  

   Presidents 
  of 
  the 
  six 
  Societies 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  Officers 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  

   Society, 
  which 
  Committee 
  shall 
  recommend 
  the 
  applicants 
  to 
  the 
  Gril- 
  

   christ 
  Trustees. 
  

  

  That 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  application 
  be 
  prepared 
  setting 
  forth 
  the 
  general 
  objects 
  

   of 
  the 
  Grilchrist 
  Studentships, 
  and 
  the 
  conditions 
  upon 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  

   conferred. 
  

  

  That 
  each 
  Student 
  furnish, 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  for 
  which 
  the 
  grant 
  is 
  

   made, 
  a 
  report 
  of 
  his 
  progress 
  and 
  results, 
  signed 
  by 
  himself 
  and 
  counter- 
  

   signed 
  by 
  the 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  through 
  which 
  the 
  application 
  was 
  

   transmitted. 
  

  

  Simple 
  and 
  acceptable 
  as 
  such 
  a 
  scheme 
  appears, 
  it 
  may 
  prove 
  by 
  no 
  

   means 
  always 
  smooth 
  in 
  the 
  working. 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  easy 
  to 
  find 
  subjects, 
  

   and 
  candidates 
  too 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  Trustees 
  must 
  not 
  expect 
  in 
  every 
  case 
  a 
  

   full 
  annual 
  harvest 
  for 
  what 
  they 
  annually 
  sow, 
  or 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  seed 
  

   will 
  not 
  be 
  productive 
  of 
  a 
  crop 
  of 
  good 
  intentions 
  rather 
  than 
  good 
  

   fruits. 
  Putting 
  aside 
  all 
  the 
  temptations 
  to 
  procrastination 
  that 
  pre- 
  

   payment 
  fosters, 
  there 
  is 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  every 
  subject 
  of 
  scientific 
  research 
  

   presents 
  a 
  labyrinth 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  investigator 
  may 
  wander 
  further 
  and 
  

   further 
  from 
  the 
  main 
  gallery, 
  always 
  following 
  some 
  tempting 
  lateral 
  

   track 
  leading 
  to 
  discovery, 
  but 
  never 
  either 
  reaching 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  it 
  or 
  get- 
  

   ting 
  back 
  to 
  that 
  which 
  he 
  set 
  out 
  to 
  follow. 
  

  

  "We 
  must, 
  however, 
  hope 
  for 
  the 
  best 
  results 
  from 
  so 
  munificent 
  an 
  

   endowment 
  of 
  scientific 
  research, 
  and 
  watch 
  with 
  the 
  deepest 
  interest 
  

   the 
  progress 
  of 
  an 
  experiment, 
  the 
  means 
  for 
  instituting 
  which, 
  after 
  

   being 
  urgently 
  called 
  for 
  from 
  the 
  Grovernment 
  and 
  our 
  Universities, 
  

   are 
  now 
  forthcoming 
  from 
  private 
  resources. 
  

  

  The 
  Wintringham 
  Bequest 
  — 
  Hitherto 
  this 
  curious 
  bequest 
  has, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  

   the 
  Society 
  is 
  concerned, 
  proved 
  alike 
  profitless 
  and 
  troublesome, 
  as 
  

   will 
  appear 
  from 
  a 
  few 
  particulars 
  of 
  its 
  history. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Clifton 
  "Wintringham, 
  Bart., 
  a 
  Fellow 
  and 
  son 
  of 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society, 
  died 
  at 
  Hammersmith, 
  Janua^lO, 
  1794, 
  and 
  bequeathed 
  .=£1200 
  

   three-per-cent. 
  Consols 
  (payable 
  twelve 
  months 
  after 
  the 
  decease 
  of 
  his 
  

   wife) 
  to 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society, 
  subject 
  to 
  the 
  condition 
  that 
  within 
  one 
  month 
  

   of 
  the 
  payment 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  dividends 
  in 
  each 
  year 
  the 
  President 
  should 
  

   fix 
  on 
  the 
  subjects 
  for 
  three 
  essays 
  in 
  Natural 
  Philosophy 
  or 
  Chemistry, 
  

   and 
  submit 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  to 
  be 
  adopted 
  by 
  secret 
  ballot. 
  The 
  sub- 
  

   jects 
  were 
  then 
  to 
  be 
  advertised 
  in 
  the 
  papers 
  of 
  London, 
  Paris, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Hague 
  : 
  the 
  essays 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Ro}-al 
  Society 
  within 
  ten 
  

   months 
  of 
  date 
  of 
  advertisement, 
  each 
  author 
  to 
  deliver 
  ten 
  copies 
  ; 
  and 
  

  

  