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Prizes for Essays and Reports. 



IS. AGRICULTURAL WEEDS. 



Twenty Sovereigns will be given for the best Essay on Agricul- 

 tural Weeds. 



1 . Botanic classification generally of such weeds. 



2. Agricultural distinction between annual, deep-rooted, and 



running weeds. 



3. Kinds of soils peculiarly liable to each class of weeds, 



4. Best mode of extirpating weeds. 



X. ANY OTHER AGRICULTURAL SUBJECt. 



Ten Sovereigns will be given for the best Report or Essay on any 

 other Agricultural subject. 



The Reports or Essays competing for these Prizes must be sent to the Secretary 

 of the Society, at 12, Hanover Square, London, on or before March 1, 

 1854. Contributors of Papers are requested to retain Copies of their 

 Communications, as the Society cannot be responsibe for their return. 



EULES OF COMPETITION FOR PRIZE ESSAYS. 



1. All information contained in Prize Essays shall be founded on experience 

 or observation, and not, on simple reference to books or other sources. 



2. Drawings, specimens, or models, drawn or constructed to a stated scale, 

 shall accompany writings requiring them. 



3. Ail competitors shall enclose their names and addresses in a sealed cover, 

 on which only their motto, and the subject of their Essay, and the number of 

 that subject in the Prize List of the Society, shall be written.* 



4. The President or Chairman of the Council for the time being shall open 

 the cover on which the motto designating the Essay to which the Prize has 

 been awarded is written, and shall declare the name of the author. 



5. The Chairman of the Journal Committee shall alone be empowered to 

 open the motto-paper of any Essay not obtaining the Prize, that he may think 

 likely to be useful for the Society's objects ; with a view of consulting the 

 writer confidentially as to his willingness to place such Essay at the disposal 

 of the Journal Committee. 



6. The copyright of all Essays gaining prizes shall belong to the Society, 

 who shall accordingly have the power to publish the whole or any part of such 

 Essays ; and the other Essays will be returned on the application of the 

 writers ; but the Society do not make themselves responsible for their loss. 



7. The Society are not bound to award a prize unless they consider one of 

 the Essays deserving of it. 



8. In all reports of experiments the expenses shall be accurately detailed. 



9. The imperial weights and measures only are those by which calculations 

 are to be made. 



10. No prize shall be given for any Essay which has been already in print. 



11. Prizes may be taken in money or plate, at the option of the successful 

 candidate. 



12. All Essays must be addressed to the Secretary, at the house of the 

 Society. 



* Competitors are requested to write their motto on the enclosed paper on which 

 their names are written, as well as on the outside of the envelope. 



