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Keith, Brisbane, Neill, and Gunning Prizes. 
They wish also to leave the property and free disposal of the manuscripts 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 1914-15, 1915-16, 
whether they may have been given in with a view to the prize or not. 
III. NEILL PRIZE. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh having received the bequest of 
the late Dr Patrick Neill 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 Neill Prize, consisting of a Gold Medal and a sum of Money, will be 
awarded during the Session 1917-1918. 
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 two years preceding the fourth Monday in October 1917, — 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. 
IY. 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. 
Evidence of such work may be afforded either by a Paper presented to the 
Society, or by a Paper on one of the above subjects, or some discovery in them 
elsewhere communicated or made, which the Council may consider to be deserving 
of the Prize. 
The Prize consists of a sum of money, and is open to men of science resident in 
or connected with Scotland. The first award was made in the year 1887. 
In accordance with the wish of the Donor, the Council of the Society may on 
fit occasions award the Prize for work of a definite kind to be undertaken during 
the three succeeding years by a scientific man of recognised ability. 
* For the purposes of this award the word “ presented ” shall be understood to mean the date 
on which the manuscript of a paper is received in its final form for printing, as recorded by the 
General Secretary or other responsible official. 
