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W. White, a registered apprentice of the Society, residing with Mr.* T. B. 
Groves, Pharmaceutical Chemist, Weymouth. This contained four hundred and 
twenty-three specimens of British plants, which were well preserved and named, 
and included many rarities ; altogether it was a meritorious collection, and Mr. 
White had well earned the silver medal which had been awarded to him. The se¬ 
cond in order of merit was that of Isaiah Tansley, a registered apprentice of the 
Society, residing with Mr. James Fisher, of Lowestoft; this, although a very 
inferior collection to the first, was so well arranged and preserved, that a certifi¬ 
cate of honour had been awarded to Mr. Tansley. 
The following were the awards:— 
Silver Medal .James W. White. 
Certificate of Honour. Isaiah Tansley. 
Mr. D. H anbury, although sorry to disturb the agreeable flow of compli¬ 
ments that had set in, observed that he thought it would render an important 
service to the gentlemen who had formed the Herbaria, now presented to the 
notice of the meeting, if the Professor of Botany would state in a report (not 
necessarily to be published) in what points each herbarium was susceptible of 
improvement. Such criticism would be most useful to the young botanists, 
whose zeal and diligence all could commend. He hoped he should not be con¬ 
sidered as desirous of fault-finding, if, for the sake of illustration, he pointed 
out that amongst the twelve or thirteen specimens suspended before the meet¬ 
ing, several were deficient, in presenting the radical leaves of the plants or their 
fructification, or were so mounted as not to give a correct idea of the manner of 
growth of the plant. 
Professor Bentley, in reply to Mr. Hanbury, said that he had on several 
previous occasions given such information to the competitors for the botanical 
prizes, and should be always glad to do so in future to any one who would apply 
to him. As to the specimens referred to by Mr. Hanbury, he had purposely 
selected them from the general collection, with the intention of pointing out 
privately to the collector (who he hoped and expected would have been pre¬ 
sent to receive his medal) in what particulars they might have been improved. 
Professor Bentley added that we must not expect perfection in the collection of 
a young apprentice, and he thought we should be careful not to discourage the 
efforts of those who, working under difficulties, sent up for competition such 
meritorious collections as those now before the meeting. 
JACOB BELL SCHOLAPvSIIIPS. 
ISTo candidate presented for the Senior Schlorship. 
Five candidates competed for the Junior Scholarship. 
There being no Senior candidate, two Junior Scholarships were awarded to— 
Sidney Applegate. 
Alfred R. Hall. 
The questions for the written examinations were as follows:— 
LATIN. 
1. Decline the following nouns, viz.:— Herba, filia, granura , cether, and species. 
2. Decline the comparative and superlative of parvus. 
3. Give the perfect tense and passive participle of the following verbs, viz.:— do : facio , 
contundo, decoquo , misceo , consumo, demitto , and dejicio. 
4. Translate the following passage from Caesar, ‘De Bello Gallico,’lib. i. par. xli.:— 
Quum to pervenerunt. 
“ Quum hostium acies a sinistro cornu pulsa, atque in fugam conversa esset, a 
dextro cornu veheinenter, multitudine suorum, nostrain aciem premebant. Id 
