BOTANICAL PRIZE FOR I 860 . 
A Silver Council Medal is offered for the best Herbarium, collected in any 
part of the United Kingdom between the first day of May, 1865, and the first 
day of June, 1866; and should there be more than one collection possessing 
such an amount of merit as to entitle the collector to reward, a second prize, 
consisting of a Bronze Medal, and also Certificates of Merit, will be given at 
the discretion of the Council. In the event of none of the collections possess¬ 
ing such an amount of merit as to warrant the Council in awarding Medals or 
Certificates, none will be given. 
The collections to consist of Phanerogamous plants and Ferns, arranged ac¬ 
cording to the Natural System of De Candolle, or any other natural method in 
common use, and to be accompanied by lists, arranged according to the same 
method, with the species numbered. 
The collector to follow some work on British Botany (such as that of Babing- 
ton, or Hooker and Arnott), and to state the work which he adopts. The name 
of each plant, its habitat, and the date of collection, to be stated on the paper 
on which it is preserved. 
Each collection to be accompanied by a note, containing a declaration, signed 
by the collector, and certified by his employer, or a pharmaceutical chemist to 
whom the collector is known, to the following effect:—The plants which accom¬ 
pany this note were collected by myself, between the first day of May, 1865. 
and the first day of June, 1866, and were named and arranged without any 
assistance but that derived from books. 
In estimating the merits of the collections, not only will the number of species 
lie taken into account, but also their rarity or otherwise, and the manner in 
which they are preserved, and should a specimen be wrongly named, this will 
be erased from the list. 
The collections to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society, 17, Blooms¬ 
bury Square, on or before the first day of .July, 1866, indorsed u Herbarium for 
Competition for the Botanical Prizes.” After the announcement of the award, 
they will be retained one month, under the care of the Curator of the Museum, 
for the inspection of persons connected with the Society, and then returned to 
the collectors, if reauired. 
No candidate will be allowed to compete unless he be an Associate, Regis¬ 
tered Apprentice, or a Student of the Society, or if'his age exceed twenty-one 
years. 
FREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S 
GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
The following pupils of the Class of Materia Medica and Botany, in the 
Pharmaceutical Society, after examination in the Elements of Structural and 
Physiological Botany, were recommended by Professor Bentley to Mr. Sower - 
by, the Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society, for free admission to the 
Gardens in the Regent’s Park, and the privilege was at once liberally accorded 
to them :— 
T. H. Bateman, 
II. J. Brough, 
F. C. Clayton, 
W. T. Fincham, 
C. Gorton, 
H. W. Harris. 
W. Heale, 
A. W. Hitchcock. 
F. Oldfield, 
M. H. Payne, 
A. Rose, 
W. G. Selfe, 
T. F. Shephard, 
A. Smith, 
J. A. Thom a ;, 
A. Towerzey. 
