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Providence, offers ten dollars for the first volume of Flem¬ 
ing’s Veterinary Journal, bound or unbound. 
$400 in Prizes—Important to Biological Students. 
Norway Lake, Me., January 17th, 1890. 
A merican Veterinary Review: 
I shall esteem it a great courtesy if you can make a brief 
news item of the offer of prizes, the circular of which I ven¬ 
ture to inclose to you. Many veterinary surgeons have oppor¬ 
tunities to make observations of the kind specified in this offer. 
The enterprise is in no sense a commercial one; I am simply 
anxious to collect all the facts touching failing nutrition and 
waning vital power in aged organisms. 
Very truly yours 
C. A. Stephens. 
From a desire to verify his own researches as to the causes 
of failing nutrition in aging organisms, the undersigned here¬ 
by offers three cash prizes of $175, $125 and $100 for the best 
three comparative demonstrations, by means of microscopical 
slides, of the blood capillaries in young and in aged tissues, 
canine or human. 
By young tissues (canine) are meant tissues from animals 
between the ages of one and three years. 
By aged tissues (canine) are meant tissues from animals 
not less than twelve years of age. 
By young tissues (human) are meant tissues from subjects 
between the ages of ten and twenty years. 
By aged tissues (human) are meant tissues from subjects 
not less than sixty-five years of age. ' 
While a preference will be given to demonstrations from 
human tissues, it will be possible for work in canine tissues to 
take the first and, indeed, all of the prizes. But of two slides 
equally well done in all respects,one canine, the other human, 
the latter will be given the preference. Canine tissues should 
be from large animals. 
Twelve slides from young and twelve from aged tissues 
must be submitted by each competitor, together with a full 
description of the subject, methods pursued and every detail 
