NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
——-" LRG YF OS125—— 
“DUNCAN ” GOLD MEDAL PRIZE ESSAY, 1897. 
Tue Subject approved by H.R.H. The Colonel-in-Chief for the ‘“ Duncan ’”’ 
Gold Medal Prize Essay, 1897, is as follows :— 
“Coast Artillery Practice; how best to conduct it with a view to the 
requirements of actual warfare.” 
The Rules for the Prize Essays now read :— 
The Annual Gold Medal, when awarded, to be accompanied by an honorarium of £20; the 
Silver Medal by an honorarium of £10. 
The candidates must be Officers of the Regiment who are members of the R.A. Institution. 
Officers are requested to confine their Essays to about 16 printed pages of the ‘‘ Proceedings ;”” 
other things being equal brevity will count towards success. 
The Essays must be forwarded to the Secretary so as to reach him on or before the 1st of April. 
Each Essay must be type-written in triplicate. The Essays must be strictly anonymous, but 
each to have a motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope with the motto written 
outside and the name of the writer inside; further, if the writer wishes to recover from 
the Committee part of the cost of type-writing his Essay he should state this fact in the 
same sealed envelope and write outside it, above the motto, “‘ to be opened.” 
All the envelopes thus marked will be opened by the Secretary after the result of the compe- 
tition has been announced, and he will send the writers the money for their type-writing 
expenses. 
The Committe will allow a sum of £1 for type-writing each Essay. 
The Essays will be submitted for decision to three Judges chosen by the Com- 
mittee. 
The Judges"are empowered to recommend :— 
1. That two Medals, one Gold and one Silver, be awarded, or 
2. That only one Medal, Gold or Silver, according to the merit of the 
Essay, be awarded, or 
3. That no Medal be awarded. 
The names of the successful candidates will be announced at the Annual Meet- 
ing, and Medallists will be distinguished as such in all Lists, &c., issued from the 
Institution ; and in the event of a University man gaining a Medal, a report of 
his success will be made to the University of which he may be a member. 
The successful Essays will be printed and circulated to members by the Insti- 
tution. 
N.B.—The Committee draw particular attention to the paragraph in the Rules 
above on the subject of length of Essays ; it is not difficult to discover the number 
of words in an average page of “ Proceedings” matter, and so to keep an Essay 
within the 16 pages’ limit. 
10. vou. XXIII. 68a 
