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Entomological Society: Prizes for Essays At a general meeting of the Entomological Society, held on June 2, 1834, the Rev. William Kirby, F.R.S., honorary president, in the chair, a scheme for the establishment of prize essays to be awarded by the Council, on the subject of noxious insects and remedies was adopted, one of the principal objects of the Society being to make its labours practically useful. Accordingly, an annual sum of five guineas, or a gold medal of the like value, would be made available for the writer of the best essay (drawn up from personal observation) upon the natural history, economy, and proceedings of such species of insects as are obnoxious to agricultural productions, to be illustrated by figures of the insects in their different states; together with the result of actual experiments made for the prevention of their attacks or the destruction of the insects themselves. It was decided that the subject of the essay for the year 1835 should be the turnip fly (Entomol. Soc. Journal of Proceedings, 1834).
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 133, 845 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133845a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133845a0