William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize

William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize

The William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize has been instituted in honour of the late William T. Stearn, a scholar whose work contributed much to the field and to this Society.

The Society for the History of Natural History invites submissions to the 2010 William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize Competition.  The prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished, essay in the field of history of natural history. 

The competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students in full or part-time education.  Entries will be considered by a panel of three judges appointed by the Council of the Society.  The winner will receive £300 and be offered membership of the Society for one year.  The winning essay will normally be published in the Society's journal Archives of natural history.

The deadline for entries is 30 June 2010.  The rules of the competition and the entry form, which must accompany entries, can be downloaded from the Society's website (http://www.shnh.org), which also contains information about the Society, membership benefits and details of SHNH activities.

The Prize Rules and Entry Form are available for download as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files.

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