Dear M^r Darwin

As a member of the Rolleston Memorial Committee I am asked to write to you and ask whether if you feel inclined to subscribe to the Fund you will kindly send your subscription shortly to the Treasurer. E. Chapman Esq. Frewen Hall Oxford.¹

A meeting will be held in May at the College of Physicians to settle what form the Memorial shall take. The Committee will recommend that the interest of the money subscribed shall be given as a prize once every two years for the best original memoir on any biological subject produced by any member of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge who has not exceeded a certain number of terms from matriculation. Equivalent to about four years after the usual degree.²

I hope this scheme may meet your approbation. No subject will be set for the prize   Such an arrangement as far as I know never produces any good result.

The prize is to be withheld if no work of real importance is forthcoming but I do not think there is much chance of such a mishap now.

With kind regards. | yours truly | H. N. Moseley.