Fly-leaf to the Record of Family Faculties. which, if more space is wanted, additional pages may be stitched,) or they may be written in any other book with pages of the same size as those of the [italics]Record[end italics], provided that the information be arranged in the same tabular form and order. (It will be obvious that uniformity in the arrangement of documents is of primary importance to those who examine and collate a large number of them.) Each competitor must furnish the name and address of a referee of good social standing (magistrate, clergyman, lawyer, medical practitioner, &c.), who is personally acquainted with his family, and of whom inquiry may be made, if desired, as to the general trustworthiness of the competitor. The Extracts must be sent prepaid and by post, addressed to Francis Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, London, S.W. It will be convenient if the letters "R.F.F." (Record of Family Faculties) be written in the left-hand corner of the parcel, below the address. The examination will be conducted by the donor of the prizes, aided by competent examiners. The value of the individual prizes cannot be fixed beforehand. No prize will, however, exceed [British pound symbol]50, nor be less than [British pound symbol]5, and [British pound symbol]500 will, on the whole, be awarded. A list of the gainers of the prizes will be posted to each of them. It will be published in one or more of the daily newspapers, also in at least one clerical, and one medical journal. **The above conditions are in lieu of those provisionally sketched out by Mr. Galton in the [italics]Fortnightly Review of August, 1883, for the purpose of eliciting suggestions, and which were subsequently submitted in a more elaborate form to many members of the medical profession. Their present shape is fixed in accordance with the balance of opinions elicited by these preliminaries, which was in favour of throwing them open to general competition, and not to medical men only, as at first intended. Mr Galton would add, that extracts from the Records of any family would be very acceptable to him, even such as may be too incomplete in the opinion of their authors to have the chance of gaining a prize, or which for any other reason should have the words, "not for competition," written upon them. He sincerely trusts that his efforts to draw the attention of the public to the utility of family records, to induce them to rescue facts that are steadily gliding into oblivion, and to collect materials for serious scientific study, will be taken in good part and in the spirit of which they are made. [italics]December, 1883.[end italics] [end]