The Competition shall take place in March or April of each year, as soon as possible after the day of graduation. The Scholarships shall not be awarded unless the Examiners are satisfied with the qualifications of the candidates. Each Scholar must undertake to pursue advanced studies in the subjects of his department, under the supervision of the Professors, and to give, if required, five hours a week during the ensuing Winter Session to tutorial work, under the direction of the Professors in the department. David Morrison, M.A., Mental Philosophy, 1900. Duncan M. Y. Sommerville, M. A., Mathematics and Nat -1900. 1901. Mathematics and Nat-1 James P. Scott, 1901. ural Philosophy, John Young, History, . 1901. BERRY SCHOLARSHIP IN SCIENCE. Provisional Regulations. This Scholarship is of the value of £80, tenable for one year; but it is in the power of the University Court, on the recommendation of the United College, to continue the same for a second year. The Scholarship shall be open for competition each year in one of the following departments, namely-Zoology or Chemistry.1 The Scholarship in either department shall be open to candidates who (1) have attended all the necessary graduation courses at St Andrews; (2) have passed all the examinations necessary 1 The scheme of rotation fixed upon is as follows: Zoology in March 1901 and Chemistry in March 1902, and so on in successive years. for the Degree of B.Sc., with special distinction in Zoology or Chemistry, not earlier than the beginning of the Academic year preceding that in which the competition takes place. The competition shall take place in March or April of each year, as soon as possible after the graduation. The Scholarships shall not be awarded unless the Examiners are satisfied with the qualifications of the candidates. The Scholar must undertake to pursue advanced studies in the subject of his department, under the supervision of the Professor, and to give, if required, five hours a week during the ensuing Winter Session to tutorial work, under the direction of the Professor in the department. Harry M'Donald Kyle, M.A., B.Sc., {Physiology, Zoology, Harry M'Donald Kyle, M.A., B.Sc., William Pitkeathly, B.Sc., George B. Neave, M.A., B.Sc., William Wallace, B.Sc., and Botany, Do. (Mathematics, Natural Appointed. 1896. 1897. THOMAS THOW. In 1897 the late Miss Christiana Thow of Craigmore, near Dundee, left a bequest of £2000, to be held and administered by her Trustees, for a Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts in the University of St Andrews, to be attached to such Chair, and to be subject to such rules and regulations as her Trustees may from time to time fix, and alter, and prescribe, but so as that no more than the free yearly revenue of the said sum of £2000 shall at any time be enjoyed by the Student holding the Scholarship, and which Scholarship is to be called the "Thomas Thow Scholarship." The annual value of the Scholarship is fully £50. The following are the rules and regulations applicable to the said Scholarship 1. The Scholarship shall only be open to students studying in the Faculty of Arts in the University of St Andrews who have completed at least two years of study in such Faculty of Arts, and are qualifying for Graduation in Arts with Honours. 2. The Scholarship shall only be open to those who have passed two of the three subjects in which the standard is that required for the Ordinary Degree, these two not being in the department in which the candidate intends taking Honours. 3. The departments in which Honours courses have been established shall be selected as specified departments in rotation in successive years, and in the following order: (1) Classics, 1898; (2) Mental Philosophy, 1899; (3) Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1900; (4) English or History or Modern Languages, 1901. 4. When more than one candidate is studying for Honours in the specified department, the Scholarship shall be awarded after a special examination in the work of that department. 5. When in any year no candidate of sufficient merit is studying for Honours in the specified department, the Scholarship may, on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts, be awarded to a qualified candidate studying for Honours in one of the other departments. 6. The Scholarship shall not be awarded unless the examiners are satisfied with the qualifications of the candidates. 7. Names of candidates must be given in to the Trustees through the Secretary of the University by 20th September. The award to be made at the meeting of Senatus in October. 8. The Scholarship shall be open to students of either sex, and shall be tenable only for one year; and it shall not be competent for any student to hold along with it any other Scholarship or Bursary. 9. The Scholarship shall be payable, one-half within one month after the beginning of the winter session on the scholar producing certificates from the Professors concerned that he is studying for Honours in their department, and the other half at the end of the winter session. The foregoing rules and regulations are subject to such alterations and modifications as the Trustees may from time to time think fit. Agents for Trustees-Thos. Thornton, Son, & Co., Solicitors, Dundee. Besides the Class Prizes, and Prizes given by the different Professors for particular distinction, the following have been founded by the generous benefactors whose names they respectively bear: GRAY (ENGLISH). Founded in 1808 by Dr John Gray of Paddington. One Prize of the value of about £5, awarded annually for the best Essay on some prescribed subject in Literature or Philosophy. This Prize is open to the competition of all Students in regular attendance on the Classes during the Session at the close of which the Essay is prescribed. Patrons-The Senatus Academicus. CARSTAIRS (MATHEMATICS). Founded in 1834 by Dr John Carstairs of Stratford Green, London. The annual value is about £9, 10s., divided as follows: 1. A Medal (value £1, 7s. 6d.) and Books of the value of about £3, 7s. 6d., to the best Scholar in the Senior Honours Mathematical Class. 2. Books of the value of about £3, 3s. 4d., to the best Scholar in the Junior Honours Mathematical Class. 3. Books of the value of about £1, 11s. 8d., to the best Scholar in the Ordinary Mathematical Class. Patrons-The Senatus Academicus. MILLER (GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP). In 1853 the late Henry Miller, Esq., a native of Scotland, established a Fund, now yielding about £60 a-year, to be expended in Prizes for the encouragement of learning in the United College, St Andrews. By Ordinance No. 68 of the Scottish Universities Commission of 1889 it is provided that there shall be two Miller Prizes, to be awarded annually under the following conditions—each Prize consisting of one-half of the free income of the fund : 1. In 1897, one Miller Prize shall be awarded by the Senatus Academicus to the most distinguished student in the United College in Mental Philosophy, and the other to the most distinguished student in Zoology and Botany. In 1898, one Prize shall be awarded to the most distinguished student in Classics, and the other to the most distinguished student in Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, or any two of these subjects; and so on in alternate years thereafter. 2. The said Prizes shall be awarded on the result of the final examination for the Degree of Master of Arts, with Honours, in the case of those for Classics and for Mental Philosophy, and of the second examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in the case of those for Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, or any two of these subjects, and for Zoology and Botany, under such regulations as the Senatus may prescribe. 3. The Prizes shall not be awarded to any student who has not taken the whole of his course for either of the said degrees at the United College in the University of St Andrews. In accordance with the foregoing conditions the Miller Prizes will in future be awarded on the result of the M.A. and B.Sc. Examinations respectively held in October of each year. As regards the Prize in the department of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, special weight will be attached to Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in October 1904, and to Experimental Physics and Chemistry in October 1906, and so on in alternate years. DUNCAN (MATHEMATICS). Founded in 1858 by former pupils of Professor Thomas Duncan, LL.D., of this University, and directed by him to the furtherance of Mathematical learning in the United College. One Prize of the value of £16, 10s., or thereby, which is annually competed for by Students, who must have attended, at least, the second and third Mathematical Classes during separate Sessions. The competition takes place at the commencement of the Session immediately following that of their attendance on the third class. Trustees The Professor of Mathematics, the Provost of St Andrews, and the Minister of St Leonards. BRUCE OF GRANGEHILL AND FALKLAND (LOGIC). This Prize was founded in 1865 by Mrs Tyndall Bruce of Falkland, and is directed to be annually awarded by competition to a Student "for excellence in the study of Logic and Metaphysics." The value of the Prize is £10. Patrons-The Senatus Academicus. ARNOTT PRIZES (NATURAL PHILOSOPHY). Founded in 1869 by Dr Neil Arnott, who presented to the University of St Andrews £1000 for the purpose of founding a Prize or Prizes for the encouragement of the study of Physical Science. Under this Foundation two Prizes will be awarded annually at the conclusion of the Session of the United College, after an examination in Natural Philosophy, conducted in accordance with the following regulations:— 1. The subjects of examination shall be those in Natural Philosophy, as defined by Dr Arnott in his pamphlet, entitled, 'Observations on some of the Fundamental Principles and existing Defects of National Education,' at p. 1-viz., Mechanics, Pneumatics, Optics, Electricity, Hydrostatics, Acoustics, Heat, Astronomy. |