SIMSON BURSARY.

A Simson Bursary of about £21 for a Student of Arts or Divinity preparing for the ministry of the Church of Scotland, or as a missionary going abroad. Natives of Dunbar have preference if they apply before 1st September to the SessionClerk, Dunbar.

MACKIE KNOCKGERRAN BURSARY.

Founded by the late William Mackie of Knockgerran, Ayrshire, to be held by a student studying for the ministry of the Established Church of Scotland during the period of his attendance at the Divinity Course for the time being. The rules and regulations for the trials and examination of candidates for the Bursary shall be prescribed by the Presbytery of Ayr from time to time, preference being given, in the first place, to a student who is a native of, or whose parents or parent reside or resides in, the parish of Dailly; in the second place, to a student who is a native of, or whose parents or parent reside or resides in, the parish of Barr; in the third place, to a student who is a native of, or whose parents or parent reside or resides in, the parish of Girvan; and failing all these three parishes, then to any student who is a native of, or whose parents or parent reside or resides within the bounds of the Presbytery of Ayr, preference to students who are natives of, or whose parents or parent reside or resides in Carrick. The value of the Bursary is about £45 a-year. Applications to be made to the Rev. Charles Goodall, B.D., minister of the parish of Dailly, Ayrshire, or to D. & J. Dunlop, Solicitors, Ayr.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

BERRY SCHOLARSHIP.

A Berry Scholarship in Theology has been instituted out of the Berry Bequest by the University Court. The Scholarship is of the value of £160, tenable for one year, and is open for competition in every second year to students who have taken their whole course in Divinity at St Mary's College. Candidates must have passed the last of the Examinations required for the Degree of B.D. within the two years preceding the Examination for the Scholarship. The 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 to tutorial work, under the direction of the Professors in his department. The Scholarship will be attached to either of the following departments-viz., (1) Divinity and Church History, or (2) Biblical Criticism and Hebrew.

General Regulations for Berry Scholarships.

1. The Berry Scholarships shall be paid in three instalments -the first, of £50, immediately after the appointment in April; the second, of £50, in November of the same year; and the third, of £60, on the approval, at the end of the Winter Session, of the Report by the Professors in the Scholar's Department on the work done by him during his tenure of the Scholarship.

2. As soon as possible after the Scholarship is awarded, the scholar shall arrange with the Professor or Professors in the department to which the Scholarship is attached, as to his line of work, a statement in regard to which, signed by the Professors or Professor, shall be sent by the scholar to the Secretary on or before the 1st day of July of the year in which the Scholarship is awarded, and shall be by him submitted to the Senatus at its July meeting. He shall not be entitled to attend any University class or take up any other work except with the sanction of the Senatus. The second instalment shall not be paid until the Senatus has approved the statement.

3. The third instalment shall not be paid until a report has been received from the Professors in the Scholar's Department upon the work which he has been doing under their supervision. This report shall be sent to the Secretary on or before 1st March, submitted to the Senatus Academicus, if possible, at its first meeting in March, and transmitted, with any observations which the Senatus desire to make, to the University Court.

4. In case the scholar proposes to study elsewhere than in St Andrews during the Winter Session, application for special permission, accompanied by a recommendation from at least one Professor or Lecturer in the department to which the Scholarship is attached, shall be made to the Senatus, and the sanction of the University Court shall also be obtained.

5. Every Berry scholar shall become a matriculated student of the University for the academical year during which the Scholarship is held.

COOK AND MACFARLAN SCHOLARSHIP.

By Ordinance No. 72, St Andrews No. 14, of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, the Cook and Macfarlan Testimonial, instituted in 1847, along with a similar prize in the University of Glasgow, as a memorial of the valuable services rendered to the Church of Scotland by the late Professor George Cook, D.D., of this University, and the late Principal Macfarlan, D.D., of the University of Glasgow, has been converted into a Scholarship tenable for one year. It is open to Masters of Arts of any Scottish University who have completed a Theological course of three years, of which the last must have been at St Mary's College. The value of the Scholarship is about £21, and it is at present competed for at the annual Scholarship Examination at the same time as the Berry and Tulloch Memorial Scholarships. When, however, there are no candidates for the Berry Scholarship, the Cook and Macfarlan Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate who has made at

least 65 per cent in any two of the subjects at the ordinary B.D. Examinations in March. By Ordinance it can be held along with the Tulloch Memorial Scholarship. It cannot, however, be held along with the Berry Scholarship.

TULLOCH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP.

This Scholarship is derived from a fund subscribed in 1889 in memory of the late Principal Tulloch. The annual revenue is about £20. It may be awarded in such manner as the Principal and Professors of St Mary's College may from time to time determine. It is at present competed for at the annual Scholarship Examination at the same time as the Berry and Cook and Macfarlan Scholarships, with the latter of which, by Ordinance No. 72, St Andrews No. 14, of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, it may be held. When, however, there are no candidates for the Berry Scholarship, the Tulloch Memorial Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate who has made at least 65 per cent in any two of the subjects at the ordinary B.D. Examinations in March.

CROMBIE SCHOLARSHIP.

(See p. 533.)

MACLEAN SCHOLARSHIP IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES.

This Scholarship, founded by the Rev. Dr Maclean, consists of the free annual revenue of a fund of £3500, held by the University Court of the University of Glasgow. It is awarded on the result of an examination_in_Semitic Languages held annually in Glasgow, and open to Students of the University of Glasgow or of any of the other Scottish Universities who have completed their course of study in the Faculties of Arts and Divinity of any of the Scottish Universities, and have taken a Degree in Arts, and who are preparing to enter the Ministry of the Church of Scotland (including in that description any Church with which the Church of Scotland as presently constituted shall be united). It is tenable for one year, and held on the condition that the holder shall study for at least six months in a country, to be decided by the Examiners, where Arabic is spoken, and that he shall pursue such other Course of Study for the remaining six months of the year during which he holds the Scholarship as may be prescribed by the Examiners.

The following St Andrews student has gained this Scholarship:

David Sime Stiven, M.C., M.A., B.D., 1922.

PRIZES.

Prizes are awarded for general proficiency in the different Classes at the close of the Session. The following special prizes are competed for :

GRAY.

Founded in 1808, by Dr John Gray of Paddington, London. One Prize of the value of about £5, for the best Essay on a prescribed subject. The competition is open to all Students in regular attendance on the Classes in the College in the Session at the close of which the Essay is prescribed. Patrons The

Senatus Academicus.

GLADSTONE MEMORIAL PRIZE.

This Prize, of the value of £20 (in books), was founded in 1900 by the Gladstone Memorial Fund Committee to perpetuate the memory of the late Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, and is directed to be once in every two years awarded by competition for special proficiency in History, Political Science, and Economics, or any one of these subjects, at the discretion of the Senatus Academicus.

The following are the Rules and Regulations applicable to the said Prize as sanctioned by the Memorial Fund Committee:1. That the Prize be awarded for an Essay on a historical subject, preferably in the department of Political or Economical Science.

2. That the competition be open to all members of the University of St Andrews, the date of whose first matriculation as students is not more than two years prior to the beginning of the Session during which the Prize is offered.

3. That the Board of Studies in History shall prescribe the subject of the Essay, and shall submit the same for the approval of the Senatus Academicus.

4. That the Examiners of the Essay be nominated by the Senatus Academicus.

Patrons-The Gladstone Memorial Fund Committee.

MACKENZIE SCHOLARSHIP OR DIVINITY PRIZE.

(See p. 532.)

A. H. JOHNSTONE MEMORIAL MEDAL.

The subscribers to a Memorial Fund have gifted to the University a capital sum to provide annually a Silver Medal to be