8. THE STRUTHERS MEDAL AND PRIZE (IN ANATOMY).*

Founded in 1891, from a fund amounting to £400, collected by Sir John Struthers, M.D. Edin., 1845; LL.D. Glasg., 1885, who was Professor of Anatomy in the University from 1863 to 1889.

The annual proceeds of the fund are applied in part for the purchase of a gold medal, which, together with the unexpended balance as a money prize, is awarded annually by the Professor of Anatomy for the best dissection or preparation, or series of dissections or preparations, or for the best original research in Anatomy. The Medal and Prize are open to all those who are attending, or have attended, the Practical Anatomy Class in the University. The dissections or preparations of the successful competitor are to be placed in the Anatomical Museum, and marked with his name.

The award will be made at the end of each Summer Session, and all dissections or preparations must be sent to the Anatomical Department before 20th June in each year.

*A full statement of the conditions of the Foundation, as also a list of the sub

scribers, is given in Appendix to the Calendar for 1892-1893.

PRIZES IN BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY.

For particulars of the Dickie and the Collie Prizes in Botany, and the Macgillivray and the Nicol Prizes in Zoology, see under Faculty of Science.

BURSARIES IN FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

The Competition for Medical Bursaries will take place on Monday, 18th October, 1915.

Candidates are required to intimate in writing to the Secretary of the Medical Faculty, ON OR BEFORE MONDAY, 11TH OCTOBER

1. Their Names in full.

2. The group of Bursaries for which they are Candidates. 3. The Subjects of Examination selected.

(A.) Bursaries Open to First Year Students.

The Competition will be restricted to Students entering on their first Winter Session.

The subjects of the Competition are: (a) Physics, (b) Zoology (Invertebrata), (c) Botany, (d) Inorganic Chemistry and the Competitors may select any three of these subjects.

Books recommended :—

Physics.-Balfour Stewart's Elementary Physics, or Lehfeldt's Physics for Medical Students.

Zoology.-Thomson's Outlines of Zoology (Invertebrata only).

Botany.-Green's Manual of Botany, or Strasburger's Text-book of Botany
Inorganic Chemistry.-Newth's Inorganic Chemistry.

(B.) Bursaries Open to Second Year Students.

The Competition will be open to all students about to commence the second Winter Session of their Medical Studies. The subjects of Examination are (1) Botany, (2) Zoology, (3) Physics and (4) Chemistry or Anatomy.

Bursaries Vacant in 1915.

The following will probably be the Bursaries to be awarded on the result of the competition in October, 1915 :

I. For Students entering on their First Winter Session.

One Liddel (T. C.) Bursary of £20, and one Mather (T. C.) of £20.

II. For Students entering on their Second Winter Session.

Two Bursaries (Marr, and Watts) of £30 each, and Three Thompson Bursaries of £22, £20 and £18.

The following Bursaries are awarded on the previous record of Candidates, as detailed under Bursaries, Scholarships, etc., supra : Knox (Third year); Gillanders (Fourth or Fifth year); John Milne (Arts Magistrand).

BURSARS IN MEDICINE.

SESSION 1914-15.

NOTE. The Bursaries marked (P.) are Presentation; the others Competition.

NOTE.

THE attention of students in India and in the British Colonies who are intending to proceed to Aberdeen in order to complete their curriculum and graduate in Medicine, is especially directed to the importance of completing a Preliminary Examination which is recognised by the University, before leaving their own countries. If they are thus exempted they are able without loss of time to proceed to their medical studies. The Medical Preliminary Examination comprises four subjects: (1) English, (2) Latin, (3) Mathematics, (4) an additional language, such as Greek, French, German, etc.

It is permitted that "in the case of a student, whose native language is other than English, an examination in any other classical languagefor example, Sanskrit or Arabic-may be substituted for an examination in Latin, and an examination in the native language of the student may be substituted for an examination in the additional language". These are the only alternatives permitted to the usual subjects of examination. A Preliminary Examination having the indicated scope passed by Indian or Colonial students entitling them to proceed to graduation in Medicine at a University or College empowered to confer degrees in their home country is recognised for the same purpose by the Scottish Universities.

It is advisable that students who have passed a Preliminary Examination and possibly also an Examination in certain subjects embraced in the medical curriculum should communicate with the Secretary of the University of Aberdeen some months before leaving home, in order that they may receive definite information as to the exemptions to which they will be entitled on entering the University.