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APPENDIX A. 



THE "GUNNING NATUEAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS AND 

 FELLOWSHIP FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS" AT THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.* 



1. Dr. Gunning proposes to assign two hundred pounds annually for 

 encouragement of the study of the Natural Sciences amongst students of 

 Theology. 



2. The competition to be open to students of the Established Church and 

 the Free Church of Scotland. 



3. The scholarships to be three in number, of the respective annual values 

 of twenty, thirty, and fifty pounds. 



4. Each scholarship to be held for three years. 



5. The three scholarships shall be decided for the first time in May, 1880. 



6. The candidates to be examined in natural history, botany, and geology, 



* This statement is inserted, as it will be read with interest by many 

 Members and friends. The P'ounder has acted upon his own responsibility, 

 and quite independently of the Institute. The scheme is for the purpose of 

 promoting an object in the same direction as that which the Institute was 

 founded to carry out (it is not often that the value of a society's main object 

 is so emphatically recognised). 



The fellowship and scholarships can now be competed for by theological 

 students of the Scottish universities " holding to our National Confession 

 of Faith." The Founder writes as follows in regard to the scheme : — " It 

 "is now launched. If the idea is good, would not some with more 

 " money than this life needs establish similar prizes in connexion with the 



