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12. The fellowship not to be assigned if no competitor be found duly 

 qualified ; and the competition, in that case, to be renewed in six months. 



13. Each holder of a fellowship at the close of his three years' occupancy 

 either to produce a dissertation or to deliver a few lectures on some subject 

 related to the connexion between the Scriptures and the natural sciences ; 

 the Faculty of Divinity, and the three professors of the natural sciences in 

 the University of Edinburgh to decide whether the dissertation is worthy of 

 publication or the lectures of being publicly delivered. 



14. The Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh at any 

 time after six years subsequently to the awarding of the first fellowship in 

 1883, to have the power of altering the above conditions, but only in such 

 manner as may seem to them more conducive to the study of the natural 

 sciences by theological students in Scotland. 



P.S. — Dr. Gunning ofiers these scholarships and the fellowships for a 

 period of nine years. But if they answer the purpose designed of fully 

 encouraging the study of the natural sciences by theological students, it is 

 his wish and present intention to found them permanently.* 



* It is hoped that the publicity again given to the scheme may help 

 to this end. 



