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by the professors and extra- academical examiners of the University of 
Edinburgh ; also, in some department of Natural Theology or Christian 
Apologetics having special reference to the connection between religion and 
science, by the examiners to be appointed by the Faculty of Theology in 
the University of Edinburgh, it being left to the Faculty to choose one of 
the examiners outside its own body. 
/. Each candidate to produce evidence of his having attended a three 
years’ course of study in the Faculty of Arts of one or other of the Scotch 
universities, and also a declaration that he is on the point of commencing 
the theological studies enjoined by the Church to which he belongs. 
8. If it shall appear to the examiners that there are not candidates whose 
examination comes up to a due standard of excellence, the scholarship or 
scholarships shall not be assigned, and the competition shall be renewed 
between them and other candidates six months subsequently. 
9. There shall be a fellowship of the value of one hundred pounds annually, 
to be held for three years, the first to be competed for in May, 1 883. 
10. The competitions to be open to students of the Established and Free 
Churches of Scotland who have completed a three years’ course of theolo- 
gical study. 
11. The fellowship to be awarded after a senior examination in natural 
history, botany, and geology, and in their theological studies by the 
examiners mentioned above in section 6, and on due certification of profi- 
ciency as theological students. 
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 connection 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 subsequent 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 offers 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. 
