by the University for the promotion of Research in Law. The medal shall be presented to the recipient at the Annual Convocation.

2. The competition for the Prize shall be open to all persons who have, at any time, been admitted to a Degree in the University of Calcutta.

3. A subject for research in any branch of Jurisprudence or Law shall be annually selected by the Faculty of Law in the first week of December at least two years in advance of the date when the Prize is to be awarded. The subject so selected when approved by the Syndicate, shall be notified in the Gazette for general information.

4. Each candidate for the Prize shall be required to submit not later than the 30th November in any year a thesis or record of original work in the subject selected for the prize of that year and to send three type-written or printed copies of his thesis or record of work to the Registrar under a distinguishing motto. The name of the candidate must also be forwarded at the same time in a sealed envelope with the motto outside.

Explanation. The thesis for the Prize in any year must be submitted not later than the 30th November of the preceding year.

5. Every candidate shall further be required to indicate generally in preface to his thesis and specially in notes, the sources from which his informa tion is taken, the extent to which he availed himself of the work of others and the portions of the thesis which he claims as original. He shall also be required to state whether his research has been conducted independently, under advice, or in collaboration with others, and in what respects his investigations appear to him to tend to the advancement of knowledge.

6. A Board of Honorary Examiners, consisting of three experts, shall be appointed by the Syndicate on the recommendation of the Faculty of Law to adjudicate upon the merits of the theses or records of original work submitted by the candidates. The award of the Board of Examiners shall be subject to the eventual confirmation of the Senate and the thesis of the successful cadi. date shall be published by the University.

7. The name of the Prize Winner and the subject of his thesis shall be published in the Gazette and shall also be printed in the University Calendar.

8. If, in any year, no thesis is received or the theses submitted are pro nounced by the Board of Examiners not to be of sufficient merit to deserve the prizes a second prize or a prize in a second subject shall be awarded in a subsequent year as the Syndicate may direct.

9. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Rule 3, the subjects for 1912 and 1913 shall be determined and announced as early as practicable.

SUBJECT FOR 1919.

The Legal aspect of strikes and the course, efficacy and justification of legislation to prevent them.

In January, 1902, the late Babu Jogendrachandra Ghose, Member of the Senate, offered to place at the disposal of the Calcutta University, Government Securities of the nominal value of Rs. 10,000 of the loan of 1865 for the encouragement of the study of Comparative Indian Law, by persons belonging to what is called the Adhyapak class in Bengal, and for the purpose of establshing, out of the annual income of the fund, a prize to be awarded to the writer of the best Essay on the subject under the following conditions :

(i) By Comparative Indian Law shall be meant the Hindu Smriti Sastra, called "Vyabaharkhanda" and a comparison of the standard Sanskrit authorities on the subject with British Indian Law as contained in Parliamentary Statutes, Regulations and Acts of the Indian Legislative Councils, and the Law as laid down in Leading Cases. The study, which it shall be the object of the prize to encourage, is the History of the Hindu Smitri Sastra as it existed at and from the time when India came under British rule and how and to what extent it has been altered under British influence, regard being had not only to the existing Statutes, Regulations and Acts but also to those which, having been in operation for a time, have now been repealed or become obsolete and regard being also had not only to the existing Leading Cases but to cases which were considered Leading at one time, but have now been overruled, and how and to what extent such alteration has affected Hindu Society.

(ii) The Essay, at the discretion of a Committee consisting of the ViceChancellor for the time being of the University, the President of the Faculty of Law and the Principal of the Government Sanskrit College in Calcutta may deal with the whole of the Indian Comparative Law as before defined or with part or parts thereof; but in no case shall an essay be entitled to competition which in any way attacks the religious beliefs, usages or institutions of His Majesty's subjects. And it shall be in the province and discretion of the said Committee (a) to make a detailed programme of studies for the proposed prize, (b) to name the subject of the essay for any one particular year; and (c) to decide whether such prize shall be awarded every year or at longer intervals.

(iii) By Adhyapak shall be meant scholars of the Smriti Sastra, students of Smriti in the Government Sanskrit College in Calcutta, and in the Tols of indigenous Brahmanical schools which send in candidates for the Title Examination held in that College, and students in other similar institutions in India.

(iv) Every candidate for the Prize shall be required to indicate generally in a preface to his thesis and specially in notes, the sources from which his information is taken, the extent to which he has availed himself of the work of others and the portion of the thesis which he claims as original. He shall further be required to state whether his research has been conducted independently, under advice or in co-operation with others, and in what respects his investigations appear to him to tend to the advancement of knowledge.

(v) Successful candidates shall be required to publish their essays, and, if necessary, they shall receive help from the University for the purpose.

(vi) The essay or essays shall be written either in English or in Bengali, but if any competitor sends in an essay in any vernacular language other than Bengali he shall be bound to furnish English translation thereof.

(vii) The adjudicators for the prize shall be the Vice-Chancellor of the University, the Chief Justice of Bengal, the President of the Faculty of Law, and the Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta. They shall be entitled to consult experts of their own selection to assist them (a) to decide whether the essay or essays in competition is or are of sufficient merit to deserve the prize; (b) to award such prize; (c) to decide about the number of manuscript copies of each essay to be sent in by the successful competitors; and (d) to consider the ways and means of the publication of any essay or essays.

(viii) The Prize shall be called the “Research Prize in Comparative Indian. Law."

The offer was thankfully accepted by the Syndicate at their meeting held on the 8th February, 1902. Subjebt for 1916

Does the estate of a Hindu woman' who has lapsed into prostitution, pass, on her death, by inheritance to her undegraded relations by blood or by marriage.

On the 29th May, 1889, the Honorary Secretary, Coates Memorial Fund made over to the University the sum of Rs. 2,270-5-0 for the purpose of creating an endowment for the award of prize for Original Research in Medicine.

The following revised Rules for the award of the Coates Memorial Prize were adopted by the Syndicate at their meeting, held on the 8th March, 1912:(1) The Coates Memorial Prize shall be annually awarded by the Syndicate on the recommendation of the President of the Faculty of Medicine for the time being.

(2) An annual notification inviting applications from candidates who intend to compete for the prize shall be published by the Registrar in the Calcutta Gazette early in the year.

(3) The prize shall be awarded to the best writer of a thesis on any indigenous drug or drugs to be selected by the competitor himself, subject to the approval of the President of the Faculty of Medicine.

(4) The names of the drugs so selected must be submitted to the Registrar for the approval of the President of the Faculty of Medicine within three months from the date of the annual notification of the prize in the Calcutta Gazette.

(5) The names of the drugs, approved by the President of the Faculty of Medicine, shall, as soon as possible, be communicated to the candidates who submitted their applications within the time specified in Para. 4 of the Rules.

(6) No prize shall be awarded for a thesis on any drug which has not been approved by the President of the Faculty of Medicine.

(7) The thesis must be written in English, and it must be submitted to the Registrar not later than the 30th November of each year in a sealed cover with the words "Thesis for the Coates Memorial Prize" and the name of the writer distinctly stated on it.

(8) The President of the Faculty of Medicine may examine the thesis himself or delegate it to some expert member or members of the faculty, whose decision shall be final.

(9) The writer of the thesis must be a graduate in Medicine of the Calcutta University who has been engaged in the practice of the profession for at least five years.

(10) The names of the prize winners shall be published in the Gazette and shall also be printed in the University Calendar.

Out of the above sum made over by the Honorary Secretary Rs. 2,000 have been invested in 3 per cent. Government Promissory Notes.

On the 29th of August, 1906, Honorary Secretary to the Maharaja of Durbhanga Memorial Fund made over to the University a sum of Rs. 9,279-12-2 for the purpose of creating an endowment for the award of a Scholarship to be called the "Maharaja of Durbhanga Scholarship" for the furtherance of medical studies.

The offer was thankfully accepted by the Syndicate at their meeting held on the 15th September, 1906.

The following rules for the award of the Scholarship have been adopted by the Syndicate :

1. That the scholarship shall be called the "Durbhanga Research Scholarship," and that it shall be awarded for the purpose of encouraging original research in Medicine in its various branches.

2. That all Graduates and Licentiates in Medicine of the Calcutta University shall be eligible to compete for the scholarship.

3.

That the value of the scholarship shall be Rs. 50 a month; that it shall be awarded every alternate year and that it shall be tenable for one year only from July to June.

4. That the scholarship shall be awarded under the following conditions:(a) That the scholar shall be appointed by the Syndicate on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine.

(b) That the scholar shall be required to devote at least 4 (four) hours a day, Sundays and holidays excepted, during the tenure of his scholarship, to research work in any special branch of Medical Science to be previously selected by him and approved by the Board of Studies in Medicine and that his work shall be open to inspection by a member of the Faculty of Medicine to be specially deputed by the Faculty in that behalf.

(c) That the applications for the scholarship shall be invited by the Registrar in the month of January of the year in which the scholarship is to be awarded and that such applications must reach the University office not later than the 30th of April next following. Every candidate must state in his application the special subject or branch of Medical Science in which he proposes to carry on investigation or research work, and must also state in what respects his investigations appear to him to tend to the advancement of Medical studies. He shall also state in his application the place where he intends to carry on his research work. If in a recognised Laboratory or Hospital, a recommendation from the Head of such Laboratory or Hospital as to the fitness of the candidate to conduct such work and the probable value of such work, must accompany the application. If the candidate intends to carry on his investigations privately, his application must be supported by a certificate to the above effect from a member of the Faculty of Medicine.

(d) That during the tenure of his scholarship, every Research schola shall be required to submit short quarterly reports of his work to the member of the Faculty of Medicine who may be deputed to inspect his work and upcn whose favourable report the continuance of his scholarship shall depend.

(e) Each scholar shall, at the end of his tenure of scholarship, submit a complete statement, typewritten or otherwise ready for publication, which shall be laid before the Faculty of Medicine who shall, if publication be deemed advisable, decide all questions in connection therewith.

SCHOLARS.

1909 Brahmachari, Upendranath, M.A., M.D.

1911 Ghoshal, Lalmohan, L.M.S.

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THE HON'BLE MAHARAJA SIR MANINDRA CHANDRA NANDI, K.C.I.E., OF COSSIMBAZAR'S INDIAN MATHEMATICS

AND ASTRONOMY RESEARCH FUND.

The Hon'ble Sir Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandi of Cossimbazar paid the first instalment of his promised donation of Rs. 20,000 (to be paid in five annual instalment of Rs. 4,000 each) for publishing the text and translations of