This supplement to the University Gazette,
containing notices of University Scholarships and Prizes,
and certain
other
awards, is published annually in Michaelmas Term but is
supplemented
in Hilary
and Trinity Terms with details of relevant closing dates
and changes
to any of
the previously published notices.

For full regulations governing awards candidates should
consult the
current edition of the Statutes, Decrees, and
Regulations of
the
University of Oxford.

All communications about Scholarships, Prizes, etc.,
should be
clearly
marked on the envelope with the name of the Scholarship,
Prize, etc.,
concerned.

Adjustment of standing for
illness

Candidates who, on account of illness, have received
permission from
the
Hebdomadal Council under Ch. VI, Sect. i.c, § 1,
may, for the
purpose of
reckoning standing and age in entering for a university
fellowship,
studentship, scholarship, exhibition, or prize, exclude
such
additional time
as has been granted by the Hebdomadal Council for the
purpose of
taking the
Final Honour School.

Provided that the provisions of this decree shall not
apply to the
following:
Boden Scholarship, Dean Ireland's Scholarships, Matthew
Arnold
Memorial Prize,
Newdigate Prize. (Ch. IX, Sect. ii,
Statutes, 1996, p.
683.)

Division of prizes and
scholarships

Prizes and scholarships may be divided, and the
emoluments adjusted
accordingly, whenever the examiners for any such award
are unable to
distinguish between the merits of the best candidates.
(Ch. IX, Sect.
iii,
Statutes, 1995, p. 683.)

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Prizes

ANCIENT HISTORY PRIZE 1997

The prize is of the value of £500 and is open to:

(a) members of the University who have completed
the

examinations necessary for the Degree of BA of this
University;

(b) graduates of other universities reading for
the Degrees
of B.Phil., M.Litt., M.Phil., or D.Phil.;

provided that on the date appointed for sending in essays
such
candidates shall have completed not less than three and
not more than
six terms from the date of (i) completing the second
public
examination or (ii) matriculation

respectively.

Candidates are permitted to choose any subject in Greek
or Roman
History or Historiography in the period 1500 BC to AD
500. Parts of
theses in preparation will

not be excluded, but candidates will be required to
certify that
their entry has not been, or is not concurrently being,
submitted for
any other prize. The subject proposed

must be notified to the Chairman of the Sub-faculty of

Ancient History, c/o the Classics Office, 41 Wellington
Square,
Oxford OX1 2JF (Ref. HAN/1), not later than Friday,
21 February
1997.

Essays, which must be typewritten and must not exceed
20,000 words,
should be sent to the Chairman of the

Sub-faculty of Ancient History, the Classics Office,

41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, not later than

Friday, 30 May 1997.

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ARNOLD ANCIENT HISTORICAL ESSAY
PRIZE 1997

The prize will be offered in Hilary Term 1997 for an
essay on any
subject in ancient history (i.e. between 1500 bc and ad
500). The
prize will be worth £500. Candidates must be members
of the
University reading for a Final Honour School, who do not
already hold
the degree of BA of this University and who on the date
appointed for
sending in essays have not completed more than fifteen
terms from
matriculation. The prize may not be awarded to a previous
winner.

Essays, which must be typewritten and which must

not exceed 15,000 words in length, are to be sent under

a sealed cover to the Head Clerk, University Offices,
Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than Friday, 24
January
1997. Authors are required to conceal their name and
distinguish
their composition by a motto, sending at the same time
their name,
college, and date of

matriculation in a separate sealed envelope, with the
same motto
inscribed upon it. They must also certify that their
entry has not
been, or is not concurrently being, submitted for any
other prize.

Although competitors are free to choose their own
subject, they are
warned that they must secure the prior
approval of the examiners for the subject of their essay;
the
examiners will not approve any subject unless the
candidate's
letter seeking approval is endorsed by his or her tutor
to the effect
that the proposed title is suitable. Candidates must
send the
proposed title to the Secretary to the Arnold Historical
Essay
Trustees, at the University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1
2JD, for the attention of the examiners, not later than
Friday,
15 November 1996.

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ARNOLD MODERN HISTORICAL ESSAY
PRIZE

The prize of £500 shall be awarded each year to the
writer of
the best thesis in Modern History submitted in the
Honour School of Modern History, or any joint school in
which Modern
History is a component, or in the Honour School of
Philosophy,
Politics, and Economics, if such

thesis be deemed worthy of a prize. Modern History shall
be defined
for this purpose as the period between ad 285 and the
latest terminal
date for the time being of the subjects of the Honour
School of
Modern History. No special application is needed.

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MATTHEW ARNOLD MEMORIAL PRIZE
1997

The subject for the prize will be:

`A poet or poem may count to us historically, they may
count to on grounds personal to ourselves, and they may
count to us really.'

The prize, the value of which is £750, is open to

members of the University who on the closing date for

receipt of essays have qualified by examination for the

Degree of BA and have not exceeded seven years from

matriculation or have qualified by examination for any
other degree
of the University and have not exceeded four years from
matriculation
or, not being graduates of the University, are pursuing a
course of
study leading to a postgraduate degree of the University
and have not
exceeded three years from their matriculation. An
additional prize,
of £350, may be awarded.

Essays should be submitted, under a sealed cover
marked `The
Matthew Arnold Prize', to the Head Clerk, University
Offices,
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than 1
March
1997. Authors should conceal their names and
identify their
essays by a motto. The name,

college, and date of matriculation should be submitted at
the same
time in a separate envelope with the same motto inscribed
upon it.
Essays are not expected to exceed 5,000 words, though no
maximum
length has been prescribed.

The prize will not be awarded twice to the same
person.

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BRIAN BANNISTER AWARD IN ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY

The award (of about £200) is open to members of the
University
who are presenting themselves for examination in Part II
of the
subject Chemistry in the Honour School of Natural
Science. One or
possibly two awards may be made annually by the board of
management
for the most meritorious performance in that examination
in Organic
Chemistry, judged on the thesis and the viva-voce
examination. No
special application is required.

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PETER BEACONSFIELD PRIZE IN
PHYSIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES

The prize, value about £500, is awarded annually,
provided that
there is a candidate of sufficient merit. It is open to
those
postgraduate students registered under the Physiological
Sciences
Board who in the twelve months preceding the closing date
for
applications for the prize shall have applied for
transfer to D.Phil.
status. Candidates shall submit, not later than the
Friday in the
eighth week of Trinity Term in the academic year in which
the prize
is to be awarded, a summary of not more than 1,000 words
(not
counting references and illustrations) outlining, in
non-specialist
terms, their achievements in research and their plans for
the
remainder of their D.Phil. course in the broad context of
Physiological Sciences. The Physiological Sciences Board
requires
research students to submit a summary of a similar kind
as part of
the procedure for application for transfer to D.Phil.
status.
Candidates are, however, encouraged to modify their
applications for
transfer of status to meet

the criteria for the award of

the prize which will be awarded to the candidate whose

research, in the opinion of the judges, shows evidence of
an
interdisciplinary approach to their work and the
potential for future
practical use for the benefit of mankind. Candidates are
reminded
that applications for the prize should be written in a
style
comprehensible to scientists and physicians who are not
necessarily
working in their own field of research. Applications,
clearly marked
`Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences',
should be
submitted by Friday, 20 June 1997 to Lisa
Procter,
Graduate Studies Office, University Offices, Wellington
Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD.

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MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON ENGLISH
LITERATURE
PRIZE

The prize, value about £100, will be awarded, if
there is

a candidate of sufficient merit, by the Moderators in

Moderations in English Language and Literature in Trinity
Term
each year to the candidate whose performance in that
examination, or
in part 2 of the Preliminary Examination in English and
Modern
Languages in the same term, they judge to be the best. No
special
application is required.

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MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON MODERN
LANGUAGES PRIZE
1997

The prize, value of about £100, will be awarded, if
there is a
candidate of sufficient merit, by the Moderators in the
Preliminary
Examination for Modern Languages in Hilary Term to the
candidate
whose performance in Italian in that
examination, or in the
Preliminary Examination in Philosophy and Modern
Languages in the
same term, or

in the Preliminary Examination in European and Middle
Eastern
Languages in the same term, or in part 1 of the
Preliminary
Examination in English and Modern Languages in the same
term, or in
part 1 of the Preliminary Examination in Modern History
and Modern
Languages in the same term, they judge to be the best.
The prize will
be offered for a different language each year, in the
following
order: French, German, Italian. No special application is
required.

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BEIT PRIZE AND ROBERT HERBERT
MEMORIAL PRIZE
19967

The prizes will be offered for essays on topics within
the field of
the History of the British Empire or the British
Commonwealth: entries for the Beit Prize should be on
some subject connected with the advantages of `Imperial
Citizenship', or on some subject connected with Colonial
History, while entries for the Robert Herbert Memorial
Prize should be on some subject connected with those
problems of Imperial Administration to which Sir Robert
Herbert devoted his life.

The prizes are open to all members of the University who
on the
closing date for entries have not exceeded twelve years
from their
matriculation, and who have not previously been awarded
either prize.
The value of the Beit Prize is £250 and the value of
the Robert
Herbert Memorial Prize is £200. Further information
may be
obtained by contacting the Secretary to the Board of
Management of
the Beit Fund, University Offices, Wellington Square,

Oxford OX1 2JD (telephone: (2)70761). The closing date
for receipt of entries is

1 December 1996.

Essays submitted for the prizes may be submitted also as
theses for
relevant Honour Schools in accordance with faculty
boards' regulations, but will be expected to contain a
substantial element of Imperial or Commonwealth History.
Unreconstructed chapters of an M.Litt., M.Phil., or
D.Phil. thesis are not acceptable.

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LAURENCE BINYON PRIZE 1997

The Committee for the History of Art propose to award
this prize in
Hilary Term 1997, provided that there is a
candidate of sufficient merit.

The prize (which will be one of up to £600) is open
to all
members of the University who have not exceeded
twenty-one terms from
their matriculation. Preference will be given to
candidates whose travel plans are not related to their
academic discipline. It will be awarded

to enable the prize winner to travel to Asia, the Far
East,

or another area outside Europe to extend knowledge
and

appreciation of the visual arts. The holder of the prize
will be
expected to submit a report on the travels after return.

Candidates should apply in writing to the Secretary to
the Committee
for the History of Art, History Faculty Library, Broad
Street, Oxford
OX1 3BD, not later than Friday, 31 January 1997.
Applications must include, in addition to any
testimonials which the
applicant may wish to submit,

(a) the applicant's name, college, and date
of
matriculation;

(b) summary of academic career since
matriculation, and
of any relevant attainments, qualifications, or
interests;

(d) the names of two referees, who should be
tutors or

others in a position to judge of the applicant's ability
to profit
from the travel proposed.

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BODEN PRIZE 1997

Applications are invited for the Boden Prize (for
proficiency in the
Sanskrit Language and Literature).

The prize is of the value of £50 and is open to any
undergraduate member of the University.

Candidates must send their names to the Secretary,

Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, before

12 noon on Friday, 24 October 1997. The
examination will be held during Michaelmas Term.

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BRISTOL MYERS PRIZE IN
CARDIOLOGY 1997

Applications are invited for the Bristol Myers Prize in
Cardiology. The value of the prize shall be £100 and
the closing
date for the submission of essays is Friday, 13 June
1997.

The prize is open to clinical students working in Oxford
for the
Second Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine
and is
awarded annually (provided that candidates of sufficient
merit
present themselves) for an essay on a topic relating to
Cardiology.
Essays shall be submitted to the Medical School Office
under a
nom-de-plume. If the judges are unable to
distinguish
between the merits of two or more candidates the prize
shall be
divided accordingly. No person may be awarded the prize
more than
once.

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BRITISH TELECOM RESEARCH AND
TECHNOLOGY
PRIZE FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE

The prize, value £200, may be awarded, if there is a
candidate
of sufficient merit, by the examiners for the Honour
School of
Mathematics and Computation, to the candidate whose
performance in
that examination they judge to be the most deserving,
paying special
regard to performance in computation.

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BURDETT-COUTTS PRIZE 1997

The Board of the Faculty of Physical Sciences proposes to
award the
Burdett-Coutts Prize in Trinity Term 1997. The Prize, the
value of
which will probably be in the region of £350, will
be awarded to
the candidate (or, exceptionally, two candidates) who,
having read
Geology in the Honour School of Natural Science, not
having exceeded
twelve terms from matriculation, and having passed the
examinations
necessary for the degree of BA, is adjudged by the
Standing Committee
most worthy to receive it, taking into account
performance in the
Final Honour School.

The prize money is to be spent on travel, attendance

at a conference, or some other purpose connected with the
study of
geology to be approved by the Professor of

Geology.

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CLIFFORD CHANCE PRIZE

The prize will be awarded to the candidate who, in the
opinion of the
examiners, performs best in the examination for the
Magister Juris in
European and Comparative Law. No application is required.
The present
value of the prize is £500.

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CHANCELLOR'S AND NEWDIGATE
PRIZES 1997

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize (about £300)

For the best composition in English Verse by an
undergraduate who has
not exceeded four years from his or her matriculation.

Subject: `1989'.

The length of the poem is not to exceed 300 lines.
The metre
is
not restricted to heroic couplets; but dramatic form of
composition
is not allowed. (See also the general regulations
below.)

Entries must be submitted, in accordance with the
general
regulations below, to the Head Clerk, University Offices,
Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than Thursday, 27
March
1997.

Chancellor's English Essay (value £250)

Subject: `The Virtues of Forgery'.

The length of the essay should not exceed 305
printed pages,
allowing about 360 words to each such printed page. (See
also the
general regulations below.)

Entries must be submitted, in accordance with the general
regulations
below, to the Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington
Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than Thursday, 27 March
1997.

Chancellor's Latin Prose and Verse (value £250
each)

Subjects:

For Latin Prose: Dryden, Life of
Plutarch, from the
beginning to `this great Philosopher and Historian.'

For Latin Verse:
either for
Elegiacs: Goldsmith,
The Deserted Village, 366-384, `Good Heaven! ... in
sorrow
doubly dear.'

or for Hexameters: Pope, Translation of the
Iliad,
Book xxiv, 646-71, `Satiate at length ... both of earth and
heaven.'

Candidates are not restricted to the use of
hexameters, but are
at liberty to use any metre which they think suitable to
their

subject. Both in prose and in verse the lines should be
numbered. (See also the general regulations below.)

Photocopies of the above passages may be obtained from
the Secretary,
Classics Office, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF.

Entries for the Latin Prizes must be submitted, in
accordance with
the general regulations below, to the Head Clerk,
University Offices,
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than
Friday, 2 May
1997.

General Regulations

The Chancellor's and Newdigate Prizes are open to all
members of the
University who on the closing date for

entries will not have exceeded four years from their

matriculation (except that the Newdigate Prize is open
only to
undergraduates).

In every case the time is computed by calendar, not
academical,
years, and strictly from the day of matriculation to the
day of entry
without reference to any intervening circumstances
whatever.

No person who has already obtained a prize will be

entitled to a second prize of the same description.

No entry can be accepted which does not comply with
the following
special regulations:

1. Three typed copies of the exercise
must be
sent, and the words `Three typed copies enclosed' must
appear on the
envelope together with the name of the prize concerned.

2. Each composition must be
distinguished by a
motto, and authors are required to conceal their names.

3. In a separate sealed envelope,
with the same
motto

inscribed upon it, the name, college, and date of
matriculation must
be enclosed.

Manuscript corrections, if any such are necessary,
should not be
in the candidate's handwriting.

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CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNTANTS
PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

The prize, value £250, may be awarded by the examiners for
the
Final Honour School of Economics and Management to the candidate
achieving the best overall performance in the Economics papers.

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EGERTON COGHILL LANDSCAPE PRIZE
1997

The prize (value about £250) will be awarded, if an
entry of
sufficient quality is submitted, for the best landscape
painting in
oils painted during the twelve months preceding the
closing date for
entries by a member of the University who is at that date
reading for
any degree, diploma, or certificate of the University.
Entries must
not exceed four square feet in area and should be sent

unframed to the Ruskin Master of Drawing, Ruskin School
of Drawing
and Fine Art, 74 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, not later
than
Friday, 9 May 1997, with a statement signed by
the
competitor that the painting has been painted in the
preceding twelve
months. No competitor may submit more than one entry for
any one
competition, and the winner of the prize in any one year
shall not be
eligible to compete in any subsequent year.

The winning entry each year will be exhibited in the
Divinity School during the week of the Encaenia.

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ANDREW COLIN PRIZE

The prize, value about £120, will be awarded by the

Moderators in the Preliminary Examination for Modern
Languages in
Hilary Term each year to the candidate in that
examination, or in the
Preliminary Examination in Philosophy and Modern
Languages in the
same term, or

in the Preliminary Examination in European and Middle
Eastern
Languages in the same term, or in part 1 of the
Preliminary
Examination in English and Modern Languages in the same
term, or in
part 1 of the Preliminary examination in Modern History
and Modern
Languages in the same term, whose performance in Russian
is adjudged
to be the best. No special application is required.

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COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY PRIZES

The trustees of the Derby Fund, on the recommendation of
the Craven
Committee, have approved an annual grant for the
following prizes:

(i) a prize of £50 to be awarded for performance
in
the Comparative Philology paper in Honour Moderations in
Classics;

(ii) a prize of £100 for performance in the
Philology and
Linguistics paper in the Honour Schools of Literae

Humaniores, and Classics and Modern Languages.

No special application is required.

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CONINGTON PRIZE 1997

The prize will be offered for a dissertation on a subject
to be
chosen by the writer and approved by the Board of the
Faculty of
Literae Humaniores within the field of ancient history,
religion, art, and archaeology. The value of the prize
will be about
£1,500.

Applications for permission to offer an intended
subject should be
sent to the Secretary to the Board of

the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, University Offices,
Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, as early as possible but in any
case by
Friday, 13 December 1996. In case of doubt the Board will
determine
whether a subject falls within the above field.

The dissertations must reach the Secretary to the
Board on or
before Friday, 17 January 1997. They may be
written

either in English or Latin, at the option of the writer.
Three typed
copies must be submitted.

The prize is open to all members of the University
who, on the
day appointed for sending in the dissertations, are (i)
qualified by
examination for a degree of the University and (ii) have
completed
six years, and have not exceeded fifteen years, from
their
matriculation, except that graduates whose first degrees
are from
other universities shall have completed two years, and
not exceeded
eleven years, from their matriculation. The prize may not
be awarded
twice to the same person, but a previously unsuccessful
competitor
may resubmit his dissertation, or an amended version of
it,
within the same field only on not more than two
occasions.

The judges may determine not to award the prize in any
year if no
dissertation of sufficient merit is submitted.

The prize is offered annually in three fields in
rotation. The cycle
will continue as follows:

1998 Ancient philosophy, and ideas.
1999 Classical literature, textual
criticism,
and
philology.
2000 Ancient history, religion, art, and
archaeology.

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RUPERT CROSS PRIZE

A fund has been established by the contributors, and by
Butterworth
and Company, the publishers of Crime, Proof and
Punishment: Essays in
Memory of Sir Rupert Cross, to provide a prize, which is
at present
of the value of approximately £500, to be awarded to
the
candidate who, in the opinion of the examiners, writes
the best paper
on Evidence in the examination for the Degree of Bachelor
of Civil
Law or Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law. No
special
application is required.

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WILMA CROWTHER MEMORIAL PRIZE

The Wilma Crowther Memorial prize commemorates the work
done for
Human Sciences by the late Mrs Wilma Crowther, Fellow of
Lady
Margaret Hall and university Lecturer in Zoology. The
fund provides
for a prize of £75.

The winner will be announced by the Chairman of the
Examiners at
the same time as the Honour School results are published.

No special application is required.

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CURZON MEMORIAL PRIZE 1999

The Curzon Memorial Prize is offered in Hilary Term 1999
for an essay
on some aspect of Indian life or history.

The prize, which is of the value of about £650,
is open to
all members of the University who on the day appointed
for sending in
the essays have not exceeded fifteen terms from their
matriculation.
It cannot be awarded a second time to the same person. A
second prize
may be awarded for an essay of sufficient merit.

The essays (which should not exceed the limit of
12,500 words and
need not reach that length, and to which a
bibliography should be attached) must be sent under

a sealed cover to the Head Clerk, University Offices,
Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, before 31 January 1999.
Authors are
required to conceal their names and to distinguish their
compositions
by what mottoes they please, sending at the same time
their names,
colleges, and dates of matriculation in separately sealed
envelopes
with the same mottoes inscribed upon them.

Essays submitted for the prize may be submitted also
as theses
for the Honour Schools of Modern History or of Modern
History and
Modern Languages or of Modern

History and Economics or of Oriental Studies in
accordance with the
faculty board's regulations.

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H.W.C. DAVIS PRIZE

The prize, value £250, will be awarded annually by
the Honour
Moderators in Modern History for the best performance in
Honour
Moderations in that subject. Candidates must not, at the
time of the
examination, have exceeded three terms from their
matriculation and
must not be

Senior Students. No special application is required.

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DENYER AND JOHNSON PRIZE

The Denyer and Johnson Prize will be awarded on the

recommendation of the examiners in the Final Honour
School of
Theology in Trinity Term each year to the candidate whose
performance
the examiners judge to be the best and of sufficient
merit (provided
that it shall not be awarded to a candidate who has been
awarded a
Senior Pusey and Ellerton Prize in Biblical Hebrew,
unless there is
no other candidate of sufficient merit to be awarded

the Denyer and Johnson Prize). No special application is
required.

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ELLERTON THEOLOGICAL ESSAY
PRIZE 1997

The prize is offered annually for the best English essay
on some
doctrine or duty of the Christian religion or on any
other
theological subject approved by the judges.

The prize is open to all members of the University who,
on the day
fixed for the submission of essays, shall not have
exceeded thirty
terms from their matriculation,

provided that candidates holding a degree of another
university at
the time of their matriculation shall not have

exceeded twenty-one terms from their matriculation.
Previous Ellerton
prize-winners may not offer themselves as candidates. The
value of
the prize is £150.

Essays (which should not exceed 10,000 words in length)
should be
sent to the Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington
Square, Oxford
OX1 2JD, before Monday, 28 April 1997.
Candidates must
submit titles for approval by the judges through
the
Secretary to the Board of the Faculty of Theology,
University
Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later
than
Friday, 8 November 1996. Candidates for the
Honour Schools
of Theology or Philosophy and Theology who are eligible
to compete
for the prize and who are submitting extended essays as
part of the
final honour school in the year for which the prize is
offered can
submit for the prize, subject to confirmation (which
should be sought
from the judges by the above date) that the subject of
that honour
school essay falls within the rubric for the prize.

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ENGLISH POEM ON A SACRED
SUBJECT 1998

The subject for 1998 is:

`Body and Soul'.

The poem must consist of not less than sixty or more
than 300
lines. It may be blank verse or in any form of verse
rhymed in
couplets or stanzas. There is a tradition which
discourages dramatic
form of composition for this prize.

Candidates for the prize (value of about £2,500)
must

either have qualified by examination for a degree of the
University
or hold the Degree of Master of Arts by Incorporation or
by decree or
special resolution or hold the status of Master of Arts
at the time
the subject was announced

(9 October 1996). The judges may, at their discretion,
also make an
award to the proxime accessit. Should no
such award be
made the value of the main prize will be increased.

Poems (three copies) are to be sent under a sealed
cover to the
Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford
OX1 2JD, on
or before 1 December 1997. Each author is
required to
conceal his or her name and to distinguish his or her
composition by
a motto, sending at the same time his or her name,
college, and
address in a separate

envelope with the same motto inscribed upon it.

The prize may not be awarded more than twice to the
same person.

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FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSE PRIZE

This cash prize is to the value of £250 and is
associated with a
gift of £250 in law books to the successful
candidate's college.
It is awarded to the candidate who, in the opinion of the
examiners,
writes the best paper on European Community Law in the
Final Honour
School of

Jurisprudence. No special application is required.

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JOHN FREIND PRIZE IN MEDICAL
HISTORY 1997

The prize, to the value of about £l25, is offered in
alternate
years for an essay on medical history, submitted by a
registered
medical student of Oxford University (either clinical or
pre-clinical) on a subject of his or her own choice.

Candidates should submit their essay, of not more
than 5,000
words, under a nom-de-plume and marked `John
Freind
Prize in Medical History', to the Medical School Offices,
John
Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, on or
before
Friday, 8 November 1997. Each candidate should
put his or
her name in a separate envelope with the
nom-de-plume on
the front.

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GAISFORD PRIZES 1997

Gaisford Dissertation Prize for Greek or Latin
Language and
Literature

A prize of £600 will be awarded for a dissertation
of not more
than 20,000 words on a subject in the field of Greek or
Latin
Language and Literature. Parts of theses in preparation
or published
work will not be excluded. The proposed subject must be
submitted to
the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Gaisford
Fund
(Professor P.J. Parsons, Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP),
not later
than Friday, 7 February 1997. The prize is open
to members
of the University who have completed the examinations
necessary for
the degree of BA or who are graduates of other
universities reading
for the degrees of B.Phil., M.Litt., M.Phil., or D.Phil.,
provided
that on the date appointed for sending in essays such
candidates
shall have completed not more than fifteen terms from the
date of
completing the second public examination or matriculation
respectively. The prize may not be awarded twice to the
same person.

Two copies of the dissertations, which must be
typewritten, should be
sent to the Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington
Square, Oxford
OX1 2JD, on or before Friday, 16 May 1997.
Candidates are
asked to distinguish their dissertations by a mottor or
pseudonym,
not by their own name; and to attach a sealed envelope,
with the same
motto or pseudonym written on it, containing a separate
note of their
name, college, and date of matriculation.

Gaisford Essay Prize for Greek Language and
Literature

A prize of £300 will be awarded for an essay of not
more than
10,000 words on a subject in the field of Greek

Language and Literature. The proposed subject must be
submitted to
the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Gaisford
Fund
(Professor P.J. Parsons, Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP),
on or before
Monday, 25 November 1996.

The prize is open to members of the University who
are reading
for an Honour School in the University. The prize may not
be awarded
twice to the same person.

Entries, perferably typewritten, must be sent to the
Head Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on
or before
Friday, 25 April 1997. Candidates are asked to
distinguish
their essays by a motto or pseudonym, not by their own
name; and to
attach a sealed envelope, with the same motto or
pseudonym written on
it, containing a separate note of their name, college,
and date of
matriculation.

Gaisford Prizes for Greek Prose and Verse

Prizes of £250 each will be awarded for translation
from English
into Greek Prose and Greek Verse (any suitable metre).
The prizes are
open to all members of the University who on the closing
date for
submission of entries will not have exceeded six years
from the date
of their matriculation. The prizes will not be awarded a
second time
to the same person.

The passages set for translation may be obtained from
the
Secretary, Classics Office, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford
OX1 2JF.

Entries for the prizes should be sent to the Head
Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on
or before
Friday, 2 May 1997. Candidates should submit
three copies
of their composition, preferably typewritten. They are
asked to
distinguish their compositions by a motto or pseudonym,
not by their
own name; and to

attach a sealed envelope, with the same motto or
pseudonym written on
it, containing a separate note of their name, college,
and date of
matriculation.

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GIBBS PRIZES 1997

Prizes on the Foundation of Mr Charles D.D. Gibbs will
be offered in 1997, in Modern History, Law, Politics, Geography,
Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Zoology.

Candidates for prizes other than that in Law must be members of
the University who, at the time of taking the public examination
on which the prizes are awarded, have not exceeded the twelfth
term from their matriculation. Candidates for the prize in Law
must be members of the University who, at the beginning of the
examination have not exceeded their twelfth term from
matriculation, and are reading for a final Honour School.

The prize in Chemistry will be awarded on the results of
the
examination for Chemistry Part I in the Honour School of Natural
Science in Trinity Term 1997. The prize in Biochemistry will be
awarded on the combined results of the examinations for Molecular
and Cellular Biochemistry Parts I and II in the Honour School of
Natural Science in Trinity Term 1997. The prize in Zoology
will
be awarded on the results of the examination in Biological
Sciences in the Honour School of Natural Science in Trinity Term
1997. The prize in Geography will be awarded on the
results of
the examination for the Honour School of Geography in Trinity
Term 1997. The prize in Modern History will be awarded on
the
results of the examinations for the Honour School of Modern
History and associated joint Honour Schools in Trinity Term 1997.

The Gibbs Prize in each of these subjects is £450. The
examiners in these subjects have the power to make proxime
accessit awards of £250 for meritorious work, and
additional
b
ook prizes of £100.

The Gibbs Prize in Politics will be awarded on the basis
of
Politics written papers only in the examination for the Honour
School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Trinity Term
1997. The Gibbs Thesis Prize in Politics will be awarded
for the
best Politics thesis submitted in the examination for the Honour
School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Trinity Term
1997, if such a thesis be deemed worthy of a prize. The value of
each of these prizes is £225 and the examiners have the
power to make proxime accessit awards of £125 for
meritorious work, and additional book prizes of £50.

Candidates are not required to make special application for
Prizes awarded on the results of honour schools.

The prize in Law will be awarded by Special Examination, to
be
held in the Examination Schools, on Monday,
6 October 1997. The value of the prize is £450 and the
examiners have the power to make a proxime accessit award
of
£250 for meritorious work, and additional book prizes of
£100. The examination will consist of a paper on Land Law,
and a paper on Common Law (Contract and Tort). Candidates for the
special examination must send in their names on an entry form,
which may be obtained at the University Offices, to the Head
Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not
later than Friday, 27 June 1997.

Timetable of papers for the prize in Law

Candidates must present themselves for examination in full
academic dress, i.e. `subfusc' clothing, cap, and gown.

Monday, 6 October

9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.: Common Law (Contract and Tort)

2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.: Land Law

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GLADSTONE MEMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE

The prize is awarded for a thesis on some subject
connected with
recent British History, Political Science, or Economics,
or with some
problem of British policydomestic, imperial, or
foreignin
relation to finance or other matters, submitted for the
Honour School
of Modern History, Modern History and Economics, and
Philosophy,
Politics, and Economics. The prize is traditionally
linked with
Gladstone and Glastonian Studies. The value is £500.
For
detailed information consult the relevant Honour School
regulations
in Examination Decrees.

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GOTCH MEMORIAL PRIZE 1997

This prize, value about £1,000, is awarded to a
member of the
University whose name has been previously placed in the
class list in
the Honour School of Natural Science (Physiological
Sciences) or in
the Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and
Physiology (provided
that Physiology was offered) and who has produced written
evidence of
having subsequently conducted meritorious research in a
laboratory of
the University during not less than three terms.

No person is eligible for the prize who on 31
December 1996 shall
have exceeded twenty-five years of age.

Candidates for the prize must send their names to the
Head Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on
or before
Friday, 10 January 1997, together with memoirs
of their
research.

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THOMAS WHITCOMBE GREENE PRIZE

The Committee for the Thomas Whitcombe Greene

Bequest makes the following announcement:

A prize of £100 will be awarded for performance
in a
Classical Art or Archaeology paper in the Honour Schools
of Literae
Humaniores or Ancient and Modern History. No special
application is
required.

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CANON HALL GREEK TESTAMENT
PRIZES AND
HALL-HOUGHTON SEPTUAGINT AND HOUGHTON SYRIAC PRIZES 1997

The examination for these prizes will begin in the
Examination
Schools on Monday, 6 October 1997 at 9.30 a.m.

The subject for examination for the Canon
Hall Junior
Prize (£200) will be the Synoptic Gospels,
St John's
Gospel, and the Acts of the Apostles in the original
Greek in respect
of translation, criticism, and interpretation. The
examination will
consist of two papers.

The subject for examination for the Canon
Hall Senior
Prize (£300) will be the New Testament in
the original
Greek in respect of the translation, criticism,
interpretation,
inspiration, and authority. The examination will consist
of three
papers.

The subject for examination for the
Hall-Houghton Senior
Prize (£300) will the Septuagint version of
the Old
Testament (three papers will be set); and for the
Junior
Prize (£200) such book or books of the
Septuagint
version of the Old Testament as shall have been
previously named by
the trustees (two papers will be set). Both examinations
will
be concerned with the two-fold aspect of the Septuagint,
retrospectively as regards the Hebrew Bible, and
prospectively as
regards the Greek Testament.

The subject for examination for the Houghton
Syriac
Version Prize (£300) will be the ancient
versions of
the Holy Scriptures in Syriac in respect of translation,
criticism,
and interpretation, with special reference to such books
as shall
have been previously named by the trustees. The
examination will
consist of two papers.

Candidates for the Canon Hall Junior Prize, and for
the
Hall-Houghton Junior Prize, must be members of the
University who are
reading for a Final Honour School, or are at the time of
the
examination for the prizes within one term of having sat
a Final
Honour School.

Candidates for the Canon Hall Senior Prize, and for
the
Hall-Houghton Senior Prize, must be members of the
University of not
more than twenty-four terms' standing.

Candidates for the Houghton Syriac Version Prize must
be members
of the University of not more than twenty-one terms'
standing.

No prize can be awarded twice to the same person.

Candidates must send in their names to the Head
Clerk, University
Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on or before
Friday,
9 May 1997.

For the Senior Septuagint Prize:

The Septuagint, with special reference to
(1) I Samuel;

(2) Isaiah, chapters ixxxix;

(3) Ecclesiastes.

For the Junior Septuagint Prize:

The Septuagint version of

(1) I Samuel, chapters ixii;
(2) Isaiah, chapters ixii.

The prescribed text for the Septuagint Prizes is in
the edition of
Rahlfs (for Samuel) and the Göttingen edition (for
Isaiah).

For the Syriac Prize:

(1) Psalms, xliilxxii (Peshitta version);

(2) John, chapters ixv (Peshitta and Old Syriac
versions);

(3) Revelation, chapters ixiv (British and Foreign
Bible
Society edition).

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HARLEY PRIZE OF THE NEW
PHYTOLOGIST TRUST

The prize is awarded on the nomination of the examiners
(provided
that a candidate of sufficient merit is forthcoming) for
the best
all-round academic performance in the field of Plant
Sciences in the
final year of the Honour School of Natural Science
(Biological
Sciences). No special application is required.

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HERBERT HART PRIZE

The Prize will be awarded by Oxford University Press in
memory of
H.L.A. (Herbert) Hart, late Professor of Jurisprudence,
who had a
long and close association with OUP. The Prize will be
awarded to the
candidate who, in the opinion of the examiners, writes
the best paper
on Jurisprudence and Political Theory in the exanination
for the
Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law or Magister Juris in
European and
Comparative Law. The present value of the Prize is
£250. The
Prize may be taken either in the form of cash or in the
form of OUP
books of equivalent value.

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EUGENE HAVAS MEMORIAL PRIZE

The prize, value about £80, may be awarded by the
examiners for
the best performance in the examination for the Special
Diplomas in
Social Studies and in Social Administration.

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BARCLAY HEAD PRIZE 1997

The Committee for Archaeology will award the Barclay Head
Prize for
Ancient Numismatics in Trinity Term

annually if work of sufficient merit is submitted. The

following are the conditions governing the award.

The prize shall be of the value of £100 and
shall be awarded
for a dissertation or essay, whether published or
otherwise, on a
subject concerned with Ancient Numismatics not later than
the
beginning of the fifth century ad.

The prize shall be open to all members of the
University who, on
the day appointed for sending in essays, shall not have
exceeded
twenty-one terms from their matriculation.

Essays must be sent in to the Secretary, Committee

for Archaeology, University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1
2JD, not later than 1 March 1997. The committee
interprets
the terms of the regulations as covering

essays which deal with the historic or artistic relations
of ancient
coins as well as those which are purely numismatic.

The prize may not be awarded twice to the same
person.

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HERBERTSON MEMORIAL PRIZE AND
HENRY OLIVER
BECKIT MEMORIAL PRIZE

The prizes will be awarded annually on the merits of

Geographical Dissertations submitted by candidates in the
Final
Honour School of Geography. The value of the Herbertson
Prize is
about £150, and the Beckit Prize about £100. No
special
application is required.

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HERTFORD AND DE PARAVICINI
PRIZES

One Hertford Prize (about £700) and two de
Paravicini Prizes
(about £400 each) will be awarded for performances
in Honour
Moderations in Classics in the Latin Language papers (including
the
Composition Paper); Virgil; and

essays on Latin topics in the General Paper. The winner
of the
Hertford Prize will be ineligible for a de Paravicini
Prize. No
special application is required.

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HICKS AND WEBB MEDLEY PRIZES

The examiners in the Honour Schools of Philosophy,
Politics, and
Economics, and Modern History and Economics, propose to
offer three
prizes, of a total value of £900, for the best
overall
performances in economics. No special

application is required: those taking at least three
economics papers
(a thesis to count as a paper for this purpose) will be
eligible.

The value of each prize will normally be £300,
save that in
exceptional circumstances the examiners may rank the
prizewinners, in
which case the value of the prizes will be £350,
£300, and
£250.

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HOARE PRIZE IN COMPUTATION

The prize, value £100, may be awarded, if there is a
candidate of sufficient merit, by the examiners for the Honour
School of Computation each year to the candidate whose
performance in that examination they judge to be the best.

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GEORGE HUMPHREY PRIZE

The prize is awarded by the examiners for the best
overall
performance in Psychology papers in Final Honour Schools
and for the
best psychology research project paper. No special
application is
required.

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JOHNSON MEMORIAL PRIZES 1997

Two prizes, each of the value of £120, are offered
for

essays in astronomy and geophysics (including
meteorology), for award
in Michaelmas Term 1997. Each prize will be awarded for
an essay on a
subject chosen by the candidate and approved by one of
the following:
the Savilian Professor of Astronomy (Professor G.P.
Efstathiou), the
Professor of Atmospheric Physics (Professor F.W. Taylor),
or the
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (Professor Sir Roger
Penrose).

(1) One prize is open to members of the University who

are reading for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or Master

of Physics and who, in the term in which the prize is
awarded, have
not exceeded the seventh term from their matriculation.

(2) The other prize is open to graduates of this or
another
university who are registered for a research or other
graduate degree
at Oxford and who, in the term in which the prize is
awarded, have
not completed four terms of such work.

Entries must reach the Head Clerk, University
Offices, Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on or before Monday, 13
October
1997, and must be accompanied by a statement of
approval signed
by one of the persons listed above. The essays should
generally be
between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length. Neither prize
shall be
awarded twice to the same person.

Candidates should consult one of the three
above-named persons
before beginning work on the essays.

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BRIAN JOHNSON PRIZE IN
PATHOLOGY 1996

The prize, to the value of around £200, is offered
annually in
Michaelmas Term for an essay on some pathological subject
and is open
to clinical students under regular

instruction in Oxford. No person may be awarded the prize
more than
once.

Candidates should submit their essay, under a
nom-de-plume and marked `Brian Johnson Prize
in
Pathology', to the Medical School Offices, John Radcliffe
Hospital,

Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, on or before Monday, 4
November
1996. Each candidate should put his or her name in
a separate
envelope with the nom-de-plume on the front.

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CYRIL JONES MEMORIAL PRIZE IN
SPANISH

The prize, value £150 and to be spent on books in
the field of
Spanish Studies, will be awarded, if there is a candidate
of
sufficient merit, by the Moderators for the Preliminary
Examination
for Modern Languages in Hilary Term to the candidate in
that
examination, or in the Preliminary

Examination in Philosophy and Modern Languages in the
same term,
or in the Preliminary Examination in European and Middle
Eastern
Languages in the same term, or in part 1 of the
Preliminary
Examination in English and Modern Languages in the same
term, or in
part 1 of the Preliminary Examination in Modern History
and Modern
Languages in the same term, whose performance in Spanish
they judge
to be the best. No special application is

required.

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JANE WILLIS KIRKALDY JUNIOR AND
SENIOR
PRIZES 1997

The Committee for the History of Science and Technology
gives notice
that two prizes of £250 each will be offered for
competition in
Michaelmas Term 1997.

The junior prize is open to all undergraduate members
of the
University who have not exceeded twelve terms from their
matriculation at the time of seeking approval of the
subject. It may
not be awarded twice to the same person.

The Senior prize is open to all graduate members of
the
University who are reading for the degrees of M.Sc.,
M.Litt., M.St.,
M.Phil. or D.Phil.; it may not be awarded twice to the
same person.

Candidates are invited to submit an essay of the
order of 10,000
to 15,000 words, on a topic concerning the history of
science or
technology, proposed by the candidate, and approved by
the committee. The history of science will be taken in
this instance to include the history of medicine.

Candidates are advised to state the principal sources
whence
their information has been obtained.

The subject of any such essay must be approved by

the end of Trinity Term 1997. Applications for approval
of a subject
should be sent to the Chairman of the Committee for the
History of
Science and Technology, Modern

History Faculty, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD by
Friday,

9 May 1997.

The prize money shall be spent on books, unless the

express consent of the General Board be given to the
contrary.

Essays, which should be typewritten, must be received
by the Head
Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1
2JD, not
later than Monday, 27 October 1997. A copy of
each winning
entry is to be deposited in the library of the Museum of
the History
of Science.

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ARTHUR LENMAN MEMORIAL PRIZE

A prize of books will be awarded by the Committee of

Management of the Griffith Institute to any undergraduate
member of
the University who gains a distinction in

Ancient Egyptian in the Preliminary Examination or is
placed in the
First Class in Egyptology in the Honour School of
Oriental Studies.
No special application is required.

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JOHN LOCKE PRIZE IN MENTAL
PHILOSOPHY 1997

An examination for this prize will be held at the
Examination Schools
on Tuesday, 4 November 1997, beginning at 9.30
a.m.

The value of the prize will be £500. The
examiners have
power to award the sum of at least £200 to the
proxime

accessit if, and only if, they would have judged
him or her worthy of
the prize had there not been a better candidate.

The examination will be open to members of the
University who
either:

(a) have passed all the examinations
requisite for the

Degree of Bachelor of Arts of the University, provided
that they may
not take the examination later than the tenth term from
that in which
they completed the said examinations; or

(b) are working for, or have obtained,
postgraduate

degrees of the University, but are not included under
(a),
except that they may not take the examination later than
the tenth
term from their matriculation.

The prize may not be awarded twice to the same
person.

The following papers will be set:

1. Philosophical questions, including
questions in logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy
of mind, and philosophy of psychology

2. Essay

Candidates must send in their names by letter to the
Head Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on
or before
Monday, 27 October 1997.

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MAURICE LUBBOCK MEMORIAL PRIZES

Each year four prizes, value £150, will be awarded,
one each on
the recommendation of the examiners for performance in
the Honour
School of Engineering Science, for performance in the
engineering and
management papers in the Honour School of Engineering,
Economics, and
Management, for performance in the engineering papers in
the Honour
School of Engineering and Computing Science, and for
performance in
the engineering papers in the Honour School of
Engineering and
Materials respectively. No special application is
required.

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SENIOR MATHEMATICAL PRIZES 1997

The Trustees give notice that one or more Senior Prizes
of the value
of £500 or less will be awarded in Trinity Term
1997, if
candidates of sufficient merit present themselves.

Candidates must either have passed all the
examinations for the
Degree of BA, or be D.Phil., M.Phil., or M.Sc. Students
admitted not
later than the preceding Michaelmas Term. They must not
have attained
twenty-five years of age on the first day of the Trinity
Full Term in
which

entries are received.

Prizes may be awarded to candidates who present
dissertations on
any subject of Pure or Applied Mathematics selected by
the candidates
themselves, provided that a prize shall not be awarded
twice to the
same person, and that if dissertations of sufficient
merit are not
sent in, the awards may be withheld. The candidate who
presents

the dissertation of the greatest merit shall be the
Senior University
Mathematical Prizeman, shall be called the `Johnson
University
Prizeman', and shall receive the emoluments from Dr
Johnson's bequest
(approximately £400) in addition to his or her other
emoluments.
A dissertation which has been used before in competition
for any
prize or scholarship, other than a college senior
scholarship or
fellowship or the Senior Mathematical Prize, may not be
presented.

Candidates must send in their dissertations under
their own names
to the Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1
2JD, by Friday, 9 May 1997, and must state in
writing what
portions, if any, of their dissertations they claim as
original, and
give references to writings which they have studied in
connection
with the subjects of their dissertations. They must at
the same time
state their age and their academic status (see paragraph
two).

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MAXWELL PRIZE FOR LAW
MODERATIONS

A prize of publications of the house of Sweet &
Maxwell to the
value of £150 is presented annually by the house to
the
candidate in Law Moderations who in the opinion of the
moderators
performs best. No formal entry for the prize is required;
all
candidates in the examination who offer all three
subjects will be
regarded as candidates for the prize.

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GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY ESSAY PRIZE
1997

The Board of the Faculty of Social Studies gives notice that a
prize of the value of up to £300 will be awarded annually
for an essay not more than 8,000 words upon a subject in
Economics proposed by the candidate and approved by the board.

The prize is open to all undergraduate members of the University
who are reading for an Honour School.

Candidates for the award must in the first place apply to the
Secretary of Faculties, University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than Friday, 20 June 1997, stating the
subject on which they propose to write. The
application must be accompanied by a statement from the head or
a tutor of the candidate's society certifying that the candidate
is reading for an Honour School. The Secretary of Faculties will
submit the subject to the examiners for approval on behalf of the
board and will inform the candidate of the result.

Essays (on approved subjects) must be sent under a sealed cover
marked `George Webb Medley Essay Prize' to the Head Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD, before Friday, 31 October 1997. Candidates must
conceal their names and distinguish their essays by a motto. The
name and college of the candidate should be sent at the same time
in a separate sealed envelope with the same motto inscribed upon
it. Candidates are also
required to certify, when submitting their essays, that they have
not already been submitted in whole or in part, for any other
prize and have not been submitted in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for a degree in this or any other university.

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GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY JUNIOR
PRIZES 1997

The Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences gives notice that one
or possibly two Junior Prizes of up to £300 in total will
be awarded after an examination to be held in the
Examination Schools on Monday, 6 October 1997, at 9.30 a.m. and
2.30 p.m. and at 9.30 a.m. on the following day.

The Junior Prizes are open to members of the University who, at
the time of the examination, are reading for an Honour School.
Candidates for the Junior Prizes will be examined in two papers
on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. There will also be an essay
on an economic subject.

The papers will be set in the following order: (i)
Micro-economics; (ii) Macroeconomics; (iii) an essay on an
economic subject. Candidates will be recommended to
answer three questions in each of the first two papers;
alternative subjects will be set for the third paper.

The Examiners give notice that they will not be able to furnish
reports on the work done by candidates or to give lists or marks.
Candidates must send in their names to the Head Clerk, University
Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, on or before Friday,
12 September 1997, together with a statement from a tutor that
they are reading for an Honour School.

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GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY PRIZES FOR
THE M.PHIL.
IN ECONOMICS

Two prizes, each of the value of £300, will be
awarded on the
results of the M.Phil. examination in Economics, one for
the best
thesis, and one for the best performance in the written
papers.

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J.P. MORGAN PRIZE ESSAY IN
FINANCE 1997

The Committee for the School of Management Studies is
pleased to
announce details of the 1997 competition for the J.P.
Morgan Prize
Essay in Finance. An award of £1,000 will be made to
the winner
and J.P. Morgan will consider offering an internship to
the winner
for the period of the 1997 summer vacation. The winner
will be expected to submit his or her
essay to an academic journal if recommended to do so by
the judges.

The essay topic for 1997 is: `Discuss the proposition
that the greater takeover threat in recent years has
significantly increased the constraints on growth
maximising managements.'

The essay should be presented in a format appropriate
for publication and dissemination to academic and
business audiences. The ideal length of the essay is
4,000 words (maximum length 5,000 words). Entries must be
in English. A style-sheet and further details may be
obtained from the MBA Office, the School of Management
Studies, the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE.

The competition is restricted to students studying
for the degree of Master of Business Administration of
Oxford University. Two copies of
the essay must be submitted. All
entries must be accompanied by a completed form signed by
the
author. Joint authorship is not allowed.

The last date for submission is Friday, 7 February
1997.
An announcement declaring the winner will be made in

Hilary Term 1997.

The judges reserve the right not to award the prize.

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JOHN MORRIS PRIZE

A fund has been established in memory of Dr John Morris
to provide a
prize, at present of the value of £100 (associated
with which is
the presentation by Sweet & Maxwell of a copy of the
current
edition of Dicey and Morris on The Conflict of Laws), to
be awarded
to the candidate who, in the opinion of the examiners,
writes the
best paper on

The Conflict of Laws in the examination for
the degree
of Bachelor of Civil Law or Magister Juris in European
and
Comparative Law. No special application is required.

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SARA NORTON PRIZE 1997

This prize, of the value of about £600, will be
offered for an
essay of not more than 30,000 words (though an essay of a
shorter
length will be acceptable) upon some subject proposed by
the
candidate and approved by the Board of the Faculty of
Social
Studiesthe subject to fall within the field of the
political
history and institutions of the United States of America.
Candidates
may submit work which has been or will be submitted for a
thesis in
an Honour School or for the examination for the Degree of
M.Phil.

The prize is open to members of the University who will
not have
exceeded eighteen terms from matriculation by the end of
Trinity Term
1997.

A candidate must in the first place apply to the
Secretary of
Faculties, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford
OX1 2JD, by
Friday, 7 March 1997, stating the subject on
which he or
she proposes to write. The Secretary
of Faculties will submit the subject to the judges for

approval on behalf of the board and will inform the
candidate of the
result.

Essays (on approved subjects) must be sent under a
sealed cover
marked `Sara Norton Prize' to the Head Clerk, University
Offices,
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, before Friday, 30
May
1997. Authors must conceal their names and
distinguish their
essays by a motto. The name, college, and date of
matriculation must
be sent at the same time in a sealed envelope with the
same motto
inscribed upon it.

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NORTON ROSE PRIZE

The prize will be awarded to the candidate who, in the
opinion of the
examiners, writes the best paper on Company Law in the
Honour School
of Jurisprudence. No

application is required. The prize will be £250, and
will be
associated with an offer of Law books to the value of
£250 to
the successful candidate's college.

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NUBAR PASHA ARMENIAN PRIZE 1997

The Board of Management of the Nubar Pasha Armenian
Scholarship Fund
offers annually in Trinity Term a prize for studies in
Classical
Armenian. The value of the prize will be determined by
the board of
management.

Candidates for the prize shall be members of the
University who
have not exceeded twenty-one terms from the date of
matriculation. No
person is eligible for the prize whose vernacular
language is
Armenian.

Passages for translation into English will be set
from the
Classical Armenian text of the Gospel according to
St
Matthew, chapter 28, the Gospel according to
St
Mark, chapters 2 and 14, Eznik of Kolb,
Against the
Sects (De Deo), Book 4, ch. 1 and P`awstos Buzand,
History, IV 54. These texts are contained in
A. Meillet,
Altarmenisches Elementarbuch, Heidelberg,
1913, pp.
14464. The passage from Eznik also forms para. 358
in the
edition by Mariès and Mercier, Patrologia
Orientalis, tome XXVIII, fasc. 3, Paris, 1959, pp.
51417.

Questions to test grammatical knowledge will be set and,
at the
discretion of the examiners, a short unseen text.
Candidates will be
allowed three hours in which to answer the questions set.

Applications should be sent to the Secretary,
Oriental Institute,
Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, on or before Friday, 14
March
1997.

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NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PRIZE IN
MATHEMATICAL
MODELLING AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

The prize, value £100, may be awarded, if there is a
candidate
of sufficient merit, by the examiners for the Degree of
Master of
Science in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis
each year to
the candidate whose performance in that examination they
judge to be
the best.

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CHARLES OLDHAM SHAKESPEARE
PRIZE 1997

The examination for the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize
will be held
in the Examination Schools in the third week of Hilary
Term, on
Tuesday, 4 February 1997, at

9.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m., and at 9.30 a.m. on the
following morning.
There will be three papers, each of three hours'
duration. The value
of the prize is £750, and an additional and
substantial prize or
prizes may also be awarded.

The prize is open to members of the University who
have entered
on the fourth term from matriculation, provided that:

(a) graduates of other universities
(including Senior
Students) may compete during the term in which they are
matriculated,
or the first or second term thereafter;

(b) no person may compete after exceeding
(i) the sixth
term from either (1) qualifying by examination for one of
the Degrees
of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Art or (2)
registration as a
graduate student of the University, or (ii) the fifteenth
term from
matriculation, whichever is the earliest;

The prize may not be awarded twice to the same
person.

The examination will consist of three papers as
follows:

(i) a paper on Shakespearian scholarship and
criticism

(including textual criticism);

(ii) a general paper on Shakespeare (including the
poems) and the
theatre of his age; and

(iii) a paper of questions on individual Shakespeare
plays.

Candidates must write entering their names by
Friday,

6 December 1996, to the Head Clerk, University
Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD.

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JOHN LOWELL OSGOOD MEMORIAL
PRIZE 1997

The Board of the Faculty of Music gives notice that a
John Lowell
Osgood Memorial Prize will be awarded (if a candidate of
sufficient
merit appears) in Trinity Term 1997 for a
composition in some form of ensemble chamber music.

Entries should be sent to reach the Secretary of the
Board of the
Faculty of Music, University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1
2JD, before 1 May 1997.

The value shall be determined by the Board of the

Faculty of Music in the light of the report of the
judges; a sum in
excess of £500 is available. The prize is open to
all members of
the University who on the closing date for

entries have completed one year and have not exceeded
nine years from
their matriculation. It may not be awarded twice to the
same person.

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OXFORD CRYOSYSTEMS PRIZE FOR A
PROJECT IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

A prize of £100 may be awarded by the Examiners in the
Honour School of Natural Science (Physics, Four Year
Course) for a project in Condensed Matter Physics. The
prize may not normally be awarded to the person who is
awarded the Smith System Engineering Prize. No special
application is required.

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OXFORD LASERS PRIZE FOR A
PROJECT IN OPTICAL PHYSICS

A prize of £100 may be awarded by the Examiners in the
Honour School of Natural Science (Physics, Four Year
Course) for a project in Optical Physics. It is intended
that the work performed on the project should be in a
field of interest to a company whose business is the
manufacture and application of light sources. The prize
may not normally be awarded to the person who is awarded
the Smith System Engineering Prize. No special
application is required.

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PASSMORE EDWARDS PRIZES FOR
CLASSICS AND
ENGLISH

There are two prizes, each valued at £200. One will
be awarded,
if there is a candidate of sufficient merit, by

the Moderators in Honour Moderations in Classics and
English to the
candidate whose performance in that

examination they judge the best. The other prize will be
awarded by
the Examiners for the Final Honour School of Classics and
English, to
the candidate whose performance in that examination they
judge the
best. No special application is required for either
prize.

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PAVRY AND WINCHESTER THESIS
PRIZES 1997

The Board of the Faculty of Social Studies proposes to
award two
prizes in Michaelmas Term 1997, provided that there are
candidates of
sufficient merit. Both of these prizes are awarded for
successful
theses (M.Phil., M.Litt., or D.Phil.) in the faculties of
Social
Studies, Law, or Modern History.

The Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial
Prize
(£500) is for a
thesis on a subject in the area of international peace
and
understanding.

The Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester
Prize
(£500) is for
a thesis on international relations, with particular
reference to the
area of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Candidates should apply in writing to the Secretary
to the
Managers of the Cyril Foster and Related Funds, Centre
for
International Studies, Social Studies Faculty Centre,
George Street,
Oxford OX1 2RL , not later than 12 noon on Friday, 25
July
1997. Applications must include a copy of the
thesis, together
with a short abstract, and a letter supplying
(a) the
candidate's name, college and degree; (b) the
names of the
candidate's examiners and supervisor(s) (not applicable
to M.Phil.
candidates); (c) a clear indication for which
one of the two
prizes the candidate is submitting the thesis;
(d) an
address for communication should the candidate not be
returning to
the University in Michaelmas Term.

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JOHN POTTER ESSAY PRIZE 1997

The prize, to the approximate value of £200, is
offered

annually in Trinity Term and is open to clinical students
working in
Oxford for the Second Examination for the

Degree of Bachelor of Medicine.

The prize will be awarded for an essay on a clinical

neurosurgical, neurological, or neuropathological topic.
The primary
purpose of the prize will be the promotion of sound use
of English
and clarity of expression in medical writing. No person
shall be
awarded the prize more than once.

Candidates should submit their essay, under a
nom-de-plume and marked `John Potter Essay
Prize', to the Medical
School Offices, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington,
Oxford OX3 9DU,
on or before Friday, 30 May 1997. Each candidate
should put
his/her name in a separate envelope with the nom-de-plume
on the
front. Any submission for the prize must be accompanied
by a
certificate signed by the author stating that the essay
is an
original essay not previously submitted for a prize or
degree, and
written during the clinical course.

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PUSEY AND ELLERTON JUNIOR
PRIZES

Two or more prizes will be awarded annually on the
recommendation of
the moderators in the Preliminary Examination in
Theology, and two or
more annually on the recommendation of the moderators in
the
Preliminary Examination in Oriental Studies, to those
candidates
whose performance in Biblical Hebrew the moderators judge
to be of
sufficient merit. The value of the prizes shall be
£50. No
special application is required.

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PUSEY AND ELLERTON SENIOR
PRIZES

One or more prizes will be awarded annually on the
recommendation of the examiners in the Final Honour
School of
Theology, and one or more annually on the

recommendation of the examiners in the Final Honour
School of
Oriental Studies, to those candidates whose performance
in Biblical
Hebrew the examiners judge to be of sufficient merit. The
value of
the prizes shall be £100.

No special application is required.

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RADCLIFFE PRIZE

The Radcliffe Prize, value £100, may be awarded
annually by the
Master and Fellows of University College upon the
recommendation of
the Director of Clinical Studies, after consultation with
the Regius
Professor of Medicine, to the clinical student who is a
candidate for
the BM degree of Oxford University and whose performance
is
considered to be outstanding.

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RADCLIFFE PHARMACOLOGY PRIZE

The Master and Fellows of University College offer a Radcliffe
Pharmacology Prize of value £250 upon the recommendation of
the Chairman of Examiners of the Honour School of Natural Science
(Physiological Sciences), taking into consideration the results
of the aforesaid Honour School for the year of the award.

The Prize shall be open to any member of the University who is
placed on the Class List in the Honour School of
Natural Science (Physiological Sciences) having offered Paper 10
(Pharmacology). The Prize shall not be awarded to the recipient
of the Martin Wronker Prize in Pharmacology.

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RENWICK VICKERS DERMATOLOGY
PRIZE 1997

Applications are invited for the Renwick Vickers
Dermatology Prize.
The value of the prize will be about £90 and the
closing date
for the submission of essays is Friday,

13 June 1997.

Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, under a
nom-de-plume. If the judges are unable to
distinguish
between

the merits of two or more candidates the prize shall be

divided accordingly. If no prize is awarded in any year,
the surplus
funds shall be reserved for making additional awards in
any
subsequent year. No person may be awarded the prize more
than once.

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GEOFFREY RHOADES COMMEMORATIVE
BURSARY

The bursary, value about £100, will be awarded, if
there is a
candidate of sufficient merit, by the examiners in the
Preliminary
Examination in Fine Art to the candidate whom they regard
as the most
outstanding on the basis of work submitted for the
examination. No
special application is required.

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SIR JOHN RHYS PRIZE 1997

The Sir John Rhys Prize will be offered for an essay on
some subject
relating to Celtic Languages, Literature, History, and
Antiquities.

The prize, the value of which is £250, is open to
members of the
University who, on the closing date for entries, have not
exceeded
eight years from their matriculation.

Candidates are free to choose their own subject but
they must,
not later than Friday, 6 December 1996, submit
the title of
their proposed essay, together with a brief statement of
how they
envisage treating the subject (on A4 size paper and
preferably
typewritten), to the Secretary of the Taylor Institution,
37 Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, for the approval of the judges.

The essays, which should be typewritten and in stiff
folders, are
to be sent under a sealed cover marked `Sir John Rhys
Prize' to the
Secretary of the Taylor Institution, 37 Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JF,
not later than Friday, 14 March 1997. Authors
are required to
conceal their names and distinguish their compositions by
a motto.
The name, college, and date of matriculation must be sent
at the same
time in a separate sealed envelope with the same motto
inscribed upon
it.

The judges have power to recommend to the trustees
that presents
of books may be made to unsuccessful

candidates whose essays have shown special excellence.

The judges have power to recommend to the trustees
that grants be
made out of the Rhy^s Fund towards the expenses of
printing the
whole, or parts, of any essay and/or to enable the
successful
candidate, or candidates, to carry on the work which has
been the
subject of the essay.

The prize may not be awarded twice to the same
person.

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RICHARDS BUTLER PRIZE

The prize will be awarded to the candidate who, in the
opinion of the
examiners, writes the best paper on International Trade
in the Honour
School of Jurisprudence. No application is required. The
prize will
be £250, and will be associated with an offer of Law
books to
the value of £350 to the successful candidate's
college.

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ROLLESTON MEMORIAL PRIZE 1997

This prize, which is now of the value of about £850,
is awarded
annually, under the conditions stated below, for original
research in
any subject comprised in the following list: Animal and
Vegetable
Morphology and Anthropology, Physiology and Pathology.

The next award will be made in Trinity Term 1997 for
original
research in Anthropology, Physiology, and Pathology.

No candidate will be eligible:

(a) who has not either passed the
examination for the BA
Degree or the BM Degree at Oxford, or for the BA Degree
or the MB
Degree at Cambridge, or been admitted as a Student for
the Degree of
M.Litt. or M.Sc. or D.Phil. at Oxford, or as a Research
Student for
the Degree of M.Litt. or M.Sc. or Ph.D. at Cambridge;

(b) who has exceeded a period of six years
from
attaining one or other of these qualifications, or from
attaining the
first of such qualifications, if he or she has attained
more than
one;

Candidates wishing to compete must forward their
memoirs,
together with a statement of (a) their present
status,
(b) where the work was done, and (c)
the
supervision, if any, which they had, to the Secretary to
Rolleston
Memorial Prize Trustees, University Offices, Wellington
Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than 1 May 1997.

The memoirs may be printed, typewritten, or in
manuscript; should
be inscribed `Rolleston Memorial Essay'; and should bear
the name and
address of the author. Memoirs may take the form of an
essay, or a
dissertation, or published work.

The prize may not be awarded twice to the same
person.

¶ No account will be taken of any research which
has been
prosecuted by the candidate before his or her
matriculation.

By-laws made by the Trustees of the Prize

1. The prize shall be offered each
year for
original

research. The subject shall be (a) Animal and
Vegetable
Morphology and Anthropology and (b) Physiology
and
Pathology, as defined below, in alternate years.

2. Animal and Vegetable Morphology
shall be
interpreted to include Genetics; Anthropology shall be
restricted to
Physical Anthropology; and the subjects included under
these heads
shall be defined as those covered by the Royal Society's
Sectional
Committees, 6, 7, and 11 (i.e. plant anatomy and
physiology,
mycology, plant pathology, plant ecology and
palaeo-botany,
vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, and palaeozoology;
human and
comparative anatomy (including physical anthropology),
entomology,
parasitology, marine and freshwater zoology, animal
ecology).

3. Physiology and Pathology shall be
interpreted
to

include Biochemistry; and the subjects included under
these heads
shall be defined as those covered by the Royal Society's
Sectional
Committees 8, 9, and 10, excluding clinical subjects,
medical
statistics, and demography (i.e. animal and human
physiology,
pharmacology, endocrinology, and reproduction;
bacteriology, virology

and general microbiology, immunology, pathology, and
radiobiology).

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CECIL ROTH MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR
ITALIAN STUDIES 1997

A Cecil Roth Memorial Prize for Italian Studies will be
awarded, if there is a candidate of sufficient merit, in
Trinity Term 1997 for an essay on an approved subject
within the field of Italian art, history, or literature
of the period from the end of the Roman Empire in the
west until the end of the eighteenth century; it is
recommended that the length of the essay should not
exceed 10,000 words. The value of the prize is £400. Two
book prizes of £50 each may also be awarded. Applicants
must be members of the University reading for a Final
Honour School who, on 31 March 1997, will not have
exceeded four years from the date of their matriculation.

All candidates must apply, through the Secretary of
the Taylor Institution, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1
2JF for approval of their intended essay subjects. In
addition to other subjects, the judges are also willing
to consider proposals which involve the use of material
intended for theses, extended essays, etc., in Final
Honour School examinations. Essays must be typed or
word-processed
in double spacing on one side only of A4 paper,
and must be submitted to the Secretary of the Taylor
Institution not later than Wednesday, 31 March
1997.

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SUSAN MARY ROUSE MEMORIAL PRIZE

A book prize will be awarded, provided that there is a
candidate of
sufficient merit, by the Moderators in the Preliminary
Examination
for Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology in Hilary Term
to the
candidate whose performance in the subject `Introduction
to
Psychology' they judge to be the best. No special
application is
required.

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ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
PRIZE

The prize, value about £60, may be awarded by the
examiners for
the best performance in the Honour School of Theology by
a member of
the Anglican Theological

Colleges who intends to be ordained in the Church of

England and who is not also a member of one of the

societies recognized in Title VII.

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SCOTT PRIZES IN PHYSICS

One or more prizes of the value of not less than £25
each (the
value of recent awards has been £30£100)
may be
awarded by the examiners in Physics in the Final Honour
School of
Natural Science each year for performance in that
examination, and
for outstanding work in practical physics by candidates
for that
examination. No special

application is required.

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SHELLEY-MILLS PRIZE 1997

This prize, the purpose of which is to promote the study
of the works
of William Shakespeare, is open to members of the
University who on
the date of this supplement have not exceeded three years
from
matriculation; provided that no person who on
that date has
been a member of any other university than Oxford for
more than one
year shall be eligible to compete.

The prize, value about £100, will be awarded for
the best
essay on the following subject:

`Shakespeare and Censorship'.

The essays (which should consist of about 5,000
words) are to be
sent under sealed cover to the Head Clerk, University
Offices,
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, to reach him on or
before 1
March 1997. Candidates are required to conceal their
names and
distinguish their essays by a motto. The name and college
of the
candidate should be sent at the same time in a separate
sealed
envelope with the same motto inscribed upon it.
Candidates must also
submit a statement by the Head or Senior Tutor of their
College that
they have not been a member of any university other than
Oxford for
more than one year.

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SLAUGHTER AND MAY PRIZE

This cash prize is to the value of £250 and is
associated with a
gift of £500 in law books to the successful
candidate's college.
It is awarded to the candidate who, in the opinion of the
examiners,
writes the best paper on the Law of Contract in the Final
Honour
School of Jurisprudence. No special application is
required.

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SMITH SYSTEM ENGINEERING PRIZE
FOR THE BEST FINAL YEAR PHYSICS PROJECT

One prize of £250 may be awarded by the Examiners for a
project submitted for the Honour School of Natural
Science (Physics), Four Year Course. No special
application is required.

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GEOFFREY HILL SPRAY PRIZE IN
CLINICAL
BIOCHEMISTRY 1997

This prize is open to clinical students working
in Oxford

in the second or third year of the course leading to the

Second BM Examination. Students may seek approval for
their proposed
subject in their first year but may not submit an essay
until at
least their second year.

The prize will be awarded (provided that candidates
of sufficient
merit present themselves) for an essay on biochemistry as
related to
pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of
disease in man.

Intending candidates should first submit to the Medical
School
Offices, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington,

Oxford OX3 9DU, with a nom-de-plume, the
title of their
proposed essay together with a brief statement
(1020 lines) of
how they envisage treating the subject for prior

approval by the judges.

The closing date for submitting the proposed title is

Friday, 26 November 1996. The closing date for
submitting
the essay is Friday, 2 May 1997.

The value of the prize is about £280.

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HAROLD LISTER SUNDERLAND PRIZES

The Board of Management of the H.L. Sunderland Fund has
approved an
annual grant for two prizes to be awarded respectively
for the best
performance in Greek papers in Honour Moderations in
Classics (value
£150); and for the best performance in the Greek
Literature
papers in the Honour Schools of Literae Humaniores and
Classics and
Modern Languages (value £200). No special
application is
required.

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JUNIOR PAGET TOYNBEE PRIZES
1997

An examination for these prizes will be held on Thursday,
1 May
1997, at 2 p.m. in the Taylor Institution. One prize, of
£400 in
value, will be awarded in each of the

following fields, provided that there is a candidate of
sufficient
merit in the field concerned:

(a) the works of Dante;

(b) Old French Language and Literature;

If there is no candidate of sufficient merit for the
award of a
junior prize in any of the fields, the examiners may at
their
discretion award an additional junior prize or prizes in
any other of
the fields in which there are candidates of sufficient
merit,
provided that no junior prize will exceed £400 in
value and that
the total value of all the junior prizes awarded in 1997
will not
exceed £1,200.

The examination for each candidate will consist of a

single three-hour paper in the field he or she is
offering. The paper
will consist of two parts: A, a passage or passages for
textual
analysis and/or commentary; and B,

a wide range of questions of a literary, linguistic, or
historical
character. Candidates will be required to answer Part A
and not more
than two questions from Part B.

The prizes are open to all matriculated members of
the University
who at the time of examination (i) are of not more than
fifteen
terms' standing, and (ii) are certified by the Head or a
Tutor of
their Society at Oxford to be reading for a First or
Second Public
Examination of the University. A Junior Paget Toynbee
Prize cannot be
awarded to a previous winner of any Paget Toynbee Prize.

Candidates should write to the Secretary of the
Taylor Institution, 37
Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, by Friday,

22 November 1996, stating the field in which
they wish to be examined and should send at the same
time the
certificate
referred to in the previous paragraph and permission from
their tutor
to enter for the prize.

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SENIOR PAGET TOYNBEE PRIZES
1997

Two Senior Paget Toynbee Prizes, each of £1,000 in
value, will
be awarded, provided that there are candidates of
sufficient merit,
in Trinity Term 1997, for the best essays of not more
than 10,000
words on approved subjects within any of the following
fields:

(a) the works of Dante;

(b) Old French Language and Literature;

Candidates must be matriculated members of the
University who, on
the closing date for the receipt of the

essays, will be of not more than twenty-eight terms'
standing. A
senior prize cannot be awarded more than once to the same
person.

All candidates must write to the Secretary of the
Taylor Institution,
37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, stating the field
in which they
wish to offer an essay and must apply through him for
approval of
their intended essay subject. Essays must be submitted to
him not
later than Thursday, 3 April 1997.

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TURBUTT PRIZES

The prizes, for excellence in practical organic
chemistry, will be
open to members of the University who are pursuing the
course for
Part I of the examination in Chemistry in the Honour
School of
Natural Science. One or more prizes of £75 may be
offered
annually for laboratory work in each of the first,
second, and third
years of the course. No special application is required.

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TYNAN PRIZE 1997

The Board of Management of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama
Fund will in
Trinity Term 1997 award a prize of £100 for the best
portfolio
of theatre reviews by a student while at the University
of Oxford.
Prize entries, which must be limited to a portfolio of
eight reviews,
will be judged by the current or a previous holder of the
Cameron
Mackintosh Visiting Professorship of Contemporary

Theatre. The closing date for the submission of
portfolios, to which
must be attached details of the entrant's name, college,
and term of
matriculation, is Friday, 21 March 1997.
Candidates must not
have exceeded the twelfth term from their matriculation.
Previous
winners of the prize are not eligible. Further details of
the prize
are available from Ms Holly Kendrick, University Drama
Officer,
the Burton Taylor Theatre, Gloucester Street, Oxford OX1
2BN
(telephone 791577), to whom portfolios should be
submitted.

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VIOLET VAUGHAN MORGAN PRIZES
1997

The Board of the Faculty of English Language and
Literature gives
notice that eight prizes on the foundation of

Mr and Mrs P. Vaughan Morgan will be awarded in Trinity
Term 1997 if
suitable candidates present themselves.

The examination will be open to members of the
University who are
citizens of one of the countries of the British
Commonwealth, have
not exceeded the ninth term from their matriculation, and
are reading
for the First or Second Public Examination. In awarding a
prize, in
addition to scholastic acquirements, the characters of
the candidates
will be taken into consideration so far as they can be
judged from a
viva-voce examination and also from their records at
college, and a
prize will not be awarded to anyone who, in the opinion
of the
examiners, does not show promise of becoming a loyal
citizen of the
British Commonwealth.

The examination (consisting of two papers on English
Literature)
will be held in the Schools on Thursday, 15 May 1997, at
9.30 a.m.
and 2.30 p.m. Viva-voce examinations will be held in the
Schools on
Thursday, 22 May, beginning at 9.30 a.m. The examiners
intend to set
two papers (each of three hours); one composed of general
critical
questions requiring no special preparation; the other
composed of
three sections, (1) fourteenth- and fifteenth-century
poetry and
drama, (2) drama 15801642, (3) Victorian poetry, of
which candidates must limit themselves to answering
questions in one
section.

The prizes are of the value of £120 each. Each
prize-

winner will also receive a bronze medal having on one
side a profile
of Maude Violet Caroline Vaughan Morgan, and on the other
side an
engraved statement of the origin of the prizes.

Persons wishing to become candidates must apply to
the Head
Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square,

Oxford OX1 2JD, for a form of entry which will include a
certificate
(to be signed by the head or senior tutor of the
candidate's college
or society) stating that the candidate has not exceeded
the ninth
term from his matriculation, is reading for the First or
Second
Public Examination, and is a citizen of one of the
countries of the
British Commonwealth. The completed entry forms must be
returned to
the Head Clerk by Friday, 14 March 1997, and
must be

accompanied by a confidential letter of recommendation in
a sealed
envelope from each candidate's tutor.

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HENRY WILDE PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY

One prize, value £200, may be awarded in each year
for an
outstanding performance in Philosophy in any of the

following Final Honour Schools: Literae Humaniores;

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Psychology,
Philosophy, and
Physiology; Mathematics and Philosophy; Physics and
Philosophy;
Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy and Modern Languages.

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WINTER WILLIAMS LAW PRIZES

The Board of the Faculty of Law invites entry for the Prizes
which will be awarded in 1997 on the basis of essays, of not more
than 5,000 words, submitted on one of the following subjects:
1 The selection of a judicial remedy for breach of contract turns
upon more complex considerations than the simple moral principle
that promises should be kept.

2 What is a resulting trust?

3 `[T]he law of tort is the general law, out
of which the parties can, if they wish, contract'. Lord Goff in
Henderson v. Merrett Syndicates Ltd. [1994] 3 All E R 506.

4 What are the aims and what are the likely
results of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act
1996.

The first prize is of £400, the second prize is of
£200.
Grants to a total of a £200 may be made to unsuccessful
candidates who have done meritorious work. The prizes will be
awarded only if entries of sufficient merit are
received.

The essays (two typed copies) must be sent to the Head Clerk,
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, by 30
September 1997. There is no entry form, but each essay must be
accompanied by: (i) a statement from the candidate's college that
he or she is, on 30 September 1997, an undergraduate member of
the University who has not exceeded the tenth term from
matriculation, and is reading for the Honour School of
Jurisprudence; (ii) a declaration that the essay is entirely the
candidate's own unaided work and that it has not been submitted
to any other person for advice, assistance, or revision.

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L.J. WITTS PRIZE IN HAEMATOLOGY
OR
GASTROENTEROLOGY

The prize, to the value of around £170, is offered
annually
(provided that candidates of sufficient merit present
themselves) for
essays related to diseases either of the blood or of the
gastro-intestinal tract. The prize is open to clinical
students
working in Oxford for the Second Examination for the
Degree of
Bachelor of Medicine. No person may be awarded the prize
more than
once.

Intending candidates should submit the title of their
proposed
essay, together with a brief statement (1020 lines)
of how they
envisage treating the subject, for

approval by the judges. The request for approval should
be submitted
to the Medical School Offices, John Radcliffe Hospital,
Headington,
Oxford OX3 9DU, under a nom-de-plume by 1
October in the
academic year in which the prize is to be awarded. The
closing date
for the submission of the essay is 1 March in the same
academic year.

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MARTIN WRONKER PRIZES IN LAW

The Martin Wronker Prize in Law, worth £1,000, is
awarded
annually for the best overall performance in

the Honour School of Jurisprudence. Satisfactory evidence
from the
college or other society as to the character as well as
to academic
attainment is sought before the prize is awarded. Two
grants of up to
£600 in total may also be awarded to those named as
proxime accesserunt to the prize-winner.
Additional
prizes of £250 each are awarded annually, from the
Martin
Wronker Law Prize Fund, for the best performances in the
following
five

papers: Jurisprudence; Tort; Land Law; Trusts; and

Administrative Law. Candidates in the Honour School of
Jurisprudence
will be regarded as candidates for all these awards.
(Figures subject to review.)

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MARTIN WRONKER PRIZES IN
MEDICINE AND
PHARMACOLOGY 1997

A Martin Wronker Prize in Medicine, worth £500, will
be offered
in Trinity Term 1997 and additional grants of up to
£125 may
also be awarded. Candidates for this prize must be
members of the
University whose names are on the Register of University
Medical
Students and who have been classed in either
Physiological Sciences
in the Honour School of Natural Science or (provided that
the
subjects

offered have included Physiology) the Honour School of
Psychology,
Philosophy, and Physiology in Trinity Term 1997. A prize
worth
£125 will also be offered, on the same conditions as
to
eligibility, for meritorious performance in the optional
dissertation
(in a physiological subject) in these Honour Schools.

All candidates in the Honour School of Natural
Science
(Physiological Sciences) or who are offering Physiology
in the Honour
School of PPP will be regarded as candidates for the
prize if their
names are on the Register of University Medical Students.
A
testimonial from the head of their college or hall as to
their
character as well as to their academic attainment may
later be
required.

A Martin Wronker Prize in Pharmacology, worth
£250, will
also be offered in Trinity Term 1997, on the same conditions
regarding eligibility as the Martin Wronker Prize
in
Medicine, for meritorious performance in Pharmacology in
either of
the above Honour Schools, provided that no person who has
been
awarded the prize in Medicine or a grant will be eligible
for the
prize in Pharmacology.

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WYLIE PRIZE 1997

The prize is awarded annually for the best essay on a
subject
connected with some aspect of the history of the United
States of
America. The value is £150.

For precise information candidates are advised to
consult the
Statutes, Decrees, and Regulations of the
University of
Oxford, but the rules may be summarised and
augmented as
follows. Candidates must be members of the University
reading for a
Final Honour School. The prize may not be awarded twice
to the same
person.

Essays, which must be typewritten and which must not
exceed
15,000 words in length (including footnotes,

appendices, and bibliographies), should be sent under
sealed cover to
the Head Clerk, University Offices, Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1
2JD, not later than 1 March 1997. The author
shall conceal
his name and distinguish his composition by what motto he
pleases,
sending at the same time his name sealed under another
cover with the
motto inscribed on it. Candidates are required to
certify, when
submitting their essays, that they have not already been
submitted in
whole or in partial fulfilment of the

requirements for a degree of any other university.

Although competitors are free to choose their own
subject, they
are warned that they must secure the prior

approval of the examiners for the subject of their essay:
the
examiners will not approve any subject unless the

candidate's letter seeking approval is endorsed by his
tutor to the
effect that the proposed title is suitable.

Candidates must send the proposed title to the
Secretary, Board
of the Faculty of Modern History, University Offices,
Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, not later than Friday, 24
January
1997.

Essays may also be submitted as theses for the Honour
Schools of
Modern History, or of Modern History and

Modern Languages, or of Modern History and Economics, or
of Ancient
and Modern History, in accordance with the faculty
board's
regulations. As the examiners may not have finished with
the essays
by the deadline for the submission of theses, candidates
who wish to
submit their work for the Final Honour School are advised
to keep a

separate copy of the essay.

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Scholarships and Prizes Supplement - Prizes - (2) to No 4411

Oxford University Gazette

Scholarships and Prizes Supplement: Prizes

Supplement (2) to Gazette No. 4411

Monday, 7 October 1996

Contents of the supplement:

Classified list of the prizes

Anthropology and Geography

Area studies

Biological Sciences

Computation

Economics

English Language and Literature

History

Law

Literae Humaniores and Philosophy

Management Studies

Mathematics

Medicine

Medieval and Modern Languages

Music

Physical Sciences

Physiological Sciences

Psychology

Social Studies

Theology

Miscellaneous

Preliminary note

Adjustment of standing for illness

Division of prizes and scholarships

Prizes

ANCIENT HISTORY PRIZE 1997

ARNOLD ANCIENT HISTORICAL ESSAY PRIZE 1997

ARNOLD MODERN HISTORICAL ESSAY PRIZE

MATTHEW ARNOLD MEMORIAL PRIZE 1997

BRIAN BANNISTER AWARD IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

PETER BEACONSFIELD PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON ENGLISH LITERATURE PRIZE

MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON MODERN LANGUAGES PRIZE 1997

BEIT PRIZE AND ROBERT HERBERT MEMORIAL PRIZE 19967

LAURENCE BINYON PRIZE 1997

BODEN PRIZE 1997

BRISTOL MYERS PRIZE IN CARDIOLOGY 1997

BRITISH TELECOM RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PRIZE FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE

BURDETT-COUTTS PRIZE 1997

CLIFFORD CHANCE PRIZE

CHANCELLOR'S AND NEWDIGATE PRIZES 1997

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize (about £300)

Chancellor's English Essay (value £250)

Chancellor's Latin Prose and Verse (value £250 each)

General Regulations

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

EGERTON COGHILL LANDSCAPE PRIZE 1997

ANDREW COLIN PRIZE

COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY PRIZES

CONINGTON PRIZE 1997

RUPERT CROSS PRIZE

WILMA CROWTHER MEMORIAL PRIZE

CURZON MEMORIAL PRIZE 1999

H.W.C. DAVIS PRIZE

DENYER AND JOHNSON PRIZE

ELLERTON THEOLOGICAL ESSAY PRIZE 1997

ENGLISH POEM ON A SACRED SUBJECT 1998

FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSE PRIZE

JOHN FREIND PRIZE IN MEDICAL HISTORY 1997

GAISFORD PRIZES 1997

Gaisford Dissertation Prize for Greek or Latin Language and Literature

Gaisford Essay Prize for Greek Language and Literature

Gaisford Prizes for Greek Prose and Verse

GIBBS PRIZES 1997

Timetable of papers for the prize in Law

Monday, 6 October

GLADSTONE MEMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE

GOTCH MEMORIAL PRIZE 1997

THOMAS WHITCOMBE GREENE PRIZE

CANON HALL GREEK TESTAMENT PRIZES AND HALL-HOUGHTON SEPTUAGINT AND HOUGHTON SYRIAC PRIZES 1997

For the Senior Septuagint Prize:

For the Junior Septuagint Prize:

For the Syriac Prize:

HARLEY PRIZE OF THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST TRUST

Contents of the
supplement:

Adjustment of standing for
illness

Division of prizes and
scholarships

ARNOLD ANCIENT HISTORICAL ESSAY
PRIZE 1997

ARNOLD MODERN HISTORICAL ESSAY
PRIZE

MATTHEW ARNOLD MEMORIAL PRIZE
1997

BRIAN BANNISTER AWARD IN ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY

PETER BEACONSFIELD PRIZE IN
PHYSIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES

MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON ENGLISH
LITERATURE
PRIZE

MRS CLAUDE BEDDINGTON MODERN
LANGUAGES PRIZE
1997

BEIT PRIZE AND ROBERT HERBERT
MEMORIAL PRIZE
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BRISTOL MYERS PRIZE IN
CARDIOLOGY 1997

BRITISH TELECOM RESEARCH AND
TECHNOLOGY
PRIZE FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE

CHANCELLOR'S AND NEWDIGATE
PRIZES 1997

Chancellor's Latin Prose and Verse (value £250
each)

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNTANTS
PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

EGERTON COGHILL LANDSCAPE PRIZE
1997

ELLERTON THEOLOGICAL ESSAY
PRIZE 1997

ENGLISH POEM ON A SACRED
SUBJECT 1998

JOHN FREIND PRIZE IN MEDICAL
HISTORY 1997

Gaisford Dissertation Prize for Greek or Latin
Language and
Literature

Gaisford Essay Prize for Greek Language and
Literature

CANON HALL GREEK TESTAMENT
PRIZES AND
HALL-HOUGHTON SEPTUAGINT AND HOUGHTON SYRIAC PRIZES 1997

HARLEY PRIZE OF THE NEW
PHYTOLOGIST TRUST

HERBERTSON MEMORIAL PRIZE AND
HENRY OLIVER
BECKIT MEMORIAL PRIZE

HERTFORD AND DE PARAVICINI
PRIZES

BRIAN JOHNSON PRIZE IN
PATHOLOGY 1996

CYRIL JONES MEMORIAL PRIZE IN
SPANISH

JANE WILLIS KIRKALDY JUNIOR AND
SENIOR
PRIZES 1997

JOHN LOCKE PRIZE IN MENTAL
PHILOSOPHY 1997

MAXWELL PRIZE FOR LAW
MODERATIONS

GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY ESSAY PRIZE
1997

GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY JUNIOR
PRIZES 1997

GEORGE WEBB MEDLEY PRIZES FOR
THE M.PHIL.
IN ECONOMICS

J.P. MORGAN PRIZE ESSAY IN
FINANCE 1997

NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PRIZE IN
MATHEMATICAL
MODELLING AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

CHARLES OLDHAM SHAKESPEARE
PRIZE 1997

JOHN LOWELL OSGOOD MEMORIAL
PRIZE 1997

OXFORD CRYOSYSTEMS PRIZE FOR A
PROJECT IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

OXFORD LASERS PRIZE FOR A
PROJECT IN OPTICAL PHYSICS

PASSMORE EDWARDS PRIZES FOR
CLASSICS AND
ENGLISH

PAVRY AND WINCHESTER THESIS
PRIZES 1997

PUSEY AND ELLERTON JUNIOR
PRIZES

PUSEY AND ELLERTON SENIOR
PRIZES

RENWICK VICKERS DERMATOLOGY
PRIZE 1997

GEOFFREY RHOADES COMMEMORATIVE
BURSARY

CECIL ROTH MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR
ITALIAN STUDIES 1997

ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA
PRIZE

SMITH SYSTEM ENGINEERING PRIZE
FOR THE BEST FINAL YEAR PHYSICS PROJECT

GEOFFREY HILL SPRAY PRIZE IN
CLINICAL
BIOCHEMISTRY 1997

JUNIOR PAGET TOYNBEE PRIZES
1997

SENIOR PAGET TOYNBEE PRIZES
1997

VIOLET VAUGHAN MORGAN PRIZES
1997

L.J. WITTS PRIZE IN HAEMATOLOGY
OR
GASTROENTEROLOGY

MARTIN WRONKER PRIZES IN
MEDICINE AND
PHARMACOLOGY 1997