Founded by friends of the late Jane Willis Kirkaldy
1. The Committee for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology shall be charged with the duty of awarding the prizes.
2. Save as is provided in clause 6 below the whole of the income of the endowment, after the payment of such expenses incurred in examination as the Committee for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology shall approve, shall be applied to the Junior Prize.
3. The prize money shall be spent on books unless the express consent of the Committee for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology be given to the contrary.
4. The Junior Prize shall be called the ‘Jane Willis Kirkaldy Junior Prize’ and shall be offered for competition annually, on an essay written upon a topic concerning the History of Science or Technology proposed by the candidate and approved by the committee. The committee may also award a proxime accessit prize.
5. The Junior Prize shall be open to all undergraduate members of the University and to those who, at the deadline for entries, are within one term of having completed the examination for an undergraduate degree of the University, provided that the Junior Prize shall not be awarded a second time to the same person, nor shall a person who has been awarded the Junior Prize receive on any subsequent occasion a proxime accessit award to the Junior Prize. A person who has received a proxime accessit award to the Junior Prize may, however, be awarded the Junior Prize for a different piece of work on a subsequent occasion.
6. In the event of there being surplus income, it shall be applied in the first instance to the award of a second prize, to be known as the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize. If funds permit, the Senior Prize shall be offered for competition annually on an essay written upon a topic concerning the History of Science and Technology proposed by the candidate and approved by the committee. The committee may also award a proxime accessit prize. The Senior Prize shall be open to all members of the University who are registered as students for the degree of M.Sc., M.Litt., M.St., M.Phil., or D.Phil. in the University and who are not eligible to enter for the Junior Prize. The Senior Prize shall not be awarded a second time to the same person, nor shall a piece of work submitted at any time for the Junior Prize be submitted at the same time or subsequently for the Senior Prize, nor shall a person who has been awarded the Senior Prize receive on any subsequent occasion a proxime accessit award to the Senior Prize. A person who has received a proxime accessit award to the Senior Prize may, however, be awarded the Senior Prize for a different piece of work on a subsequent occasion. In the event that there is any further surplus income, it shall be applied, at the discretion of the General Board, to any purpose connected with the History of Science which the General Board may approve.
7. In any change of decree regard shall always be had to the intention of the donors of the prize, viz. that the prize should be competed for by a satisfactory proportion of the best students reading Natural Science, it being understood that opportunity to compete be given from time to time to students in all the Schools of Natural Science in the University.
