Reporter 2/2/00: Graces submitted to the Regent House on 2 February 2000

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 2 February 2000

The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 113), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 11 February 2000.

1. That the regulations for disclosure of examination results be amended as follows:

Regulation 2.

By inserting in line 2 after 'designated College officers,' the words 'or officers of Colleges of the Cambridge Theological Federation,'.¹

2. That the recommendations contained in paragraph 6 of the Joint Report, dated 13 December 1999 and 1 December 1999, of the Council and the General Board on research services (Reporter, p. 238) be approved.

3. That a Paul Mellon Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:²

Paul Mellon Fund

1. The moneys received by the University under the Will of Paul Mellon, Hon. K.B.E., M.A., Hon. LL.D., of Clare College, shall form a fund called the Paul Mellon Fund.

2. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate.

3. The capital and income of the Fund shall be available, at the discretion of the Managers for any purpose of the Museum, including:

(a)	the provision of buildings, or the improvement of buildings;
(b)	the preservation and maintenance of the collections including the employment of curatorial staff for that purpose.

4. That the regulations for the Michael Foster Studentship in Physiology be replaced by the following regulations:³

Michael Foster Studentship in Physiology

1. The sums given to the University by Jamieson Boyd Hurry, M.D., of St John's College, for the encouragement of research in Physiology shall form a fund called the Michael Foster Studentship Fund, the income of which shall be applied in the first instance to the maintenance of a studentship called the Michael Foster Studentship in Physiology.

2. The Electors shall be the Professor of Physiology and two other members of the Regent House appointed in the Michaelmas Term, one by the Council and one by the Faculty Board of Biology, to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment.

3. The Electors shall give not less than three months' notice of their intention to proceed to an election.

4. The Studentship shall be open to any person who is or is about to be registered as a Graduate Student in the University.

5. The Studentship shall be tenable for one year. A Student shall be eligible for re-election on not more than two occasions.

6. The value of the Studentship shall be such sum not exceeding the available income of the Fund as the Electors may determine in each case, after taking account of any other financial resources available to the Student.

7. Students shall undertake research in the Department of Physiology unless authorized by the Electors to work elsewhere.

8. Any unexpended income accumulated in the Fund shall be applied at the discretion of the Electors for the encouragement of research in Physiology, either by the award of one or more additional Studentships or in such other ways as they may determine.

9. These regulations, except Regulation 1, shall be subject to alteration by Grace, but so always that the principal object of the Fund, namely the encouragement of research in Physiology, shall be maintained.

5. That, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Biology, the regulations for the T.H. Middleton Prize be replaced by the following regulations for a T.H. Middleton Fund:⁴

T.H. Middleton Fund

1. The sum received from an anonymous benefactor in 1947 to commemorate the work of the late Sir Thomas Hudson Middleton, Drapers Professor of Agriculture 1902-07, shall form a fund called the T.H. Middleton Fund.

2. The Fund shall be administered by three Managers who shall be:

(a)	the Chairman of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Biology;
(b)	the Professor of Botany;
(c)	one person appointed by the Faculty Board of Biology.

The Manager in class (c) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following his or her appointment. The Secretary of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Biology shall act as Secretary to the Managers.

3. The income of the Fund shall be applied by the Managers to make grants to enable Graduate Students working on subjects connected with agriculture to travel for the purpose of study or research.

4. Any unexpended income in the Fund may be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Managers may determine.

6. That, on the recommendation of the Library Syndicate, the Librarian be allowed to deposit at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April 2000 until 17 September 2000, MS. Add.7652.IA:125, a letter from De la Beche to Sedgwick, 11 December 1834, for the purpose of an exhibition under the auspices of the National Portrait Gallery entitled 'Defining features: scientific and medical portraits 1660-2000'.

¹ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 214. Candidates for the Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry are not normally members of the University at the time of the examination, so amendment to the regulation is necessary to identify the officers to whom the Examiners should transmit their marks.

² See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 390.

³ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 701. Under the present regulations the Michael Foster Studentship may be held for a maximum period of two years, and the stipend is limited to £25. The Electors of the Fund propose to allow for more flexibility over the length of tenure and the value of the Studentship.

⁴ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 778. Under the present regulations the T.H. Middleton Prize is awarded on the results of the examination in Biological Science for the M.Phil. Degree. The number of candidates taking this examination is now small; the Faculty Board believe that better use would be made of the Fund by employing it to make grants to Graduate Students working in appropriate subjects.

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