FUNDS FOR RESEARCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1034, 26 July 1930, Page 13

FUNDS FOR RESEARCH

NEW ZEALANDER Wlto FELLOWSHIP HONOUR ALMOST UNIQUE Only two New Zealanders have aitained the high honour of admission to the Beit Fellowship for medical re search. One is Mr. George Maxwell Richardson, a young student who has been awarded the fellowship for research into the application of electro metric methods in biological problems The first, and only other; Dominion medical student to be awarded the fel lowship was Professor C. S. Hicks Ph D.. M.S.C., M. 8.. F.1.C., who is now a professor in the bio-chemical department of Adelaide University Professor Hicks was a Southerner, his father being Mr. George Hicks, a journalist, of Dunedin. Mr. Richardson was educated at New Plymouth High School, where be was successful in wanning a university scholarship. His recent admission to the fellowship permits him to spend three years in any approved branch of medical research and the period of three years may be extended, as it was with Professor Hicks. The fellowships were founded and endowed in 1909 b.v Sir Otto Beit as a memorial to his brother. Air. Alfred Beit, to promote the advancement by research of medicine and the alli-d scences in their relation to medicine The fellowships are awarded annu ally and the applicants. who are elected by trustees, must have taken a university degree or. if a woman, sr>* must have passed an equivalent examination. There are no age restrictions and no person is disqualified on account of religious or medical opin ions. Although the cabled message states the value of the fellowship awarded Mr. Richardson as 2 250, it is definitely* fixed that the value is £ 400 a year The applications are dealt with by an advisory board which, after considers tion of the applicant’s personal record and the importance of the research he proposes to undertake, reports to the trustees. The next step is the election of the fellow’s by the trustees. The usual tenure of the fellowship is for three years, but it can be expended by the trustees to four years Fellows are required to report annu ally on their researches, giving an ah stract of the experimental work under taken and a summary of their con elusions. It is a condition of the fellowship that the students hold no other aj - pointment and devote their whole time to the resarch they have specified.