Hector and Andrew Stewart Memorial Lectureship [F20096]

The late Hector J. Stewart having in 1924 donated a sum of money to the University to establish a scholarship or exhibition which was never awarded, and the Supreme Court having on 24 February 1965 on an application of the University ordered a variation of the terms of the endowment to provide for the use of the fund as at that date constituted ($5320) together with any additions thereto, in the establishment of a lectureship to be called the Hector and Andrew Stewart Memorial Lectureship in memory of the late Mr Hector J. Stewart, MLC, and of the late Mr Andrew Stewart, a member of the teaching staff in Agriculture from 1937 to 1959, the fund is administered in accordance with the following regulations.

1. The Hector and Andrew Stewart Memorial Lectureship is financed out of the income of the endowment fund together with any additions thereto.

2. From time to time as sufficient income becomes available but not more frequently than once a year an individual of distinction who is a distinguished worker in some branch of agricultural science may be invited to accept the lectureship.

3. The selection of suitable individuals for such invitations is made by the Vice-Chancellor on the recommendation of a committee consisting of the Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and five other persons elected by the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

4. The lecturer is paid an honorarium, the value of which is decided from time to time by the Vice-Chancellor, plus travel and accommodation expenses.

5. The lecturer must, during the tenure of the lectureship—

(a) give a formal lecture on a topic related to the lecturer's own speciality and open to undergraduate and graduate students of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and to other interested agricultural scientists;

(b) present several seminars to senior students and staff within the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; and

(c) spend not less than a week at the University in discussion with agricultural scientists to learn of Western Australian activities and to communicate something of the lecturer's own knowledge and experience at a less formal level.