Maurice Buchan Johnson Prize in Botany [F1910]

The late Mrs E. R. L. Johnson having bequeathed the sum of $400 for the purpose of providing a prize in memory of her husband, the late Dr Maurice Buchan Johnson, who commenced practice in medicine in Western Australia in Albany on 1 December 1920, practising later in Perth as a radiologist, the Maurice Buchan Johnson Prize in Botany is established and is awarded in accordance with the following regulations.

1. The prize consists of the interest on the fund after capitalisation in accordance with Senate policy.

2. The prize is awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, on the recommendation of the Head of the School of Plant Biology in consultation with the relevant teaching staff, to the student who, among those who have completed the Level 2 cryptogamic botany component of the Botany major, has shown a special aptitude for project work in cryptogamic botany, having obtained the highest marks in the examinations in the project in cryptogamic botany.