THE SWINEY PRIZE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 28

THE SWINEY PRIZE.

RECEIVED BY DR SALMOND. (Feom Oue Own Coeeespondent.) WELLINGTON, July 6, By the last mail Dr Salmond received from London the Swmey prize for a book on jurisprudence. The prize is a very beautiful gold cup (from a design specially prepared in 1849 for the first award by G. D. Maclise, the well-known Royal Academician) and £IOO in money. The cup itself is valued at £IOO. The award is made jointly by the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal College of Physicians. On the occasion of the first • award being made the question was discussed between the two bodies concerned as to what share should be allotted to medical jurisprudence, and an agreement was arrived at that the award should be made alternately to medical and to general jurisprudence. This plan has been followed since the first award. Dr Swiney, who died in 1844, left a sum of £SOOO in Consols to the Royal Society of Arts for the purposes of presenting this prize on every fifth anniversary of the testator’s death. Sir Frederick Pollock and Professor J. Maitland won the prize in 1904 for their book on “The History of English Law before Edward the First,” while Dr .Charles Mercier won the last prize in 1909 for his work, “ Criminal Responsibility.” Dr Salmond, who has had a distinguished scholastic and official career, is the fourteenth prize-winner. He is a New Zealander, whose legal and literary attainments are as well known in England as here. At present he is Solicitorgeneral for New Zealand.