Regulation 7.5 - The Beattie Smith Lectures

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Recitals-

1. William Beattie Smith, formerly of Collins Street Melbourne, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh bequeathed "to the University of Melbourne One thousand pounds" and directed “that the annual interest on same be used to establish a few annual lectures on the early treatment of insanity as I consider the practitioner and the public are in need of much education in regard to this subject."
2. The University has received the sum of £1000 in satisfaction of the bequest, which sum increased to $6,500 at 31 December 1994.

It is provided as follows-

1. The sum of $6,500 and any accumulations and additions to the sum forms a fund called the “Beattie Smith Fund” (“the fund”) and the fund must be paid into an investment pool and remain there until the Council directs otherwise.
2. The income is devoted to the provision in each year of a few lectures on the early treatment of mental illness having regard to causation, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, therapeusis, control and prevention or any of these. Such lectures may be directed in any year wholly or in part specially to medical practitioners or specially to the public.
3. The lectures are called the "Beattie Smith Lectures".
4. The lecturer for each year is appointed by the Council after report from the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (“the faculty”) and receives the balance of the net annual income of the fund after providing for the expenses, if any, incidental to the lectures.
5. The Council after report from the faculty determines the number of lectures to be given in each year and the subject, place, time and other conditions of the lectures.
6. The Council may in any year appoint a lecturer conjointly under this benefaction and any other University benefaction having a similar purpose.