R7.42 – The Halford Oration

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Recitals-

1. In 1928 members of the family of George Britton Halford, M.D., first professor of Physiology and Histology in the University, subscribed £1,000 to form an endowment ‘to commemorate the work and researches’ of their father, the founder of the first medical school in the southern hemisphere and ‘to bring before the public some recent work in the Medical Sciences’.
2. The sum was administered from 1928 until 1947 by the Commonwealth of Australia through the Institute of Anatomy at Canberra to endow an annual oration known as the Halford Oration.
3. In 1948 the sum and its accumulations, amounting to £1,192 10s. 6d., was by agreement transferred to the University to be administered in a similar manner.
4. The sum of £1,192 10s. 6d increased to $8,148 at 31 December 1994.

It is provided as follows-

1. The sum of $8,148 and any accumulations and additions to the sum forms the endowment of a fund called the ‘Halford Oration Fund’ (‘the fund’) and the fund must be paid into an investment pool and remain there until the Council directs otherwise.
2. The income of the fund is used to provide a triennial public lecture called the ‘Halford Oration’ on some recent work in the medical sciences.
3. Each lecturer is appointed by the Council on the recommendation of the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and receives a fee to be determined by the Council but which must not exceed the net income of the fund for the preceding three years.
4. Each lecturer must furnish a copy of his or her lecture to the senior vice-principal, who must deposit it in the University library.