Box Acc.2013/020, Box 117

Agendas, papers and minutes for meetings of the Committee on University Benefactors.

Letters of invitation from the Principal to individuals on whom the University wished to bestow the Distinction of University Benefactor, and replies from some individuals.

List of names and addresses of Open Access Bursary winners (1999 and 2000 entrants), correspondence about the launch of the Bursary scheme in September 2000, copy of a scholarship agreement between Agilent Technologies and the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and correspondence about the Agilent agreement.

Correspondence with Buckingham Palace about the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh to the University on 10 July 1990 including the programme and background material for the visit. Also includes a copy of a book entitled 'Britain's First Chair of Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh 1790-1990: A History of the Chair Founded by William Johnstone Pulteney' by Ian J Fleming and Noel F Robertson, which had a foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh.

Correspondence with Buckingham Palace about the visits by the Duke of Edinburgh to the University on 29 May 1991 and 13 December 1991 including the programmes and background material for the visits.

Correspondence with Buckingham Palace about the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh to the University on 20 May 1992 including the programme and background material for the visit. Also includes some colour photographs of the visit.

Correspondence with Buckingham Palace about the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh to the University on 12 February 1993 including the programme and background material for the visit. Also includes a black and white photograph of the visit.

Correspondence about individual students' queries relating to their fees, and about general queries on fees for particular courses. Includes a copy of the March 2000 Report of the Scottish Fee Support Review, produced by Sir George Quigley.

Correspondence, mainly with the solicitors Lindsays, concerning legal advice on various issues. These include a dispute relating to the purchases of a slide copier and a rostrum camera, setting up a Trust to form the Board of Celtic Studies, advice regarding the University's liability for defamatory statements in dissertations, and advice regarding the possible withdrawal of the Honours Russian Course.