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Burnet Prize at Aberdeen.

Sir,--I sent a _query_ to the _Athenæum_, who, by a _note_, referred it
to you.

My object is to ascertain _who gained_ the last _Theological Premium_
(forty years since, or nearly) at Aberdeen. You no doubt know the
subject: it is the best Treatise on "the Evidence that there is a Being
all powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists; and
particularly to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness
of the Deity; and this, in the first place from considerations
independent of Written Revelation, and, in the second place, from the
revelation of the Lord Jesus; and, from the whole, to point out the
inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind."

I wish to know who gained the first prize, and _who_ the second premium.

H. ANDREW

Manchester, Nov. 27, 1849.

[We are happy to be able to answer our correspondent's query at
once. The first Burnet prize, on the last occasion, was gained
by the Reverend William Lawrence Brown, D.D., and Principal, if
we recollect rightly, of Mareschal College, Aberdeen. His prize
work, entitled _Essay on the Existence of a Supreme Being