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THE CAMERON PRIZE
The Cameron Prize was founded in 1878 by the late Dr Andrew Robertson Cameron of Richmond, New South Wales, with a sum of £2,000. The Prize may be awarded biennially to a person who, in the course of the five years immediately preceding, has made any highly important and valuable addition to Practical Therapeutics. It is in the power of the Senatus to require the person to whom the Prize is awarded to deliver a lecture or course of lectures on the addition to Practical Therapeutics so made by him or to publish an account of such addition in such manner as the Senatus may prescribe. A list of recipients of the Prize dates back to 1879.

The founder of the Prize was the son of Colin Cameron a farmer in Tarland, Aberdeenshire. Dr Cameron studied for two years in Arts at King's College, Aberdeen during the period 1835-1855. He also studied medicine at Marischal College, Aberdeen from 1855-1858. He came to Edinburgh in 1859 and attended classes in the Faculty of Medicine until the year 1861 when he graduated with the degree of MD; the subject of his thesis was "On the corporeal sympathies of certain mental conditions". Amongst those who graduated with him were Professor Crum Brown, Dr T S Clouston, and Dr James Pettigrew.

Around 1855 Andrew Robertson Cameron married Mary Bowman, youngest daughter of Robert Bowman, a member of a well established Richmond family. He was in practice in Richmond for some years and died in the year 1878.

Robert Bowman, his father-in law, was born on 2 February 1830. He initial training was University College, London (M.R.C.S., 1851) and Edinburgh University (M.D., 1852). He was president for a term of the Parisian Medical Society, a member of the University College Medical Society, London, and of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, and a fellow of the London Medical Society. He began practice in Sydney in April 1855. He died at Richmond on 25 May 1873 and his bequest of £1000 to St Andrew's College, University of Sydney, established the Robert Bowman foundation. In 1877 a further bequest from Dr Andrew Robertson Cameron, of £1000 established the Bowman-Cameron scholarship for first-year students at a the University of Sydney.