The Museum is visited by the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professor of Physic, and one other Inspector appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, on some day in the Michaelmas Term previous to the 1st of November in each year, who examine and report upon its condition to the Senate.

When the arrangement of the Museum and of the Catalogue has been completed, the Professor of Anatomy purposes to deliver, in the Easter Term, a series of Lectures on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. The object of these Lectures will be:

To point out the relative importance of those characters upon which Zoological classification is founded:

To notice the progressive development of individual systems of organs in the different genera of Animals:

To connect these with the corresponding differences in the phenomena of life:

To point out the series of gradations through which these phenomena pass, until they attain their utmost perfection in man.

The particulars of these Lectures will be hereafter more fully detailed: and an announcement given of that portion of the subject which will constitute the first course.

MODERN HISTORY.

THE Professor is appointed by the Queen, and holds the Professorship during pleasure. He must either be a Master of Arts, Bachelor in the Civil Law, or of a superior degree. Founded by GEORGE I. 1724. Salary £400. per annum.

1724 Sam. Harris, M.A. Pet.
1735 Shallet Turner, D.C.L. Pet.
1762 L. Brockett, B.D. Trin.

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1768 1T. Gray, B.C.L. Pemb. 1771 John Symonds, M.A. Joh. 1807 Wm. Smyth, M.A. Pet.

PROFESSOR SMYTH'S LECTURES.

THESE Lectures are given in the Michaelmas Term. Noblemen and Fellow-Commoners may attend on the usual terms of other Lectures; and all Private Tutors, Bachelors, and Undergraduates, have a free admission.

BOTANY.

THIS Professorship was founded by the University in 1724. A Salary of £100. was allowed by Government, on condition of a

1 The celebrated Poet.

course of Lectures being annually delivered, as in the case of the Professorships of Anatomy, Chemistry, &c. Government afterwards increased the salary to £200., and made the Professorship a Patent office.

1724 Richard Bradley, F.R.S. 1732 J. Martyn, F.R.S. Emm.

| 1761 T. Martyn, M.A. Sid.

1825 J. S. Henslow, M.A. Joh.

PROFESSOR HENSLOW'S LECTURES.

Ir has been decreed, by a Grace of the Senate, that if the Professor should deliver a course consisting of not less than twenty Lectures, the students in Medicine shall be required to obtain a certificate of their having attended them. These Lectures are delivered during the Easter Term: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, being devoted to the descriptive, and Tuesday and Thursday to the physiological departments of Botany. The Professor occasionally makes herborizing excursions with his class, in the neighbourhood of Cambridge.

GEOLOGY.

THIS Professorship was founded by Dr WooDWARD, in the year 1727. On January 31, 1731-2, the four executors of the Founder's will appointed Dr Conyers Middleton the first Professor. After their decease the election was vested in the members of the Senate; in addition to whom the following persons were allowed to give their votes by proxy, viz. the Chancellor of the University, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the College of Physicians, and the Members for the University. The original collection in the Cambridge Museum consisted exclusively of those specimens which are described in Dr Woodward's Catalogues, printed in 1729. The English Fossils were bequeathed by him to the University and by a Grace of the Senate, dated Feb. 26, 1728-9, the Vice-Chancellor was empowered to purchase of his heirs, for a sum not exceeding £1000. the foreign fossils described in the above-mentioned catalogues. This purchase having been carried into immediate effect, the whole collection came into the possession of the University, and remains nearly in the same order in which the doctor first arranged it. Two graduates of the University are annually appointed to inspect its condition, and their report is delivered on the 1st of May to the heads of Houses, who form a board of auditors for that purpose.

1 Translator of Virgil, &c.

2 Editor of Miller's Gardiner's Dictionary.

This noble monument of the talents and unwearied labours of Dr Woodward unfortunately remains in a room ill fitted for its reception; where the specimens which form the collection cannot be well exhibited.

Among the native fossils which have had a place in this collection more than one hundred years, the mineralogist will find the Corundum, Native Meteoric Iron, the fossil Copal of Highgate, and some other substances, in describing which Dr Woodward anticipated the discoveries of succeeding naturalists: and the extraneous fossils of the same cabinets, prove that many discoveries in that branch of natural history have been in like manner anticipated.

Professor Green added some valuable organic remains to the Woodwardian cabinets. But Professor Hailstone, after his appointment, formed another distinct collection composed of many rare and beautiful simple minerals, and of specimens illustrative of the physical structure both of the British isles and some portions of the Continent. In this labour he was assisted by the munificence of various friends of the University.

To this part of the collection the present Professor has, by the active assistance of some of his friends, been enabled to make large and important additions. He has also established a course of Lectures, in which it is his endeavour to explain the structure. of the earth; more especially as it is illustrated in the successive formation of the British isles.

The erection of a new museum, now in the contemplation of the University, will, it is hoped, enable him before long to exhibit the whole collection in such a manner as to carry into full effect the intention of its Founder.

1731 C. Middleton, D.D. Trin. 1734 Chas. Mason, M.A. Trin. 1762 J. Michell, B.D. Queens'. 1764 Sam. Ogden, D.D. Joh.

1778 Thos. Green, M.A. Trin. 1788 J. Hailstone, M.A. Trin. 1818 A. Sedgwick, M.A. Trin.

ASTRONOMY AND GEOMETRY.

THIS Professorship is in the appointment of the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord President of the Privy Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord High Treasurer, and the Lord Steward of the Queen's Household. Founded by THOMAS LOWNDES, Esq. 1749. Salary, an estate about £300. per annum.

1750 2 Roger Long, D.D. Pemb. 1771 John Smith, D.D. Caius.

1795 W. Lax, M.A. Trin.
1836 George Peacock, M.A. Trin.

1 Author of Sermons, &c.

2 Author of a Treatise on Astronomy,

PROFESSOR PEACOCK'S LECTURES.

THESE Lectures are given in the Lent Term, and the object proposed by them, is to make students acquainted with the present state of the science of Astronomy, and with the practical methods of observation, which are commonly followed in modern Observatories; the most important astronomical instruments or models of them are exhibited, and the use of them explained, either in the Lecture Room, or at the Observatory. As this Professorship was designed by the Founder to comprehend Geometry as well as Astronomy, it is hereafter intended by the present Professor, to give Lectures alternately on Astronomy, and on Geometry, and the general principles of Mathematical Reasoning.

DIVINITY.

(Mr NORRIS's.)

THE Stewards of this institution are, the Master of Trinity, the Provost of King's, and the Master or President of Caius. The candidates for the Professorship give a written notice to the three Stewards within the first fourteen days of November. The Stewards select two, and signify their names to the Heads of Houses on or before the 1st day of February next ensuing, and the election of one of the two nominated must be within the first fourteen days of the succeeding May. The electors must be a majority of ten Heads of Houses. The Professor may have been educated at either University, may be lay or clerical, but cannot be elected under his thirtieth, or re-elected after his sixtieth year. No person can continue in office longer than five years, but may be re-elected.-Founded by JOHN NORRIS, Esq. of Whitton in Nor. folk, 1760. Salary, £105. per annum.'

The Norrisian Professor of Divinity delivers fifty Lectures during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms, gratuitously, in conformity with the Founder's directions, to those who have been matriculated or incorporated into the University, on three days in the week, at the Lecture-Room under the Public Library. The Lecture-Room opens ten minutes before one o'clock, and closes at ten minutes after; the Lecture concludes at two o'clock precisely. Twenty Lectures must be attended to obtain the Professor's certificate; and no undergraduate who has not passed his examination for a

1 By Mr Norris's Will, a further sum of 183. is bequeathed to be expended by the Professor in books, the New Testament, or the Great Import

ance of a Religious Life, to be given, through the hands of the Senior Proctor, to the prisoners, either in the Town or County prison.

degree, will be admitted to attend for the purpose of obtaining the certificate, unless his name has been entered immediately after two o'clock on some lecture-day, in a preceding lecture-term, in a book kept at the Lecture-Room for that purpose.

By the will of the Founder, the Professor is required to read, during each course of fifty Lectures, certain portions of Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Creed. These portions of Bishop Pearson's Work, the late Professor has incorporated with his own course of Lectures, a Syllabus of which is published.

1824. J. Banks Hollingworth,
D.D. Pet.

1780 John Hey, D.D. Sid. 1795 J. Fawcett, B.D. Joh. 1815 T. Calvert, B.D. Joh.

1838

NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL
PHILOSOPHY.

THIS Professor is to be chosen by those Regent Masters of Arts only who have been resident in the University for the greater part of the year previous to the day of election (excepting only such Masters of Arts as are under one year's standing, who may vote though they have not been resident for that term); which said Regent Masters, on notice assigned by the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, shall assemble on a day, and choose, within one month after such notice is received, by a majority of votes given in writing under the hand of each voter, and taken by the Proctors, such a person as appears best qualified in Natural and Experimental Philosophy and the practical part thereof, and in Chemistry. A member of Trinity college is to be preferred (cæteris paribus), next a Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, or Cheshire man. In cases of disputes about the majority of the electors, the same is to be determined by the ViceChancellor, the Provost of King's, and the Master of Trinity, or if either of the two latter be Vice-Chancellor, by the Master of St John's. Founded by the Rev. RICHARD JACKSON, M.A. 1783. Salary, £160. per annum.

1783 Is. Milner, M.A. Queens'. 1792 F. J. H. Wollaston, M.A. Trin. Hall.

1813 W. Farish, M.A. Magd.
1837 R. Willis, M.A. F.R.S.
Caius.

PROFESSOR WILLIS'S LEctures.

Professor Willis gives a course of Lectures in the Michaelmas Term, on Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanism, with their practical applications to Manufacturing processes, to Engineering, and Architecture.