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MODERN HISTORY.

THE Professor is appointed by the Queen, and holds the Professorship during pleasure. He must either be a Master of Arts, of Law, or of a superior degree. Founded by GEORGE I. 1724. Salary, £371 per annum, paid from the University Chest.

1724 S. Harris, M.A. Peter's.
1735 Shallet Turner, LL.D. Peter's.
1762 L. Brockett, B.D. Trinity.
1768 T. Gray, LL.B. Pembroke.
1771 John Symonds, M. A. John's.

1807 Wm. Smyth, M. A. Peter's.
1849 The Right Hon. Sir J. Stephen,
K.C.B., LL.D. Trin. Hall.

1860 2C. Kingsley, M.A. F.L.S. Magd.

BOTANY.

THIS Professorship was founded by the University on Nov. 19, 1724. It is endowed by Act of Parliament with a stipend of £182, which was increased by Grace of the Senate, 7 Nov. 1861, to £300 per annum: the increase to continue for as long as the present Professor retains the office.

1724 Richard Bradley, F.R.S.

1732 3J. Martyn, F.R.S. Emmanuel. 1761 T. Martyn, M.A. Sidney.

1825 J. S. Henslow, M. A. John's. 1861 C. C. Babington, M.A. John's.

PROFESSOR BABINGTON'S LECTURES.

A course of Lectures on Descriptive and Physiological Botany will be given during the Easter Term.

herborizing excursions with his class.

The Professor will make

GEOLOGY.

THIS Professorship was founded by Dr WOODWARD, in the year 1727; and 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, by the express direction of the Founder's will, 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.

1731 Conyers Middleton, D.D. Trinity.
1734 C. Mason, M.A. Trinity.
1762 J. Michell, M.A. Queens'.
1764 Sam. Ogden, D.D. John's.

1 The Poet.

2 Rector of Eversley, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen.

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

3 Translator of Virgil, &c.
4 Author of Sermons, &c.

ASTRONOMY AND GEOMETRY.

THIS Professorship is in the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor of the University, the President of the Royal Society of London, the Astronomer Royal, and the Lucasian and Plumian Professors. Founded by THOMAS LOWNDES, Esq. 1749. The endowment is an estate producing about £400 per annum. By a Grace of the Senate, passed May 2, 1861, the superintendence and management of the Observatory were entrusted to the present Lowndean Professor, and a stipend of £250 a year was allowed to him out of the University Chest, so long as he should retain the office of director of the Observatory.

PROFESSOR ADAMS'S LECTURES.

The present Professor gives a course of Lectures in the Lent Term on the Lunar Theory. The principal object of these Lectures is to give geometrical illustrations of the analytical processes employed in the determination of the Moon's motion, and thus to shew the connection between the Newtonian and the modern methods of treating the subject.

1750 1 Roger Long, D.D. Pembroke. 1771 John Smith, D.D. Caius.

1795 W. Lax, M.A. Trinity.

1836 2George Peacock, M.A. Trinity. 1858 J. C. Adams, M.Á. Pembroke.

DIVINITY.
(Mr NORRIS'S.)

THE electors are the Heads of Houses, eleven of whom must be present. In case of equality of votes, after three scrutinies, the Master of Trinity, or in his absence the Provost of King's, or in the absence of both the Master of Caius, is to give his castingvote. The Professor is required to give lectures in every year, and to reside within a mile-and-a-half of Great St Mary's Church for at least six weeks during the Michaelmas Term, and twelve weeks in the course of the other two Terms.

The office is tenable for life.

Founded by JOHN NORRIS, Esq. of Whitton in Norfolk, in 1760, and endowed by him with £105 a-year. The late Benedict Chapman, D.D. Master of Gonville and Caius College, added about £30 a-year. By the recent Statutes of the University the Professorship will be still further endowed with the rectorial tithe rent-charge of Terrington St John's and a portion of the rentcharge of Terrington St Clement's.

1780 J. Hey, D.D. Sidney. 1795 J. Fawcett, B. D. John's. 1815 T. Calvert, B.D. John's.

1 Author of a Treatise on Astronomy.

2 Late Dean of Ely.

3 By Mr Norris's Will, a further sum of 188. is bequeathed to be expended by the Professor in

1824 J. B. Hollingworth, D.D. Peter's.
1838 G. E. Corrie, B.D. Cath.
1854 E. Harold Browne, B.D. Emm.

books, the New Testament, or the Great Importance of a Religious Life, to be given, through the hands of the Senior Proctor, to the prisoners either in the Town or County Prison.

NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

THIS Professor is to be chosen in future by the persons whose names are on the Electoral Roll of the University. In cases of disputes about the majority of the electors, the same is to be determined by the Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of King's, and the Master of Trinity, or if either of the two latter be ViceChancellor, by the Master of St John's. Founded by the Rev. RICHARD JACKSON, M.A. 1783. Salary, an estate about £140 per annum. To this is added such a sum paid from the University chest as will augment the endowment stipend to £300 per annum, on condition that the Professor reside within the precincts of the University for eighteen weeks in every year between the 1st of October and the end of the following Easter Term.

Vide Ordinationes Acad. Cant. 1863, p. 140.

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

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

PROFESSOR WILLIS'S LEctures.

PROFESSOR WILLIS gives Lectures in the Michaelmas Term, on Mechanism, Statics, and Dynamics, with their practical application to Manufactures and the Steam Engine, and similar subjects. These Lectures are given in the Schools in the Botanic Garden.

DOWNING PROFESSOR OF THE LAWS OF

ENGLAND.

THE Professor is elected by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Master of St John's, Clare College, and Downing. Founded in pursuance of the Will of Sir GEORGE DOWNING Bart. K.B., 1800. Salary, £400 per annum.

1800 Edw. Christian, M.A. John's. 1823 T. Starkie, M.A. Cath.

1849 A. Amos, M.A. Trinity.
1860 W. L. Birkbeck, M.A. Trinity.

DOWNING PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE.

THE foundation, election, and salary, the same as the preceding. The Downing Professor of Medicine delivers, during the Easter Term, a Course of Lectures introductory to the study of the Natural Sciences considered in their connexion with several of the Arts, especially that of Medicine.

These Lectures are intended for Students commencing the study of Medicine, in order to furnish them with a general view of its collateral sciences, or for Undergraduates who desire to obtain the Professorial Certificate.

The Professor delivers also, during the Lent Term, a Course of Lectures on the Materia Medica and Pharmacy, intended for Medical students only.

1800 Busick Harwood, M.D. Emmanuel.

1814 Cornwallis Hewett, M. A. & M.D. Downing.
1841 William Webster Fisher, M. D. Downing.

MINERALOGY.

THIS Professorship was founded by the UNIVERSITY in the year 1808, and is now endowed with a Salary of £300 per annum paid from the University Chest.

Lectures had been given by Dr Clarke for two years prior to the establishment of the Professorship, and specimens exhibited which had been collected during his travels.

After the death of Dr Clarke, the Senate decreed that the Professorship should be continued.

1808 E. D. Clarke, LL.D. Jesus. 1822 J. S. Henslow, M. A. John's.

1828 W. Whewell, M. A. Trinity.
1832 W. H. Miller, M.A. John's.

PROFESSOR MILLER'S LECTURES.

A Course of Lectures on Crystallography and Mineralogy is delivered during the Lent Term. These Lectures are given in the new Mineralogical Museum.

SADLERIAN PROFESSOR OF PURE MATHEMATICS.

By a Statute sanctioned by the Queen in Council, March 7, 1860, no person was to be elected a Lecturer on Lady Sadler's Foundation after that date; and when so many vacancies should have occurred that not more than one-half of the net income of the Foundation should be required for the payment of the stipends of the remaining Lecturers at the then present rate, there was to be established in the University a Professorship to be called the Sadlerian Professorship of Pure Mathematics, and one-half of the net income was to be assigned as stipend to the person elected as Professor. The Electors were to be the Vice-Chancellor, three Heads of Colleges to be elected by the persons on the Electoral Roll, and to hold office as long as they continue to be Heads of Colleges, and the Lucasian, the Plumian, and the Lowndean Professors. It was declared that the duty of the Professor should be to explain and teach the principles of Pure Mathematics, and to apply himself to the advancement of the science.

Pursuant to the above Statute the Masters of Trinity, St John's, and St Peter's were chosen Electors; and on June 10, 1863, the present Professor was appointed.

PROFESSOR CAYLEY'S LECTURES.

The Professor has given in the Michaelmas term, 1863, and Lent term, 1864, a course of Lectures on Analytical Geometry, historical and theoretical, in relation to the history of the science from Descartes to Cramer.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

THE title of Professor of Political Economy was conferred by a Grace of the Senate, in May 1828, on George Pryme, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College.

The Professorship was founded by Grace of the Senate, Oct. 29, 1863.

1863 H. Fawcett, M.A. Trinity Hall.

DISNEY PROFESSORSHIP OF ARCHEOLOGY. THIS Professorship was founded in 1851 by JOHN DISNEY, Esq. of the Hyde, Ingatestone, who also presented to the University a valuable collection of Ancient Marbles. The Professor must be a member of the University of Cambridge, and of the degree of M.A., or some higher degree. He is required to deliver Six Lectures, at least, during the academical year, on subjects of Antiquarian research and the Fine Arts, especially as connected with Greece and Rome. The appointment remained with the Founder during his life-time, and it is now vested in the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges: the locum-tenens of the Head of any College being entitled to vote in his stead. The Professorship is tenable for five years, and the Professor may be re-elected. Original Salary: the interest of £1000, 3 per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities: which sum was increased in 1857 by a bequest in Mr Disney's will, to £3250.

1851 J. H. Marsden, B.D., John's.

The subject of Professor Marsden's Lectures for the present year will be Certain branches of Ancient Art. The Lectures will be delivered in the months of March and April.

MUSIC.

THIS Professorship was founded by the University, in 1684, on the recommendation of the Crown. The election is by a Grace of the Senate, and occasionally by open poll. There is no endowment, and the only emolument is derived from fees for Degrees.

1684 N. Staggins, Mus. D.

1704 T. Tudway, Mus. B. King's. 1730 M. Greene, Mus. D.

1755 J. Randall, Mus. D. King's.

1799 C. Hague, Mus. B. Trin. Hall.
1821 J. C. Whitfeld, Mus. D. Trin.
1836 T.A. Walmisley, M. A. Mus. D. Trin.

1856 W. S. Bennett, Mus. D. Joh.

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