Observatory at least once in each Term; and should in the month of May (after inspecting the instruments, &c., with such Members of the Senate, and strangers distinguished for their knowledge of Astronomy, as the Vice-Chancellor and the Plumian Professor might invite to assist them) make a report to the Senate of the state of the Observatory, and the proceedings of the previous year. The volumes of Observations made in the years 1828-1838, have been published (the expence of which was defrayed by the Press Syndicate,) and copies have been distributed to the principal Observatories and Academies in Europe, as well as to several private Observers. The Observations of 1839 are in the press.

The Observatory is open to members of the University and their friends every day (except Sunday), between half-past Twelve and half-past One. No stranger is admitted except in company with a Member of the University.

In the Spring of 1835, a magnificent telescope, of nearly twelve inches aperture and twenty feet focal length, made by M. Cauchoix of Paris, was presented to the Observatory by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. His Grace at the same time intimated his wish to be allowed to present the telescope in a complete working state. A building has accordingly been erected near the Observatory, with a revolving dome, twenty-seven feet in diameter, and the equatoreal mounting of the telescope has been completed under the superintendence of the late Plumian Professor.

THE ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.

THIS rich and interesting Collection, now placed in commodious buildings lately erected at great cost by the University, is under the care and superintendence of the Professor of Anatomy for the time being. It is used by him and by the Regius Professor of Physic, for the illustration of their respective lectures. It originated in a small number of choice preparations which were presented to the University by Mr Lawrence. The Museum of the late Sir Busick Harwood was afterwards added to it by purchase: and further acquisitions were made at various times, with grants of money from the common chest, particularly on occasion of the sale of Mr Brooks's Museum, and when a series of models in wax was executed under the direction of the present Professor at Florence and Bologna. From these sources, and from the donations of many friends of the University, this portion of the Collection consists of more than thirteen hundred specimens.

In the year 1836, the rare and valuable collection of Dr Macartney, Professor of Anatomy in Trinity College, Dublin, was purchased by the University. This consists of more than two thousand specimens, and is an acquisition by which the riches of the Museum have in every department, except the osteological, been more than doubled.

A descriptive Catalogue of the entire Museum is in course of preparation. It will distinctly record the names of each of the donors, or authors of the works, which it enumerates.

By a Grace of the Senate, passed Nov. 16, 1836, the Museum is at all times open to the Regius Professor of Physic; to the other Professors of Medicine or Natural Science, to Doctors and Bachelors of Physic, and to all Students attending the Lectures of the Regius Professor of Physic, and of the Professor of Anatomy, or of any of the above-described Professors, from Eleven to Twelve every day, with the exception of Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday. It is also open to all Graduates, and to Visiters introduced by any Member of the Senate, from Two till Three on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

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.

Copies of the Statutes in the British Museum; Old Statutes, Mss. HARLEY, No. 7032, p. 187. New,-No. 7046, p. 132.

HIS most ancient College or House was founded by HUGH DE

TBALSHAM, Bishop of Ely, for a Master and fourteen Fellows.

The Fellowships are open without restriction to natives of any part of the British dominions, but no one is eligible who is M.A. or of sufficient standing to take that degree. The Bishop of Ely appoints to the Mastership one of two candidates presented to him by the society. The candidates must be Doctors or Bachelors of Divinity, and must be selected, if possible, from the Fellows on the foundation. Formerly, there could not be more than two Fellows of a county, (except of Cambridge or Middlesex); and seven Fellowships were confined to the northern, and seven to the southern division of England and Wales; but these restrictions were removed by letters patent which came into operation in June 1839.

One fourth part only of the Foundation Fellows are required to be in priest's orders. By Queen Elizabeth's licence, the five senior Clerical Fellows may hold any livings with their Fellowships, provided they are not more than £20 in the Liber Legis, and within 20 miles of the University of Cambridge. The bye Fellowships, which are perfectly open and unrestricted, are distinct from the former: the possessors of them are not entitled to any office or voice in the affairs of the College. Two, founded 1589, by Andrew Perne, D.D. Two, 1601, by Lady Ramsay. And four, 1637, by Thomas Parke, Esq.

Two Fellowships of £70 per annum each, and four new Scholarships of £30 per annum each, have recently been added to the College, from the donation of the Rev. Francis Gisborne, M.A. late Fellow of St Peter's.

This foundation bears the name of the donor. The two Gisborne Fellowships are tenable for seven years, and any person may be elected from either of them into a foundation Fellowship before he

is of standing to take his M.A. degree. These Fellowships are vacated by marriage, or by the possession of any permanent income amounting to £250 per annum.

The rest of the Scholarships, fifty-eight in number, of different value, are paid in proportion to residence. A few of them are in the patronage of Lord Melbourne, and preference is given to scholars from Hertford School. There is an exhibition from the Company of Cloth-workers, and one from the Ironmongers. The society elect one sizar annually, after an examination at the beginning of the October term. The candidates must be in the first year of their residence, and may have been previously admitted as pensioners.

Annual Prizes are given, together with the vacant Scholarships, to those who are most successful in the Midsummer Examination. A deserving candidate may obtain more than one Scholarship at the end of his first year, and may also be elected to others at the end of his second and third years.

Master, The Rev. William Hodgson, D.D. appointed 1838. (Henry Wilkinson Cookson, M.A. Philip Freeman, B.A.

Tutors,

Classical Lecturer, H. S. Hildyard, M.A.
Mathematical Lecturer, J. F. Robinson, M.A.
Senior Dean, B. Smith, B.A.

Junior Dean, P. Freeman, B.A.

Senior Bursar, G. Ray, M.A.

Junior Bursar, B. Smith, B.A.