138 pkesidext's address. 



The testator bequeathed a sum of £12,000 to the vSenate of the 

 University of Sydney in these terms :— " To be held upon trust 

 for the foundation of a chair or lectureship of bacteriology subject 

 to the conditions set out in a memorandum on the subject 

 wliich I intend to leave with my will to be read as part thereof, 

 but if the said Senate shall not, within one month after being 

 notified by my executors of this legac}^, accept the conditions set 

 forth in such memorandum, then the said legacy shall )3e void, 

 and I give the said sum of £12,000 to the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales." 



The memorandum referred to in the will is in these words : — 



" To my Executors, 



" This is the memorandum as to the legacy of twelve thousand 

 pounds for a chair or lectureship of bacteriology referred to in my 

 will of even date — I desire that the following conditions be 

 strictly insisted on before handing over to the University the 

 sum of twelve thousand pounds bequeathed in my will for the 

 endowment of a chair of bacteriology : 



" First the Senate must agree to accept the said sum for the 

 purpose of providing from the interest of the same a salary for a 

 lecturer or professor of bacteriology and whose duty shall be to 

 give instructions practical and theoretical in the morphology and 

 physiology of the Schizomycetes and Saccharomycetes : 



" Secondly the bequest if accepted by the Senate shall be used 

 for the abovementioned j)urpose and no other and the lecturer 

 shall not have additional duties imposed upon him : 



" Third the appointment of a professor or lecturer of bacteriology 

 shall be made by the Senate and not delegated to people in 

 England or elsewhere who know little of the country and care 

 less. 



" Fourth it shall be necessary for every student before being- 

 admitted to a science or medical degree at the University to 

 attend a six months' course of bacteriology. 



" My reasons for insisting upon these conditions being observed 

 are that I am very deeply convinced of the extreme importance 



