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arranged for it in his will, dated in December, 1890, in the form of a bequest of 
the sum of £12,000 to the Senate of the Sydney University ‘“ for the foundation 
of a Chair or Lectureship in Bacteriology,” subject to certain conditions set forth in 
the will and in a memorandum accompanying it. The conditions of acceptance may 
be thus stated: the Senate must accept the legacy for the purpose of providing a 
salary for a Lecturer or Professor in Bacteriology, who shall give both practical and 
theoretical instruction ; the bequest must be used solely for the purpose mentioned, 
and the lecturer shall have no additional duties imposed on him ; the appointment of 
the Lecturer or Professor shall be made by the Senate itself, and not delegated ; and 
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. The 
testator gives as his reasons for insisting on these conditions his strong conviction of 
the extreme importance of the study of Bacteriology both to the biologist and the 
physician, and his doubt as to the full recognition on the part of scientific men of 
this importance. These conditions are, as the testator mtended they should be, of a 
stringent character ; and because of his expressed uncertainty as to the views of the 
Senate on the subject, he directs his executors, in the event of the acceptance of the 
bequest by the Senate, to procure very distinct pledges from it on all the points 
mentioned ; and if within one month after notification by the executors of the legacy 
the Senate shall not accept the conditions, or in the event of the Senate declining all 
or any of the conditions, he directs that the legacy to the University shall be void ; 
and in that case the executors are empowered to hand over to the Linnean Society of 
New South Wales the aforesaid sum of £12,000 to provide a sufficient salary for the 
appointment of a bacteriologist whose duties it shall be to engage in bacteriological 
research in the Society’s laboratory, and to give instruction to one or two pupils at 
the discretion and under the orders of the Council of the Society. The Senate 
having accepted the bequest on the conditions specified, the sum of £11,400, bemg the 
amount of the bequest after payment of legacy duty, has been paid to the University. 
Of Sir William Macleay’s estimate of the importance of fostering original 
research we may judge both by his encouragement of local workers and by his 
provision for future workers. During his life-time and under his auspices several 
specialists were able to carry on investigations, notably Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, who 
was interested more particularly in Ceelenterates, Dr. O. Katz, bacteriologist, and 
Mr. F. A. Skuse, who made a commencement with a revision of Australian Diptera ; 
these, unless a particular piece of work was undertaken at his suggestion, beyond the 
stipulation that their work should be published in the Society’s Proceedings, were 
left untrammelled in following out their own particular lines in their own way. 
It was not, however, Sir William’s object to attract workers from other fields so 
much as to see a love of natural history spreading among the rising generation in 
