Bible-Clerk was 5. 3-r. lod. for the year 

 1748. Again in 1753 his stipend as Fellow 

 amounted to 9, that of his theological 

 Censorship to 8, and that of his ex- 

 aminership to 2. 



Besides these College duties he held 

 from time to time some University 

 appointments. In July 1754 he was 

 elected to the office of Moderator for the 

 following year. In 1 75 5 he was appointed 

 Taxator 1 and on 24th June 1762 Scrutator 

 for the following year. But the most im- 

 portant office conferred upon him was the 

 Woodwardian Professorship of Geology, 

 to which, near the end of the year 1762, 

 he was appointed by Colonel King, the 

 last surviving executor of John Woodward 



1 The Master of St John's informs me that "the 

 Taxators were appointed by the Colleges according 

 to the cycle for Proctors. They regulated the markets, 

 examined the assize of bread, the lawfulness of 

 weights and measures, and called all abuses and 

 defects into the court of the Commissary. The 

 Scrutators seem to have been assistants to the Proctors. 

 The Proctors read the Graces and took the votes in 

 the Regent House ; the Scrutators did the like in 

 the Non-Regent House." 



6 



