68 SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY 



Chair of Chemistry at Belfast, then vacated by Dr. 

 Thomas Andrews, P.R.S. Ramsay had also been a 

 candidate for this post, but luckily for Bristol he was 

 not selected, and in February 1880 he was chosen to 

 succeed Letts. Conditions in reference to teaching 

 appointments have been ameliorated since that day. 

 but it is interesting to place on record the stipend and 

 duties of a professor of chemistry in a university college 

 forty years ago : 



UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL. 

 CHAIR OF CHEMISTEY. 



The Stipend will be 300 per annum, with two-thirds of 

 Lecture fees and one-third of Laboratory fees. The Council 

 guarantee a minimum emolument of 400 per annum. 



The Laboratory expenses will be borne entirely by the College. 

 The Laboratory student's fee will be 18 18s. Od. per session 

 (with reductions for shorter periods). 



The session will commence at the end of the first week in 

 October, and continue until the end of June. (In after years 

 the Professor may be required to give instruction in Practical 

 Chemistry during July to medical students.) 



The Professor will be required to give three lectures per week 

 for the first two terms, say 60 lectures, together with class in- 

 struction in connection therewith (student's fee for this course, 

 3 3s. Od.), and a short course of lectures in the third term. 

 He will also be required to superintend the Laboratory during 

 the whole session, and to give evening lectures once a week 

 during the first two terms, together with class instruction in 

 connection therewith (Evening-Class fee, 10s.). 



A competent assistant will be provided. 



The scheme of the College contemplates the possibility of 



