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much greater degree of importance assigned to them 

 than at any previous period, and these subjects will 

 henceforth demand a corresponding amount of atten- 

 tion from the candidates for Mathematical Honours. 

 The Syndicate have limited their attention almost 

 entirely to tho question of providing public instruction 

 in Heat, Electricity and Magnetism. They recognise 

 tho importance and advantage of tutorial instruction 

 in these subjects in tho several colleges, but they arc 

 also alive to the great impulse given to studies of this 

 kind, and to tho large amount of additional training 

 which students may receive through tho instruction 

 of a public Professor, and by knowledge gained in a 

 well-appointed laboratory." 



" In accordance with these views, and at an early 

 period in their deliberations, they requested tho Pro- 

 fessors* of tho University, who are engaged in teaching 

 Mathematical and Physical Science, to confer together 

 upon thp present means of teaching Experimental 

 Physics, especially Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, 

 and to inform them how tho increased requirements 

 of tho University in this respect could bo met by 

 them." 



"Tho Professors, so consulted, favoured the Syndi- 

 cate with a report on tho subject, which the Syndicate 

 now beg leave to lay before the Senate. It points out 

 how tho requirements of the University might bo 

 "partially met," but the Professors state distinctly 

 that they " do not think that they arc able to meet 

 the want of an extensive course of lectures on Physics 



The lYofossorj who were consulted were Cluillis, Willis, Stokes, 

 Cayley, Adams, and Liveing. 



