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mended by the above Report was appointed "to 

 consider the means of raising the necessary funds for 

 establishing a professor and demonstrator of Experi- 

 mental Physics, and for providing buildings and 

 apparatus required for that department of science, 

 and further to consider other wants of the University, 

 and the sources from which those wants may be 

 supplied." 



The Syndicate endeavoured to meet the expendi- 

 ture by inquiry from the several Colleges whether 

 they would bo willing to make contributions from 

 their corporate funds, but without success. 



"The, answers of the Colleges indicated such a 

 want of concurrence in any proposal to raise contri- 

 butions from the corporate funds of Colleges by any 

 kind of direct taxation that the Syndicate felt obliged 

 to abandon the notion of obtaining the necessary funds 

 from this source, and accordingly to limit the number 

 of objects which they should recommend the Senate 

 to accomplish." 



External authority was necessary before the 

 colleges would submit to taxation for University 

 purposes, and it was left to the Royal Commission of 

 1877 to carry into effect many of the suggestions made 

 by the Syndicate. Meanwhile they contented them- 

 selves with recommending means for raising an annual 

 stipend of 660 for the professor, demonstrator, and 

 assistant, and a capital sum of 5,000, or thereabouts, 

 for the expenses of a building. 



The Syndicate's Report was issued in an amended 

 form in the May term of 1870, and before any decision 

 was taken on it the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Atkinson, on 



