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which may bo found still useful, and also from time to 

 time to procure others for special researches." 



In 1877 in his annual report Professor Maxwell 

 announced that the Chancellor* had now " completed 

 his gift to the University by furnishing the Cavendish 

 Laboratory with apparatus suited to the present state 

 of science/' 



The stock of apparatus, however, was still small, 

 although Maxwell in the most generous manner 

 himself spent large sums in adding to it; for the 

 Professor was most particular in procuring only 

 expensive instrument* by the best makers, with such 

 additional improvements as he could himself suggest. 



In March, 1874, a Demonstratorship of Physics 

 had been established, and Mr. Garnctt of St. John's 

 College was appointed. 



Work began in the laboratory in October, 1874. 

 At first the number of students was small. Only 

 seventeen names appear in the Natural Sciences 

 Triposf list for 1874, and few of those did Physics. 



The fear alluded to by the Professor in his intro- 

 ductory lecture, that men reading for the Mathematical 



* The Chancellor continued to take to the end of his life a warm 

 interest in the work at the laboratory. In 1887, the Jubilee year, as 

 Vroctor at the sumo time I held the oflico of Demonstrator it w.i. 

 my duty to accompany the Chancellor and other ollicers to Windsor 

 to present an address from the University to Her Majesty. I was 

 introduced to the Chancellor at Puddington, and he at once began to 

 question me closely about the progress of the lalwratory, the number 

 of students, and the work being done there, showing himself fully 

 acquainted with recent progress. 



t In 1894 the list contained, in Part II., sixteen names, and in 

 Part I., one bundled and three names. 



