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SCHOLARSHIPS AND EXAMINATIONS FOR 
NATURAL SCIENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 1873 
“] HE following is a list of the Scholarships and Exhi- 
bitions for proficiency in Natural Science to be 
offered at the several Colleges in Cambridge during the 
present year :— 
TRINITY COLLEGE.—One or two of the value of about 
80/7. per annum. The examination will be on April 5, and 
will be open to all Undergraduates of Cambridge and 
Oxford, and to persons under twenty who are not members 
of the Universities. Further information may be obtained 
from the Rev. E. Blore, Tutor of Trinity College. 
St. JouNn’s COLLEGE.—One of the value of 50/. per 
annum. The examination (in Chemistry, Physics,and Phy- 
siology, with Geology, Anatomy, and Botany) will be in De- 
cember, and will be open to all persons who have not entered 
at the University, as well as to all who have entered and have 
not completed one term of residence. Natural Science is 
made one of the subjects of the annual college exami- 
nation of its students at the end of the academical year, 
in May; and exhibitions and foundation scholarships 
will be awarded to students who show an amount of 
knowledge equivalent to that which in classics or mathe- 
matics usually gains an exhibition or scholarship in the 
college. In short Natural Science is on the same footing 
with Classics and Mathematics, both as regards teaching 
and rewards. 
CHRIST’s COLLEGE.—One or more, in value from 30/. 
to 70/. according to the number and merits of the candi- 
dates, tenable for three-and-a-half years, and for three 
years longer by those who reside during that period at 
the College. The examination will be on April 1, and 
will be open to the undergraduates of the College; to 
non-collegiate undergraduates of Cambridge; to all 
undergraduates of Oxford ; and to any students who are 
not members of either University. The candidates may 
select their own subjects for examination, There are 
other Exhibitions which are distributed annually among 
the most deserving students of the College. Further in- 
formation may be obtained from John Peile, Esq., Tutor 
of the College. 
Carus COLLEGE.—One of the value of 60/. per annum. 
The examination will be on April 1, in Chemistry and 
Experimental Physics, Zoology, with Comparative Ana- 
tomy, Physiology, and Botany, with Vegetable Anatomy 
and Physiology; it will be open to students who have 
not commenced residence in the University. There is 
no limitation as to age.—Scholarships of the value of 
20/. each, or more if the candidates are unusually good, 
are offered, for Anatomy and Physiology, to members of 
the college.—Gentlemen elected to the Tancred Medical 
Studentships are required to enter at this College ; these 
Studentships are four in number, and the annual value of 
each is 1137. Information respecting these may be ob- 
tained from B. J. L. Frere, Esq., 28, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 
London. 
CLARE COLLEGE.—One of the value of 5o/, per annum, 
tenable for 34 years. The examination (in Chemistry, 
Chemical Physics, Comparative Anatomy, and Physio- 
logy, and Geology) will be on March 26, and will be open 
to students intending to begin residence in October. 
DOWNING COLLEGE.—One or more of the value of 
4o/. per annum. The examination (in Chemistry, Com- 
parative Anatomy, and Physiology) will be early in April, 
and will be open to all students not members of the Uni- 
versity, as well as all undergraduates in their first term. 
SIDNEY COLLEGE.—Two of the value of 40/. per annum. 
The examination (in Heat, Electricity, Chemistry, Geo- 
logy, Zoology and Physiology, and Botany), will be on 
April 1, and will be open to all students who intend to 
commence residence in October. 
EMMANUEL COLLEGE.—One or more of the value of 
5o/, tenable for two years, The examination on April 1 
will be open to students who have not commenced re- 
sidence, 
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.—One or more of the value of 
20/, to 60/. according to merit. The examination (in June, 
in Chemistry. Physics, and other subjects) will be open to 
students under twenty years of age. 
ST. PETER’s COLLEGE.—One from 5o0/. to 8o/. per 
annum, according to merit. The examination, date not 
yet fixed, in Chemistry, Comparative Anatomy and Physio- 
logy, and Botany, will be open to students who will be 
under twenty-one years of age on October 1, 1873, and 
who have not commenced residence. 
KING’s COLLEGE.—One of the value of about 8o0/. per 
annum. The examination, on April 21, will be open to 
all candidates under twenty, and to undergraduates of the 
College in their first and second year. There will be an 
examination in elementary classics and mathematics, in 
addition to three or more papers in Natural Science, 
including Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology. 
_ Although several subjects for examination are in each 
instance given, this is rather to afford the option of one 
or more to the candidates than to induce them to present 
a superficial knowledge of several. Indeed, itis expressly 
stated by some of the colleges that good clear knowledge 
of one or two subjects will be more esteemed than a 
general knowledge of several. 
Candidates, especially those who are not members of 
the University, will, in most instances, be required to 
show a fair knowledge of classics and mathematics, such, 
for example, as would enable them to pass the previous 
Examination. 
There is no restriction cn the ground of religious 
denomination in the case of these or of any of the 
Scholarships or Exhibitions in the colleges or in the 
University. 
Further information may be obtained from the Tutors 
of the respective Colleges. 
It may be added that Trinity College will give a Fellow- 
ship for Natural Science once, at least, in three years: 
and that most of the Colleges are understood to be 
willing to award Fellowships for merit in Natural Science 
equivalent to that for which they are in the habit of 
giving them for Classics and Mathematics. 
NOTES ON ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY IN 
LISBON 
eseon possesses a remarkable natural history col- 
lection which is at present in process of transference 
to the new Polytechnic School buildings, which are only 
just completed. This institution is of imposing dimen- 
sions, built in the form of a square, with a quadrangular 
garden in the centre, and contain spacious and well- 
lighted laboratories, lecture rooms, and galleries for mu- 
seum purposes. On the ground floor is a mineralogical 
and palzontological collection, and over this is the natural 
history series, which is contained in four fine rooms, one 
of which is devoted entirely to the African fauna, in which 
the museum is particularly rich. In all the rooms table 
cases are placed down the central line containing the 
collection of shells, which is very fine and well arranged, | 
whilst upright cases are rangéd along the walls and are 
filled with stuffed Mammalia, and birds, and variously 
preserved reptiles and fish. Amongst the Mammalia are 
two manatees, a fine specimen of the Aye-Aye, Chezro- 
mys, and jalso one of the curious little otter-like animals 
from Africa, Pofamogale velox, which has its tail flattened 
out into a vertical rudder. These are mentioned as rarities. 
The series is large and especially good in insectivora, 
moles, shrews, &c. 
The birds are quite remarkable for the excellence of 
their preservation, and as the series is very extensive, it 
forms the chief feature of the collection, There area large 
