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[March 4, 1875 



May ; and exhibitions and foundation scholarships will 

 be awarded to students who show an amount of knowledge 

 equivalent to that which in Classics or Mathematics 

 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. 



Chrises College. — One or more in value from 30/. to 

 "jol., 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 6. There 

 are other exhibitions which are distributed annually 

 among the most deserving students of the College. Fur- 

 ther information may be obtained of John Peile, Esq , 

 Tutor of the College. 



Gonvillc and Cains Coi/ege.—OnQ of the value of 

 60/. per annum. The examination will be on March 18, 

 in Chemistry and Physics, Zoology with Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology, and Botany with Vegetable 

 Anatomy and Physiology. Further information may be 

 obtained from the Tutors. Scholarships of the value of 

 20/. each or more are offered annually 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 five in number, 

 and the annual value of each is 100/. Information respect- 

 ing these may be obtained from B. J. L, Frere, Esq., 28, 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. 



Clare College. — One of the value of 60/. per annum, 

 tenable for two years at least. The examination (in 

 Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Zoology with Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology, Botany with Vegetable Ana- 

 tomy and Physiology, and Geology) wiUj be on March 16, 

 and will be open to students intending to begin residence 

 in October. 



Downing College. — One or more of the value of 60/. 

 per annum. The examination (in Chemistry, Comparative 

 Anatomy, and Physiology) will be on April 6, and will be 

 open to all students not members of the University, as 

 well as to all undergraduates in their first term. 



Sidney College. — One of the value of 60/. and one of 

 the value of 40/. per annum. The examination (in Heat, 

 Electricity, Chemistry, Geology, Zoology and Physiology, 

 and Botany) will be on April 6, and wiU be open to all 

 students who intend to commence residence in October. 



Emmanuel College. — One of the value of 70/. The 

 examination, on March 24, will be open to students who 

 have not commenced residence. 



Si. Peters College. — One scholarship of the value of 

 from 40/. to 80/. according to the attainments of the can- 

 didate. The examination on April 6 will be in Botany, 

 Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Geology, and Com- 

 parative Anatomy and Physiology, but no candidate will 

 be allowed to be examined in more than two of these sub- 

 jects. Application must be [made before March 20 to 

 the Tutor. 



Non-Collegiate Students. — An exhibition each year is 

 given by the Clothworkers' Company, value 50/. per an- 

 num, tenable ior three years. Examination about Christ- 

 mas. Information to be obtained from the Rev. R. B. 

 Somerset, Cambridge. 



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. 



Candidates, especially those who are not members of 

 the University, will, inmost 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 on the ground of religious deno- 

 minations in the case of these or 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. 



Some of the Colleges do not restrict themselves to the 

 number of scholarships here mentioned, but will give 

 additional scholarships if candidates of superior merit 

 present themselves ; and other Colleges than those here 

 mentioned, though they do not offer scholarships, are in 

 the habit of rewarding deserving students of Natural 

 Science. 



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 awai'd fellowships for merit in Natural Science equiva- 

 lent to that for which they are in the habit of giving them 

 for Classics and Mathematics. 



The above list shows that Colleges at Cambridge, like 

 those at Oxford, are by no means backward in offering 

 inducements to the study of Natural Science. The scho- 

 larships and exhibitions are open to all persons, whether 

 members of the University or not, provided they are will- 

 ing to enter and become members of the respective Col- 

 leges, with the exception of the 100/. scholarships at 

 Trinity College, the candidates for which must have 

 passed the Previous Examination at the University. 



NOTES 



News has been received from the English Eclipse Expedition 

 dated from Suez : all were^well. The Sural had been delayed a 

 day by the loss of her screw in the canal, doubtless in that 

 narrow rocky p.irt of the canal some miles above Suez, where 

 so many ships have lost their screws, and the Expedition has 

 proceeded to Galle in the Baroda. Arrangements have been 

 made widi the Indian Govermnent to have a ship waiting at 

 GaUe on the l6lh inst. to convey the Camorta party from that 

 place. We publish this week the Instructions to the observers, 

 issued by tlie Royal Society Committee. 



The Aslronomer Royal has communicated the following 

 telegram to the press relating to the Transit of Venus observa- 

 ions at Kerguelen's Land: — -"Corbet, Coke, Goodridge 

 obsei-ved ingress. Perry good egi-ess. All something. Cloudy. 

 Generally, English photography poor. Americans, Germans 

 lost interior contact. Americans have some photographs. " 



We have received a letter, dated Jan. 8, from Mr. C. Meldrnm, 

 Mauritius, containing the following additional information re- 

 garding the transit obser%'ations at the Mauritius ; — " The 

 new Observatory is seven miles from Port Loui=, and by the 

 time the instrument was received and put in place, we were 

 within a few da) s of the Transit of Venus. You wdl have heard 

 (I sent you some newspapers by last mail) that owing to the 

 weather. Lord Lindsay and his party, as well, as the German 

 Expedition, could only obsers'e the latter half of the Tninsit, and 

 that thty lost the first external and internal contact. Here at 

 this Observatory I had worse weather, the sky being entirely 

 overcast during the greater part of the time. Eat it so chanced 

 that the weather clearing up for a short time, and the sun 

 appearing, I got the first internal contact just as the sun was 

 emerging from behind a bank of clouds. We had then a long 

 spell of cloudy rainy weather, with occasional glimpses of the 

 sun. Towards the time of second internal contact the weather 

 again cleared up, and I observed that contact under more favour- 

 able circumstances than the first internal. On both occasions I 

 saw a dark band or ligament connecting the limbs of the sun and 

 planet, and noted the times of appearance and disappearance. 

 The first internal contact took place some minutes after the com- 

 puted time, and the second internal contact a little earlier. 

 Our photo-heliograph arrived after the transit. Both Lord 



