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(a) The Savilian Professor of Astronomy shall have the charge 

 of the University Observatory, and shall undertake the personal 

 and regular supervision of the same, and of the several 

 demonstrators and other assistants employed therein, and shall 

 be responsible for all the work cairied on there. 



(b) The Professor of Experimental Philosophy shall have the 

 charge of the Clarendon Laboratory, and shall undertake the 

 personal and regular supervision of the same, and of the several 

 demonstrators and other assistants employed therein, and shall be 

 responsible for all the work carried on there. 



(f) The Wayntlete Professor of Chemistry shall have the 

 charge of the chemical laboratories in the University Museum, 

 or such part thereof as the university may by statute assign to 

 him, and shall undertake the personal and regular supervision of 

 the same, and of the several demonstratois and other assistants 

 employed therein, and shall be responsible for all the work 

 carried on there. 



(</) The Linacre Professor of Human and Comparative Ana- 

 tomy shall have the charge of the anatomical and ethnological 

 collections and the anatomical laboratories in the University 

 Museum, or such part thereof as the university may by statute 

 assign to him ; and shall undertake the personal and regular 

 supervision of the same and of the several demonstrators and 

 other assistants employed therein, and shall be responsible for 

 all the work carried on there. 



(e) The Professor of Botany and Rural Economy shall have 

 the charge and supervision of the Botanical Gardens and botani- 

 cal collections belonging to the university ; and it shall be part 

 of his duty to make such gardens and collections accessible to, 

 and available for the instruction of, students attending his 

 lectures. 



(/) The Professors of Geology and Mineralogy respectively 

 shall have the charge and supei vision of the geological and 

 palceontological collections and of the mineralogical collection 

 belonging to the university ; and it shall be part of their duties 

 to make such collections respectively accessible to, and available 

 for the instruction of, students attending their lectures. 



To the class of teachers to be called University Readers some 

 of the duties assigned to the professoriate under the old scheme 

 are now transferred. The "inf(.rmal instruction" twice a week 

 to all students who may demand it becomes now part of the 

 regular duty of the Reader, and not of the Professor. The fol- 

 lowing are the most important clauses on University Readers : — 



(«) Every appointment of a University Reader shall be made 

 by the Delegates of the Conmon University Fund, or by persons, 

 not fewer than three in number, nominated for that purpose bv 

 the Delegates. 



(b) Every University Reader shall hold his office for five years, 

 but shall be re-eligible. 



(c) He shall receive from the Common University Fund 300/. 

 per annum. 



(d) He shall in every year lecture in each of the three Uni- 

 versity Terms (Easter and Trinity Terms being counted as one). 

 His lectures shall extend over a period not less than seven weeks 

 in each term, nor than twenty-one weeks in the whole, and he 

 shall lecture tn ice at least in each week. In addition to these 

 lectures he shall, twice at least in every week in which he 

 lectures, receive students desirous of informal instruction and 

 other assistance in the studies with which his readership is 

 connected. 



(e) He may require from students receiving the informal in- 

 struction and assistance mentioned in the foregoing regulation 

 payment of a fee not exceeding 2/. for any university term. With 

 this exception his lectures shall be open to all members of the 

 university without payment of any fee. 



5. It shall be the duty of every reader to lecture and give 

 instruction in the subject or branch of study for which he is 

 appointed, and in arranging the subjects and times of his 

 lectures it shall also be his duty to have regard to the arrange- 

 ments made or proposed to be made by the professors, if any, 

 lecturing in the same dei artment of study. 



The most important change in the new scheme is the libera- 

 tion of the professor and reader from the immediate control of 

 the council or board of his faculty. Under the old scheme 

 each professor and reader was obliged dm-ing Easter term to send 

 in to the faculty a schedule of all his lectures and other instruc- 

 tion for the ensuing year, giving the days, hours, and subjects 

 of the lectures. The faculty was to have the power of criti- 

 cising the schedules and of recommending alterations, and the 

 two following clauses were intended to reduce a refractory 

 professor to submission : — 



14. The Council shall not alter any schedule without the 

 consent of the person named in it. But if a recommendation 

 made by the Council as to any schedule be not acceded to, the 

 Council may, if they think fit, exclude the schedule or the part 

 of it affected by such recommendation from the list, unless such 

 schedule was sent in by a Professor or University Reader. In 

 the last-mentioned case the Council shall not exclude the 

 schedule, hut may, if they think fit, report the fact to the 

 Vice-chancellor, who shall lay the report before the Visitatorial 

 Board. 



15. If a Professor or University Reader wilfully neglect to 

 send in schedules of his lectures, the Visitatorial Board may, on 

 a report of the Council of the Faculty, and without any charge 

 laid before the board, proceed against him by admonition or 

 otherwise as for a neglect of the duties of his office. Refusal 

 on the part of a Professor or University Reader to accede to 

 any recommendation of the Council of his faculty respecting his 

 lectures may likewise be treated by the board as a neglect of 

 duty, if, on a consideration of the circumstances, the board be 

 satisfied that such refusal was without reasonable justification. 

 Provided that if the recommendation relate to the subjects of the 

 proposed lectures it shall be sufficient for the Professor or 

 University Reader to show that such lectures are in respect of 

 their subject-matter a bona fide fulfilment of the statutory duties 

 of his office. 



The following are the new clauses which regulate the relation 

 betv een the professoriate and the board in the different faculties 

 of arts, theology, law, and natural science : — 



The board of each faculty shall have the following duties and 

 powers : — 



It shall be the duty of the board to prepare and send to the 

 Vice-Chancellor for publication — 



(«) Before the end of each term a list of the lectures which 

 are to be given in the ensuing term in the subjects of the faculty 

 under the authority of the university or of any college, or of 

 the Delegates of students not attached to any college or hall, 

 and are to be open to persons other than the members of any 

 one college, or (as the case may be) other than the students not 

 attached to any college or hall. 



(b) In Easter or Trinity Term armually a general scheme or 

 statement showing, as far as may be, the lectures to be given as 

 aforesaid during the course of the ensuuig academical year. 



((") In Michaelmas Term, or at such other time in each year 

 as the university may by statute appoint, a summary statement 

 of the lectures given dming the preceding year in the subjects 

 of the faculty by Professors and University Readers, and of all 

 other lectures which have been advertised in the published lists 

 of the faculty and given in conformity therewith. The board 

 shall add to this statement such further information (if any) 

 respecting the studies and instruction of the faculty as the uni- 

 versity may by statute require, and may point out any deficiencies 

 in the provision made for instruction, and-make recommendations 

 for supplying them. 



10. It shall be the duty of every Professor and University 

 Reader to send to the Secretary of the Boards of Faculties 

 timely notice of the lectures he proposes to give in any of the 

 subjects of any faculty to which he belongs, pursuant to the 

 statutes and regulations in force for the time being, and in 

 arranging his lectures to have due and reasonable regard to the 

 recommendations of the board of the faeulty ; but this duty 

 shall not be deemed to preclude him from the free use of his 

 discretion in selecting for his lectures any subject or part of a 

 subject which he deems most advisable within the province 

 assigned to him by statute. 



GOLD IN NEWFOUNDLAND 

 "DEPORTS having been circulated for some time past that 

 ■^ gold had been discovered in quartz veins in the regions near 

 Brigus of Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Mr. ilurray has 

 recently made a personal examination of the ground. 



In his report to the Governor of the Colony, dated October 8, 

 he states that by the fir-t blast from two to three cubic feet of 

 rock were removed, all of which was carefully broken up, 

 washed, and examined ; which operation finally resulted in the 

 display of ten or twelve distinct "sights" of gold. In one 

 fragment about five pounds weight, largely charged with dark 

 green chlorite, the gold shows itself in three places distinctly, 

 while many small specks are perceptible by means of a good 

 lens. The fracture of a fragment of milky white and translucent 



