144 Miscellaneous — J/r. T. M' Kenny Hughes's Election, 



THE NEW WOODWAEDIAN PKOPESSOR OF GEOLOGY FOR CAMBRIDGE. 



The election of a successor to the late Professor Sedgwick was 

 held on the 20th February, when Mr. Thomas M'Kenny Hughes, 

 M.A., of Trinity College, was chosen by a majority of seven. By 

 a statute of the University, the election must take place within one 

 month from the vacancy being declared. No fewer than nine candi- 

 dates had issued applications to the electors who were the members 

 of the Electoral Eoll, consisting of the Heads of Houses, Professors, 

 University Examiners, and resident members of the Senate. The 

 candidates were as follows : Eev. 0. Fisher, F.G.S., Eev. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.G.S., and Messrs. T. M'K. Hughes, F.G.S., and A. H. 

 Green, F.G.S. (Cambridge), Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., Mr. W. Boyd 

 Hawkins, F.R.S., and Mr. T. H. G.Wyndham, F.G.S. (Oxford) , Prof. 

 Morris, F.G.S., and Prof. Martin Duncan, F.R.S. (London). Several 

 of the candidates retired before the election, and the contest was 

 virtually between the Eev. T. G. Bonney, M.A., Fellow of St. John's 

 College, who has resided constantly since taking his degree, and is a 

 noted member of the Alpine Club. Prof. Morris, who acted as 

 Deputy to Professor Sedgwick, received one vote (Prof. Morris had 

 however retired two days before) ; and the Eev. Osmond Fisher, of 

 Jesus, obtained four votes ; but it is only right to state that he re- 

 tired within the first half-hour of the polling. The hours of polling 

 were between 1 and 2-30 p.m, and it was conducted with much 

 animation, over 200 of the electors recording their votes, those who 

 did not vote being principally non-resident Examiners. At half-past 

 2 the Vice-Chancellor declared the result of the poll to be as follows : 

 — Hughes 112, Bonney 105, Fisher 4, Morris 1. 



He thereupon declared Mr. Hughes duly elected, and that gentle- 

 man was formally admitted to the Professorship. 



The new Professor is a member of Trinity College, where he 

 graduated as B.A. in 1857, and ten years later proceeded M.A. 

 While an undergraduate he was an associate of the Eay Club, and a 

 constant attendant at Professor Sedgwick's lectures. After taking 

 his Bachelor's degree he was engaged in tuition for two years, and 

 at the commencement of the year 1860 went to Eome in the capacity 

 of Secretary to Her Majesty's Consul, and was left as Acting Consul 

 during the summer of that year, when he took the opportunity of 

 studying the sub-Apennine formations, and made a collection of 

 fossils from them, and also from the more recent deposits of the 

 Valley of the Tiber. In 1861 Sir Eoderick Murchison -nominated 

 him upon the Geological Survey, upon which he has served. He 

 has been engaged also in various foreign tours with Sir Charles 

 Lyell. He has mapped for the Geological Survey parts of the 

 counties of Kent, Hertford, York, and Westmoreland, and has pub- 

 lished various papers on geology, printed among the Geological 

 Society's "Proceedings," and in the Geological Magazine. He is 

 also a contributor to " Nature " and other scientific publications. — 

 (Partly taken from The Times, 2\st Feb., 1872.) 



