ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 5 
Some notes of this Indian tour were published in the Sydney 
Morning Herald. Before reaching Bombay, two points of minor 
scientific interest came under my notice. In passing up the 
Arabian Gulf in January we had an excellent example of sea and 
land breezes—the latter beginning about midnight and freshening 
till about 9 a.m., bringing faint aromatic odours from the shore, 
then dying away with rapid rise of temperature to 83° or 84°, and 
being succeeded by the sea breeze about midday. The other item 
was the change of magnetic polarity in the stanchions and other 
upright pieces of wrought iron about the decks. South of Ceylon 
the lower ends of these had south polarity, but on passing up the 
Gulf they changed decidedly to north. Of course, in each case 
the upper ends presented opposite polarity. It is this changing 
of polarity in different hemispheres through the magnetic induction 
of the earth that makes the permanent correction of binnacle 
compasses impossible. It is fortunate, however, that certain parts 
of the ship are about neutral to the compass. 
At Bombay I visited the handsome new buildings of the Uni- 
versity, two large halls, a little distance apart. One for library 
and offices, with a tower 250 feet high, commanding the best views 
of the city, was built by a native gentleman; the other, for 
convocation, was built by joint contributions from a Parsee 
gentleman and Government. The latter is a beautiful structure, 
with arched stone roof, floor of marble and encaustic tiles, and 
painted windows. The University examines and confers degrees, 
but does not teach. I visited the Grant Medical College affiliated 
to it, with its contiguous hospital containing 600 beds, clean, cool, 
and airy. I was told that there were about 600 students going 
through the medical curriculum. Connected with the University 
T may mention an incident related to me by a fellow-traveller. 
While rambling in a town in Southern India he came upon a 
blacksmith’s shop, where two young natives were resting awhile 
from their labours, and improving the time by reading Balfour 
Stewart’s “ Elementary Physics” and Roscoe’s “ Elementary 
Chemistry,” with the view of matriculating in the University. 
