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PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 
The testator bequeathed a sum of £1 2,000 to the Senate of the 
University of Sydney in these terms :— " To be held upon trust 
for the foundation of a chair or lectureship of bacteriology subject 
to the conditions set out in a memorandum on the subject 
which I intend to leave with my will to be read as part thereof, 
but if the said Senate shall not, within one month after being 
notified by my executors of this legacy, accept the conditions set 
forth in such memorandum, then the said legacy shall be void, 
and I give the said sum of £12,000 to the Linnean Society of 
New South Wales." 
The memorandum referred to in the will is in these words : — 
" To my Executors, 
"This is the memorandum as to the legacy of twelve thousand 
pounds for a chair or lectureship of bacteriology referred to in my 
will of even date — I desire that the following conditions be 
strictly insisted on before handing over to the University the 
sum of twelve thousand pounds bequeathed in my will for the 
endowment of a chair of bacteriology : 
"First the Senate must agree to accept the said sum for the 
purpose of providing from the interest of the same a salary for a 
lecturer or professor of bacteriology and whose duty shall be to 
give instructions practical and theoretical in the morphology and 
physiology of the Schizomycetes and Saccharomycetes : 
" Secondly the bequest if accepted by the Senate shall be used 
for the abovementioned purpose and no other and the lecturer 
shall not have additional duties imposed upon him : 
" Third the appointment of a professor or lecturer of bacteriology 
shall be made by the Senate and not delegated to people in 
England or elsewhere who know little of the country and care 
less. 
"Fourth it shall be necessary for every student before being- 
admitted to a science or medical degree at the University to 
attend a six months' course of bacteriology. 
"My reasons for insisting upon these conditions being observed 
are that I am very deeply convinced of the extreme importance 
