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MINUTES OF THE SENATE OR TIIE YEAR 1878-79. No. 1. THE 27TH APRIL. Present: The HON'BLE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. THE RIGHT Rev. THE LORD BISHOP OF CALCUTTA. TJE Rev. Dr. K. M. BANERJEA. RAJA ILARENDRA KRISHNA, BALADOOR. THE REY. J. P. ABNTON. DR. MAJENDRALAL SIRCAR. RAI KANAILAL DE, BAHADOOR, MUNSHI TAMIZ Khan, KITAN BANADOON. THE HON'BLE ROMESACIUNDER MITTER. DR. H. CAYLEY. Mr. H. BLOCHMANN. Dr. T. LEWIS. THE HON'BLE AMIR ALI. PANDIT MAHESICHANDRA NAYARATNA. The Rev. FATHER LAFONT. MR. ANANDA MOHAN BOSE. BABU KALI CHARAN BANERJBA. THE HON’BLE H. T. PRINSEP. MR. W. C. BONNERJ CE. TIE REV. J. ROBERTSON. MR. A. PEDLER. The Senate met to receive the annual report of the Syndicato for the past year. The report having been circulated to all the members of the Senate, was taken as read. Mr. Ananda Mohan Bose proposed that the report be adopted. The Hon'blo H. T. Prinsep seconded the motion. Babu Kali Charan Banerjee proposed as an amendment that Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's name should be added to the list of members of the Faculty of Medicine given in the report. The Rev. K. M. Banerjee, D.L., seconded the amendment. RESOLVED That the report be adopted, subject to this amendmont, 2 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (April 27, 2. The Hon'ble W. Markby proposed that female candidates be admitted to the University Examinations, subject to the following regulations :- GENERAL 1.-Female candidates shall be examined in a separate place, under the superintendence of ladies. II. -No female candidates shall be almitted to any examination without presenting a certificate in the form to be prescribed by the Syndicate signed by a member of the Senate, or the head of an affiliated institution. III.-In all examinations the fees paid by female candidates sball be the same as those paid by males. I.V.-No unsuccessful candidate shall be entitled to a refund of her fee. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. 1. The Entrance Examination shall be the samc for females as for males. F. A. EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. 1. Female candidates may be admitted to this examination without studying in an affiliated institution. No candidate, however, shall be allowed to present herself for this examination until two years have elapsed from the time of her passing the Entrance Examination. 2. Every female candidate shall be allowed to take up the subjects prescribed by the University of Calcutta for the F. A. Course, with the option of substituting French, German or Italian, or an Indian vernacular for the second language. 3. Female candidates shall also be allowed to substitute Botany for the subjects included in the second mathematical paper in the F. A. Examination. B. A. EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. 1. Female candidates may be admitted to this examination without studying in any affiliated institution. But no candidate shall be allowed to present herself for this examination until two years have clapsed from the time of her passing the F. A. Examination.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 8 2. Female candidates shall be allowed to take up the subjects prescribed by the University of Calcutta for the B. A. Course, with the option of substituting French, German, Italian, or an Indian vernacular for the second language. 3. Female candidates shall also be allowed to substitute Political Economy for the mathematical subjects in this examination. 4. The names of those female candidates who may succeed in passing the B. A. Examination shall be submitted to the Senate every year before the convocation, with a view to their being admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Carried unanimously. 3. The Hon'ble W. Markby then proposed that the following words be added to the Ath paragraph of the Regulations for the F. A. Examination, and also to the 4th paragraph of the Regulations for the degree of B. A. :- "provided he produces a certificato froin the head of an affiliated institution showing that he has prosecuted a regular course of study for one year since the date of the last examination to which he was admitted." Mr. Ananda Mohan Bose proposed as an amendment that six months should be substituted for one year. Babu Kalicharan Banerjee seconded the amendment. Dr. Mahendralal Sircar, seconded by Mr. Amir Ali, opposed the original motion. The motions were put to the vote and Mr. Ananda Mohan Bose's amendment was carried. CHARLES II, TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) W. MARKBY, l'ice-Chancellor.

4 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [May 15, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 1. THE 15тн MAY. Present: DR. T. E. CHABLES, President, in the Chair, DR. S. B. PARTRIDGE. Dr. K. McL.EOD. A. J. PAYNE. II, CAYLEY, W. K. WALLER. T. LEWIB. J. ANDERSON. D. D. CUNNINGIAM. MUNDI TAMIZ KIAN, KHAN BAIA- DOOR. » 4. The Faculty met to consider the recent appointment of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar to the Faculty of Medicine. The following resolution was carried unanimously: In consequence of the addition of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's name to the Faculty of Medicine by a resolution of the Senate passed at their meeting on the 27th April, the Faculty regret exceedingly that they are compelled to point out to the Syndicate that they are unable to associate themselves as a Faculty of Medi. cine with a member who professes and practises Homwopathy, an inability of which probably the Senate were not aware when the nomination was made; they trust, therefore, that the Syndicate may be able to remove the present difficulty by the transfer of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's name to another Faculty, or in some other manner. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, (Confirmed.) Registrar. ** T. EDMONDSTON CHARLES, M.D., President, 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 1. THE 17TH MAY, 1 Present: TIE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. TAE HON'BLE ROMESTI, CAUNDER MIT MR. ANANDA MOHAN Bosx. TER. DR. T. E. CHARLES. THE JION'BLE J. O'KINEALY. MR. T. S. Isaac.. 5. Read a letter from Dr. K. McLeod, Examiner in Surgery at the last Medical Examination, in reply to a letter of the Registrar asking, him to forward Jadunath Mukhopaalhyay's paper, together with the Medical Treatise from which he copied, and to point out the passages taken by him from the book. RESOLVED That Jadunath Mukhopadhyay be excluded from all the examinations of the University for two years. 6. Read a letter from the Acting Principal, Trinity College, Kandy, praying that the college be affiliated up to the B. A. Standard, and enclosing a letter from the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, containing an assurance that the college has the means of educating up to the B. A. standard, and showing the provision made for the purpose. RESOLVED- That’au application be made to the Government of India, recommending the Governor General in Conncil to sanction the affiliation of Trinity College, Kandy, up to the standard of the B. A. Degrec, with effect from the 1st of January 1878.

6 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [May 17, 7. Read the following letter addressed to the Syndicate by four members of the Faculty of Medicine, and forwarded by Dr. D. D. Cunningham : “It is currently rumoured in Calcutta that the recent examinations for the Licence of L. M. S. and the ree of M. B. were conducted in a somewhat irregular manner. The rules laid down by the Syndicate for the conduct of these examinations having been to some extent contravened." “We do not consider it creditable to the University, and especially so to the Faculty to which we belong, that such a runour should be current. We have as individuals no nucans of obtaining such anthentic information regarding the conduct of the examinations as would enable us to contradict the rumour if it be untruc. We think, however, that the inatter is one which ought not to be passed over without notice, and we therefore take the liberty of suggesting to the President and Members of the Syndicate that it would be for the interest of the University if they were to enquire into it, and, by calling for the marks in the written and oral examinations in each subject of all the candidates at the late examination, together with a statement at the method by which these marks were arrived at, to satisfy themselves whether or not the University Regulations have been observed.' ORDERED- That the following reply be sent by the Registrar I am directed by the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 24th April 1878, and in reply to inform you that there does not appear to have been any irregularity in the late medical examinations, as no candidate was passed without the consent of the Board of Examiners. There appears, however, to be some uncertainty in this as in other examinations as to the precise amount of marks which may be allowed to a candidate who fails in one subject, and does well in all the others. I am directed to state that this point is now under the consideration of the Syndicate, with a view to laying down rules for the conduct of future examinations. 8. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their meeting on the 15th of May. RESOLVED That the consideration of the questions which arise out of the proceedings be deferred to the next meeting of the Syndicate. CHARLES II. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) W. MARKBY, Vice-Chancellor.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 2. THE 29TH JUNE. Present : The HON'BLE W. MARK BY. DR. T. E. CHARLES. 'THE HON'BLE ROMESICNUNDER MITTER. J. O'KINEALY. 9. Rearl a letter from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Departiment, sanctioning the affiliation of the Baulia High School up to the B. A. Standard. ORDERED- To be recorded. 10. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their mecting on the 15th of May. RESOLVED That in conscquence of the resolution of the Faculty of Medicine at their last meeting, the Syndicate propose to the Senate to re-consider the appointment of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar to be a Member of the Faculty. 11. Read a letter from Mr. A. O. Ilume, expressing his views on the two letters of Dr. Rajendralala Mitra ordered by a resolution of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 2nd of April to be circulated to all the Members of the Faculty of Arts. ORDERED To be referred to the Faculty of Arts. 12. The Registrar reported that it was necessary to take steps for the election of a Tagore Law Professor in August.

8 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (June 29, ORDERED That the Faculty of Law be requested to advise the Syndicate on the steps to be taken for electing a Tagore Law Professor in August. 13. Read an application from the Head Master, Rajshahi College, praying the Syndicate to appoint Baulia a centre for holding the University Examinations. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Head Master of the Rajshahi College that as Baulia is not far distant from Berhampore, the Syndicate do not consider it necessary to make the former place a centre for holding the University Examinations. 14. Read a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India in the IIome Department, containing an extract from a letter from the Financial Department, stating that under the existing law the receipts granted by the Registrar of the Calcutta University for the payment of fees for the University Examinations aro not liable to stamp duty. ORDERED To be recorded. 15. Read a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department, approving the proposed changes in the Regulations of the Calentta University in respect of (1) the admission of women to the University Examinations; (2) the requirements of a certificate of study froin candidates for the F, A. Examination and for the examination for the degree of B. A. ORDERED To be recorded. 16. Read a memorandum from the Principal of the Medical College, forwarding an application from G. C. Bezbaruya, an under-graduate who attended lectures at the Medical College during the Session 1873-74, praying that he may be exempted from the new rules for the First Examination in Medicine. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Principal of the Medical College that as the applicant became a Member of the Medical College before the new rules came into force, he can be admitted to the University Examinations in Medicine without passing the F. A. Examination.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 9 17. Read a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Gov. ernment of India in the Home Department, sanctioning the affiliation of Trinity College, Kandy, up to the B. A. Standard, with effect from the 1st of January 1878. ORDERED To be recorded. 18. Read a letter from Rai Rajendralala Mitra, Bahadur, D. L., recommending the purchase of the following works for the University Library :- British Museum Photographs, in 7 Volumes, £60, Bayeux Tapestry, half size, £30, with the opinions of the other members of the Library Committee. ORDERED That the Registrar inform Dr. Rajendralala Mitra that it does not seem to them desirable to sanction the purchase of these works, 19. Read a letter from the Principal of La Martinière Collego, objecting to Lethbridge's History of England as a University text-book, and suggesting that Professors and Heads of affiliated institutions should be consulted as to the merits of the various text-books they are now practically compelled to usc. ORDERED That a circular be sent to the Heads of affiliated institutions asking them (1) Whether it is in their opinion desirable that the University should prescribe any text-book in English History for the Entrance Examination, and, if so, (2) Whether it is desirable to continue the use of Lethbridge's History, and, if not, (3) Whether they can suggest any better text-book. 20. The Registrar reported that it was necessary to lay down rules for the conduct of future Medical Examinations. ORDERED That the Registrar restore the following paragraphs in the instructions issued to the Medical Examiners in the year 1876, which appear to have been subsequently omitted :- 10 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [June 29, silk gowns @ 90 ... ... 99 (3.) “They are to be conducted in accordance with the orders of the Board of Examiners. Each Examiner is to submit, for the consideration and approval of the Board, the questions he has prepared and the marks he has assigned to the answers of the candidates, and the Board, as a body, will be answerable as well for the questions set as for the general result of the Examinations." (4.) “The President of the Faculty of Medicine is ex-officio President of the Board of Examiners. He will summon and preside at all meetings of the Board, or, in his absence, will appoint a member of the Board to act for him.” 21. The following bills of contingencies were passed :- FOR APRIL 1878. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 1 Bill, Messi's. Harman and Co., for five black 450 0 () 1 for service postage stamps 100 0 0 1 Englishman Press, for advertisement 8 8 0 1 Stotesman, Press, for 7 0) () 1 Indian Daily News, for 7 8 0 1 Indian Mirror, for 30 1 expenses incurred during the last Entrance Examination held at Batticaloa 28 14 0 1 for repairing furniture 3 14 () for repairing water pipes 1.1 ( 0) for binding roll book, one portfolio, and paste, for April 2 8 0) ordinary postage stamps for sending covers containing Examination papers to London 8 0 salary of an office punkah-puller for April 1878 4 (0) conveyance hire to the clerks on duty 9 4 0 664 0 0 Account, Tagore Fund. 1 Bill, Statesman Press, for advertisement 4 13 0 1 Englishman Press, for 5 8 0 10 5 0 Account, Library Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for new books 21 11 0 1 Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for new books 3 13 0 25 8 0 ... ... ... 1 1 ܝܙ 25 ... ... ... 10. TOTAL Rs. 699 13 0) (Confirmed.) CHARLES H. TAWNEY, W. MARK BY, Registrar. Vice-Chancellor, 1878.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY ON LAW. .11 MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF LAW FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 1, Tue 5TI JULY. Present : Tue Ilon'ble ROM ES UCHUNDER MITTEN, in the Chair. BABOO ANNADAPRASAD BANERJEA. THE LION'BLE MONINIMOHAN RAY. 22. The Faculty was convened to advise the Syndicate as to the steps to be taken for clecting a successor to the present Tagore Law Professor, whose term of oflice expires on the 31st of August next. RESOLVED- That the Syndicate be advised to issue an advertisement in the following form :- “ The Senate of the University of Calcutta will proceed in the month of August next to the election of a Tagore Law Professor for such term as the Senate may approve." “ The salary of the Professorship is Rs. 10,000 per annum, and one of the conditions of the appointment is that the Professor shall deliver in each year a course of lectures on some branch of Law.” “Candidates for the Professorship are requested to forward their applications to the Registrar before the 27th July, and at the same time to state on what subject or subjects they are prepared to lecture.” CHARLES 11. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) ROMESII CHUNDER MITTER, President.

12 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [July 13, MINUTES OF THE SENATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. NO, 2. THE 13TH JULY Present: Tue IION'BLE TIE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. 92 03 THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE. BADOO ANNADAPRASAD BANERJEE, Rev. Dr. K. M. BANERJ EA. MR. (). C. DUTT. Dr. S. B. PARTRIDGE. HON'BLE BOMESCHUNDER MITTER. MAULVI ABDOOL LATEEF, KHAN BA DR. J. F. BEATBOX. HADOOR. HON'DJE J. O'KINEALY. DR. RAJENDRALALA MITRA, RAI BAHA DR. T. E. CEARLES. DOOR. H. CAYLEY, THE HON'BLE LOUIS S. JACKSON. MAJARAJA JOTENDBOMOHUN TAGORE. RAI JAGGADANANDA MOOKERJEE, BAHA. MR. B. LESLIE. DOOR. DR. T. Lewis. DR. A. J. PAYNE. DR. D. D. CUNNINGHAM. CHARLES PALMER. HON'BLE AMIL ALI. W. K. WALLER. MR. A. W. GARRETT. W.J. PALMER. PANDIT MAUESCHANDRA NAYARATNA. MR. H. BELL. REV. FATHER LAFONT. RAI KANAILAL DE, BAFTADOOR. BABOO KALICHARAN BANERJEE. COLONEL J. F. TENNANT. HON'BLE G. H. P. EVANS. MAJOR H. S. JARBETT. Hon'BLE MONIINIMOHON Roy. DR. GEO. KING. Mr. W. T. BLANFORD. J. ANDERSON. MR. W. C. BONNERJEE. MUNSHI 'TAMIZ KIAN, KAAN BABADOOR. DR. SOWRINDROMOMI UN TAGORE. BABOO GOURDAS BYBAK. RevD. J. ROBERTSON. DR, K. MCLEOD. MR, A, PEDLER. MR. A. S. PHILLIPS. MR. A. E. GOUGA, 23. The Senate met by the recommendation of the Syndicate to re-consider the appointment of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar to the Faculty of Medicine. The Vice-Chancellor, with the permission of the Senate, read the following letter which Dr. Mahendralal Sircar had addressed to the Registrar on the question now before the Senate :- “I have the honor to request you will be pleased to do me the favor to lay before the Senate at their meeting this evening, the 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 13 following observations relative to the object for which the meeting has been called : “The Senate did me the honor to appoint me a member of the Faculty of Medicine by a resolution, carried nem. con., at their meeting held on the 27th April last. Scarcely two months and a half bave elapsed when they are invited by the Syndicate to re-consider that resolution. The Syndicate do not give any reason for their proposition, and, I presume, they have done so at the instance of the Faculty of Medicine, who met on the 15th May last and passed the following resolution unanimously :- In consequence of the addition of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's name to the Faculty of Medicine by a resolution of the Senate passed at their late meeting on the 27th April, the Faculty regret exceedingly that they are compelled to point out to the Syndicate that they are unable to associate themselves as a Faculty of Medicine with a member who professes and practices homeopathy; an inability of which probably the Senate were not aware when the nomination was made. They trust, therefore, that the Syndicate may be able to reinove the present difficulty by the transfer of Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar's namo to auother Faculty, or in some other manner.' “My profession and practice of homaopathy have been no secret. I first openly and publicly declared my faith in homeopathy at the 4th annual meeting of the Bengal Branch of the British Medical Association held on the 16th February 1867. I started a monthly journal, under the title of the Calcutta Journal of Meclicine, in January 1868. The Journal exists, and I have been giving out my opinions and views ou medicine in its pages month after month since its commencement. Neither, therefore, the Viceroy and Governor General who did me the honor to appoint me a Fellow of the Calcutta University, nor the University who did me the honor, eight years after that appointment, to elect me a member of their Faculty of Medicine, could have been unaware of my medical crecd. Whether they were unaware of the inability' therein involved, the honorable menibers of the Senate can only say. “The Faculty object to my profession and practice of homeopathy. As men of science they should have been more accurate in their languagc, especially when they sat to condemn a professional brother. They should have stated clearly if they objected in toto and absolutely to any profession and practice of homeopathy, or if they objected to its profession and practice beyond a certain extent. They should not have rested satisfied with stating their objection qualitatively only, but they should have stated it quantitatively also. “That I am not making a frivolous and hair-splitting distinction would be obvious on the slighest consideration. If the Faculty of Medicine object unqualifiedly and absolutely to any profession and practice of homeopathy, irrespective of the quality and quantity of that profession and practice, then they should object in the same 14 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [July 13, .. unqualified and absolute manner to the teachings of the great father of medicine himself ; for Hippocrates laid it down that diseases are sometimes cured by contraries, sometimes by similars, and sometimes by medicines which have neither similitude nor antagonism.' “ And then what would they have said to Hufeland, the leader of the profession in his day,–Hufeland, who, while utterly rejecting homeopathy as the universal principle of the whole art of medicine,' and believing that 'as such, in its first crude form, it would be the grave of science and of humanity too,' had the candour and the courage to say that 'homeopathy is worthy of consideration and is not to be rejected, but to be made use of as a peculiar method of treatment, subsidiary to the higher principles of rational medicine';-Hufeland, who laid it down as the conclusions to which he had arrived after an impartial investigation : No homeopathy, but yet a homeopathic method in rational physic. No homeopathists, but yet rational physicians who make use of the homæopathic method in the right place and in the right way.' " And what would they have said to Liston, who, after actual trials of some homeopathic medicines, said: “I believe in the homæopathic doctrines to a certain extent, but I cannot as yet, from inexperience on the subject, go the lengths its advocates would wish, in as far as regards the very minute doses of some of their medicines. The medicines in the above cases were certainly given in much smaller doses than have ever hitherto been prescribed. The beneficial effects, as you witnessed, are unquestionable. I have, however, seen similar good cīfects of the belladonna, prepared according to the Homæopathic Pharmacopuia, in a case of very severe crysipelas of the head and face, under the care of my friend, Dr. Quin. The inflaminatory symptoms and local signs disappeared with very. great rapidity. Without adopting the theory of this medical sect, you ought not to reject its doctrines without due examination and inquiry.' “Would they question the orthodoxy of Dr. Lauder Brunton, Editor of the Practitioner, because he has not hesitated to admit in the last May number of that journal a long article on the 'Laws of Therapeutics' from the pen of Dr. William Sharp, M.D., F.R.S., a veteran homeopath, and one of the ablest living cxponents of the opinions he holds,' as Dr. Brunton justly calls him. Dr. Brunton has admitted this paper because he believes that correct conclusions are easily reached by a knowledge of all sides of a' subject.' So long ago as August 1876, Dr. Brunton expressed himself as follows on the subject of homeopathy, and yet I do not know that any of the learned members of the Faculty of Medicine of our University bas sent a protest to him in respect of bis heterodoxy :- « • The opposite action of large and small doses seems to be the basis of truth on which the doctrine of homeopathy has been founded. The irrational practice of giving infinitesimal doses has, of course, nothing to do with the principle ot homæopathy--similia similibus curantur--the only requisite is that mentioned by Hippocrates, when he recommended mandrake 1 mania, viz., that the duse be smaller than would be sufficient to produce in a healthy man 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SENATE 15 symptoms similar to those of the disease. Now in the case of some drugs this may be exactly equivalent to giving a drug which produces symptoms opposite to those of the disease, and when we can readily see the possibility of the morbid changes being counteracted by the action of the drug and benefit resulting from the treatment. For example, large doses of digitalis render the pulse extremely rapid, but moderate ones slow it. In this instance its moderate administration when there is a rapid pulse is homwopathic treatment, and this has sometimes beon beneficial. But it is not proved that all drugs have an opposite action in large and small doses, and bomeopathy therefore cannot be accepted as an universal rule of practice.—Practitioner, August 1876.' “I assume, therefore, that the Faculty could not have meant, in their recent Resolution, their absolute and unqualified objection to the profession and practice of homeopathy in any degree. For, if they had done so, they should have, for the sake of consistency, disavowed all professional relationship with Hippocrates, Hufeland, Liston, and Dr. Lauder Brunton, which, I believe, they have not done, and which, I believe, they would admit, it would be the greatest ' professional obliquity' to do. “ The only other meaning their language is capablo of, is that they object to the profession and practice of homeopathy as an absolute system of medicine. If they mean this, then they must also mean that I profess and practise homeopathy as an exclusive and absolute system. And against this I must emphatically protest, as unwarranted by iny published writings and daily practice since 1867. "In my address in medicine read at the 4th annual meeting of the Bengal Branch of the British Medical Association, I distinctly said that Hahnemann was wrong in believing that there was but one law of cure, and no other. Cures are effected in so many divers ways,' said I, that it must be the most unphilosophical and painful straining of the similiu similibus law to say that it pervades them all. I went no further than to say : system, however, has many recommendations, and I deem it worthy of trial. I feel it, therefore, my duty most humbly to urge upon the profession the necessity of recognizing it as one of our therapeutic systems.' " In the prospectus of the Calcutta Journal of Medicine, which I started in January 1868, I distinctly stated : The Journal will be conducted on strictly catholic principles. " The object is simply and solely the advancement of medical science, and the diffusion of sound knowledge of the laws and conditions of health. “ The similia similibus curantur law and the infinitesimal posology of Hahnemann will be recognized as the most advanced points yet reached in the domain of therapeutics. Nevertheless, full and fair play will be allowed to all the systems of medicine in vogue in the world, and in fact to whatever can be shewn to have succeeded in effecting a true cure, or at least in affording relief to suffering where established means had failed.' - The 6 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. 16 [July 13, “I did not give an exclusive name to the Journal, and I adopted as its motto the following sloka from one of our ancient works on medicine, and nothing from Hahnemann or his followers :- तदेव यक्तं भैषज्यं यदारोग्याय कल्पते । 'सचैव भिवजांश्रेष्ठो रोगेभ्यो यः प्रमोचयेत ॥' चरकसंहिता। " " That alone is the right medicine which can remove disease : He alone is the true physician who can restore health.'- Charaka Sanhitá. And without exaggeration I may say, it would be difficult to find in the whole range of medical literature, ancient and modern, a passage more philosophical, and more exquisitely appreciative of the real functions of the physician. “To prevent misunderstanding and all possibility of misunderstanding, I enunciated my medical creed in the opening article of the Journal, as clearly, I believe, as it is possible for human language to render one's ideas clear. I would humbly ask the learned members of our Medical Faculty if they do not find it catholic in its principles; if, at the same time that it is humiliating to human pride, it is not consolatory and encouraging to acknowledged human finiteness ; if it is not calculated to stimulate free inquiry and lead to real progress; and if, on these accounts, it is not worthy of acceptance, not indeed in its letter but in its spirit, by members of a liberal and sacred profession. As I have said (Cal. Journ. Med., May 1868), 'Rightly understood, our creed will be found to be as much a protest against the bigotry of the old as of the new school. It has been intended, in fact, as a protest against the intolerance and prejudice of all the systems of medicine. Nay, in the article on Dr. Reith and his Colleagues' (Cal. Journ. Meil., Feb. 1869), I went further and said : And in the present state of medicine, hospitals ought neither to be exclusively allopathic nor exclusively homæopathic. In an allopathic hospital every improvement in therapeutics would be admissible save one. In a purely homeopathic hospital all improvement in therapeutics is shut out save one. If, therefore, the medical officers of an allopathic hospital ought not to be tied down to a particular line of treatment, much less ought the medical officers of a homøopathic one. There is some excuse--the excuse of ignorancein the one case; there is none in the other. For men who have themselves with much difficulty and at much sacrifice emerged from ignorance, prejudice and bigotry, to bind themselves and to require others to be bound to any system of therapeutics, however superior it may be, as far as the present state of knowledge goes, MINUTES OF THE SENATE. In a < 1878.] 17 would be to take the last plunge in the slough of ignorance, prejudice and bigotry, worse than they had emerged from, and never to rise again. Retrospect (Cal. Journ. Med., Nov. and Dec. 1869) I pointed out: "The grand mistake of the new school, while yet in its infancy, was to believe, in the enthusiasm of its first astonishing success with the newly-discovered law of healing, that that was the be all and end all of therapeutics, that the recognition of the other than the vital laws of the organism was next to unnecessary. We are sorry to see the mistake still largely prevails in the school, chiefly among those who call themselves pure Hahneman- With them it is a sin to depart from the dicta of the Master uttered in the latter years of his life-a 'sin to give medicines in low dilutions and mother tinctures, a sin to use even the most common and useful auxiliaries, simply because they are used by the old school. This, we must say, is as much bigotry and as mischievous as that which so disgraces the dominant school.' “In the preface to my 'Sketch of the Treatment of Cholera' I said: "The human organism is governed by a variety of laws; its disorders therefore are manifold, proceeding from infringement of one or more or all of these laws; and consequently the therapeutics of these disorders must recognize the operation of all these laws. The great difference between the old and the new schools of medicine consists in the one generally ignoring the vital or dynamic laws, and the other the mechanical and the chemical laws, which all combine in maintaining life. This we look upon as a serious and mischievous error ; and unless each school will make ample concessions, unless each will condescend to learn from either, we cannot expect their re-union-pay, we cannot expect a perfect therapeutical science; on the contrary, there will be a perpetual war of school against school, of system against system, to the great detriment of the profession and misfortune of the human race. “In the article on Hydrate of Chloral '(Cal. Journ. Med., July to December 1870), among other things appeared the following: The profession has been long divided against itself, to its own injury and the injury of humanity. It is high time that its members, who pretend to build upon science, should shake off the bigotry and the prejudice so unworthy of scientific men, and which have caused such a lamentable breach among them as to expose them to the ridicule and the scorn of laymen, and to bring unmerited discredit upon the profession itself. It is high time that the ignorant sneer at the infinitesimal, and the nervous dread of the 80-called massive dose should cease. As facts are facts and must remain so in spite of opposition, it is high time that both parties, instead of laughing at or contemning each other, should see that facts are not ignored, and should endeavour to account for any that do not come CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. 18 [July 13, within the groove of their favourite theory. Even the apparent contradictions and inconsistencies should not appall us. We must remember that many such contradictions and inconsistencies have been cleared up by the light of newer facts or unthought-of relationship of older ones. And here we are bound to declare that we can tolerate the prejudice and the bigotry existing on the side of the orthodox party but not on that of the party of reform.'. “I could multiply quotations, but the letter has become already too long, and I would not make it longer. For convenience of reference of my honorable colleagues of the Senate, I have gathered a few extracts from my published writings in the form of a pamphlet, a few copies of which I herewith send you, and beg to request you will lay them also before the meeting. “I feel confident that I have adduced sufficient evidence to show that the recognition and practice of homeopathy in its cardinal doctrines, as one of the methods of treatment, date as far back as the days of Hippocrates, and that some at least of the great men of the profession, whom the profession could never brand as homeopaths, have avowed their faith in it to that extent. I have been guilty of no other sin. Without retracting an iota of my faith in the system, as expressed by me in unmistakable language, times without number, I would still repudiate the exclusive and sectarian name of homæopath applied to me. I claim the title of physician, and I claim the right thereunto appertaining, namely, liberty of reason to search after truth, and liberty of conscience to acknowledge truth whenever and wherever found. In my hard struggles as a physician, as a practitioner of the most difficult art on earth, I have only endeavoured to exercise that right. If the Medical Faculty should declare that I have thereby forfeited their confidence, I should respectfully beg to relieve the Senate of further responsibility in the matter, and ask them to remove my name at once from the Faculty. My last request is that this letter appear in the proceedings of this day's meeting." The Hon'ble Louis S. Jackson enquired whether the question now before the Senate had been considered and decided on by the Syndicate in accordance with paragraph 14 of the 'Bye-laws relating to the Syndicate. The Vice-Chancellor replied that the question had not been decided on, but that the Hon'ble Louis S. Jackson would be at liberty to take the objection when a resolution was put to the Senfte. Dr. Partridge then proposed That in accordance with the wish of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's name be transferred by the Syndicate from the Medical to some other Faculty. Dr. Anderson seconded the motion, 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SENATB. 19 The Hon'ble Romeshchunder Mitter then proposed the following amendment: That the Senate should defer the re-consideration of their appointment of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar to the Faculty of Medicine, and should request the Faculty of Medicine to re-consider the resolution come to at their last meeting with special reference to Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's letter now read. The Hon'ble the Chief Justice seconded the amendment. Dr. Partridge then withdrew his motion. The amendment was then put as a substantive motion and carried unanimously. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) W. MARKBY, l'ice-Chancellor.

20 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [July 23, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 2. THE 23RD JULY. DR. T. E. CHARLES, in the Chair. DR. S. B. PARTRIDGE. RAI KANAILAL DE, BAHADOOR. A. J. PAYNE. MUNSHI TAMIZ KHAN, KHAN BAHA- CHARLES PALMER, DOOR. W. K. WALLER. DR. K. MCLEOD. W. J. PALMER. H. CAYLEY. 24. Dr. Partridge proposed That the following reply be submitted to the Syndicate with reference to the question referred to the Faculty by the Senate at their meeting on the 13th July : The members of the Faculty of Medicine have, in accordance with the request of the Senate, carefully considered the letter addressed to the Registrar of the University by Dr. Mahendralal Sircar. They are exceedingly sorry that a perusal of this document does not enable them to modify the resolution they recorded at the meeting of the Faculty held on the 15th May, and they feel themselves compelled still to affirm," that they are unable to associate themselves, as a Faculty of Medicine, with a member who professes and practises homeopathy." From the whole tenor of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's letter, how ever, it is manifest that he entirely misapprehends the motives which have influenced the Faculty in their decision ; and this misapprehension the members of the Faculty are anxious to correct. The Faculty do not, in the very faintest degree, desire to impose restrictions upon the most perfect freedom of opinion and practice in medical science, nor do they pretend “to condemn a sional brother” for entertaining views divergent from their own; they simply maintain that bomoeopathy is based upon principles and methods of enquiry which are diametrically opposed to what they believe to be the true principles and methods of sound, logical, inductive reasoning, and careful, thorough-going research, and, entertaining such a belief, they necessarily feel that there can be no common meeting ground of thought or opinion between themselves and individuals who profess and practise homeopathy; all 1878.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 21' practical discussion and consultation in concert, with reference to medical questions, would therefore manifestly be impossible, and to pretend to deliberate together, as professional advisers of the Syndicate and Senate in matters medical, would be to invite endless discussion of an unprofitable nature and to render the deliberations of the Faculty abortive. A certain degree of consensus of opinion, as to first principles, is essential in a body of men who are placed in the position of advisers of the University on special questions, and without it their discussions would be unprofitable, their advice worthless ; such consensus of opinjon would not exist between the present members of the Faculty and Dr. Mahendralal Sircar. Taking an earnest interest in the success and prestige of the Calcutta University, and especially in the welfare of its medical graduates, the Faculty cannot consent to be partakers in the introduction of a change which would imperil that success and deteriorate the value of the University medical degrees. At present these degrees are recognized by the Universities and Medical Corporations at home, and, under the Medical Act now before Parliament, they are included amongst the Colonial degrees, to which it is proposed that the privilege of registration should be extended ; the change contemplated by the Senate would effectually nullify this recognition and prevent the bestowal of the proposed privilege to the very serious loss of all present and future medical graduates, and, as the Faculty believe, to the manifest discredit of the University in public estimation. Dr. Cayley seconded the motion. The motion was carried unanimously. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, (Confirmed.) Registrar. T. EDMONDSTON CHARLES, M.D., President.

22 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [July 27, MINUTÉS OF THE SYNDICATE . FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 3. THE 27TH JULY. Present : TAE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. The HON'BLE J. O'KINBALY. THE HON'BLE ROM SICHUNDER MIT. TER. DB. T. E. CRABLES. MR. T. S. ISAAC. MR. ANANDA MOHAN Boge. 25. Read copy of a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, addressed to the Public Works Department, stating that the Engineer in charge of the University Building must take the pleasure of the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate as to whether he shall continue executing petty annual repairs, or whether they wish to make other arrangements, but that all repairs of a permanent nature must be entrusted to an officer of the Public Works Department. ORDERED To be recorded. 26. Read proceedings of a meeting of the Faculty of Law on the 5th of July. In connection with these proceedings, the Registrar reported that advertisements had been inserted in the leading daily news. papers of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Allahabad, and that twelve applications had been received.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 23 The Registrar submitted applications from the following gentlemen for the Tagore Law Professorship Mr. W. F. Agnew. Mr. J. G. W. Sykes. Braunfeld. H. R. Fink. C. C. Dutt. Baboo Trailokyanath Mitra. W. E. H. Forsyth. Amritalal De. A. Barooah. Maulvi Obaid Ullah. Baboo Rajkumar Sarvadhikari. Mr. Nagendranath Ghosh. 2 ... .. ... ORDERED- That the applications be laid before the Faculty of Law for consideration and report. 27. Read applications from the following graduates to be admitted to the next Premchand Roychand Examination, and to be examined in the subjects mentioned opposite to each :- Nilkanta Majumdar English, History, and Philosophy. Matilal Chattopadhyay Do. do. do. Chandidas Ghosh Do. do. do. Ilaraprasad Bhattacharyya Do. do. and Sanskrit. Pringle Kennedy Latin, Greek, Pure Mathematics, History, and Philosophy, Byomkes Chakravarti Pure Mathematics, Mixed Mathcmatics, and History. ORDERED That the applicants be admitted to the cxamination. 28. The Registrar requested the Syndicate to appoint an Examiner in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, for the next Entrance, F. A., and B. A. Examinations, in place of the late Mr. Blochmann. ORDERED That Major H. S. Jarrett and Maulvi Kabiruddin Ahmed be appointed joint Examiners in these subjects. 29. Read proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their meeting on the 23rd July. ORDERED That a copy of the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine be sent to Dr. Mahendralal Sircar, with special reference to the last paragraph of his letter which was read at the meeting of the Senate on the 13th July. 30. Dr. T. Edmondston Charles reported that he would be absent from Calcutta for three months, and that he had appointed Dr. S. B. Partridge to officiate as member of the Medical Faculty on the Syndicate during his absence.

24 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [July 27, 31. The Registrar enquired when the addition to the Regulations for the F. A. and B. A. Examinations, requiring students who have previously appeared at these examinations and failed to produce a certificate showing that they have since that time studied six months in an affiliated institution, was to come into force. ORDERED That this change in the Regulations came into force from the 1st of January next. 32. Read a letter addressed to the Syndicate by four members of the Faculty of Medicine and forwarded by Dr. D. D. Cunningham, in reply to the letter addressed to them by the Registrar in accordance with the order of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 17th of May. ORDERED That the letter be referred to the Faculty of Medicine, with a request that they will consider whether it is necessary to make any change in the present mode of conducting the University Examinations in Medicine. 33. The following bills of contingencies were passed :- FOR MAY AND JUNE 1878. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for Cal. endar, 1878-79 800 0 0 1 Municipal Corporation Houserate, 1st quarter, 1878 135 00 1 Municipal Corporation Water, Police, &c., 2nd quarter, 1878 116 4 0 251 4 0 1 Mint Master, Calcutta, for two gold medals 216 13 1 1 Conveyance bire to the clerk on duty 10 12 0 1 Duftry for binding peon-book and paste for May and June 1 4 0 1 Salary of an office punkah-puller for May and June ... 8 0 0 1 Umbrellas for office poons 2 8 0 1 One padlock and two iron rings for water- 0 4 0 1 Allowance to pressman from January to June 1878 6 0 0 1 Coolies and lithographic materials for printing questions 5 4 0 1 Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for framing the Carlyle Medal 21 00 1 Messrs. T. Black and Co., for printing questions 3 0 0 1 Insufficient postage to a cover received 0 1 0 1,326 2 1 ... ... 00 ... pipe box ... . ... ... .. 10. ..

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MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE.
25
Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P.
Brought over ...
1,326 2 1
Account, Tagore Fund.
1 Bill, Manager, Madras Mail, for advertisement 11 4 6
1 Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for London
freight and import charges on fifty copies
of Lectures
5 12 6
...
II.
...
17 1 0
Account, Radhakanta Fund.
1 Bill, Mint Master, Calcutta, for a gold medal...
113 72
Account, Mouat Testimonial Fund.
1 Bill, Mint Master, Calcutta, for a gold medal ...
110 15
TOTAL Rs.
1,566 11 8
II.
CHARLES H. TAWNEY,
Registrar.
(Confirmed.)
W. MARKBY,
Vice-Chancellor.

26 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 2, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF LAW FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 2 THE 2ND AUGUST. ... ... Present: TIE HON'BLE ROMESI CHUNDER MITTER, in the chair. MR. W. A. MONTRIOU. BADOO ANNADAPRASAD BANERJEA. The BION'BLE L. S. JACKSON. MR. J. H.A, BRANSON. RAI JAGADANANDA MOOKIRJEA, BABOO SUAMA CIURN SIECAR. BAILADOOR. TI HON'BLE AMIR ALI. THE Həx'BLE G. C. PAUL. TIE HON'BLE II. T. PRINSET. MR. H. BELL. THE ILON'BLE (, H. P. Evans. MR. H. MILLETT. THE HON'BLE MONINIMOHAN Ror. MR. A. PUILLIPS. MR. W. C. BONNERJEE. 34. The Faculty met to consider and report on the applications of candidates for the Tagore Law Professorship. The names of the applicants, and the subjects on which they are prepared to deliver a course of lectures, are subjoined :- Mr. W. F. Aynew The Law of Torts in India. Mr. Braunfeld The Laws relating to the Press, including tho Law of Copyright. Mr. C. C. Dutt The Law of Adoption. Mr. A. Barooah The Importance of Hindu Law in the Historical Study of Law, and its relation to Moderu Thought. Baboo Rijkunar Sarvadhikari Any one of the following: I. The Joint and Undivided Family under the Hindu Law. II. The Law relating to Hindu Widows. III. The origin of Sradh ceremonies, and the gradual developinent of the Principles of Inheritance in the diferent Schools of Hindu Law. Mr. J. G. W. Sykes The Law of Actionable Wrongs as adıninister. ed in British Ipilia, considered with a view to to the evolution of a Code of Actionablo Wrongs for India; or, ... .. ...

18781 MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF LAW. 27 The Law of Trusts and Fiduciary Relations as administered in British India, considered with a view to the evolution of a Code of Trusts for India. Baboo Trailokyanath Mitra ... Any ono of the following :- The Jaw relating to the Hindu Widow. The Law relating to the Wills of the Hindus. The Law relating to Alluvion and Diluvion. The Law of Adoption. Baboo Amritalal De The Rovonue Laws of Bengal; or, The Law of Landlord and Tenant. Maulvi Obaid Ullah Mahommedan Law. Mr. Nagendranath Ghosh Any one of the following :- I. Hindu Law of Inheritance. II. Hindu Law of Adoption. III. The Law of Alluvion and Diluvion. Mr. W. E. H. Forsyth The Law relating to Rivers, Alluvion, Riparian, and Jalkar rights. Mr. II. R. Fink ... The Criminal Law of British India. The Faculty resolved to recommend to the Syndicate that one of the following two gentlemen bo appointed Tagore Law Professor for one year, from the 1st of September 1878. The subjects in which the Faculty consider it desirable that these gentlemen should lecture are mentioned opposite their names. Mr. Forsyth The Law relating to Rivers, Alluvion, Riparian, and Jalkar rights. Baboo Trailokyanath Mitra The Law relatiug to the Hindu Widow. The Hon'ble Louis Jackson then proposed — That it be a suggestion to the Syndicate that it would be well if the Senate announced at every election of a Tagore Law Professor in what subject it was desired that the Professor next to be elected should lecture. Thie Hon'ble G. C. Paul seconded the motion. The motion was carried unanimously. .. CHARLES H, TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) ROMESH CHUNDER MITTER, President. $ 28 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 10, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 6. THE 10TH AUGUST. Present: MR. A. W. CROFT, in the Chair. REV. DR. K. M. BANERJEA. DR. RAJENDRALALA MITRA. RAJA HARENDRA KRISHNA, BABADOOR. Rev. J. P. ASHTON. DR. MAHENDRALAL SIRCAR. PANDIT MAIESCHANDRA NYARATNA. REV. LALBEHARI DE. VERY Rev. FATHER LAFONT. BABOO KALICIARAN BANERJEA. DR. SAURENDRAMOUAN TAGORE. REY, J. ROBERTSON. Mr. A. PEDLER. 35. The Faculty met to consider two letters of Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, referred to them by a resolution of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 28th of July 1877, with a request that they would consider the following two proposals contained in them, viz. :- (1) That the University revert to the old method of prescribing text-books in English Literature for the Entrance Examination ; and (2) That Physical Geography and Surveying be excluded from the Entrance Course. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra's two letters, having been circulated to all the Members of the Faculty, were taken as read. 36. Read a letter from Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B., Member of the Senate, on the subject of Dr. Rajendralala Mitra's letters. 37. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra proposed that the Faculty suggest to the Syndicate that the University revert to the old method of prescribing text-books in English Literature for the Entrance Examination. Raja Harendra Krishna, Bahadoor, seconded the motion. The motion was carried. 38. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra then proposed that the Faculty suggest to the Syndicate that two papers be set in English at the Entrance Examination- one in the text-book prescribed by the University, and one in Grammar and Composition. Raja Harendra Krishna, Babadoor, seconded the motion.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS. 29 The motion was carried. 39. The Rev. J. Robertson then proposed that the Faculty suggest to the Syndicate that the text-book should be limited to English Prose. The Very Rev. Father Lafont scconded the motion. The motion was carried. 40. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra then proposed that the Faculty suggest to the Syndicate that Physical Geography and Mensuration be excluded from the Entrance Course, and that some elementary treatise on Matter and Motion be substituted for it. Dr. K. M. Banerjea proposcd, as an amendinent, that the words "and that some elementary treatise on Matter and Motion be substituted for it" be omitted from the Motion. The Rev. James Robertson seconded the amendment. The amendment was put to the vote and carried. The motion thus amended was then put to the vote and carried. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) A. W. CROFT, President.

30 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (August 17, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No, 4, THE 17TI AUGUST. Present: THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. TIE HON'BLE ROYESI COUNDER Dr. S. B. PARTRIDGE. MITTER. MR T. S. ISAAC. THE HON'BLE J. O'KINEALY. MR. A. M. BOSE. MR. A. W. CROFT. 41. The Registrar reported that out of 7 candidates for the B. C. E. Examination, and 21 candidates for the L. C. E. Examination, the following had attained the standard for passing :- B. C. E. EXAMINATION. SECOND DIVISION. Gangopadhyay, Sureschandra Presidency College, C. E. Department. L. C. E. EXAMINATION. .. SECOND DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Chattopadhyay, Bhutnath Presidency College, C. E. Department, Upendranath Ditto ditto. Haridas Ditto ditto. De, Nivaran Chandra Ditto ditto. Bisvas, Priyakrishna Ditto ditto. 9 ... . ... ORDERED That the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette. 42. Read proceedings of the Faculty of Law at their meeting the 2nd of August. connexion with these proceedings, the Registrar announced Ra had received letters from Mr. W. F. Aguew and Baboo مرع 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 31 Rajkumar Sarvadhikari, requesting that their names might be withdrawn from the list of candidates. RESOLVED (1) That a meeting of the Senate be summoned for the 31st of August, for the purpose of electing a Tagore Professor of Law, and that the names of the gentlemen who are candidates for the Professorship be circulated to the Senate. (2) That on proceeding to elect a Professor from the candidates whose names are before the meeting, the following proposal be submitted by the Syndicate : that Mr. W. E. II. Forsyth, one of the candidates, who has been recommended by the Faculty of Law, be elected Tagore Professor for the term of one year, from the 1st of September 1878, and that the subject for the Professor's lectures be the Law relating to Rivers, Riparian and Jalkar rights, as recommended by the Syndicate in consultation with the Faculty of Law and Mr. Forsyth. 43. Read proceedings of the Faculty of Arts at their meeting on the 10th of August. RESOLVED That a prosc text-book in English be fixed for the Entrance Examination of 1880. ORDERED- That the Registrar inform the President of the Faculty of Arts that the Syndicate do not consider it desirable to exclude Physical Geography and Mensuration from the Entrance Examination. 4.1. Read a letter from Dr. Coates, Officiating Principal, Medical College, enclosing a preliminary Pass Examination Certificate of Mr. C. F. McKeon Behrend, from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and enquiring whether this certificate will be accepted by the University as qualifying him for admission to the College. RESOLVED- That the Syndicate recommend to the Senate that this certificate be for the purpose of the Medical Examinations of this University accepted as equivalent to the certificate granted to students who have passed the First Examination in Arts.

32 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 17, 45. Read opinions from the Heads of Colleges in answer to a circular from the Registrar, asking them (1) Whether it is, in their opinion, desirable that the University should prescribe any text-book in English History for the Entrance Examination; and, if so, (2) Whether it is desirable to continue the use of Lethbridge's History; and, if not, (3) Whether they can suggest any better text-book. ORDERED That the question be deferred. 46. The Registrar reported that Mr. W. T. Webb, who had been appointed Examiner in History for the next F. A. and B. A. Examinations, had obtained furlough to Europe on medical certificate, and requested that some gentleman might be appointed to examine the papers in his stead. ORDERED That Mr. Deighton be appointed Examiner in place of Mr. Webb. 47. Read a letter from the Secretary to the Woodrow Memorial Committee, forwarded with an endorsement from Mr. A. W. Croft, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, recommending that the bust of the late Mr. Woodrow be placed in the University building. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Secretary, Woodrow Memorial Committee, that the Syndicate approve of the bust being placed in the vestibule of the University building. 48. Read the following letter, addressed to the Registrạr by Dr. Mahendralal Sircar :- “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their meeting on the 23rd July, with special reference to the last paragraph of my letter addressed to you on the 13th July, and read at the meeting of the Senate on that date, which you have forwarded by direction of the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate. I have to offer the following remarks on these proceedings, and the vital importance of the principles involved in the discussion compels me to request, which I do most respectfully, that the Hon'ble the Vice-Chancellor and the Syndicate will lay this letter before the Senate at their next? meeting, or at any special mceting that may be called for the nose.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 33 6 “ From the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine, I find that the following resolution, proposed by Dr. Partridge and seconded by Dr. Cayley, was carried unanimously :- The meinbers of the Faculty of Medicine have, in accordance with the request of the Senate, carefully considered the letter addressed to the Registrar of the University by Dr. Mahendralal Sircar. They are oxceedingly sorry that a perusal of this document does not enable them to modify the resolution they recorded at the meeting of the Faculty held on the 15th May, and they feel themselves compelled still to affirm" that they are unable to associate themselves, as a Faculty of Medicine, with a member who professes and practises homöopathy." "From the whole tenor of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's letter, however, it is manifest that he ontirely misapprehends the motives which have influenced the Faculty in their decision, and this misapprehension the inembers of the Faculty aro anxious to correct. The Faculty do not, in the very faintest degree, desire to impose restriction upon the most perfect freedom of opinion and practice in Medical Science, nor do they pretend to condemn a professional brother" for entertaining views divergent froin their own; they simply maintain that homepathy is based upon principles and methods of enquiry which are diametrically opposed to what they believe to be the true principles and methods of sound, logical, inductive reasoning, and careful and thorough-going research, and, onter. taining such a belief, they necessarily feel that there can be no common meetingground of thought or opinion between themselves and individuals who profess and practise homeopathy; all practical discussion and consultation in concert with reference to medical questions would, thereforo, manifestly be impossible, and to pretend to deliberate together, as professional advisers of the Syndicate and Senate in matters incdical, would be to invite endloss discussion of an un. profitable nature and to render the deliberations of the Faculty abortive. A certain degreo of consensus of opinion, as to first principles, is essential in a body of men who are placed in the position of advisers of the University on special questions, and without it their discussions would be unprofitable, their advice worthless ; such consensus of opinion would not exist between the present members of the Faculty and Dr. Mahendralal Sircar. 'Taking an earnest interest in the success and prestigo of the Calcutta University, and especially in the welfare of its medical graduates, the Faculty can. not consent to be partakers in the introduction of a change which would imperil that success and deteriorate the value of the University Medical degreu. At present these degrees are recognized by the Universities and Medical Corporations at Home, and, under the Medical Act now buforei Parliament, they are included amongst the Colonial degrecs, to which it is proposed that the privilege of registration should be extended; the change coutemplated by the Senato would effectually nullify this recognition and prevent the bestowal of the proposed privilege to the very serious loss of all present and future Medical gra. duates, and, as the Faculty believe, to the manifest discredit of the University in public estimation.' “In this resolution the Faculty adhere to their previous resolution of the 15th May. But as they have condescended to give reasons for this adhesion, I am cheered with the thought that my case may not be altogether hopeless. If they had simply adhered to the position they have taken from the beginning of this unfortunate affair, without advancing any reasons for doing so, my case. was foreclosed by what I had myself said in the last paragraph of mus letter of the 13th July. But as they have not only given raasons, but reasons different from what I had expected, the Senate are CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. 34 [August 17, bound to consider those reasons by the light of the reasons that I may advance in my behalf. The Senate have, of course, absolute control and authority over their own decisions, and they may, if they like, disappoint me after having appointed me of their own free will to one of their Faculties. But I beg leave to submit that such treatment of a colleague, without ample and cogent reasons to justify it, would not be fair, at least, would not be consistent, and certainly would not command that respect from the public, which all acts of an august educational body like the Senate ought to do. “In declaring that the Faculty do not, in the very faintest degrec, desire to impose restriction upon the most perfect freedom of opinion and practice in Medical Science, nor do they pretend “ to condemn a professional brother” for entertaining views divergent from their own,' the Faculty have, I am glad to see, taken their stand upon reason, and not upon dogmatism, and I may therefore presume that they have thereby very nobly laid themselves open to reason and onviction. “ The Faculty say that they simply maintain that homeopathy is based upon principles and methods of inquiry which are diametrically opposed to what they believe to be the true principles and methods of sound, logical, inductive reasoning, and careful and thorough-going research.' If the opposite could be shewn by the light of fact and reasoning—if it could be shewn that homeopathy has been based upon careful and thorough-going research, with the aid of the rigid canons of logic, inductive and deductive,-if all this could be shown, then the Faculty in consistency ought to admit the untenableness of their inference that there can be no common meeting-ground of thought and opinion between themselves and individuals who profess and practise homeopathy.' Before proceeding to the demonstration, however, I may beg leave most respectfully to ask the Faculty if they have arrived at their opinion about homeopathy after a careful and thoroughgoing research, or if they have based this opinion upon the opinions or ipse dixit of others. I am led to put this question, because I was one of those who used to denounce homeopathy even more strongly than the Faculty have done, when I had only second-hand knowledge of it, and when I had absolutely no experience of it. I do not say that the honorable and learned members of our Faculty of Medicine are so unfair and unscientific as I was when only a raw and conceited youth from college. I should be very glad, and the Senate no doubt expect, to be assured that the Faculty of Medicine have not, without a thorough and careful examination, passed ... condemnatory judgment upon a system of therapeutics which * its origin in the profession, which pretends to be the only system based upon inductive reasoning, and which has been advocated by members of the profession whose honesty, and whose 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 35 capacity to judge in these matters, it would be almost madness to question. “If it be that the learned members of the Faculty of Medicine have formed their opinion of homeopathy from authority, and not from careful thorough-going research, which I need not say implies actual trials, then I would take the liberty to tell them, in the language of one greater than all of us, I have studied the subject, you have not; and then it ought to be a matter for the most serious consideration of the Senate-whether they are to be guided by an opinion formed, à priori, on the authority of others, and without a due examipation of the subject, or by an opinion formed after careful searching and repeated actual trials. “I am fully aware that discussion in a technical subject like medicine can only be profitably carried on between men conversant with the subject in all its details. It was for this reason that I attempted to remove the discussion from the Senate to its proper arena, the Faculty. But the Faculty have, by the very fact of refusiog all discussion with me, and of having submitted to the Syndicate and the Senate the reasons of the faith that is in them, preferred to be judged by lay opinion, and I must not shrink from accepting the same position. I shall try to divest the subject of as much technicality as I can. And I believe, indeed, that the subject may be put in such a light that there will be no difficulty with the members of the Senate to arrive at a correct conclusion in the matter by the light of the principles and methods of sound, inductive reasoning, with which all members of the Senate, other than members of the Faculty of Medicine, are, I am confident, as much familiar and conversant as the members of the said Faculty themselves. “The cardinal doctrines of bomeopathy are three in number : (1.) Remedial agents should be proved in health, before they are used as such in disease. In other words, before using any agent, other than food, in disease, they should be administered in healthy individuals, in order to elicit their physiological and healthdisturbing actions. (2.) When drugs have been so proved, they are most efficaciously used in diseased conditions similar to those they have been found to produce; the greater the similarity, the greater being their efficacy in removing those diseased conditions. (3.) When so used, their doses must be less than those which produce the similar artificial or drug-disease. “It is not a little remarkable that the germs of all these doctrines are traceable to pre-Habemannic times and authors. I have shown in my first letter that the second and third of these doctrines are found in the writings of Hippocrates, and that the 36 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 17, first was insisted upon, though not carried into effect, by Haller, who, in the preface to his Swiss Pharmacopeia, published in 1771, has these memorable words :-- In the first place the remedy is to be tried in the healthy body, without any foreign substance mixed with it; a small dose is to be taken, and attention is to be directed to every effect produced by it: for example, on the pulse, the temperature, the respiration, the secretions. Having obtained these obvious phenomena in health, you may then pass on to experiment on the body in a state of disease.' “This necessity of proving drugs was not only recognized but acted upon, before Hahnemann, by Baron Stoerck of Vienna, who instituted experiments upon himself with several powerful drugs, such as aconite, colchicum, conium, stramonium; and also, contemporaneously with Hahnemann, by Prof. Joerg of Leipsic, who gathered around him a band of enthusiastic and devoted disciples ; aided by whom, he instituted provings, with a number of our inost important therapeutic agents, with a view of determining their opposites.' "Since Hahnemann the necessity of proving drugs has been recognized by the most advanced thinkers in the profession, men who cannot be suspected of having any leaning towards Hahnemann and his system. Thus the third (Medical) section of the Scientific Congress held at Strasbourg, under the presidency of Prof. Forget in 1812, passed the following resolution :- That the third section are unanimously of opinion that experiments with medicines on healthy individuals are, in the present state of medical science, of urgent necessity for physiology and therapeutics; and that it is desirable that all known facts should be methodically and scrupulously collected, and, with prudence, cautiousness, and scientific cxactness, arranged, written out, and published.' “Dr. Acland, at the thirty-fifth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, addressing from the chair of the Physiological Sub-section, said : Physiological experiment is necessary to obtain the laws of action on healthy bodies, but alone it does not explain the laws of action on perverted organic structures or functions, as is seen in the common instance of the different effects of opium on a man in health, and on a man in disease. Clinical observation is, of course, beyond physiological research, and must, from its far more limited field, follow rather than precede. It aims at applying, in due course, all safe and established results of previous physiological inquiry, and adds the deductions exclusively its own. “So much with reference to the first doctrine of homeopathy, on which it must be admitted, from what has been advanced, that MINUTES OF THE SYNDYCATE. 1878.] 37 there is a singular consensus of opinion amongst the thinking portion of the profession. “In developing the second and third doctrines, Hahnemann only carried out the suggestion of Hippocrates; and this he did on the strict basis of Induction. Convinced of the uncertainty of medicine as practised in his time after the rule of contraries of Galen, and often at haphazard, and with no rule whatever, he forsook the profession, till an accident impelled him to try a track untrodden indeed, but which he thought worth exploring in the interests of suffering humanity. Hippocrates has said, diseases are sometimes cured by similars', and has given an instance in the utility of mandrake in mania. In translating Cullen's Materia Medica, he found mention made of cinchona bark producing symptoms like those of ague, and he knew that the bark was pre-eminently curative of ague. This was certainly confirmatory of Hippocrates' dictum. But a But a couple of instances are not sufficient either to establish or disprove the pretended law. If it, indeed, was a law of nature, it must be capable of verification. But the process of verification was not an casy matter. It entailed experiments not on inanimate matter, but on living mare, which meant no ordinary amount of suffering. The work was diflicult and arduous, but he set about it with an energy, devotion, and self-sacrifice, unknown before or since. “ Familiar with almost all the languages in which the records of medicine are kept, and having access to good libraries, he examined reported cures with reference to the properties of the drugs which brought about the cures, and this examination gave him presumptive evidence that the drugs acted on the law of similars. But he was not to be satisfied with this traditional or historical view of the question. IIe proved a few potent drugs in his own person, recorded the symptoms developed by them, and then administered them in cases of discase presenting the same array of symptoms. The result was beyond his most sanguine expectations. He pub. lished the results of his first trials, and invited his professional brethren to make the trials themselves. A few obeyed his call, mado the trial, were convinced, and became his ardent followers. The majority, however, refused to accept his invitation and opposed and ridiculed him as a visionary. But nothing daunted or discouraged he went on, and, with the aid of the few, proved drug after drug in the crucible of the healthy human organism, faithfully noting and recording their symptoms. When opportunities presented, he tried these drugs in fresh cases of disease with similar symptoms, and was more and more convinced of the truth of the law of similars. With reference to dose, he first used the ordinary ones, but was soon convinced of the wisdom of the Hippocratic rule, that the 38 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (August 17, dose should be less than what was capable of producing the diseased condition. He very cautiously began to reduce the dose, till he found that he could reduce it to such a minimum as to appear almost infinitesimally small compared with the ordinary doses. “This is the character of the research, both historical and experimental, with which Hahnemann proceeded to establish the law of similars, and the necessity of much smaller doses than ordinary of medicines that are to be administered after this law. If research which, not satisfied with ransacking the records of the past, took the shape of voluntary poisoning with potent drugs with a view to discovering their pure actions, and which proceeded slowly and patiently to examine case after case under drugs thus proved, -if research such as this was not careful and thorough-going, and was not based upon induction, it has yet to be shewn what research ever was in medicine or any other science. “No better proof can be given of the sound, inductive basis of these researches than the precious, practical, deductive fruits which they have borne. To mention a few out of a host of remedial agents which homeopathy has brought to light, I may cite the instance of aconite in acute inflammations, of belladonna in cere. bral congestions and erysipelas and scarlet fever, of camphor in cholera, of arsenic in gastritis and the vomiting and collapse of cholera, of cantharidis in inflammations of the urinary organs and in the suppression of urine of cholera, of ipecacuanha in the distressing nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, of chamomilla in the irritability and diarrhea of dentition, of mercury in mumps and tonsillitis, of hepar sulphuris sulphide of calcium) in suppurations, of nux vomica in dyspepsia and habitual constipation, &c., &c. Are not the virtues of these drugs eloquently extolled in modern orthodox manuals as infallible, charming, miraculous, without any acknowledgment of the source whence they have been derived ? I challenge any one to trace the paternity of their discovery to any other than the rescarches of Hahnemann and his followers. Even orthodox journals admit that certain portions of some of these manuals are distinctly homeopathic in the nature of the information supplied, in the sources of that information, in the modes of employing the drugs recommended-in short, in every way save the mode of prescription as regards dose.' Have we not recently had the spectacle of a renegade homeopath attempting to palm off the remedies of homeopathy as discoveries of his own, and was not his work reviewed in nearly all the orthodox journals as a remarkable production, baving been literally 'saluted with a chorus of praise,' till he was detected by, I believe, a writer in the British and Forcign Medico Chirurgical Review ??

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 39 “When such is the case; when the reform inaugurated by Hah. nemann was the first effectually to open the eyes of the profession to the vis medicatrix nature, to the mischief of giving powerful drugs at random and in heroic doses, and of the reckless use of such dangerous agents as the leech, the lancet, the cautery, &c., and to the necessity of conserving the powers of the organism; when the very treasures of homeopathy are being freely appropriated in doses remote indeed from Halinemann's infinitesimals yet cqually remote from the ordinary ones; when professors in orthodox institutions, like Dr. Sydney Ringer, whose manuals are text-books in our medical schools, approvingly quote the opinions of avowed homeopaths, like Mr. Blackley, Mr. Richard Hughes and Dr. Bayes, is it not doing violence to fact and injustice to Hahnemann and men who believe there is truth in his system, to maintain that the methods and principles of homeopathy are diametrically opposed to the methods and principles of sound, logical, inductivo reasoning ?--so diametrically opposed, indeed, that the exclusion of these men from all fellowship is the sine qua non of progress in legitimate, rational medicine ! “It is not intended to maintain that Hahnemann did not commit any mistakes; that all that he taught was absolute truth. On the contrary, I maintain now, as I have done ever since I saw truth in his system, that he fell into grave error when he said that the law of similars was not merely the best, but the only law of healing by drugs, and that his minimum dose was the only appropriate dose. This perhaps he did in the enthusiasm of a discoverer, for in proportion as he advanced in the new line he saw the great difference between it and the old, and no wonder, when we consider the state of medicine in his time, disfigured as it was by polypharmacy, and by the most reckless and almost barbarous use of the lancet, the lecch, the cautery, &c, no wonder that he should have considered old medicine as not only vain and worthless but as directly mischievous, and no wonder that he should have thought it his duty to point this out to the profession. Had he done so with moderation, in language showing respect to the fcelings and prejudices of his professional brethren, perhaps he would not have met with the opposition that he did, and perhaps he would have had the satisfaction of seeing his system recognised by the whole profession as certainly one of the rational methods, if not the only method, of treatment. But unfortunately for medicine, Hahnemann had not, with the sagacity of genius, the sobriety and modesty of a philosopher, and his example will stand as a lesson and a warning to future discoverers as to how they promulgate their discoveries. Great is truth, indeed, and will prevail; but we must not forget that truth has to be presented to mortal men, with passions, and prejudices, and weaknesses inherent in their very 40 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 17, organization; and we must not forget also that no one has the monopoly of all truth. “But are we to be deterred from accepting whatever of truth there is in his teachings, simply because it is mixed up with much of error, and conveyed in language which we cannot approve of ? To consistently pursue such a course in every matter, would be to persistently shut nearly all the avenues of knowledge; and if one were to do it, he would be charged with the height of folly. What then would be said of the person who not only refuses to be cnlightened himself on a particular subject, but would refuse all fellowship with one who would not like to remain in the dark ? And such has been the policy of the profession towards homeopathy and those who believe in it, notwithstanding that very great men, competent to think, to weigh evidence and judge,-men like Archbishop Whately and Sir William Hamilton,-have strongly protested against the injustice and the absurdity of the policy. “ The 'injustice and the absurdity' are beginning to be felt in the profession of good men and true. In an article, entitled Are there Therapeutical Laws ? in the Practitioner for June, after showing that one or two of the principles lying at the foundation of this (Hahnemann's) stem are substantially truc,' the writer, Dr. Ross of Manchester, goes on to review the moral aspects of the present attitude of the profession towards homeopathists ;' he very justly condemns, as we have ourselves so often done, the intolerant and sectarian character of the followers of Hahnemann, but with equal justice adds, and now having replied to the homeopathists, and having shewn that they have no right to complain of our conduct until they rectify their own position,' we, as a great and learned profession, are left face to face with the “ eternal verities." Does public opinion acquit us of all intolerance towards homoeopathists ? What will be the verdict of the historian of the future of the conduct of the profession as a whole in this controversy? And above all, do our own consciences absolve us of violating the laws of liberty? These are questions which we ought to face fairly and to answer dispassionately. *** We ought to show the world that we are a great and enlightened profession, and that we do not stoop to the paltry and immoral expedients of a trades' union in order to maintain our dignity and our emoluments. “The Faculty have objected, on other grounds than purely scientific, to associate with one who professes and practises homopathy. By this association, they say, the value of the medical degrees of the University would be deteriorated, and consequently the success: of the University would be imperilled, and its prestige lowered in public estimation. And the result would be, that whereas now the 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 41 medical degrees are recognised by the Universities and Medical Corporations at Home, and under the Medical Act now before Parliament they are included among the Colonial degrees to which it is proposed that the privilege of registration should be extended," they will cease to be so recognized, and will be deprived of the proposed privilege. The Faculty take an earnest interest in the success and prestige of the University, and therefore cannot consent to be partakers in the introduction of the change contemplated by the Senate by forcing upon them a member whose presence at their meetings would prove so disastrous to the University itself. “The objection would really be serious, and, unless I am extremely selfish, I cannot possibly have any other alternative than to quit my seat on the Faculty at once, if the basis on which the objection is made be a valid one. The Faculty must be much better informed than I am, and I have no right to question the correctness of their assertions. This much, however, I must say that I must have been grossly ignorant as to the matter of recognition of the medical degrees of the Calcutta University by the Universities and Medical Corporations at Home' (United Kingdom). I was under the impression that our medical degrees are as much recognized by these Universities and Corporations as are our other degrees, that is, that they are not recognized I read in the Inilian Meilical Gazette for June, edited by one of the eminent members of the Faculty, that efforts are being made to obtain for the medical degrees of the University of Calcutta legal recognition in England.' What are efforts being made in the Aledical Gazetle, are accomplished facts in the recent resolution of the Medical Faculty. If then it be the fact, as the Faculty assert, that our medical degrees are already recognized, and that the membership of the Faculty of one who is not, as misrepresented, 'a primitive homeopath,' but who adopts whatever of truth there is in homeopathy; who does not proclaim the universality of the so-called law of similars,' but who has always maintained it, more or less in harmony with Hufeland, Liston, Lauder Brunton, and Ross, as on of the methods of treatment; and who does not advocate the transcendentul doctrine of infinitesimals, but who, while believing in the necessity of much smaller doses than ordinary in treatment after the law of similars, holds the question of dose to be still an open onc ;- if the membership of such an one would 'nullify this recognition,' then I should say, exclude-nay, expel me from the Faculty at once. But before taking this step, ought not the Faculty to assure themselves again, and ought not they also to assure the Senate, of the fact and the possibility involved in the basis of their objection? “As for the assertion that the prestige of the University will be lowered in the estimation of tho public, my belief is that that CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [August 17, . prestige will suffer more when it is known that the University has, not only in violation of the spirit of the age, but in direct violation of the spirit and letter of its charter, pledged itself to a medical Creed, in obedience to the arbitrary and unreasonable demands of its Faculty of Medicine,-a Faculty which, while professing 'not in the faintest degrec to impose restriction upon the most perfect freedom of opinion and practice in medical science,' do, by their very act of refusing to associate with a professional brother ‘for holding views (in only one subjeet) divergent from their own,' show the greatest intolerance themselves, and virtually forbid all their graduates, present and future, to move out of the groove which has been cut out for them by their professors and their despotic Faculty. For, after this action of the Faculty, how few there will be among students, graduates, and even among the teachers who will think for themselves, how fewer still who will deem it worth their while to think for themselves ? and will there be any who will have the courage to avow their honest convictions ? Are the learned members of the Faculty aware that this has been the disastrous, demoral. izing influence of the 'absurd and unjust' policy of the profession towards homeopathy upon the younger members? And would not this influence be intensified, if the Faculty refuse to retrace the step they have taken ? “It might strike as singular that I should be so far forgetful of the character of a gentleman as to so obstinately insist upon my place on a Faculty who are now unanimous in refusing to associate with me, especially after what I said in the last paragraph of my first letter. The reasons might be gathered from wbat I have said in the first letter, and from what I have said in this. If they are not obvious, I will make them so by stating them briefly : “ First.--I indeed asked the Senate to remove my name at once from the Faculty of Medicine, if the Faculty should declare that I have forfeited their confidence by virtue of my having exercised my right as physician--a right which, I maintained, involved liberty of reason and of conscience to search and to avow truth. The Faculty have not said so, and it is for the Senate to judge whether they ought, under such circumstances, to remove my name. “ Second.-The question is not a mere personal matter. If it had been so if the Faculty had made it so, which very properly they have not done, nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to relieve my brethren of the Faculty of the pain from a thorn in their side. “Third.-1 submit the question is much broader than a mere personal one. It affects not my place alone on the Faculty, id; affects the place of all present and future members of the Senate and of the Faculties. It affects freedom of thought and inquiry 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 43 not only in medicine, but in all the subjects which come within the curricula of the University. And thus it affects not only the character of the Faculty, but it affects the character of the University itself. “It is for these grave reasons that I have been compelled to address the Senate again, and at so much length. And it is for these reasons that I am anxious that my learned and honorable colleagues pay due attention to what I have advanced in this letter. It would take no ordinary amount of patience on the part of the Senate to dispose of this unpleasant and unfortunate ratter, in a way so as to maintain the character and dignity of the University as a whole, and to protect the character and dignity of its individual members,—in a way, in fact, so as to preserve the University from substantial injury. I can assure the Senate that nothing will be more painful to me than to be the cause, or even thought to be the cause, of any such possible injury. And I can assure them that I shall loyally abide by any decision they may think proper to come to on the subject." ... ORDERED That the letter be referred to the Senate for consideration. 19. The following bills of contingencies were passed : FOR JULY 1878. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. i Bill, J. M. Edmond & Co., for loan of a mahogany table 5 0 0 Lithographic transſer paper, ink, &c. 3 4 6 Binding receipt books and memo. books 3 3 0) (Hazette of India, 2 volumnes 3 0 0 Salary of an office punkah-puller for July 4 0 0 Wax candles and cocoamut oil 0 0 Insufficient postago to covers received () + 6 19 12 0 1 1 1 1 Account, Tugore Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for printing and binding 500 copies Lectures for 1877 1,540 8 0 2 Bills, Service postage stamps 100 0 0 1 Bill, English man Press for advertisement 10 8 0 1 Indian Daily News for 9 8 0 1 Statesman Press for 7 14 0) Indian Mirror for 4 8 0 1 Hindu Patriot for 8 0 0 1 Pioncer Press for 7 3 0 1 Bombay Gazette for 16 7 0 Madrus Muil for 13 2 6 ܝܙ 1 1,717 10 6

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CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY.
[August 17,
Account, Library Fund.
Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P.
3 0 0
1 Bill for binding books ...
Mossrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for binding
book!
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36 0 0
39 0 0
Toral Rs.
1,776 6 6
...
CHARLES H. TAWNEY,
Registrar.
(Confirmed.
W. MARKBY,
Vice-Chancellor.

1878. ] MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 45. MINUTES OF THE SENATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 3, The 31st AUGUST. Present: TUE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. THE HON'BLE THE OFFG. CIIIEF Jus- TICE OF BENGAL. REV. DR. K. M. BANERJEA. DR. S. B. PARTRIDGE. MAULVI ABDUL LUTEEF,KHAN BALLADOOR DR. RAJENDRALALA MITRA. RAJAJI HABENDRAKRISHNA, BALLADOOR. RAI JAGADANANDA MUKERJEE, BAHADOOR THE HON'BLE G. C. PAUL. MR. H, BELL. RAI KANAILAL DE, BAHADOOR. MR. A. W. CROFT, MAJOR H. S. JARRETT. DR. J. ANDERSON. MUNAI 'TAMIZ KHAN, KUAN BAUADOOR. BABU DURGACA URN LAW. DR. K. MCLEOD. MR. H. MILLETT, MR. A. PHILLIPS. BABU ANNADAPRASAD BANERJEA. BABU KRIBINA KAMAL BUATTACHAR GYA. MR. J. H. A, BRANSON. BABU OMESCIUNDER Dutt. BABU SYAMA CHAKN SIRCAR. TIE HON'BLE ROMESHCHUNDER MIT- TER. Mr. H. B. MEDLICOTT. DR. H. CAYLEY. TIE HON'BLE MOHARAJA JOTENDBA MOUUN TAGORE. MB, W. M. SOUTTAR. DR. T. LEWIS. DB. D. CUNNINGHAM. THE HON'BLE AMEER ALI. ME. A. W. GARRETT. PANDIT MAIESHCHANDRA NYAYARATNA. REV. LAL BEIARY Day. MR. C. F. EGERTON ALLEN. VERY REV. FATHER LAFONT. BABU KALI CHARAN BANERJBE, THE IION'BLE H. T. PRINSEP. THE HON'BLE MORINI MOHUN Roy. MR. W. C. BONNERJEE. Rev. ROBERTSON. MR. A. PEDLER. 50. The Senate proceeded to elect a Tagore Law Professor.

CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. 46 [August 31, The following gentlemen were candidates for the Professorship, and their names were before the Senate, the proposed subject for lectures being mentioned opposite to each candidate's name : Mr. Braunfeld ... C. C. Dutt A. Borooah ... ... J. G. W. Sykes Babu Trailokyanath Mitra The Laws relating to the Press, including the Law of Copyright. The Law of Adoption. The Importance of Hindu Law in the Histor. ical Study of Law, and its relation to Modern Thought. The Law of Actionable Wrongs as administered in British India, considered with a view to the evolution of a Code of Actionable Wrongs for India; or, The Law of Trusts and Fiduciary Relations as administered in British India, considered with a view to the evolution of a Code of Trusts for India. Any one of the following: The Law relating to the Hindu Widow. Ditto relating to the Wills of the llindus. Ditto relating to Alluvion and Diluvion. Ditto of Adoption. ... The Revenue Laws of Bengal; or, The Law of Landlord and Tonant. Mahomedan Law, Any one of the following :- Hindu Law of Inheritance. Ditto of Adoption. The Law of Alluvion and Diluvion. ... The Law relating to Rivers, Alluvion, Riparian and Jalkar rights. The Criminal Law of British India, Babu Amritalal De . Maulvi Obaidullah Mr. Nogendranath Ghose ... Mr. W. E. H. Forsyth H. R. Fink ... .. The Very Revd. Father Lafont proposed that Mr. Forsyth should be elected Tagore Law Professor for the term of one year, from the 1st of September 1978, and that the subject for the Professor's lectures should be the Law relating to Rivers, Alluvion, Riparian and Jalkar rights, as recommended by the Syndicate in consultation with the Faculty of Law and Mr. Forsyth. The Hon'ble Louis S. Jackson, Officiating Chief Justice, second. ed the motion. The Revd. Dr. K. M. Banerjea proposed as an amendment that Dr. Trailokyanath Mitra should be elected Tagore Law Professor for the term of one year, from the 1st of September next, and that the subject of his lectures should be the Law relating to the Hindu Widow, as recommended by the Faculty of Law.

1878. ] MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 47 Rai Jagadananda Mukerjee, Bahadoor, seconded the amendment, The amendment was put to the vote and carried. The Chairman then declared Dr. Trailokyanath Mitra to be duly elected Tagore Law Professor for one year, from the 1st of September 1878. 51. Dr. Partridge then proposed that a preliminary pass certificate granted to Mr. C. F. M'Keon Behrend by the Royal College of Surgeons of England should be, for the purpose of the Medical Examinations of the University of Calcutta, accepted as equivalent to the certificate granted to students who have passed the F. A. Examination. Mr. A. W. Croft seconded the motion. The motion was carried unanimously. 52. Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's letter, referred to the Senate for consideration by a resolution of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 17th of August 1878, having been circulated to all the Members of the Senate resident in Calcutta, was taken as read. Dr. Partridge then proposed that the Senate rescind the resolution passed at their last annual meeting, nominating Dr. Mahendralal Sircar to be a Member of the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Cayley seconded the motion. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra proposed as an amendment. That after consideration of the letter addressed by Dr. Mahen. dralal Sircar to the Registrar of the University of Calcutta, and of the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their last meeting, the Senate resolve that Dr. Mahendralal Sircar's letter and the proceedings of the Faculty be recorded. Dr. K. M. Banerjea seconded the amendment. The amendment was put to the vote and carried. CHARLES II, TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) W. MARK BY, Vice-Chairman.

48 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [ August 31, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 5. THE 31st August. Present: TIE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the chair. MR. A. W. CROFT. | The HON'BLE ROMESTICHUNDER MITTER. Dr. S. B. PARTRIDGE. 53. Read the following letter from Mr. Ameer Ali, Secretary to the National Mahomedan Association: THE NATIONAL MANOMEDAN AssociaTION OFFICE, Culcutta, the 20th August 1878. To TEE REGISTRAR OF THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. SIR, I am directed to bring to your notice that the Ead-uluzha festival, one of the most sacred holidays of the Mahomedan faith, falls on the 5th of December next. The fourth day of the First Arts and Entrance Examinations also happens to fall on the same day. The National Mabomedan Association notes this circumstance with much regret, as it will entail great hardship upon Mussulman examinees, and would be regarded as a serious grievance by the Mahomedan community. The Association has no doubt that this coincidence is the result of some oversight, and ventures to hope that when the matter will be brought to the notice of the Syndicate, the dates will be altered. I have the honor to be, SIR, Your most obedient Servant, AMEER ALI, Secretary.

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49
Read also a letter to the same effect from Maulvi Abdool
Luteef, Khan Bahadoor, Secretary to the Mahomedan Literary
Society of Calcutta, dated the 29th August 1878.
ORDERED
That the Entrance and First Arts Examinations be postponed
for one week, and that Mr. Ameer Ali and Maulvi Abdool
Luteef, Khan Bahadoor, be informed accordingly.
54. Read a letter from the Secretary and Treasurer to the Bank
of Bengal, dated the 15th August 1878, enclosing a copy of the
Government notification of the 12th instant, regarding the 5} per
cent. loan, and enquiring what course the Syndicate wish to adopt
with regard to the 5 per cent. securities held by the University of
Calcutta.
ORDERED
That the Registrar inform the Secretary and Treasurer of the
Bank of Bengal that the University authorities are willing
to surrender their 5.) por cent, sexurities, and exchange them
for Notes bearing interest at l. per cent. per annum.
CIIARLES II, TAWNEY,
Rryistrus.
(Confirined)
WILLIAM MARKBY,
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50 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Sept. 7, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE $ FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 6. TIE 7TH SEPTEMBER. Present : THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. Mr. A. W. CROFT. THE HON'BLE J. O'KINEALY. MR. T. S. Isaac. 55. Read a letter from Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar, dated the 7th of September 1878. RESOLVED That Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar's name be transferred from the Faculty of Medicine to that of Engineering. 56. Read letters from Dr. Partridge and seven other members of the Faculty of Medicine. ORDERED) That the following answer be sent to each of these gentlemen :- “SIR,-I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the 2nd of September 1878 and in reply to state that the Syndicate find from the Bye Laws that they have no power to accept the resignation by any member of the Senate of the Faculty to which he belongs. Should you have any further communication to make, I am to inform you that the Syndicate will meet on Saturday next to consider the question”. 57. Rcad opinions from the Heads of Aliliated Institutions, or the desirability of substituting some other text book in Englishi History for the one at present required to be read by candidates for the Entrance Examination.

1878.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 51 RESOLVED- That Edith Thomson's History of England, being volume II of the Historical Course for schools, edited by Edward A Freeman, D. C. L., be fixed for the Entrance Examination of 1880. 58. Read a letter from the Warden, St. Thomas'College,Colombo, requesting that either Colombo may be made a centre for holding the B. A. Examination, or that an exception may be made in case of a Ceylon student, to the rule which requires candidates for the B. A. degree to present themselves for cxamination at Calcutta or Agra. ORDERED- That the Registrar inform the Warden of St. Thomas' College, Colombo, that the Syndicate regret that they cannot comply with his request. 59. Read a letter from Colonel J. F. Tennant, suggesting that it would enable the business of the University to be done with much convenience if the votes of the members of the Senate could be given in writing. ORDERED That the registrar inform Colonel Tennant that the Syndicate regret that they are prohibited by Section IX of the Act of Incorporation from adopting his suggestion. 60. Read a letter from the Executive Engineer, Presidency Circle, forwarding a copy of letter No. 193 m. Ac of 27th of July 1878, from the Government of India to Government of Bengal, also a copy of Office Memorandum, Home Department, No. 162,0f 26th June, and estimating the cost of necessary repairs to the University building for the current year at Rs. 1,725. RESOLVED- That the matter be referred to the Superintending Engineer, Presidency Circle. 61. The following forms of application and certificate were prescribed for the admission of female candidates to the Examinations in Arts.

. 52 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Sept. 7, ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. APPLICATION. To the Registrar of the Calculia University. SIR, I request permission to present myself at the ensuing Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University. The Entrance fec* of 10 rupees is forwarded herewith. I am, &c., &c., CERTIFICATE. I certify that the above-named candidate has not already passed the Entrance Examination of This certificate is to be signed the Calentta University; and that she by a Principal or. lIcad Master has signed the above application. of an affiliated institution or a Member of the Senate. The 187 PARTICULARS TO BE FILLED IN BY TIIE CANDIDATE. Name. Religion. Race (i. c., nalion, tribe, 8c.). Where cducated. Present position (i. e., at school or present occupation). Whether she has appeared at the Entrance Examiuation of any previous year. Town or village where resident. Name of father or guardian. Where to be examined. Language in which, besides English, to be examined. Language into which translation to be made. * The fee must be paid in cash or by Trcasury draft, or Post Office Order, Postage Stamps will not be recoived.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 53 FIRST EXAMINATION IN ARTS. APPLICATION. To the Registrar of the Calcutta University. SIR, I request permission to present myself at the ensuing First Examination in Arts of the Calcutta University, The fee* of Rs. 20 is forwarded herewith. I am, &c., &c. CERTIFICATE. I certify that the above-named candidate has satisfied me, by the production of the Registrar's Certi- This certificate is to be signed by a l'rincipal or lIcau Master ficate, that she has passed the Entrance of an affiliated Institution, or Examination of the University of Cala Meinber of the Senate, cutta ; and that I believe the subjoined account to be true. } The 187 PARTICULARS TO BE FILLED IN BY TIIE CANDIDATE. Date of Entrance. Race (i. e., nation, tribe, 8c., Sc.). Religion. Present occupation. Where to be examined. Whether she has appeared at the First Arts Examination of any previous year. Language in which, besides English, to be examined. Alternative subject (Psychology or Chemistry) Do. do. (Botany or 2nd paper in Mathematics). * The fee must be paid in cush or by Treasury draft, or Post Office Order, Postage Stamps will not bo received.

51 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Sept. 7, B. A. EXAMINATION. APPLICATION. 7'o the Registrar of the Calcutta University. Sir, *' I request_permission to present myself at the ensuing Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the* Course. I am, &c. &c., CERTIFICATE. I certify that the above-named candidate has satisfied me, by the production of the Registrar's Certificate, This certificate is to be signed by a Principal or Head Master that she has passed the First Examinof an affiliated Institution or a ation in Arts of the University of Member of the Senate. Calcutta; and that I belicve the subjoined account to be true. m The 187 PARTICULARS TO BE FILLED IN BY THE CANDIDATE. Date of Entrance. Date of passing First Examination in Arts. Race (i. e., nalion, tribe, Sc., 8c.. Religion. Present occupation. Where to be examined. * State wlicther in the 4, or B. Course.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 55 any Whether she has appeared at the B. A. Eamination of previous year. Subjects in which she desires to be examined- A. Course 2nd Language, Alternative Subjects ; or'B. Course Alternative Subjects. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) W. MARKBY, Vice Chancellor.

56 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Sept. 14, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 7. THE 14T11 SEPTEMBER. Present: THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. TIe IION'BLE ROMESHCUTNDER MITTER. TAE HON'BLE J. O'KINEALY. MR. A. W. CROFT, MR. T. S. ISAAC. MR. A. M. BOSE. 62. Read letters from Dr. Partridge and six other Members of the Faculty of Medicine withdrawing their resignations. ORDERED To be recorded. 63. The Registrar reported that it was desirable to postpone the B. A. and B. 4. Examinations for one week. ORDERED That the next B. A. and B. L. Examinations commence on Monday the 13th of January 1879. 64. Read a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department, stating that lis Excellency the Governor General in Council has been pleased to appoint the Ilon'ble Sir A. J. Arbuthnot, k. ('. S. !., to lc Vicc-Chancellor of the University in succession to the Hon'ble W. Markhy. ORDERED To be rccorded. CIIARLES II. TAWNEY, (Confirmed.) Registrar. W. MARKBY, Vice-Chancellor.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE.* 57 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878.79. No. 8. THE 7TH DECEMBER. Present: THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. MR. CROFT. DR. CHIARLES. Tie JION'BLE ROMESICHANDRA MITRA, MR. A. M. Bose, 65. Read a letter from Mr. Roper Lethbridge, C.I.E., asking that the Ilistory of India, compiled under his direction, may be retained as a text-book for the Entrance Examination. ORDERED That the following gentlernen be requested to form a Committee for the purpose of advising the Syndicate on the question of selecting a text-book in English History for the Entrance Examination Mr. A. Garrett. Rev. J. Robertson. Mr. A. E. Gough. 66. Read a letter from Mr. Roper Lethbridge, C.I.E., asking that if the University returns to the system of appointing a textbook in English for the Entrance Examination, his Entrance Selections may be adopted for the first two or three years. ORDERED That the Committee appointed for the purpose of re-considering a text-book in English History for the Entrance Examination be requested to recommend text-books in English literature also. 67. Read a letter from the Very Rev. E. Lafont, s. J., Rector of St. Xavier's College, and F. Biden, Esq., M. A., Principal of LaMartinière College, requesting the Syndicate to invite and give 58 + CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. | Dec. 7, due weight to expressions of opinion on the part of heads of affiliated institutions as to the merits (1) of the various text-books now in use ; (C) of books which may at any future time be proposed as text-books before sanctioning their adoption. ORDERED That as the question of revising the University Courses is now before the Faculty of Arts, they be invited to take into consideration the desirability of appointing a permanent Sub- Committee to revise from time to time the list of the University text-books, and that the Rector of St. Xavier's College and the Principal of La Martinière College be informed accordingly. 68. Read a letter from the Secretary and Treasurer, Bank of Bengal, stating that the 5 per cent. Securities for Rs. 3,000 belonging to the Duff Memorial Fund have been transferred to the 45 per cent. Loan of 1879. ORDERED To be recorded. 69. Read a letter from Mr. K. Deightou, declining to superintend the Examination at Agra of the B. A. candidates from colleges other than his own, unless the University sces fit to guarantee him the sum of Rs. 300 for each occasion. Read also a letter from C. Robertson, Esq., Secretary to Government, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, asking how the fee of Rs. 100 came to be allowed to Mr. Deighton for superintending the Examination at Agra out of University funds when it had been arranged that he should receive Rs. 50 from each of the four Gov.' ernments from which candidates came to be examined, and stating that His Honor the Licutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh is of opinion that if the present arrangement is continued, the whole fee should come from the same instead of falling, as in part it does, on the revenues of the North- Western Provinces and Oudh; and further, that if this be not approved, His IIonor would be inclined to discontinue the examination at Agra. ORDERED (1) That Mr. Deighton be informed that the Syndicate will guarantee him the sum of Rs. 300 for this occasion, and that a further communication will be made to him a the subject. (2) That a copy of Mr. Robertson's letter be sent to the Panjah Government, asking them whether they would prefer source 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 59 . to continue the present arrangement or to let the intend. ing candidates come to Calcutta. (3) That the Secretary to Government, North-Western Provinces, be informed that a remuneration of Rs. 100 to Mr. Deighton was passed by the Syndicate in their contingent bill on the 26th of January 1873, and that it therefore appears probable that it was all along intended that he should receive this remuneration in addi. tion to the sums contributed by the provinces from which candidates present themselves for examination; and that before coming to a conclusion on the question of abolishing Agra as a centre for the B. A. Examination, the Syndicate wish to communicate on the subject with the Government of the Panjab. 70. Read a letter from Mr. F. Pincott, recommending the introduction of his edition of Sakuntala in Hindi, addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal and forwarded by the Director of Public Instruction for consideration. ORDERED That Mr. Pincott be informed that Hindi is only read by candidates for the Entrance Examination, and that the work would be too costly for that class of students. 71. Read a letter from Messrs. Trübner & Co., recommending the introduction of Professor Weber's History of Indian literature. ORDERED That Messrs. Trübner & Co. be informed that the Uhiversity is engaged in revising the courses of study, and that the question of adopting the work as a text-book for the more advanced students will be taken into consideration, 72. Read a letter from the Inspector of Schools, Western Circle, forwarded by the Director of Public Instruction for Bengal, suggesting that the signatures of Joint and Assistant. Inspectors may be accepted in the certificates presented by private candidates for the Entrance and other Examinations of the University. ORDERED That the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, be informed that the Syndicate do not think it desirable to recommend the Senate to make this alteration in the form of certificate. 73. Read a letter from the Head Master, Ray Bareilly School, enquiring whether four students who have been admitted from 60 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [ Dec. 7, that school as candidates for the Entrance Examination, and have subsequently severed their connexion with it, forfeit their right of appearing at the Examination. ORDERED (1) That the four students be admitted, and that the Inspector- General of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh be requested to communicate the names of the 'expelled students, and the cause of their expulsion. (2) That the Head Master of the Ray Bareilly School be asked how he came to sign the entrance certificates of the three students with regard to whom he states in his letter that he has every reason to fear that they will fail. 74. Mr. Lydekker was appointed an Examiner in Zoology. 75. Mr. P. O’Kinealy and Dr. Gurudas Bandyopadhyay were appointed Examiners in Law. 76. The Registrar enquired what portions of the subjects in Chemistry and Botany are to be fixed for the next Medical Examination. ORDERED That the following natural orders be fixed for the Examination of 1879 :- Malvacea. Anacardiaceæ. Leguminosa. Compositæ. Acanthaccæ. Euphorbiacea. Graminea. Palmeæ. 77. Read a letter from Mr. G. Bellett, Officiating Inspector of Schools, Rajshye Division, stating that the Head Master of the Putia School has sent up three boys who were at the Bauleah Collegiate School until the third week in October, riz., Mohommed Reaz Uddin, Bamandas Majumdar, and Baradagobinda Maitra, and requesting that they be excluded from the ensuing Entrance Examination. ORDERED- That the three boys in question be excluded from the Examination, as their certificates are not signed by the 1878.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 61 Head Master of the School in which the candidates have been or are being educated, as required by the Regulations, and that the Inspector of Schools be informed accordingly. 78. Read a letter from Mr. J. Van Someren Pope, Officiating Principal, Dacca College, suggesting that a fixed rule of marking in English be laid down for the Entrance Examination, and that the third class in the Entrance Examination be abolished. ORDERED- That Mr. Pope be informed that the Syndicate do not think it desirable to adopt his proposals. 79. Read a letter from Dr. D. B. Smith, forwarding an application from Mr. A. V. Lazarus, praying that his degree of B. A. of Oxford may be accepted by the University of Calcutta in lieu of the First Arts Examination test. RESOLVED- That the Syndicate recommend to the Senate that for the purpose of the Medical Examinations of the University, the degree of Bachelor of Arts held by Mr. Lazarus may be considered equivalent to the 1. A. certificate, and that Dr. Smith be informed accordingly. 80. Read a letter from the Officiating Principal, Sanskrit College, enquiring whether students who paid their fees at any previous F. A. and B. A. Examination and could not present themselves for such Examination may be admitted to the Examination of this year on payment of the prescribed fee, and exhibiting the Registrar's receipt for a former payment. ORDERED That such students may be admitted. 81. Read a letter from the Inspector of Schools, Presidency Circle, stating that some boys sent up from the Jaynogur School were students of the South Baharoo School till the 1st July last. Read also two petitions from the Secretary, Jaynogur School. ORDERED- That the boys in question be admitted, and that the papers connected with the case be sent to the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, in order that he may decide to which school the candidates should be assigned.

62 ('ALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Dec. 7, 82. The Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, reported that Chandra Bhushan Chand, who was rejected at the test Examination of the Khagra L. M. S. Institution at the end of October last, applied for admission to the Berhampore Collegiate School, was admitted by the Principal of the College, passed the text Examination of that school, and was sent up to the Registrar as a pupil of the Berhampore Collegiate School. ORDERED That Chandra Bhushan Chand be excluded from the ensuing Entrance Examination. 83. Read a letter from Mr. C. H. Tawney, Registrar, Calcutta University, asking for a month's leave, and recommending that Mr. A. M. Nash, Professor in the Presidency College, may be appointed Acting Registrar during his absence. ORDERED That the application for leave may be granted, and that Mr. A. M. Nash be appoiuted from the 9th December. 84. The following bills of contingencies were passed FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1878. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 1 Bill for service postage stamps 58 0 () Superintendent of Stationery for the value of stationery articles 1,090 15 3 1 „ for landing charges and conly hire for bringing two cases containiug examination papers 5 2 0 1 for one godown horse 1 allowance to office punkah-puller for August and September 8 00 1 cost for bringing stationery articles in office 6 4 (0) 1 sundry expenses 12 1] 1,189 3 3 Account, Ingure Fund. 1 Bill, coolies for distributing lectures 1 120) TOTAL 1,190 15 3 1 8 3 0 0 FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1878. 1 Bill, Secretary, Bank of Bengal, for bills of exchange in favor of Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode for printing examination papers in Eng. land 1,631 13 3 1 in favor of E. B. Cowell, Esq., for correcting the proofs 249 6 7 1 for service postage stamps 100) 0 0 ... Carried over 1,981 2 10 2878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 63 Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 1,981 2 10 . . 1 110 00 325 0 0 33 4 0 2.1 0 0 ... 1 25 10 6 25 00 ... ܢܚܙ 3 135 0) 0 1 > .. Brought forward 1 Bill for fencing durma mats on the northern verandah for 50 teak-wood desks and stools... 1 for repairing old desks and stools... 1 allowance to an extra writer brass wire, string, &c., for ex. amination purposes 1 cost for arranging the seats for tho examination Municipal Corporation for house rate, 2nd quarter of 1878 Municipal Corporation for houso rate, 3rd quarter of 1878, for water, police, &c. for writing Armenian questions 3 telegrams to Rangoon and Colombo 1 discounting a cheque which was payable at the Bank of Bengal, Benares discounting a Bombay Currency Note 1 , for a portfolio, binding receipt book, extra duftries' labour, and paste, for October and Noveinber 1878 Paid for insufficient covers received 1 Bill for a pair of glass tumblers 1 conveyance hire to the clerk on duty 1 for tin inkstands and two tin pots for distributing ink 116 12 1 ... 8 0 1 1 9 ... 1 9 0 1 0 ... 1 1 0 0 4 6 1 (0) 27 00 23 9 0 0 2,831 11 7 Account, Library Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for new books Ditto ditto ditto Ditto ditto ditto ... 225 1 0 26: 13 0 23 6 0 1 510 4 0 TOTAL 3,314 15 7 I. A. M. NASH, Acting Registrar. (Confirmed.) A. J. ARBUTHNOT, Vice-Chancellor.

6.4 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan. 10, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 3. Tue 10TH JANUARY. Present: DR. T. EDMONDSTONE CHARLES, in the Chair. > Dr. S. B. PARTRIDGE. A. J. PAYNE. W. J. PALYER. D. B, SMITH. J. M, CUNNINGHAM. RAY KANAIIAL DE, BAHADOOR. DR. GEORGE KING. J. ANDERSON. MUNSHI TAMEEZ KAAN, KHAN BAHA DOOR. DR. K. MCLEOD. 1. CAYLEY. 99 DR. D. D. CUNNINGHAM. 85. Read the following letter addressed to the President and Members of the Syndicate of the University of Calcutta, referred to the Faculty of Medicine by a resolution of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 27th of July 1878:- To the President and Members of the Syndicate of the University of Calcutta, dated Calcutta, the 22nd July 1878. “In a letter dated 24th April, we drew the attention of the Syndicate to the currency in Calcutta of a rumour that the recent examinations for medical degrees and licenses had been conducted in a somewhat irregular manner, and, being interested in the good name of the University and particularly in that of the 1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 65 21. Faculty to which we belong, we ventured to ask you to enquire into the truth of this rumour, and to satisfy yourselves whether or not these examinations had been conducted in accordance with the regulations laid down for the guidance of Examiners in Medicine. 2. The reply which we received was to the effect, that in the opinion of the Syndicate no irregularities had occurred, as no student had been passed without the consent of the Board of Examiners, but that steps would be taken to frame regulations which would remove all uncertainty as to the conduct of these examinations in future. The Syndicate having thus virtually declined to enquire into the truth of the rumour above alluded to, we have taken the trouble of doing so ourselves. so ourselves. But, before proceeding to lay before you some of the results of our enquiry, we think it well to call briefly to mind the mode in which the medical examinations are conducted at this University. 3. The Examiners in Medicine are appointed by the Syndicate, See minutes of the Syndi- and each determines, according to a standcate, vol. 20, puges 4, 7, 18, ard sanctioned by the Syndicate, the number of marks gained in his subject by each candidate. The standard at present in force is as follows: The full value marks in the junior L. M. S. and M. B. Examinations are 1,000 cach for Anatomy, Phisiology and Materia Medica, and 600 each for Chemistry, Botany, and Comparative Anatomy. The passing marks in individual subjects are 500 each in the first three subjects, 240 in Chemistry, and 200 in Botany and Comparative Anatomy. But, in addition to passing marks in individual subjects, each candidate must, in order to qualify, obtain 50 per cent. of the aggregate full marks. In the senior examinations the full marks are 1,000 each for Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, and 600 each for Pathology, Hygiene, and Medical Jurisprudence ; while the passing marks in the former three subjects are 50 per cent., in the latter three 35 per cent., and on the aggregate 50 per cent. After the Examiners have awarded their marks, they are summoned to a Board meeting, at which the fate of candidates for diplomas is finally decided. In his letter of appointment, each of the Examiners at the recent examinations was, we understand, asked to inform the University Registrar, prior to the meeting of the Board of Examiners, of the marks he had awarded to each candidate. The “ Board of Examiners," let it be observed, is not synonymous with the Examiners in Medicine, because the President of the Medical Faculty for the time being is ex-officio President of the " Board of Examiners," whether he happens to be himself an Examiner in any subject or not. 4. At the recent examination we find that, with the consent of the majority of the “ Buard of Examiners," the following 66 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan. 10, alterations (which, for convenience, we give in a tabular form) were made in the marks awarded by the Examiners :- SECOND L. M. S. EXAMINATION. Student's number, Subject. Original number of marks. Changed by the Board to 3 Medical Jurisprudence Medicine 328 500 400 550 ... 10 { Medical Jurisprudence Medicine Midwifery 227 500 500 336 550 550 ... 310 500 500 375 530 520 ... Medical Jurisprudence 20 ŞMedicine Midwifery Medical Jurisprudence 27 Medicine Midwifery Medical Jurisprudence 272 500 500 315 575 575 ... 39 { Medicine ... 191 441 210 500 67 Medical Jurisprudence Medicine Surgery Midwifery Hygiene 197 500 565 500 250 225 530 605 530 300 ... OVO FIRST M. B. EXAMINATION. Student's nomoer. Subject. Original number of marks. Changed by the Board to 14 Chemistry 180 240 DOD 15 Physiology 330 509 FIRST L. M. S. EXAMINATION. Student's numbe Bubject. Original number of marks. Changed by the Board to ... 1 27 28 Botany Chemistry Chemistry 123 180 180 200 240 240 ... ...

1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 07 Student's number Bubject. Original number of marke. Changed by the Board to ... ... 35 ... 39 48 53 ... ... ... ... ... Chemistry Physiology Botany Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry Physiology Botany Chemistry Physiology Chemistry Chernistry Botany 220 460 1157 170 135 160 225 520 181 210P 460 170 170 185 :::::::::::::: 240 500 216 240 240 240 240 620 200 260 500 240 240 200 58 73 { ... ... 94 ... 97 { 5. We also find by an examination of the Registrar's book, which, since writing our first letter to you, we have discovered is open to the inspection of all fellows, that, in the case of no less than 27 candidates, the word failed which had originally been written against their names by the Registrar is erased, and the word passed, or the letter P, is substituted. These changes are no doubt the logical sequence of alterations made by the "Board " in the marks of these 27 candidates. Should it not be deemed neces. sary for the Members of the Syndicate themselves to enter into a minute investigation of the whole of the marks registered at the late examination, it might be advantageous to look at least at a few, and we would suggest, for example, that you enquire wbat were the marks originally awarded in Chemistry to student No. 88 in the Junior L. M. S. List, and what additional marks were awarded to bim by the “Board”. We would further invite you to enquire whether it is the case that in the absence, at the earlier meetings of the “Board,” not merely of the Examiner in Materia Medica, but in the absence also of his marks in that subject, the fate of candidates was temporarily decided. We would also ask you to ascertain in how many subjects the Registrar received the Examiners' marks prior to the meeting of the Board.” We may observe that, had the marks in all subjects been so submitted, it would have been possible to have found out, by simply looking at the Registrar's books, what the actual procedure of the “ Board” was in each candidate's case. 6. If the Registrar's book be examined, it will be found that all through these proceedings of the “ Board” the passing standard of the Syndicate is always in a manner scrupulously observed, no 08 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (Jan. 10, candidate being allowed to pass unless he has either reached that standard by his own merits, or has been marked up to it by the “ Board." The examination papers are, moreover, published in the University Calendar, and the educational bodies in Europe with which this University, desires to be associated and the outside world in general, are thus led to believe that the medical degrees and licenses of the Calcutta University are obtained after an examination conducted on ordinary principles. 7. Our object in again drawing attention to the mode of conducting the examinations in Medicine is not to ask you to take action having retrospective effect, but we desire to express a strong opinion that it is in the highest degree undesirable that the present state of things should be allowed to go on, for the degree of every University should, we consider, be above suspicion. If the passing of candidates is to lie with a “ Board” the members of which are at liberty to change the awards of individual Examiners as they like, we fail to see the advantage of appointing paid Examiners. Each professor might just as well be asked to submit a list of the students to whom he thinks licenses or degrees should be given, and the fees of special Examiners might thus be saved. Our opinion, however, is that the “Board " should be entirely abolished. Three of us have acted on such “ Boards” on various occasions, and we have seen that the “ Board” is to a large extent guided by its most exigeant member, who insists that certain candi. dates who have done well in his subject (which he naturally considers, and which may in fact be, one of paramount importance) shall be pulled through somehow, however badly they may have done in another or even in several other subjects. And such men are pulled through by pressing the Examiners in whose subjects they have done badly to mark them up. Against such proceedings we have protested more or less strongly at "Board” meetings, but we have found that under the present system individual protests are of little use, and we feel that no Examiner ought to be exposed to pressure of the kind we have indicated. We are even unable to see the necessity for any meeting of the Examiners themselves after the marks have been awarded, as the question of a candidate's passing or being rejected ought, in our opinion, not to be a matter of canvass and of voting, as it is at present, but ought to be a simple question of arithmetic. The Examiners should, we think, send their marks to the Registrar, who should sum them up and determine what candidates have reached the University standard. With regard to the question of allowing grace marks to men who have failed slightly in one subject, but who have done well in others, we would observe that, if it be desired to continue the practice of granting such marks, some scale might readily be devised which could be as easily applied by the Registrar as by a 1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 09 Board ; such a scale is, we understand, now applied in the Arts Examinations. The only real function of the present “ Board” is to award grace marks by vote, under no rule, and on a scale varying from 5 to 40 per cent. of the passing standard in individual subjects. And this, with all due deference to the opinion expressed by the Syndicate, we venture to consider an irregularity, and one which it is undesirable to perpetuate. 8. But, although we think there is no use whatever of a meeting of Examiners after the examinations, we are strongly of opinion that Examiners ought to meet prior to the examination, and that each should submit, for discussion by his fellows, the paper which he proposes to give. We think that, were this done, obscure, difficult, and out-of-the-way questions might be prevented from appearing in the papers set for candidates. 9. If, for any reason, it be considered desirable to lower the standard of medical examination, there are constitutional methods of doing this. We do not much object to lowering the standard for diplomus if it be considered expedient to do so. At the same time it is to be borne in mind that, at the present moment, an opposite policy is being followed in the English Colleges and Universities. But what we do object to most emphatically is, that a high standard shall continue to be publicly paraded as that of the University, while candidates are in reality secretly admitted to its degrees and licenses by the vote of a “ Board ” which guides itself by no fixed rules. If it be necessary or expedient to give a certain number of men licenses in medicine every year without being very particular about their qualifications, we subinit that arrangements should be made accordingly. A license, higher in character than that given to the pupils of the Campbell Medical School, might be given to Medical College men who are not good enough for a degree. But we contend that the University should not put such a license almost on a level with its degree of M. B. At present, as you are aware, the only respect in which the examination for M. B. differs from that for L. M. S. is that the former includes the subjects of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology with Zoology, while the latter does not." We are, Sirs, Yours faithfully, GEORGE KING, JOHN ANDERSON, D. D. CUNNINGHAM, J. R. LEWIS, Fellow of the University of Calcutta, 70 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan. 10, It was resolved first to consider whether the result of the Medical Examinations should depend solely upon the total of the marks awarded by the Examiners and summed up by the Registrar, or whether they should be submitted for further revision by the Board of Examiners. Dr. Payne proposed that the Faculty of Medicine recommend to the Syndicate that for the future the result of the Medical Examinations should depend solely on the total of the marks summed up by the Registrar. Dr. Partridge seconded the motion. The motion was carried unanimously. Dr. Partridge then proposed that the Faculty recommend to the Syndicate that for the future the following words be omitted from the instructions issued to the Examiners in Medicine, viz., the condition that, in order to pass either examination, a candidate must obtain not less than 50 per cent. of the marks in the aggregate.” Dr. Payne seconded the motion. The motion was carried. A discussion followed on the advisability of altering the minimum number of marks alreadly fixed for cach subject, with the view of preventing the standard being lowered by the omission of the above words. It was decided that a full consideration of this point should be put off to an auljourned meeting. The meeting was then adjourned. " with CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) T. EDMONDSTONE CHARLES, President.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 71 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79, No. 9. THE 18TH JANUARY. Present: TAE VICE-CHANCELLOR, in the Chair. MR. A. W. CROFT, THE HON'BLE ROMESHCIUNDER MITTER. DR. T. E. CHARLES. Mr. T. S. ISAAC. THE HON'BLE J. ('KINEALY. MR. A. M. BOSE. 86. Read the following report of the Junior Board of Examiners in Arts on the result of the Entrance Examination: “We have the honor to submit, for the approval of the Vice- Chancellor and Syndicate, the result of the Entrance Examination. The number of candidates registered for examination was 2,617, and we have passed 1,1198. Of the successful candidates, 157 were placed in the first division, 607 in the second, and 33+ in the third ; 59 were absent during the whole or part of the examination, and 1,460 have failed. The examination has been conducted in accordance with the instructions laid down for our guidance in our letter of appointment. ORDERED That the report he approved and the names of the successful caudidates published in the Gazette. 87. Read the report of the Senior Board of Examiners on the result of the First Examination in Arts. “We have the honor to submit, for the approval of the Vice- Chancellor and Syndicate, the result of the First Examination in Arts.

72 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan. 18, ... 200 1 The candidates registered for examination numbered 923, of whom 267 passed-61 in the first division, 123 in the second, and 83 in the third ; 31 were absent during the whole or part of the examination, and 625 have failed. The examination has been conducted in accordance with the instructions laid down for our guidance in our letter of appointment." ORDERED (1) That the report be approved and the names of the successful candidates published in the Gazette. (2) That upon the result of the F. A. Examination, the following students be elected Duff Scholars for 1879:- 1. Jaygopal De General Assembly's Institution. 2. Mabinimohan Sen Presidency College. 3. Asutosh Bandyopadhyay Free Church Institution. 4. C. E. Sunder St. Xavier's College. 88. The following gentlemen were appointed to conduct the Honor and M. A. Examinations :- English Rev. W. C. Fyfe and Mr. W. H. Paulson. Sanscrit Dr. Banerjer, and Pandit Mahesachandra Nyayratna. History Mr. R. Deighton and Mr. M. J. White. Philosophy A. E. Gough and Rev J. Robertson. Mathematics W. Grithths and Mr. A. M. Nash. Physical Science J. Eliot and Mr. S. A. Hill. Botany Dr. George King. 89. The following gentlemen were appointed to conduct the Premchand Roychand Studentship Examination :- English Mr. A. W. Garrett. Latin C. Edwards. Greek C. H. Trwney. Mixed Mathematics J. Eliot. Pure W. Booth. Philosophy Dr. Prasanna Kumar Ray. Jlistory Rev. Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 90. The following gentlemen were appointed Examiners under the regulations in Medicine :- In Anatomy Dr. J. G. French. Cbemistay Mr. A. Pedler. Medicine and Midwifery Dr. C. H. Joubert. Surgery and Ophthalmic Surgery E. Lawrie, Physiology and Comp. Anatomy K. McLeod. Materia Medica R. Harvey. Pathology and Hygiene J. M. Coates. Medical Jurisprudence C. T. O. Woodford. Botany W. H. Gregg ... ... ... .. » 10. ... ... ... ... .. ... 3 1879.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 73 91. The Registrar enquired what remuneration was to be given to Major H. S. Jarrett and Moulvi Kabiruddin Ahmed for examining the Entrance papers set by the late Mr. II. Blochmann in Arabic, Persian, and Urdı. , ORDERED- That as a special case Rs. 500 be paid to each of the Examiners for looking over the Entrance papers, and Rs. 150 to the widow of the late Mr. Blochmann on account of his having set the Entrance and F. A. papers. 92. Read two letters from the Principal of the Muir Central College, Allahabad, requesting that the fee of Rs. 20 paid by Ananda Kumar Mitra, a candidate for the F. A. Examination, whose death was reported to the Registrar before the examination, might be returned to his father, ORDERED- That the Registrar return the fee through the Principal of the Muir Central College, Allahabad. 93. Read the report of the Sub-Committee appointed for the purpose of advising the Syndicate on the question of selecting a text-book in English IIistory for the Entrance Examination. ORDERED That in accordance with the recommendations of the Sub- Committee, Miss Edith Thompson's IIistory be fixed for the Entrance Examination of 1880, and that a notice to this effect be inserted in the Government Gazette. 94. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their meeting on the 10th of January. RESOLVED (1.) That the first resolution of the Faculty be adopted, vis., " that for the future the result of the Medical Examinations should depend solely on the total of the marks summed up by the Registrar.” (2.) That the Faculty be invited to re-consider their second resolution on the ground that, if carried into effect, it would lower the standard unduly. 95. Read a letter from Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagara, praying for the affiliation of the Metropolitan Institution up to the B. A. standard.

CALCITTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan 18, 0 1 1 0 1 0 () 12 7 30 > 1 1 0 ORDERED That an application be made to the Government of India, recommending the Governor-General in Council to sanction the alliliation of the Metropolitan Institution up to the standard of the B. A. degree with effect from the 1st January 1879. 96. The following bills of contingencies were passed FOR DECEMBER ] 479. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 1 Bill, Municipal ('orporation, for lionse rate, :3rd quarter, 1878 135 Municipal Corporation, for water, police, 4th quarter, 1878 116 Service postage stamps 90 l'ostmaster, Calcutti, for bearing parcely received, containing answer papers froin different centres 199 Conveyance hire to the clerk on duty 1 Railway fare for semling answer papers to Messrs. Deigliton, Hill and l'ope 1 Gharry hire for remitting money to the Bank 2 Waste-paper baskets 1 Punkali-pullor's wages for October 1878. Commission for discounting ('eylon anci Colombo notes 012 Telegrains to Dacca, Agra, und Colombo 7 Bearing letters received 1 Ö ti Extra duftries employed during the Eutrunce and F. A. Examinatious, and paste for December 31 12 Allowance to Pressman from July to December 1878 6 0 Extra durwuns employed during the Examinations Coolies for removing the desksand stools, and arranging thein for the B. A. Examination 17 Iron tacks 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Dacca 296 15 9 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Krishnaglur 234 15 6 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held Berhampore 99 15 9 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Putna 191 12 3 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations beld at Midnapore 31 5 9 Es penses incurred during the Entrance aod F. A. Examinations held at Katak 55 14 6 1 , 1 1 55 1 & ... 1 0 1 ... at ܝܝܙ Carried over 1,579 13 6 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 75 Rs. A. P. ... 2 1 Rs. A. P. Brought forward 1,579 13 1 Bill, Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Barisal 26 7 3 i „Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. 1. Exaninations held at Ranoli 31 10 0 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrunce and F. A. Examinations held at Sibsagor 11 13 0 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held ut Lucknow 101 8 9 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Gauhati 37 + 9 Expenses incurred during the Entrance und F. A. Examinations beld at Mussoorie 11 12 0 1 Expuses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Allahabad .. 77 80 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Bareilly 56 6 Expenses incurren luring the Entrance and F. A. Examinations held at Delhi 31 30 1 Expenses incurred during the Entrance and F. A. Examinations hela att Lahore 111 7 9 3 22 2,080 30 Acrount, Librury Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. 'Thacker, Spink & Co., for new books 213 10 0 ... ... Account, Tugoro Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for freight and crport charges for sending ler. tures to London Service postage stamps 5 ... 1 37 10 0 47 3 5 Toril Rs. 2,311 2 .. CILARLES H. TAWNEY, Reystrar. (Confirmed.) ALEX. J. ARBUTINOT, Vice-Chancellor, 76 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Jan. 24, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 4. Tue 24t11 JANUARY. Present: DR. T. EDMONDSTONE CHARLES, in the chair. DR. S. B. PARTRIDGE. DR. D), B. SMITH. RAY KANALLAL DH, BADADOOR. DR. GEORGE KING. Dr. J. ANDERSON. MUNSHI TAMIZ KHAN, KHAN BATADOOR. DR. K. MCLEOD. Dk. H. CAYLEY. 97. The Faculty met to continue their discussion on the advisability of altering the minimum number of marks already fixed for each subject. Dr. Cayley proposed that the Faculty adhere to their former recommendation, that "for the future, the following words be omitted from the instructions issued to the Examiners in Medicine, viz., that, in order to pass either examination, a candidate must obtain not less than 50 per cent. of the marks in the aggregate. Dr. Partridge seconded the motion. Dr. D. B. Smith proposed as an amendment that the Faculty recommend to the Syndicate that the rule now in force should still be applied to the M. B., but not to the L. M. S. Examination. Dr. George King seconded the amendment. The amendment was carried. 98. Dr. Cayley then proposed, that for the L. M. S. Examination, the proportion of marks laid down as a minimum in each subject in the rule at present in force should alone be required. Dr. Kanailal De seconded the motion. The motion was carried. 4 Dr. D. B. Smith then proposed that the Faculty recommend to the Syndicate that in future Examiners in Medicine be requested, in the instructions issued to them, to place opposite 1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 77 each question in their paper the full number of marks assigned to it, and that in subjects such as Medicine and Surgery, wherein the examination is written, oral, practical and clinical, candidates should be informed what is the maximum of marks obtainable under each head. Dr. Partridge seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously . CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) T. EDMONDSTONE CHARLES, President.

78 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 10. THE 2:2ND FEBRU 3 RY. Present: THE VICE-CHANCELLOR. MR. CROFT. MR. ANANDAMOIAN Bose. TOE HON'BLE ROVESKCIONDER MITTER. DR. T. E. CHARLES. MR. T. S. ISAAC. 99. Read the following report of the Senior Board of Examiners on the result of the B. A. Examination : “We have the honor to submit, for the approval of the Vice- Chancellor and Syndicate, the result of the B. A. Examination. « The number of condidates registered for examination in the A Course was 132, of whom 1 passed in the First Division, 2 in the Second, and 26 in the Third ; 9 were absent and 94 failed. “The number of candidates registered for exainination in the B Course was 191, of whom 9 passed in the First Division, 21 in the Sccond, and 32 in the Third ; 6 were absent and 123 failed. « The examination has been conducted in accordance with the instructions laid down for our guidance in our letter of appointment." ORDERED-- That the report be approved, and the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette. The following are the names of the successful candidates :- FIRST DIV1810n. In Order of Merit. Sitaram Canning College, Lucknown Ray, Atulkrishna Hugli College. Mukhopadhyay, Krishnadhan Presidency College. Basu, Debendrabijay Ditto. Sengupta, Kisorimohan Ditto. ... ... ...

1879.] MINUTES ON TIIE SYNDICATE. 79 ... ... Narayan Das Sarkar, Charuchandra Mukhopadhyay, Makundadeb Chattopadhyay, Rajendranath Mitra, Amulyacharan Lahore College. Presidency College. Hugli College. Presidency College. Ditto. ... ... ... ... SECOND Division. In Alphabetical Order. Achhruram Lahore College. Adhikari, Sasibhushan Hugli College Bandyopadhyay, Nandalal Presidency College. Bitwil, M. M. Ditto. Basu, Bhupendranath Ditto. Tarakchandra Ex-Student, Dacca College. Bhattacharyya, Jugadas Cathedral Mission College. Chakrabarti, ludranarayan Patna College. (thaudhuri, Tarapada Presidency College. Das, Gobindachandra Ditto. Datta, Brajaballabh Krishnaghur College. Krislinalal Presidency College. Kundu, Ramkumar Free Church Institution, Calcutta. Pid, Maniklal lugli College. Raushanlal Agia College. Ray, Indranarayan Hugli College. Siuilendrabudhu Ex-Student, Hugli College. Sasadhar ... Presidency Colleye. Su kar, Asutosha Ex-Student, Dacca College. Jaganmohan Dacca College. Jagatnarayan Patna College Sen, Kisorilal llugli College. Tewari, Chandrasekhar Ditto. I. ... .. ... 99 THIRD. Division. In Alphabetical Order. ... .I. ... 99 ... ... 19 Babbu Singh Buychi, Kedarnathi Bandyopadhyay, Bidhubhushan Jyotischundr Kaliprasanna Basu, Bijaygopal Dwarkanath Kedarnath Kritautakumar Manmathapath Priyanath Rakhulchandra Sibram Bhattacharyya, Maheswar Biharilal Chakrabarti, Jogendranath Chandiprasad ... Chattopadhyay, Pankajakumar Muir Central College, Allahabad. Ditto ditto. Presidency College. Ex-Student, Presidency College. Dacca College. Krishnaglıur Collego. Dacca College. General Assembly's Institution. Presidency College. General Assembly's Institution. Ditto ditto. Free Church Institution, Calcutta. Presidency College. General Assembly's Institution. Benares College. Free Church Institution, Calcutta. Muir Central College, Allahabad. Presidency College. .. ...

80 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, 00 ... ... ... :::: ... ... ... 000 ... ... ... ... . ... Chattopadhyay, Saratchandra Presidency College. Chaudhuri, Tarakisor Ditto. Das, Damodar Muir Central College, Allahabad. Dhairyyanarayan Ex-Student, Krishnaghur College. Taraprasanna Presidency College. Datta, Narendrakrishna General Assembly's Institution. Nrisinhakumar Ex-Student, Presidency College. Upendranath (ieneral Assembly's Institution. De, Ramapati Presidency College. Gangopadhyay, Narendranath Muir Central College, Allahabad. Gayaprusad Benares College. Ghosh, Biharilai Ex-Student, Cathedral Mission College. Bipinbihari Canning College, Lucknow. Jogendranath Muir Central College, Allahabad. Manmathanath Free Church Institution, Calcutta. Ramottam Presidency College Goswaii, Nrityagopal Ex-Student, Presidency Collego. Johus, G. W. Agra College. Kar, Gaurkisor Presidency College. Lakshmanprasad Canning College, Lucknow. Lala Bindheswariprasad Benares College. Mahabirprasad Canning College Majumdar, Bhabanikisor General Assembly's Institution. Hridaynath Dacea College. Maitra, Herambachandra Presidency College. Mohanta, Radhikanath Ex-Student, Presideney College. Mukhopádhyáy, lIariprasanna .. Ex-Student, Presidency College. Jogendrachandra Frre Church Institution, Calcutta. Jagendranath Presidency College. Nay, Abhayacharan Ditto. Nchalchandra Benares College. Pain, Priyalal Presidency College. Pal, Saratchandra Ditto. Raghunandanprasad Patna College Bainaparkhi, Manohar Damodar Benares College. Ray, Gurbakhsh Agra College. Jogendranath Presidency College. Prasannakumar Ditto. Sen, Harimohan Dacca College. Narendranath Presidency College. Upon the result of the B. A. Examination, the Vizianagram and Eshan Scholarships were awarded to Atulkrishna Ray, of the Hugli College. The Harischandra Prize was awarded to Krishnalal Datta, of the Presidency College. The Radhakanta Medal was awarded to Kedarnath Basu. 100. Read the following report of the B. L. Examiners :- “We have the honor to submit, for the approval of the Vice- Chancellor and Syndicate, the result of the B. L. Examination. “ The number of candidates registered for examination was 84, and we have passed 47. Of the successful candidates, I was . .. ... ... ... ... > .. ... ... 2. ...

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 81 placed in the First Division and 46 in the Second ; 3 were absent and 34 failed.” ORDERED That the report be approved, and the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette. The following are the names of the successful candidates :- FIRST DIVISION. Presidency College. Sarkar, Chandrasekhar SECOND DIVISION. In Order of Merit. ... . I. O ... ..- ... ... ... ... ... Basu, Durgadas Sen, Taraprasanna Das, Tarakchandra Nagwant Sahay Ized Bakhsh Mukhopadhyay, Saratchandra Rajnarayan Aikath, Saradakumar ... Mitra, Ambikacharan Sot, Manilal Gupta, Girindrakumar Bagchi, Brajagopal Bhagwan Sahay Das, Bipinbihari Mukhopadhyay, Srischandra Chattopadhyay, Iswarchandra Datta, Manmohan De, Advaitaprasad Sinha, Pramathakrishna Bhattacharyya, Srischandra Pal, Nanigopal Mukhopadhyay, Amarchandra Sayyed Khyrat Ahmed Chandra, Priyanath Chattopadhyay, Manmathanath Mitra, Saratchandra Mukhopadhyay, Upendranath (1st) Datta, Ramlal Gangopadhyay, Satyacharan Chattopaphyay, Priyanath De, Asutosh Mitra, Gopallal Chaudhuri, Jogendrachandra Bagchi, Upendranath Chattopadhyay, Saratchandra Mukhopadhpay, Haranchandra Harilal Chaudhuri, Prasannanarayan Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. Patna College. Presidency College. Ditto. Hugli College. Patna College. Hugli College. Presidency College. Krishnaghur College. Presidency College. Patna College. Presidency College. Ditto. Patna College. Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Hugli College. Patna College. Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Krishnaghur College. Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ...

82 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, ... ... Mukhopadhyay, Karunasindhu Ghosh, Sarada prasad Bandyopadhyay, Bidhubhushan Datta, Nandalal Chakrabarti, Harachandra Basu, Anantakumar Sen, Gaurballabh Bandyopadhyay, Asutosh Presidency College. Patna College. Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. ... ... 101. The Registrar submitted the result of the examination for the Premchand Raychand Studentship. ORDERED That Pringle Kennedy be elected a Studentship of Rs. 1,600 for the period of five years. 102. The Examiners for Honors reported that the following graduates had attained the required standard for Honors : ENGLISH. SECOND DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Lahore College. Presidency College. Narayan Dás ... Ghosh, Saradaprasad ... ... THIRD DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Chattopadhyay, Mohinimohan Presidency College. Mallik, Ramcharan Ditto. . ... SANSKRIT. SECOND DIVISION. Sanskrit College. Nag, Kunjalal HISTORY. SECOND DIVISION. Sukul, Kalisankar Presidency College. ... MATHEMATICS. SECOND DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Presidency College. Ditto. Ditto. . Mitra, Surendranath Gupta, Asutosh Ray, Saradaranjan ... ...

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 83 THIRD DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Gargari, Haridas Presidency College. Bandyopadhyay, Haridas Ditto. ... ... PHILOSOPHY FIRST DIVISION. Presidency College. Agasti, Suryyakumar PHYSICAL SCIENCE. SECOND DIVISION. In Order of Merit. Hugli College. Muir Central College, Allahabad. ... ... Ray, Chandranarayan Chhajjumal I. THIRD DIVISION. Haragobinda Dayal Sanyal, Abhyacharan Maitra, Batukrishna Dhar, Nagendranath In Order of Merit. Muir Central College, Allahabad. Ditto. Ditto. Hugli College. ... I.. ... ORDERED That the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette. 103. The Examiners also reported that the following graduates had attained the standard for the degree of M. A. ... ... ... ... In Alphabetical Order. Bhaduri, Lalbihari Free Church Institution. Das, Ramsaran Canning College, Lucknow. Datta, Asminikumar Krishnaghur College. De, Brajendralal Sanskrit College. Datt, William Teacher. Ghosh, Priyanath St. Xavier's College. Goswami, Kisorilal Free Church Institution. Mukhopadhyay, Bamapada Teacher. Pál, Tulsicharan Free Church Institution. Palit, Priyanath Ditto. ... .. II. ... .. ORDERED That the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette.

84 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 2%, 104. The following gentlemen were appointed to conduct the Examinations in Arts for 1879-80 :- ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. English. Rev. J. Hector. Mr. W. H. Paulson. Mr. W. H. Wright. Sanskrit and Bengali. Baboo Bireswar Chattopadhyay, M. A. Baboo Jogendranath Bandyopadhyay, Baboo Syamacharan Mukhopadhyay. Pandit Ramgati Nyayaratna. History and Geography, Rev. Lalbihari De. Mr. A. H. Perie. Dr. Prasannakumar Ray. DE: Prasanteni Mathematics. Mr. J. H. Gilliland. Mr. S. F. Downing. Mr. M. Mowat. Mr. F. Biden, Hindi and Uriya. Rev. Dr. K. M. Banerjea. FIRST ARTS AND B. A. EXAMINATIONS. English. Mr. K. Deighton. | Rev. M. A. Sherring. Sanskrit. Pandit Maheschandra Nyayaratna. | Rev. Dr. K. M. Banerjea. History. | Mr. J. W. McCrindle. Rev. W. C. Fyfe. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. | Mr. A. M, Nash. Mr. J. Eliot. Mental and Moral Science. Mr. A. E. Gough. | Rev. A. F. R. Hoernle, Po D. Physical Science. | Rev. A. Peneranda. Mr. W. Booth. Botany. Dr. George King.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 85 ENTRANCE, F. A., AND B. A. EXAMINATIONS. Greek and Latin. Rev. J. Edwards. | Mr. A. C. Edwards. Arabic, Persian and Urdu. | Dr. G. W. Leitner. Major H. S. Jarrett. 105. Read the following report from the Committee appointed to select text-books in English for the Entrance Examination :- To THE REGISTRAR, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. SIR, “In compliance with the resolution of the Syndicate, we have now selected the books that appear to us the best suited as text-books in English for the Entrance Examination. As there is a large number of such books of nearly equal merit, we have thought it best to name several, arranging them in the order in which, all things considered, we would recommend their adoption. 2. We have been determined in our choice by these general considerations amongst many others : firstly, that in point of style, Narrative and Description would best answer the purposes of the Entrance Examination Course; secondly, that in point of subjectmatter, the text-book should, as far as may be, convey information that will be useful as an introduction to the course of English literature in the colleges; thirdly, that its price should not exceed Rs. 2 or Rs. 3; lastly, that the text-book to be suitable for the schools in the interior, which are, for the most part, very inadequately supplied with libraries, must not necessarily require too wide a reference to other books. 3. “We recommend then the following books : 1. "Sir Walter Raloigh, by Louise Creighton, in the Series of Historical Biographies; edited by Rev. J. Creighton ... The whole book. ,2. 'A Book of Golden Deeds,' by Miss Yonge. 'Golden Treasury Series Half of the book 3. Scott in the English Men of Letters Series The whole book. The Iliad; Series of Ancient Classics for Engor, The Odyssey lish Readers' The whole book. 5, Herodotus' in the Series of Ancient Classics of English Readers' The whole book. 6. Tales from Shakespeare,' by Charles Lamb The whole book. 7. A Book of Worthies,' by Miss Yonge. Golden Treasury Series' Half of the book. ... 3 ... ...

86 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, Mexico 3.{ or by Prescott ... Half of the book, Peru We have, &c., ORDERED That Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare be fixed for the Entrance Examination of 1880. 106. The following Selections in languages were appointed for the Examinations of 1881-82: ENTRANCE, 1881. Latin. *Tristium Elege. Miscellanea. De Bello Gallico, Book IV. Ovid .. 100 ... C:esar . Greek. Xenophon ... Homer Anabasis, Books I and II. Iliad, Book I. ... 1.0 PO. ... ... FIRST EXAMINATION IN ARTS, 1881. English. *Milton Paradise Lost, Book II. *Cowper Task, Books IV, V, VI. *Selections from Byron, Scott, Moore, and Wordsworth. *Robertson A History of Charles V, Book I. *Paley Solections from Natural Theology. *Selections from the Spectator and Rambler. Hutton Life of Scott (Morley's English Men of Letters). Latin. ... ... ... Tibullus Propertius Livy *Selections. *Selections, Book V. ... . . ... .. * Thacker, Spink & Co.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 87 Greek. ... Euripides Herodotus Euterpe, Book II. ... Shakespeare ... Milton ... B. A. EXAMINATION, 1882. English. Macbeth, Richard III, Midsummer Night's Dream. Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Hymn on the Nativity. Excursion, Book I (Rivington's School Classics). Essays Life of Hume Morley's English Men Life of Gibbon of Lettors. ... Self-culture. Wordsworth ... .. ... ... ... Bacon Huxley Morrison John Stuart Blackie 00 ... ... Latin. ... Virgil Tacitus Georgics, Books I and II. IIistories, Books I and II. Greck. Sophocles Demosthenes Pbiloctetes. Do Corona. 107. The Registrar reported that the Batris Singhásan, the text-book in Uriya, for the Entrance Examination of 1879, was out of print, and that the Rev. K. M. Banerjee recommended that the Raghuvansa be substituted for it. ORDERED That the Raghuvansa be substituted for the Batris Singhásan in the Entrance Examination of 1879. 108. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Medicine at their meeting on the 24th of January. ORDERED (1.) That for the L. M. S. Examination the proportion of marks laid down as a minimum in each subject in the rule now in force should alone be required. (2.) That in order to pass the M. B. Examination, a candidate must also obtain not less than 50 per cent. of the marks in the aggregate. (3.) That in all the future examinations of the University in all branches of study, Examiners be requested to place opposite cach question in their paper the full number of 88 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, marks assigned to it, and that in subjects, such as Medicine and Surgery ; wherein the examination is written, oral, practical, and clinical, candidates should be informed what is the maximum of marks obtainable under each head. 109. The Registrar enquired on what day the Convocation for conferring degrees was to be held. ORDERED That the Convocation be held on the 15th of March. 110. Read a letter from Mr. A. E. Gough and the Rev. J. Robertson, suggesting the expediency (1) of prescribing no textbook in the Evidences of Revealed Religion in the Honor Examination; (2) of making the History of Philosophy a compulsory subject instead of Natural Theology. RESOLVED That the Syndicate recommend the Senate to adopt these proposed alterations in the 9th Clause of the Regulations for Honors in Arts. 111. Read a letter from Dr. Chunder Coomar Dey requesting the Syndicate to recommend the Senate to substitute in Clause 2 of the Regulations for Honors in Arts "five” for “four” academical years. ORDERED- That the Registrar inform Dr. Chunder Coomar Dey that the Syndicate do not think it desirable to recommend this alteration to the Senate, as it would amount to doing away with the distinction between Honors in Arts and the M. A. degree. 112. Read a petition from Mr. Nowroji Khory, an Undergraduate of the Bombay University and Head Master of the Residency College, Indore, forwarded by the Principal of that College, asking to be admitted to the B. A. Examination of this University without passing the F. A. Examination. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the applicant that he cannot be admitted to the B. A. Examination without passing the First Examination in Arts: 113. Read a petition from Mr. G. E. Moffett, an ex-student of the Hughli College, residing in Aberdeen, praying that he might be admitted to the B.A. Examination of this University in Aberdeen, instead of Calcutta or Agra.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 89 for am ORDERED- That the Registrar inform the applicant that the Syndicate cannot comply with his request. 114. Read a petition from Bepin Chandra Ray, B. L., praying that his judicial service may be counted as “practice” in his profession, so as to enable him to be a candidate for the degree of Doctor-in-Law. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the applicant that in the opinion of the Syndicate his judicial service is for the purpose of the degree of Doctor-in-Law "practising his profession.” 115. Read a letter from Dr. W. J. Palmer, containing proposals ing the wording of1 Para. 6 of the Regulations for Examinations for the L. M. S. and M. B. degrees. Read also a letter from Dr. Cayley recommending a modification of the Regulations for the Second M. B. Examination. ORDERED That the letters be referred to the Faculty of Medicine. 116. Read the following letter from the Secretary to the Woodrow Memorial Committee:- то TIIE REGISTRAR OF THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. SIR, “I am directed to annex a copy of two Resolutions passed at the last meeting of the Woodrow Memorial Committee, propos ing to found in connection with the Calcutta University a scholarship to be called the Woodrow Memorial Scholarship, and to enquire whether the terms proposed by the Committee are accepted by the University authorities. The expression “Native of Bengal” used in the Resolution includes Natives of Chota Nagpur, Orissa, or Behar. 2. “ Interest runs on the Government securities referred to in the Resolution from 1st February, so that there is no difficulty in awarding the scholarship immediately, its amount being payable at the end of every half-year or any other time that may be approved by the Syndicate. 3. “I am also requested to convey to the Syndicate the best acknowledgments of the Committee for according them permission to place Mr. Woodrowes bust in the Senate House. “The Committee will feel obliged by your informing them whether the Vice-Chancellor would accede to their wishes by pre- 90 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, siding on the occasion of unveiling the bust, and if so, what date His Honor would like to fix for the ceremony. I have, &c., RADIIIKAPRASANNA MUKERJI, Secretary, Woodrow Memorial Committee. “ That the Secretary be authorized to convey, as soon as practi. cable, to the Calcutta University, Government 4 per centsecurities to the amount of Rs. (4,800) four thousand and eight hundred only for the foundation of an annual science scholarship of the value of Rs. 16 a month; that this scholarship be called the “Woodrow Memorial Scholarship” and be atvarded to the best Bachelor of Arts of the year, being a native of Bengal, who may obtain high marks in Chemistry and Physics and not gain any other scholarship, on condition that he pursue his studies in some well organized institution for the degree of Master of Arts in science, having Chemistry or Physics among the subjects of examination." " That any savings of the scholarship money be added to the principal sum till the value of the scholarship be raised to Rs. (20) twenty a month." TRUE EXTRACTS. RADHIKAPRASANNA MUKERJI, Secretary, Woodrow Memorial Committee. ORDERED “ That the Registrar inform the Secretary to the Woodrow Memorial Fund, that the Syndicate thankfully accept the donation on the terms proposed, and that the Vice-Chancellor will unveil the bust of the late Mr. Woodrow at the approaching Convocation of the University.” 117. Read the following letter addressed to the Registrar by the Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal: “I am directed to forward herewith, for the purpose of being laid before the Senate of the Calcutta University, the accompany. * From Surgeon-General, Bengal, No. ing copy of correspondence* 702, datel the 10th August 1878. that has taken place with the From Director of Public Instruction, Surgeon-General, Bengal, and No. 6715, dated 26th October 1878, with the Director of Public Instrucenclosures. From Director of Public Instruction, tion, on the question as to No. 7537, dated the 16th December 1878, the best means of determining with annexures. the age of students on admission into the Medical College.

1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 93 2. It will be seen that the Director of Public Instruction has recommended the adoption of three measures : (1) the opening by the Principal of the Medical College of a register in the form submitted, in which should be recorded the name, age, and other particulars of students on their admission into that institution ; (2) the inclusion of a separate column showing the age of each candidate in the University list of candidates at the Entrance Examination; and (3) the entry of the age on the certificate granted by the University to the successful candidates. 3. The first proposal has been approved by the Lieutenant Governor, and I am to express a hope that the Senate of the Calcutta University will sanction the adoption of the second and third proposals made by the Director of Public Instruction." RESOLVED That the Syndicate recommend the Senate to adopt the second and third proposals of the Director of Public Instruction, and to sanction the requisite alterations in the Regulations for the Entrance Examination. 118. Read a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India, sanctioning the affiliation of the Metropolitan Institution up to the B. A. standard from the 1st of January 1879, ORDERED- To be recorded. 119. Read a letter from the Rev. William Matthew, incumbent of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, Stowell, Victoria, forwarding copies of professorial certificates and Part I of a Chinese Chrestomathy, and enquiring whether the provisions of Act XXI of 1875 empower the Syndicate to confer an honorary Degree in Arts on him. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Rev. William Matthew that the Syndicate regret that they cannot confer upon him an honorary Degree in Arts. 120. The Registrar submitted a Budget estimate for 1879-80. ORDERED To be recorded.

92 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, 121. The following bills of contingencies were passed : (FOR JANUARY 1879), Rs. As. P. 12 0 0 4 0 0 15 00 II. ... . ... 84 0 0 5 0 0 ... 14 9 0 ... ... ... .. .. 1 Bill, B. M. Press, for printing examination papers in Hindi and Uriya 1 paid to Rev. K. M. Banerjea, for conveyance hire and fee of a Teleegu Pandit for examining a paper 1 Librarian, Presidency College, for conveyance hire for superintending the examinations 6 Bills Conveyance, hire to the teachers for superintending the examination Telegrams to Dehra Dun, Agra and Allahabad 1 Bill, Railway fare for sending parcels containing answer papers to Messrs. Deighton at Agra, and Hill at Allahabad 1 , Cooly hire for arranging the seats for the Medical Examinations 1 Conveyance hire to the clerk on duty 1 Mally for supplying water during We examination 1 Ticca bearers for distributing papers during the B. A. and B. L. Examinations 1 Ticca duftry for cutting the papers and a portfolio for office use for engraving 2 seals for office use 1 Remuneration to Mr. K. Deighton for superintending the B. A. Examination at Agra. Expenses incurred during the Examinations held at Agra 1 Jabalpur ... 1 Benares 1 Indore Sylhet Chittagong 0 12 0 6 14 () 2 12 0 ... 78 0 ... ... .00 1 12 0 5 0 0 1 ... ... 1 300 0 0 206 1 0 42 4 0 98 3 0) 24 3 0 30 15 3 40 13 0 23 ... ܝܙ ... 1 TOTAL Rs. 901 10 3 mo CHARLES H, TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) ALEX, J. ARBUTHNOT, Vice-Chancellor.

1878.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 93 ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 1878. Comparative Table showing the number of Candidates sent forward from each School or College, the number passed, and the number failing to obtain the minimum marks allotted to each separate PASSED IN TAX FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division. English, Second Language. History and Geography. Mathematics. Absent. 2 7 1 .. ... 10 1 6 7 14 1 5 1 1 3 2 2 5 1 1 1 1 ... 3 4 6 4 1 14 5 2 1 2 1 ... 22 4 11 5 4 2 1 1 3 1 5 1 1 ... 1 1 1 6 5 ... ... ... . 000 Agra College Agra High School Agarpara C. M. S. Institution Ajmere Government College... Albert School Allahabad Governmont High School Allygurh Zila School Allygurh M. A. O. College Almorah Mission School American Mission School, Allahabad Ampta School Andal School Annada School, Brahmanbaria Ariadaha Association School... Armenian Phil. Academy Arrah School Aryan School Badla School Bagbazar Family School Bagirhat H.C. E. School Bagnan School Bahraich Zila School Balagar H.C. English School Balarampore School Balasore Zila School 2 1 1 1 10 ... 1 1 1 6 ... ... 1 2 2 1 7 1 2 2 12 1 2 8 2 1 2 ... ... ... 2 2 12 1 4 10 2 1 1 3 2 7 2 2 5 14 4 10 12 4 2 2 6 3 5 3 7 .. 1 ... II. 1 9 2 1 8 1 1 10 1 210 ... ... .. ... 1 1 1 3 1 1 ... 5 1 3 2 2 ... 3 1 3 i ... ... Carriod forward 168 10 41 14 72 47 27 69 94 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, PASBED IN THE FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division, Second Division. Third Division. English, Second Language. History and Geography. Mathematics, Absent. Brought forward 168 10 14 1 72 47 27 69 4 1 1 1 ... ... 1 3 1 3 1 C :: 1 II. ... ... 1 1 3 1 6 ... od .. 1 2 ... 2 2 1 1 1 3 4 3 1 . 1 3 6 2 12 2 4 7 16 8 1 2 16 8 5 30 1 6 ... Wii Wii: mai mii w: 3 3 3 1 ... ... 1 ... ... 1 1 boende 3 2 ... ... 2 2 .. 7 4 2 6 ... 1 6 2 1 11 9 ... .00 ... ... a 4 4 4 2 Bali Seminary Baluti School Banawaribad H. C. E. School. Banda Zila School Bankipore Training Academy Bankura Zila School Barabanki High School Barari H. C. E. School Baraset School Bareilly Collegiate School Barrackpore School Barripore School Basirhat Municipal School Beerbhoom School Behala Mission School Bebar English School Benares College Benevolent Institution Bengal Institution Bengalitollah Preparatory School, Benares Berhampore Collegiate School Bethune Female School Bhagalpur School Bhastara School Bishop Cotton's School, Simla Bograh Zila School Bora H. C. E. School Boroe A. C. E. School Burdwan A. V. School Burdwan English School Burdwan Maharaja's School... Burranagur Hindu School Burrisa School Burrisal School Calcutta High School C. M. School, Amritsar C. M. School, Azimgar C. M. School, Lucknow 1 ... ... ... 1 2 3 3 2 4 7 1 . ... ... 2 2 ] 3 1 5 1 5 1 ... ... ... 1 5 13 1 12 1 15 8 1 3 5 8 11 4 8 ... 7 2 1 3 1 I. ... ... ... 1 2 1 2 4 3 2 5 5 ::: Inii woni::::::: 200 1 1 6 1 400 . ... 3 3 2 2 ... 4 9 1 4 19 2 3 2 1 ... .. 6 1 ... . ... .. ... O. .. ... 2 1 1 6 1 1 2 co ... ON . . 2 1 Carried forward 427 25 11947 152 100 41 147 | 10 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 95 PA88BD IN TIR FAILED IX NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. 182. 100 al llary Brought forward 127 ... 25 119 47 10 1 1 1 . ... .. 4 3 2 2 6 1 1 1 2 2 1 11 2 5 2 1 2 2 3 13 2 5 1 1 2 ... 09 .00 5 2 1 2 1 5 4 5 25 2 13 1 22 12 1 4 1 4 5 7 11 18 ::::::::::::: 6 8 6 C. M. High School, Jabalpur C. M. High School, Jounpur C. M. High School, Meerut... C. M. School, Calcutta Calcutta Institution Calcutta Madrassa Calcutta Seininary Calcutta Training Academy... Campbell Medical School Canning College, Lucknow Cawnpore Zila School Cawupore Memorial School ... Central College, Rutlam Chaibasa Government School Chandernagore School Chatmobar Sambhunath School Chinsurah Hindu School Chinsurah Grammar School... Chittagong Collegiate School Christ Church School, Cawnpore Christ Church School, Luck- 2 3 2 1 ... ... ... 4 1 ... ... ... ... 1 3 1 2 2 4 1 2 3 3 7 12 1 1 1 1 3 7 5 2 3 2 3 7 2 5 1 2 ... 1 NOW 1 ... ... . 1 1 1 1 1 . ... 2 8 1 5 8 1 1 2 3 26 6 11 4 30 bo. 1 6 3 Chuttrah H. C. E. School Commillah Zila School Cuttack Academy Cuttack Collegiate School Cutwa School Dacca Collegiate School Daulatpore H. C. E. School Dehra Training School Dehra Dun Mission School Dehra Ismail Khan Mission School 7 3 1 3 5 1 2 00 1 14 6 2 3 3 1 ... ... 2 3 2 ... ... 1 ... 1 ... ... Carried forward 667 33 183 | 79 |253 148 70 228 16 96 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, PASSED IN THB FAILED IN NAXBS OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division, Second Division, Third Division. English. Second Language. History and Geography. Mathematics, Absent. Brought forward 667 33 183 79 253 148| 70 228 16 6 1 1 1 3 ... ... 1 1 2 ] 2 2 1 2 . 11 6 3 3 3 13 2 2 I.. 1 4 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 ... 2 ... ... 2 2 ... 30 2 7 5 8 8 3 7 7 16 2 1 1 1 10 8 3 9 2 6 5 1 2 ... 5 1 ܢܝܙ 1 1 3 1 16 3 8 5 ... 2 2 ... 1 2 1 1 ... 1 ... 4 2 ... ... Delhi District School Deogurl Zila School Dhar English School Digapatia H. C. E. School Dinagepore Zila School Doveton College Durbar School, Khatmandu... Fatehgurh High School Free Church Institution, Calcutta Free Church Institution, Chinsurah Free Church Institution, Nagpur Free School, Calcutta Furreedpore Zila School Furruckabad Zila School Fyzabad High School Galle High School Garden Reach School Gazipore Mission High School General Assembly's Institution Goalpara Zila School Gonda High School Gorakhpur Mission School ... Goverdangah School Gowhati Zila School Gujrat Governnient School ... Gya Zila School Hamilton's School, Tamluk... Hare School Hazaribagh Zila School Hetampore School Hindu Academy Hindu School Hoogli Branch School Hoogli Collegiate School 2 5 8 CA ::: 3. 5 2 1 3 3 1 5 6 16 28 3 21 | 41 4 1 ... 1 1 36 3 1 3 2 1 ... 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 90 7 4 7 3 7 3 11 3 55 6 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 3 1 16 3 ... 7 2 17 1 1 1 12 7 5 1 ... ... ... ... 3 3 8 ... 16 3 6 3 4 14 17 20 55 28 41 1 3 2 1 13 2 12 7 5 2 1 13 11 12 1 ... Carried forward 1139 78 286 136' 417] 275 120 391 25 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 97 PASSED IN THE FAILED IN NAXES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division. Second Language. English, History and Geography. Mathematics. Absent. 1139 78 286 136) 417 275 120 391 25 10 13 1 ... 14 15 1 4 2 ... 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 5 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 .. ... 1 1 I. ... 2 2 ... 2 2 1 8 2 13 2 4 2 2 ... PRO 18 6 17 6 10 4 4 2 5 31 7 1 3 15 9 8 5 2 3 3 13 7 26 ... ... 3 3 5 4 2 1 3 9 3 3 4 ܢܚܙ 1 7 1 1 5 1 2 1 Brought forward Hogulkuria A. S. School Horinavi A. S. School Howrah School Hume's High School, Etawah Hurdui High School Hushiarpore District School Ilsoba Mondly School Tudore Residency College Indore Madrassa Jagannath School, Dacca Jalandar Mission School Jalpaigori Zila School Jehanabad School Jenkins' School, Cooch Behar Jessore Zila School Jeypore Mabaraja's College... Jhenidah H. C. E. School Jodhpur Darbar School Jonyo Training School Joydevpore School Joynarain's College, Benares Joynogur Institution Jubbulpore High School Kaliparah H. C E. School Kalna F. C. Mission Branch School Kalna Maharaja's School Kanchrapara English School Kandy School Kandy Trinity College Kasgunj School, Etah Kasipur Kasinath School Khagol H. C. E. School Khulna School Khurut Training Academy Kishnaghur A. V. School Kishnaghur Collegiate School Konuogur School ... 1 1 3 3 3 2 3 3 ... ... 1 1 1 13 2 3 1 .. ... 5 ... 5 3 4 4 1 2 2 3 2 4 ... ... ... 1 3 4 1 5 1 1 1 ... 5 6 1 il 2 1 10 2 4 2 33 45 9 2 7 4 1 5 1 10. .. 1 2 ... ... 2 2 ... 21 1 10 3 1 2 27 11 2 2 23 6 2 28 14 2 9 1 18 1 2 ... Carried forward 1479 96 360 188|| 561 378 182 513 30 ...

98 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, PAGNED IN THE FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division. English. Second Language. History and Geo. graphy, Mathematics. Absent. Brought forward 1479 96 360 188|| 561 378 182 513 30 4 1 5 1 5 2 7 2 9 2 2 1 ... ... 16 4 9 12 4 7 1 1 3 1 3 2 4 1 1 ... 5 2 3 6 3 3 ... now 3 5 1 POO 12 6 3 1 4 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 Too 1 00 1 1 3 8 2 10 5 20 7 9 3 4 4 4 2 :::n : 1 2 Kucheakole Radhabullub's Institution Kumarkhali School Kushtea School Lahore District School Lahore Mission School Lakshmipasa H.C. E. School Là Martiniere College, Cal. cutta LàMartiniere College, Luck- L. M. School, Midnapore L. M. High School, Benares L.M.S. Institution, Bhowanipore L. M. S. Institution, Badurea L. M. School, Khagra Ludiana Mission School Luckiinpore High School Maharajah's School, Commillah Mahanand Mission School Malespore H. C. E. Schoul. Mahespore Aided School Malda Zila School Matibari Zila School Metropolitan Institution Metropolitan Institution, Syampukar Branch Midnapore Collegiate School Mirat Zila School Mirzapore Zila School Mission Normal High School, Bareilly Mofid Kualaik School, Aligar Mogultuli H. C. E. School, Commillah 5 ... 1 2 2 1 ... 6 1 5 2 1 6 3 5 10 5 7 3 3 3 37 8 4 4 1 ari rii:: 4 2 ... 1 1 1 ... 5 17 1 2 7 1 7 2 10 2 10 4 1 35 19 4 3 11 3 11 12 4 1 ... ... .. 1 1 . ... 2 5 ... ... ... 7 5 1 3 4 2 2 1 ... 7 7 7 .. 7 7 7 ... .. Carried forward 1749 114 426 222 680 458 216 594 36 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 99 PABBED IN THE FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. 1749 114 4:26 222 680 458 216 594 36 2 1 1 1 1 .. 1 3 1 1 ... 3 6 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 ܢܙ 3 ... ... 3 2 1 13 4 .. ... ... .. 6 3 5 14 11 3 10 3 7 3 3 1 13 8 1 10 2 8 1 2 1 . 1 5 1 1 8 1 ... 1 8 9 5 ..a Do ... . 1 ... 3 3 18 3 3 5 1 1 11 17 6 1 1 4 6 Brought forward Moharani Sarnomoyi's School, Ulipore Moharajah Narendrakrisbna's H. C. E. School, Hatgunge Monghyr Zila School Monglyr Christian Mission School Monghyr City School Moradabad Zila School Moradpore School, Bankipore Mozufferpore School Mudressãoj-Unwariah Multi School, Sylhet Murngacha School Mussoorie School Muttra Zila School Mymensing Zila School Nagpur City School Naral 11. C. E. School Navadwipa llindu School Nawa Abdul Gunny's Free School Nizamut School, Moorshedabad Noakhali Zila School Nowapara H. C. E. School Nowyong Zila School Outerparah School Oriental Seminary P. Gupinàthpore School Pachamba H. English School Pakoor School Palimow Government School Pandra School Patiala College Patna Collegiate School Paul's School, Buckergunge, Bankipore Peshawar Mission School Pogose School Prannath School at Satkhira 1 .. 8 1 ... 1 3 2 2 ... 1 1 7 31 10 8 4 1 2 .. ... 1 7 3 5 2 2 1 3 7 3 11 17 18 3 6 5 2 2 3 I 2015 AP: r; 1 1 de 1 1 OIO 6 5 32 1 2 5 2 3 19 1 1 7 2 2 12 1 3 9 7 1 ... .00 10 2 35 5 1 4 ] 9 15 5 5 Carried over 2057 137 485 260 821 533 269 714 39 100 CACUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, PASSED IN THE FAILED IN NAXES OF INSTITUTION8. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division. English. graphy. Mathematics. Absent. Brought forward 2057 137 485 260 821 533 269 714 39 ... 3 66 1 Der Weise Second Language. -:-::: History and Geo- 6 3 3 743 25 2 5 3 24 37 3 5 8 ... ... 6 1 8 7 1 2 1 2 ... ... 3 1 2 3 1 3 ... ... 21 4 3 1 5 1 5 3 1 ... 3 2 2 D. ".. ... 7 2 ܢܝܙ 1 3 2 1 2 .. ... .. 1 1 1 7 ... ... 1 3 1 2 10 2 2 1 12 9 18 1 31 11 3 19 6 Pratabgarh High School Private Students Pubna Government Zila School Puri Zila School Purneah School Purulia Government School... Putia School Rajput School, Jeypur Rajshaye Collegiate School ... Ranaghat School Rawalpindi Mission School Ranchi Governinent Zila School Rangoon Government High School Rowile II. C. E. School Roy Bareilly High School Rungpore Collegiate School... Ruplal Raghunath School Salkea A. S. School Sanskrit College Santi pore Municipal School .. Santipore New School Santosh Janhavi School Saradaprasad Institution, Chuckdigi Sarun School Seal's Free College Searsole H. C. E. School Sealkote American Mission School Serajgunge School Serampore College Shaharunpore A. P. Mission School Shajehanpore Zila School Shambazar II. G. E. School... Shampuker Preparatory School Sibpore Institution Sibpore H. C. E. School Sibsagor Zila School Wii vinni: ... 1 8 9 1 12 3 2 13 9 3 8 2 9 2 4 1 1 8 1 1 ... 1 1 1 ... 2 2 I.. 1.. 4 12 15 3 1 3 1 6 7 2 2 2 1 2 I.. 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 3 ... 10 3 15 5 8 1 2 3 1 ... 2 ... 2 5 5 6 6 4 3 2 1 1 6 6 :ܟܝܘ ܟܨ ; ;ܝܙܝܝܙ 1 1 2 6 5 1 5 6 ... 2 6 6 1 ... DO 1 1 ... ... ... ... ... Carried over 2383 147 536 299 983 641 334 839 56 1878.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 101 PABSED IN THE FAILED IN NAXES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. Finst Division. Sony Second Division. The Third Division. English. Second Language The History, and Geo. Mathematics, Absent. Brought forward 2383 147 536 299 983 641 334 839 56 1 1 1 . 5 6 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 2 1 10 1 5 1 1 3 3 1 1 600 1 2 2 1 .. 19 4 3 4 6 6 11 6 1 2 1 3 3 ... 90 1 4 2 1 2 6 2 2 1 4 Dod 1 1 ... 1 1 .1 1 ... 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 ... ... 1 2 1 Silchar Government School ... Sitapur High School Sodepore H. C. E. School South Suburban School, Kali. ghat Sridharpur H. C. E. School... St. Chrysostom's School St. Francis De Sale's School St. George's College, Mussoorie St. James School St. John's College, Agra St. Joseph's School St. Mary's Institution, Chandernagore St. Paul's School, Darjeeling St. Peter's College, Agra St. Peter's College, Allahabad St. Stephen's High School, Delhi St. Thomas' College, Colombo St. Xavier's Collego Sultanpore Zila School Sylhet Government School Taki School Teghoria School Teachers Tezpur School Tikari 11. C. E. School Ulwar High School Ulwar Thakoor School Umritsar District School Unao High School Useful Arts School Victoria College, Agra Victoria School, Gazipore Wesleyan Central Institution, Batticaloa ... 5 6 3 3 12 6 1 .2010 4 5 17 20 7 20 3 5 ... 2 7 3 4 1 3 2 2 2 1 3 1 ... 7 3 4 2 1 9. '2 4 1 ... 3 2 3 3 1 12 1 3 ... ... 1 1 1 ... ... ... 1 8 1 1 2 1 .. ... 1 1 1 1 2 12 7 6 4 6 ... 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 ... 2 ... ... 2 ... 1 1 Carried over 2599 156" 602 333 1045 684 354 900 59 102 CACUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Feb. 22, PASSED IN THE FAILED IN NAVES OF INSTITUTIONB. Brought forward 2599 156 602 333 1045,684 354 900 59 .. 6 ... 5 ... 5 .. 1 5 Wesleyan Mission School, Barrackpore Wesleyan Mission School, Chitpore Wesley College, Colombo Zoroastrian School, Allow 8 1 2 2 1 4 1 1 2 1 ... TOTAL 2617 157 607 331 1035693 355 909 59 1873.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 103 FIRST EXAMINATION IN ARTS, 1878. Comparative Table showing the number of Candidates sent forward from each Institution, the number passed, and the number fail- "ing to obtain the minimum markx allotted to each separate subject. PASSED IN THIC FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division. Second Languages. English. History Mathematics. Logie. Chemistry. Psychology Absent, 5 2 2 1 1 . 1 4 1 2 5 1 3 4 9 8 2 1 6 3 3 1 3 2 3 1 7 10 12 1 1 4 1 9 3 2 2 6 2 1 3 ... 12 2-1 20 1 21 19 3 4 1 1 7 1 9 2 3 1 17 .M 3 9 2 3 1 31 1 1 1 8 1 3 1 23 3 :::o.i.in.: 3 .. 1 5 11 3 5 1 34 0 1 6 11 6 ... :.: S. 1 9 52 9 1 7 11 5 13 1 JS 1 0 1 1 13. ... !.. 3 97 2 5 1 3 7 9) 1 2 2 11 6 6 3 6 3 1 2 10 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 .. I.. ... 1 7 4 1 9 3 2 i Agra College Ajmeic Government College .. Biuleah High School Benares College Berhampore College Bishop Cotton's School, Simla Canning College, Lucknow Cathedral Mission College Christ Church Schwol, ('awnpur Chittagong High School Cuttaik College Dilcra College Dovoton College Ex-Students, Beaulcah Iligh School Cathedral Missiou College Tarca (olinge Free Church Institution General Assembly's Institution Jugli College L M S. Institution, Bhowanipore L. N. 8. High School, Benares Mctropolitan Tostitution Midnapore High School Muir College, Allahabad Presidency College Sanskrit College Free Church Institution General Assembly's Institution Ilugli College Jabalpur High School Krishnaghur College Lahore Collego LÀ M:rtiniere College, Calcutta 1. M. High School, Benares L. M. S. Institution, Bhowanipore Plotropolitan Institution Midnaporo High School Moharoja's College, Jeypur Muir College, Allahabad Out Students, Ducca College Patna Collego Presidency Collego... Rungpur High School Sanskrit Collego Serampore Collego St. John's College, Agra St. Tbomas' College, Colombo... St. Xavier's College Teachers 1 11 1 1 5 1 2 1 3 2 1 3 5 1 ... 7 16 10 5 12 9 5 20 56 26 5 26 16 8 2: 2 7 2 2 3 3 9 10 2 9 1 9 20 19 2 16 1 5 21 14 2 12 .. IC 19 ::::::::::: 7 ... 17 0 6 6 2 32 92 61 15 38 21 2 8 27 102 8 2 26 20 18 117 4 13 10) 25 3 21 5 1 5 19 52 5 1 13 . 3 36 1 + 2 3 2 6 1 3 10 26 1 3 8 22 3 2 6 3 3 2 3 10 2 1 4 0 3 21 . 1 2 0 3 13 6 14 20 22 31 5 16 70 4 2 14 15 31 63 2 10 1 2 4 7 10 30 18 21 15 7 ::::::::::: 3 7 15 34 1 3 1 2 17 3 2 8 10 6 ... .:: 1 1 3 3 18 10 ... 6 1 4 1 9 TOTAL 923 61 123 89 101 283 210 531 210 182 1139 31 104 CALCUTTA UNIYERSITY. [Feb. 22, B. A. EXAMINATION, 1879. A. COURSE. Comparative Tuble showing the number of Candidates sent forward from each Institution, the number passed, and the number failing to obtain the minimum marks allotted to each separate subject. PASSED IN THE FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division, English. Second Languages. History. Jathematics. Mental and Moral Philosopby. Optional Mathematice. Absent. Benares College ... 9 4 3 1 3 .. 1 1 . Cathedral Mission College 11 5 3 1 10 1 : ... Dacca College 5 ... 3 2 1 1 ... ... Ex-Student, Agre College 1 1 91 Cathedral Mission College 2 1 1 1 . Free Church Insti. tution, Calcutta... 1 1 1 1 90 General Assonibly's Institution 3 ... 2 1 3 1 Presidency College 6 3 .. 2 1 2 1 Free Church Institution, Calcutta 12 3 2 2 .. 8 ... 1 . ... 1t General Assembly's Institution 35 7 15 8 9 2.68 1 4. Krishnaghur College 6 ... ... 3 1 2 5 1 ... ... Lahore College 6 1 3 3 ... 3 . . Mgir Central College, Allahabad 2 1 1 2 .. do ... . Presidency College ... 20 1 ... 6 5 2 3 9 2 DO 1 St. Thomas' College, Colombo 1 1 ... Teachers ... ... 12 ... 8 2 TOTAL 132 ] 2 26 49 27 26 81 23 14 12 Two failed on the aggregate, one turoud out, and one absent, + Failed op the aggregate.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 105 B. COURSE. PABBED IN THE FAILED IN NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Geology. Absent. Agra College 1 2 1 ... .... Benares College 1 1 1 1 .. ... Canning College, Lucknow 1 3 3 1 2 1 ... ... .. 15 Cathedral Mission College ... 1 . 2 6 1 3 ... .. .. Cuttack College 4 2 3 2 3 ... .. ... .. ... Dacca College 13 1 . 1 6 6 1 8 Ex-Students, Cathedral M18610n ('ollege 5 1 2 2 2 1 I. 1 1 : Dacca College 2! 2 19 ... 2 1 1 1! 1 I.. Jlugli College Krishnaghur (ol. 1 lege 19 1 1 .. . ... ... ... Presidency College 2 6 8 6 3 6 1 1 .. : . St. Xavier's College 2 1 ... .. ... II Free Church Institution, Culcutta 1 2 6 1 .. .. General Assembly's Institution 1 1 1 ... . .. ... Hugli College 2 5 ... 10 15 6 17 . ... 1 Krishnaghur College 1 1 2 9 3 2 3 I. 1 .. Muir Central College, Allahabad 6 3 2 1 .. . ... .. Patna College 7 3 II. 3 .. ... Presidency College 6 6 N 12 8 11 7 8 1 St. Xavler's College 5 3 8 2 .... 1 ... ... Teachers N ... 9 6 6 ... ... TOTAL 191 9 21 32 64 78 47 86 28 ... • Failed on the Aggregate.

106 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 12, MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 11. THE 12Tu MARCI. (In circulation.) 122. The Registrar reported that the under-mentioned candidates had passed the Examinations in Medicine : SECOND) M. B. EXAMINATION. FIRST Division. Sil, Kanailal Medical College. SECOND DIVISION. In Alphabetical Order. Bandyopadhyay, Girijapada Chattopadhyay, Bagalacharan Bihutibhushan Datta, Khirodkumar De, Rajendralal Gangopadhyay, Jadunath Mediral College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. SECOND L. M. S. EXAMINATION. In Alphabetical Order. ... 99 ... Bandyopadhyay, Haripada Basak, Nrityalal Basu, Biharilal Manmathanath Chaudhuri, Chandranath Khirodchandra Das, Annadaprasad Datta, Akshaykunjar Ghosh, Rajkrishna Umeschandra Kumar, Sasibhushan Maitra, Mudhusudan Mukhopadhyay, Khelfram Purkait, Purnachandra Ray, Khirodchandra Maheudranath Sen, Bainandas Sinha, Narendraprasanna Srimani, Sasibhusban Medical College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. ... 90 ... ... ... ... ... ... 9) .. ...

1879.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 107 FIRST M, B. EXAMINATION. FIRST DIVISION. In Order of Merit. ... ... Ghosh, Srinath Basu, Sanatkurnar Labiri, Nikunjamohan. Sanyal, Pulinobandra Chattopadhyay, Debendranath Ghosh, Kludiram Das, Sundarimohan Medical College. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. I.. ..C .. ... ... FIRST L. M. S. EXAMINATION. In Alphabetical Order. ... Medical College. Ditto. Ditto. ... I. ... Adhya, Umacharan Ahia, Ali Khan Bandyopadhyay, Nithurnay Chattopadhyay, Khirodprasad Chakrabarti, Gaganchandra Das, Harischandra Goswami, Gopalchandra Kundu, Ambikacharan Majumdar Prasanna Kumar Ramchandra Mallik Biharilal Lakshminarayan Mitra Amritalal Mukhopadhyay, Krishnapada Saba, Batakrishna Sanyal, Joyneswar ... ... Ditto Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto, Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. II. ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ORDERED That the names of the successful candidates be published in the Gazette. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) ALEX. J. ARBUTHNOT, Vice-Chancellor.

108 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 15, MINUTES OF THE SENATE FOR THE YEAR 1878.79. No. 4. THE 15TN MARCH. Present: Thx HON'BLE TAE VICE-CHANCELIOR. THE HON'BLE THE LIEUTENANT-Gov- í MR. H. ROBERTS. ERNOR OF BENGAL. TAE HON'BLE AMIR ALI. THE RIGHT REV. TIE LORD BISHOP NAWAB AMEER ALI, KAAN BALA OF CALCUTTA. DOOP DILER JUNG. TIE HON'BLE A. RIVERS THOMPSON. PANDIT MAHESOIANDRA NYÁYARATNA. THE REV. DR. K. M. BANERJEA. REV. LALBITARI DEY. MAULVI ABDUL LUTEEF, KJIAN BAHADOOR. BABOO KALICHARN BANERJEA. RAJA HARENDRAKRIBUIXA, BAHADOOK. MR. C. E. BERNARD. THE REv. W. C. FYFE. COLONEL F. S. STANTON. DR. D. B. SMITH. Rev. J. ROBERTSON. DR. MAHENDRALAL STRCAR. MR. A. PEDLER. RAY KANAILAL DEY, BABADOOR. MR. A. E. Goran. MR. A. W. CROFT, MAJOR-CİENERAL A. CADELL. MAJOR H. S. JARRETT. REV. DR. A. F. RUDOLF HOEBNLE. MR. T. S. ISAAC. DR. TRAILOKYANATH MITRA. Dr. K. MCLEOD. MR. W. GRIFFITAS. BABOO UMESCHANDRA Dott. MAJOR J. IIERSCIEL. THE HON'BLE RAMESCO ANDIMITTER. DR. GURUDÁS BANERJEE. DR. T. E. CHARLES. BADOO RASHBLIAKI GHOSH. DR. H. CAYLEY. Rev. Dr. W. HASTIE. TAE HON'BLE SYED AHMED, KHAN BA- DR. A. S. LETHBRIDGE. HADOOR. BABU SURYYAKUMAR SARBADHIKARI. 123. The Senate was convened for the purpose of conferring degrees. The Vice-Chancellor having declared the Convocation opened, the Graduates of the year were admitted to their respective Degrees in the usual manner.

1879.) MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 109 "The Vice-Chancellor then addressed the Senate and Graduates as follows: I rise, according to custom, for the purpose of saying a few words to my colleagues in the Senate and to the Graduates whom I see assembled before me. I think that it is impossible to attend at these annual Convo. cations without being impressed by the success which has followed the establishment of Universities in India. When we remember the misgivings and the predictions of failure with which this measure was received by many persons sincerely interested in the moral and intellectual progress of the natives of this land; when we contrast the number of successful candidates at the examinations held in recent years with the numbers in the earlier years of the University ; when we observe the influence which these examinations exercise over the secondary and superior education now going on throughout the vast provinces which compose what, for want of a better term, is called “The Presidency of Bengal”-an influence which is annually increasing ;—and when we reflect that very similar results have followed in the two sister Presidencies, we must, I think, acknowledge that the scheme of Indian Universities, which was sketched out in the Education despatch of 1854, and which was brought into operation in the year of the mutiny, was a measure of true and clear-sceing statesmanship-a worthy monument of the Great Company whose administration of this Empire is one of the most remarkable facts in history. I know that it may be said that before this University, or any other Indian University, can be pronounced to be a complete success, much remains to be accomplished ; that the knowledge which is tested by our examinations, is, in many respects, wanting in that thoroughness which ought to characterize it, and that the number of graduates, of whom it can truly be affirmed that they are well educated men-educated in the highest sense of the word-fitted to become good citizens and useful servants of the State, able to realize the defects of their own knowledge, and to fathom the rastness of the learning to which their studies have introduced them, is comparatively small. To this I can only reply that Rome was not built in a day; that two-and-twenty years is but a brief period in the life of a nation; that the reforms which have been effected in the Universities of our own land have been the work of centuries, and that there is every ground for hoping that there will be, as time goes on, it may be a slow, but not the less a sure, advance in the quality of the education tested by these examinations. To the defects to which I have alluded, the Senate are by no means insensible, gs is shown by the minutes of their proceedings which are published cvery year. For some time past an important alteration in the 110 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 15, rules for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, baving for its object to render the scheme of studies less discursive, to narrow its range, while increasing its depth, has been under consideration, and will, I hope, be sanctioned at no very distant date. And here I may observe, with reference to a remark which was made last year by my learned friend and predecessor in the Vice-Chancellorship of this University, that the Government of India fully recognise the importance of giving an adequate influence in the counsels of this Senate to those who are teachers by profession, and who are engaged in teaching in the colleges affiliated to the University. It will be seen that something has been done in this direction in the appointments which appeared in last Saturday's Gazette. Turning to the results of the recent examinations, I find that for the Eutrance Examination there were 2,617 candidates, of whom 1,099 passed; for the First Arts Examination 923 candidates, of whom 267 passed; for the Bachelor of Arts Examination 323 candidates, of whom 91 passed; for the M. A. Examination 48 canılidates, of whom 28 passed; for the B. L. Examination 84 candidates, of whom 47 passed; for the Licence in Civil Engineering 21 candidates, of whom 5 passed ; and for the Degree of Bachelor in Civil Engineering 7 candidates, of whom I passed. One thing that strikes one in looking at these figures, is the small proportion of successful candidates for the Bachelor of Arts Degree and at the First Examination in Arts. The proportion was small last year also, and this, I am informed, is, in some measure, attributable to the fact that in both these years the total number of candidates includes unsuccessful candidates of former years who were allowed to present themselves for examination on producing certificates showing that they had paid the fee for a previous examination which they had failed to pass, but without tificate that since the time of their failure they had been continuing their studies in an affiliated college. In future such a certificate will be required, and the effect will doubtless be to reduce the proportion of unsuccessful candidates. In connection with the examinations of the past year, I must not omit to mention a circumstance which is both interesting and important. I refer to the fact of the Senate having passed rules for the examination of female candidates, under the operation of which one Hindu young lady, educated at the Bethune School, passed the Entrance Examination with great credit. The young lady to whom I refer, Kadambini Bosu, obtained very high marks in Bengáli, very tolerable marks in history; and even in the exact sciences—a subject which is not usually considered to be congenial to the female intellect—she acquitted herself very creditably. She only missed being placed in the first division of passed candidates for the Entrance Examination by a single mark. I will not take any cer- 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SENATE, 111 up your time by dilating on the advantages of female education, or on the difficulties which beset it in this country. Two years ago this subject was dwelt upon by one of the ablest of my predecessors in this office, and very recently it has formed the subject of an eloquent speech from our Chancellor, which I have no doubt most of you who were not present to hear it have read in the newspapers. On this occasion I will only say that the question whether the women of this country are to be educated, is one which can only be settled by the men, and mainly by the educated classes; by those who, having themselves received the advantages of a liberal education, are desirous that the same advantages shall be extended to their wives and daughters. I am told that there is an increasing desire on the part of the young men of Bengal that their wives and daughters should be educated. I sincerely hope that it may be so; for it is a matter in which neither the Government, nor this University, nor any European agency of any description, can do much to help you. It is essentially an object demanding Native thought and Native effort, which, if it is to be realized at all, must be attained by your own exertions, by the gradual conquest of ancient prejudices, and by a change in national customs which the history of the world teaches us it is by no means easy to effect. In the past year, as in former years, the Senate of this University has lost by death more than one of its members, who were either remarkable for the zcal and ability with which they devoted themselves to the special objects of the University, or who adorned it by their prominence in other spheres of duty. Conspicuous in the first class was the late Mr. Sutcliffe, who for nearly thirty years was a teacher, and for the greater part of that time was the head of the principal college in Bengal. Mr. Suteliffe was Registrar of the University for about eleven years, and to him are due most of the improvements in our system which took place during that important and critical period in the history of the University. The admirable arrangements which he introduced for the conduct of the examinations are still carefully followed. Mr. Sutcliffe educated three generations of Bengális. His name will long be a household word in many Bengáli families. Mr. Blochmann's attainments as an Arabic and Persian scholar are well known. His studies in those languages embraced a wide range, but his special study, the subject on which he had probably acquired more knowledge than has hitherto been attained by any other European scholar---was the history of India under the Muhammadan rule. Dr. Robson had passed through a somewhat varied career. Coming to India as a Medical Missionary in 1863, he subsequently joined the Educational Department of this Province, and died, at the 112 CALO'TITTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 15, early age of forty, a victim to the climate and to bis zealous exertions in the discharge of his duties. Dr. Oldham's avocations were such as did not admit of his taking an active part in the immediate business of the University. He had a high reputation as a Geologist, and his name will long be remembered as the Founder, and for many years the able Director, of the Geological Survey of India. His services in this post were highly valued by the Government of India, and were fully recognized by the scientific world. And now, gentlemen, the inention of these names of former colleagues whose loss the University deplores, leads me to say a few words with reference to the ceremonial which we performed immediately before the opening of this Convocation. I refer to the unveiling of the bust of the late Mr. Henry Woodrow, which has been placed in this Senate House as a memorial of his long and devoted services in the cause of Native education. To me it is a melancholy satisfaction tbat the duty of presiding at that ceremonial, and of bearing public testimony to the merits of our valued and lamented colleague, should have devolved upon me; for it so happens that Henry Woodrow and I were school-fellows; and, although the greater part of our Indian service was passed in different parts of the Empire, we had for many years a bond of union in the fact that we were both employed upon the great work of promoting the education of the natives of this land work which our lamented colleague performed with a zeal and devotion and practical ability that have seldom been surpassed. I well remember meeting Mr. Woodrow on the first occasion of my visiting this city, now nearly four-and-twenty years ago, and renewing the acquaintance of our school-days; and I shall never forget how iinpressed I then was by the earnestness and the thoroughness with which he had entered upon his new duties. That carnestness and that thoroughness never flagged. They characterized the whole of Mr. Woodrow's useful and active life, up to the closing scene when he was suddenly struck down in the midst of his labours. And there were two other points in his character which we should all of us do well to contemplate, and to which I would invite the attention of you my younger friends—the newly-passed graduates of this University. I refer to the consistent uprightness and truthfulness of his mind, and to the equanimity with which he bore the trials and disappointments of life. Some of those now present are doubtless aware that many years before his death Mr. Woodrow encountered a severe disappointment in being passed over for the chief office in his department—an office for which he was generally considered to possess the strongest claims. Another person was selected, and Mr. Woodrow had to work on in a subordinate post for another fifteen years; but the disappointment, great as it was, 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SENATE. 118 in no way impaired his zeal. He laboured on patiently and steadily, destined at length to attain the goal of his ambition, but alas ! only to enjoy it for a few short months. Gentlemen, before I sit down I must ask permission to offer the respectful but cordial thanks of the University to the distinguished American soldier and statesman who is seated on my right, for having honoured this Convocation by his presence. In General Grant we see a conspicuous instance of that devotion to duty, that tenacity of purpose, that quiet but indomitable energy, which characterizes the best men, not only of the Anglo-Saxon, but of every race. Alike to us who have long been engaged in the business of life, and to you who are now about to enter upon it, the career of General Grant furnishes a remarkable example of duties faithfully and efficiently discharged, and of difficulties successfully overcome: and here let me remind you that there is no sphere of duty however limited, no position in life however humble, in which the contemplation of such an example is without its value. In the words of an eminent countryman of our illustrious visitor, in the words of an American poet who still lives to adorn the literature of his country, and who is held in honour wherever the English language is read- We bave not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The beights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast oyes, Let us discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If rising on its wrecks at last, To something nobler we attain, Thus toiling on in the performance of the duties of whatever may be your chosen or your appointed walk in life; thus earnestly striving to overcome the difficulties and the temptations which will inevitably beset you; thus undeterred by failure, and thereby stimulated to fresh effort, it is for you, the graduates of this University, to do your best to prove that the education which is certified by her degrees, is a sound education, which not only informs and

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trains your intellects, but helps to make you industrious and honest
and God-fearing men.
The Vice-Chancellor then declared the Convocation closed.
CHARLES H. TAWNEY,
Registrar.
(Confirmed.)
ALEX, J. ARBUTIINOT,
Vice-Chancellor.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 115 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 12. THE 29TH MARCIT. Present: A. W. CROFT, ESQ., in the Chair. THE HON'BLE J. O'KINEALY. A. M. BOSE, ESQ. T. S. Isaac, Esq. 124. Read the following letter from the Secretary to the Woodroy Memorial Committee : 'To THE REGISTRAR OF THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. Calcutta, the 6th March 1879. “With reference to your letter No. 327, dated the 1st instant, I have the honour to forward here. Nos. 053563, 063474, 067743, with Government Promissory Notes and 067744, for Rs. 1,000 cach; for Rs. (4,800) four thousand and No. 056218 for Rs. 500; and Nos. 051031, 051032, and eight hundred only, as detailed in the 051033, for Rs. 100 cach, of the margin, for the foundation of the 4 per cont. Loan of lst Feb- Woodrow Memorial Scholarship. 2. “I beg also to send a sum of Rs. (96) ninety-six, to enable the Syndicate to award the scholarship at once, with effect from the 1st February 1879. The interest on the Government Securities for the next half-year will fall due on 1st August 1879, and be available for continuing the scholarship to the end of the session. There will thus be always a sum in hand to pay the scholarship at the end of every month. ruary 1842-43.

CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. 116 [Mar. 29,* 3. "I shall feel obliged by your acknowledging receipt of the Promissory Notes and the cash. 4." It affords our Committee sincere pleasure to learn that the Vice-Chancellor has kindly consented to unveil the late Mr. Woodrow's bust, and to allude in his Convocation address to the career of the deceased." I have, &c. ORDERED (1.) That the letter be recorded, and that the Woodrow Memorial Scholarship for this year be awarded to Brajaballabh Datta of the Krishnaghur College, on the ground that he has obtained the bighest marks in Physics of the students who do not hold any University, Goverument, or private scholarship. (2.) That the Registrar take steps for converting the Government Promissory Notes for Rs. 4,800 into stock. 125. The Registrar submitted an application from the head clerk, Baboo Troyluckonath Banerjce, for an increase of salary. RESOLVED- That the head clerk's salary be raised to Rs. 150 per mensem, with effect from the 1st of April 1879. 126. Read the following letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, in the Financial Department, to the Comptroller General : No. 650. To TAE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT. SIR, 60 “In acknowledging the receipt of your letter No. A dated the 18th October 1878, on the subject of the audit of the accounts of the Calcutta University for 1877-78, I am directed! to state that the Governor General in Council sanctions the payment to the University of the balance of Rs. 898-15-3, which remains at credit of that institution on the Government books.

1879.]' MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 117 2. “I am also to state the Promissory Note for Rs. 800, which constitutes the Ritchie Memorial Fund, should be turned into stock." I have, &c., (Sd.) R. H. HOLLINGBERY, Assistant Secretary to the Govt. of India. FORT WILLIAM, The 10th February 1879. No. 3469. Copy sent to the Registrar, Calcutta University, for information. (Sd.) E. W. KELLNER, Offg. Deputy Comptroller General. COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE, The 25th February 1879. ORDERED That the letter be recorded, and that the Registrar take steps to purchase with the interest of the Ritchie Memorial paper three Promissory Notes of Rs. 100 each, and then convert the four Promissory Notes into stock. 127. Read a letter from Mr. J. Eliot, proposing that five years may be substituted for four years in paragraph 2 of the Regulation for Honours in Arts, and that candidates who have failed at the last B. A. Examination may be allowed the benefit of the alteration. ORDERED- That the Registrar send Mr. Eliot a copy of the letter addressed by him to Dr. Chandrakumar De, in accordance with the order of the Syndicate at the meeting on the 22nd of February 128. The Registrar reported that, in consultation with the President of the Faculty of Medicine, he had appointed Dr. Lawrie to examine for Honours iu Surgery. Read also a report fron Dr. Lawrie, stating that he had exam. ined Kanailal Sil and found him qualified for a degree in Honours in Surgery 118 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 29, ORDERED That the proceeding of the Registrar be confirmed, and that the candidate's name be published in the Gazette as having passed the examination for Honours in Surgery. 129. Read a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, stating that the Governor General in Council had been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Fellows of the University :- Tbc Hon'ble A. Wilson. Major-General A. Cadell, R.E. Babu Prasannakumar Ray, D.s.c. G. L. Molesworth, Esq., C.I.E. The Rev. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D. Babu Trailokyanath Mitra, M.A., D.T.. W. Griffiths, Esq., M.A. Major J. Herschel, R.E. Babu Gurudus Bunerjce, M.A., D.I.. F.J. Rowe, Esq., M.A. Babu Rasbihari Ghosh, M.A., B.L. The Rev. W. Hastie, B.D. F. Biden, Esq., M.A. A. S. Lethbridge, Esq., M.D. Baden Powell, Esq., c.s. Babu Jagadbandhu Busu, M.D. Captuin A. C. Talbot, B.8.c. Babu Suryyakumar Sarbadhikari. R. Harvey, Esq., M.D. Edward Buck, Esq., c.s. ORDERED That the Fellows be distributed as follows: Faculty of Arts. The Hon'ble A. Wilson. Babu Prasannakumar Ray. The Rev. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D. W Griffiths, Esq., M.A. Bubu Gurudas Banerjee, M.A., D. L. F. J. Rowe, Esq., M.A. 'The Rev. W. Hastie, B.D. F. Biden, Ed., M.A. Baden Powell, Esq., C.S. Captain A. C. Talbot, B.s.c. Edward Buck, Esq., C.S. Faculty of Law. The Hon'ble A. Wilson. Babu Trailokyanath Mitra, M.A., D.L. Babu Gurudas Bunerjee, M.A, D.L. Babu Rasbihari Ghosh, M.A., B.L, Faculty of Medicine. A. S. Lethbridge, Esq., M.D. Babu Jugadbandhu Basu, M.D. Babu Suryyakuinar Sarbadbikari. R. Harvey, Esq., M.D. Faculty of Engineering. Major-General A. Cadell, R.E. G. L. Molesworth, Esg., C.I.E. Major J, Herschel, R.E.

119 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 130. The following gentlemen were appointed to conduct, the examinations : D. B. Horn, Esq. T. Haines Wickes, Esq. :} In Engineering. J. Eliot, Esq. In Mathematics. A. Pedler, Esq. In Chemistry. . H. H, Locke, Esq. In Drawing. . 131. On the representation of the Registrar, it was resolved that the Syndicate recommend to the Senate that for the marginal note now appended to the certificates of Entrance candidates, the following be substituted : “This certificate is to be signed by the Principal or Head Master of the college or school at which the candidate has been educated continuously since the 1st July next preceding the examination ; or, if he has not been a pupil of any one school continuously since that date, by the Principal of an affiliated college or by a Government Inspector of Schools." 132. Read a letter from the Principal of the Hugli College, enclosing a letter from Atulkrishna Ray, requesting that he may be allowed to pass the Honour Examination from the Hugli College and take his M. A. Degree from the Presidency College. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Principal of the Hugli College that the Syndicate consider that the conditions of the Ishan Endowment render it impossible for them to grant the applicant's petition. 133. Read a letter from Mr. Alexander Dixon, requesting that his Bachelor of Science Degree of the London University may be considered equivalent to the B. A. Degree of the University of Calcutta, and that he may be admitted to the examination for the degree of M. A. RESOLVED That the Syndicate recommend to the Senate that Mr. Alexander Dixon be admitted to the examination for the Degree of M. A. 131. Read the following letter from the Secretary to the Government of the Panjab, in reply to this office letter No. 277, dated 24th December 1878, addressed to him in accordance with a 120 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [Mar. 29, Resolution of the Syndicate at their meeting on the 7th of December. (Minutes of the Syndicate for 1878-79, paragraph 69.) ORDERED That the following letter be addressed by the Registrar to the Secretary to the Government, North-West Provinces and Oudh :- SIR, “In continuation of my letter No. 347, dated the 10th March, I have the honour to enclose copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of the Panjab, from which it appears that the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab is not prepared to compel students from that province to come to Calcutta in order to pass the B. A. Examination, but would prefer to continue the small fee paid to Mr. Deighton for superintending the examination at Agra. “ Under these circumstances the Syndicate feel that it is incumbent on them to continue, if possible, to hold the B. A. Examination at some centre which will be convenient for students from the Panjab. “At the same time they do not feel disposed to charge the University with that portion of Mr. Deighton's fee hitherto paid by the North-West Provinces and Oudh. They therefore direct me to enquire whether His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh would prefer to continue the fee hitherto paid to Mr. Deighton, or to abandon the Agra centre, and allow intending candidates to come to Calcutta. “Should His Honor decide to abandon the Agra centre, they will endeavour to arrange with the Government of the Panjab for the examination of candidates from that province, and will recommend to the Senate accordingly." CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) A. W. CROFT, Chairman, 1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING. 121, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FOR TUE YEAR 1878-79. No. 1 THE 3R) ALRIJ.. (In Circulation.) 135. Proposed by Mr. T. S. Isaac', seconded by Mr. II. F. Blanford- That Major-General A. Caulell, R. E., be elected President of the Faculty of Engineering and Representative in the Syndicate for 1879-80, CITARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar.

122 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 7, MINUTES OF TIIE FACULTY OF LAW FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 3. THE 710 APRIL. Present: THE MIOX'KLE ROHESH CHUNDER MITTER, in the Chair. BABOO AXAADATRASAD BANERJEA. | The Ilon'ble MOHINIMOJAN RAY. AMIR ALI, EsQ Dr. TRAILOKYANATII MITRA. THE HON'BLE II. T. PRINSEP. DR. GORUDAS BANERJEE. 136. The Faculty proceeded to elect a President and Representative in the Syndicate for 1879-80. The Hon'ble H. T. Prinsep proposed that the lIon'ble J. O’Kinealy be elected President and Representative in the Syndicate for the year 1879-80. The Hon'ble Romesh Chunder Mitter seconded the motion. The motion was carried wmanimously. CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) ROMESH CIIUNDER MITTER, President.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. 123 MINUTES OF TIIE FACULTY OF MEDICINE FOR TIIE YEAR 1878-79. No. 5, TIE 7tir APRIL. Present: > ور Dr. T. E. CHARLES, in the Chair. Dr. S. B. PARTRIDOI. DR. H. CAYLEY. D. B. SMITU. A. S. LETJI BRIDGE. RAI KAXAILAL DE, BAHADOOR. „ JAGADBANDIO BOSE. DR. GEO. KING. BABU SURYYAKUMAR SARBADHIKARI. K. MCLEOD. DR. R. HARVEY. 137. Read a letter from Dr. W. J. Palmer containing proposals for amending the wording of Rule 6 of the Regulations for examinations for the I.. M. S. and M. B. degrees. Dr. D. B. Smith proposed that the Faculty recommend to the Syndicate that in paragraph 6 of the Regulations for the L. M. S. and M. B. Examinations, for the word “s chemistry” be substituted “Elementary Chemical Physics, including the General laws of Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism; also Chemistry, or- “ganic and inorganic, having special reference to practical medical “science." Dr. McLeod seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. 138. Read a letter from Dr. Cayley containing proposals for amending the wording of paragraph 8 of the Regulations for the second M. B. Examination. RESOLVED- That the Faculty recommend to the Syndicate that in paragraph 8 of the Regulations for the second M. B. Examination, for the words « one course of 50 lectures, diseases of the eye,” be substituted " one course of 25 lectures, discases of the eye." 139. Dr. Charles proposed that Dr. D. B. Smith be clected President and Representative in the Syndicate for the year 1879-80. Dr. Cayley seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) T. EDMONDSTON CHARLES, M. D., President.

124 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 17, MINUTES OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS FOR TILE YEAR 1878-79. No. 2. THE 17T1 APRIL. Present: A. W, CROFT, Esq., in the (hr. THE REV. DR. K. M. BANERJEA. A. M. Bose, Esq. Tu Rev. W. C. FYFE. BADOO KALICIJARAN BANERJEA. THE Rev. J. P. ASHTON. Tux Rev. J. ROBERTSON. MR. (). C. Dott. A. E. (Ioudu, Esq. H, ROBERTS, ESQ. The key. DR. A. F. RODOLX HOURNLE. PANDIT MAHESCILANDIA NYAYARATNA. F. J. Rowe, Esq. THE Rev. Dr. W. HASTIE. 140. The Faculty met to clect a President and representatives in the Syndicate for the year 1879-80. The Rev. W. C. Fyfe proposed that Mr. A. W. Croft be elected President and one of the representatives in the Syndicate for 1879-80. The Rev. Dr. K. M. Banerjes seconded the motion. The motion was carried, 11. Pandit Maheschandra Nyayaratna proposed that Mr. A. M. Bose and Dr. Mahendralal Sircar be elected representatives of the Faculty in the Syndicate for 1879-80. Mr. 0. C. Dutt seconded the motion. The Rev. Dr. Ilvernle proposed that the Rev. J. Robertson be elected a representative of the faculty in the Syndicate for 1879-80. The Rev. J. P. Ashton seconded the motion. A ballot was taken and Mr. Robertson and Mr. A. M. Bose were elected. CIIARLES II. TAWNEY, Registrar. (Confirmed.) A. W. CROFT, President.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 125 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE YEAR 1878-79. No. 13. Tue 1911 APRIL. Present: A. W'. CROFT, Esq., in the Chair. TE HON'BLE J. ('KINEALY. A. M. Bose, Esq. DR. T. EDMONTSTON CHARLES. 112. The Registrar submitted the report of the Syndicate for the year 1878-79. ORDERED- (1.) That the report be adopted, printed, and circulated to the Members of the Senate before the annual meeting. (2.) That the annual meeting of the Senate be held on the 26th of April. 143. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Engineering for the 3rd of April. The proceedings were confirmed. 144. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Law at its meeting on the 7th of April. The proceedings were confirmed. 115. Read the proceedings of the Faculty of Arts at its meeting on the 17th of April. The proceedings were confirmed. 146. Read the proceedings of the Facnlty of Medicine at its meeting on the 7th of April.

126 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, RESOLVED That the Syndicate reconımend to the Senate at the annual meeting (1) that in paragraph 6 of the Regulations for the L. M. S. and M. B. Examinations, for the word “Chemistry” be substituted “Elementary Chemical Physics, including the General Laws of Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism; also Chemistry, organic and inorganic, having special reference to practical Medical Science;" (2) that in paragraph 8 of the Regulations for the second M. B. Examination, for the word “ one course of 50 lectures, diseases of the eye,” be substituted one course of 25 lectures, diseases of the eye.” 117. The Registrar submitted ihe accounts of the University for the year 1878-79. RESOLVED That out of the balance of Rs. 5,785-8-6, Rs. 1,500 be devoted to the augmentation of the University Library, ks. 300 be awarded to the Head Clerk as an addition to his salary, ana Rs. 150 to the second clerk. 118. Read a letter from the Director of Public Instruction, Brie tish Burinah, requesting the Syndicate to include Páli in the list of classical languages prescribed for the Entrance and F. A. Examinations of the Calcutta University, and stating that Examiners will be available in British Burmah. ORDERED That the Registrar inform the Director of Public Instruction, British Buriah, that the Syndicate are under these circumstances prepared to include Páli in the list of classical languages for the Entrance, F. A. and B. A. Examinations, and request him to recommend books for cach of those three Examinations. 149. Read a letter from the Secretary to the Cobden Club, proposing to award a silver medal to the student who, in the Annual Examination for IIonors in History and Political Economy, obtains the highest marks in the latter subject. ORDERED- That the Registrar inform the Secretary to the Cobden Club that the Syndicate thankfully accept the donation. 150. The Registrar enquired whether Chandramukhi Basu, who was declared by the Junior Board of Examiners to have obtained the 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 127 Entrance Standard in the Examination of 1876, might be admitted to the First Examination in Arts of the current year. RESOLVED That the Syndicate recommend to the Senate that Chandramukhi Basu be admitted to the F. A. Examinations of 1879 and subsequent years. 15). The following bills of contingencies were passed :- FOR MARCI 1879. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. ] ... 9 1 ... ... 1 39 bo. ... 1 ] 9. 1 Bill for service postage stamps 100 0 () Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for prize books 100 0 0 1 Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for Dublin and Oxford University Calendars 5 70 Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., for a copy of Directory and a copy of Persian B. A. Course 16 8 0 1 Public Works Department, for examining boarded ceiling 6 0 0 Daster of the Mint for å gold mcılal 108 5 6 1 Baptist Mission Press, for printing examination papers 14 0 0 1 New School-Bouk Press for printing examination papers 9 0 0 1 Englishman Press, for advertisement 8 0 0 Statesman ditto ditto ñ 0 0 Indian Mirror ditto ditto 3 12 () 4 Bills, conveyance hire to the Teachers for superintending the examinations 45 0 () 1 Bill for binding Gazette of India, and mak. ing envelopes 5 12 0 1 extra duftries employed during the M. A. and Medical Examinations, &c. 9 2 () for scouring the hall 35 00 for white-washing the walls 27 0 0 1 for sealing wax and oil for scaling the diplomas 4 0 0 1 for varnishing the dais 15 0 0 coolies for arranging the seats for the Convocation and stowing the desks and stools in the godown 12 ( 0) Methu Pressman, for supplying lithographic materials 11 14 0 1 for sundries 10 4 3 1 Messrs. N. C. Gianguli. for repairing a bib-cock 0 0 . 1 1 ... .. 00 ... ... 1 ... ... > 1 Carried over 534 0 9 128 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, Rs. A. P. Rs. 4. P. ... ... ... ..C 1 Brought forward 504 0 9 Telegrams to Agra, Lucknow, and Lahore 7 0 0 Paid insufficient postage on letters received 0 9 0 1 Bill, S. Sedgfield, for printing examination diagrams 12 8 0 Messrs. Harman and Co., for three new gowns 270 0 0 1 Messrs. Harman and Co., for safe cus. tody of gowns for 1878 50 0 0) Expenses incurred during the examinations held at Hugli 179 4 3 Expenses incurred during the examinations held at Bhagalpur 114 2 ) 1 „ Expenses incurred during the examinations held at Peshawar 1 1 1,191 Il Acrount, Tagore Law Lecture Fund. 1 Bill, Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., for freight and packing charges for send. ing 50 copies of lectures to London... 20 () 0 Arcount, Library Fund. 1 Bill. Officiating Administrator General of Beugal for purchasing books 33 8 0 Aerount, Mouat Testimonial Fund, 1 Bill, Master of the Mint, for a gold medal... 1080) ... Account, Radhukuntu Memorial Fund. 1 Bill, Master of the Mint, for a gold medal 108 70 Toral les 1.102 10 CHARLES II. TAWNEY, Regixtrar. (Confirrnerl.) A. W. CROFT, Chairman, 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 129 Entrance Examination. Report of the Syndicate for the ycar 1878-79. The usual examinations have been held during the year in Arts, Law, Medicine, and Engineering, and a tabular statement is appended, shewing the results and affording a comparison with the results of previous years. The total number of candidates who appeared at this year's examinations was 4,180 against 4,184 in the previous year. The number of candidates registered for the Entrance Examination was 2,617, of whom 1,098 passed, 1,460 failed, and 59 were absent. Of the successful candidates, 157 were placed in the First Division, 607 in the Second, 334 in the Third. Of the 1,160 candidates who failed, 1,055 were rejected in English, 693 in the second languages, 355 in History and Geography, and 909 in Mathematics. The number of candidates was less by 103 than in the previous year. The result of the examination shows a slight decrease in the percentage of passed candidates as compared with 1877. The number passed in 1877 being 43 per cent., whereas in 1878 about 42 per cent. passed. The following table shews the number of candidates that came up from cach province, the number passed, and the percentage of successful candidates for the years 1877 and 1878:- ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. 1877. 1878. Number of candidates, Number passed. Number Percentage. of candi. date. Number passed. Percentage 2,052 837 41.76 1,933 753 39:05 ... ... 61 278 20:42 21 121 31:42 43 52 25 50 1 20 Bengal Nepal Assain N.-W. Provinces Rajputana Jaypur Panjab Central Provinces... Oudh British Burmah Ceylon Central India Agency 16 5 102 71 96 5 3-6 59 280 15 9 97 64 107 59 37 48 57.81 52:11 50 16 140 8 6 55 40 61 2 13 4 53.83 65.65 667 62.5 57 100 40.62 23:52 .. **18 52.92 32 17 TOTAL 2,720 1.166 43:08 2,617 1,098 41.95 ...

130 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (April 19, ... ... The number of candidates who failed in one subject only is subjoined :- English Second languages History and Goography Mathematics The following is a classification of the candidates according to the stations at which they were examined, and the second languages they took up :- 258 72 12 199 BENGAL. Number of Candidates Latia. Sanskrit. Bengali. Criya. Armenian. Calcutta ... 829 53 599 ... 22 3 1 146 1 Hugli ... 210 1 (172 1 1 ... 35 ... Dacca 243 1 170 1 3 68 .. ... Krishnaghur ... ... 240 146 1 93 ... Berhampore ... ... 72 51 2 ... 19 ... ... Patna 133 26 .. 21 14 48 17 ... 7 Bhagalpore ... 47 20 3 6 5 13 ... ... ... Barisal ... ... 21 18 .. 3 Katak ... 31 ... 14 2 15 . . Ranchi ... 23 ... 3 .. 1 2 17 .. ... Chittagong ... 18 13 1.a 5 ... . .. Bankura 38 10 ... 28 ... ... Midnapore ... ... 27 3 .. ... 24 .. ... ... ... Darjeeling ... ... 3 3 ... ... RAJPUTANA. Ajincre 15 1 2 1 6 6 1 ASSAM. 20 Sylhet Gowbatty Sibengor I.. 37 19 3 17 15 ... 3 1879.7 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 191 N.-W. PROVINCES. Number of Candidates. Latin, Sanskrit. Criya. Armenian, Burmese. Benares 81 ... 33 3 28 9 5 3 ... ... ... Allababad 64 122 1 | 28 9 3 ... Agra ... 85 2 11 1 1 56 11 2 ... ... ... Bareilly 38 11 25 . 1 .. 1 ... ... II. .. Mussoorie ... 20 13 1 5 1 .. ... ... r. .. .. ... ... PANJAB. Delhi 16 2 1 12 1 .. ... ... .. ... ... . Lahore 63 9 6 ... ... ... Siinla 16 16 .. ... ... .. ... ... Peshawar 2 ... ... ... OUDI. Lucknow 106 13 12 1 1 15 63 1 1 ... ... 1 .. CENTRAL PROVINCES. Nagpur 35 4 29 2 .. ... Jabalpur ... 31 18 9 4 ... ... ... CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY. Indore 17 7 4 6 I.. ... BURMAH. British Burmal 2 ... ... .. CEYLON. Colombo ... 80 30 I.. ••• .. 10. Batticaloa 2 2 .. ... ... ...

132 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, The divisions in which the successful candidates from each province were placed, and the religions professed, are shewn in the following tables :- PROVINCES. NUMBER PASSED. Number of Candidatey. First Division). Second Division. Third Division, TOTAL. 392 103 1 25 260 5 30 I! 1,933 59 280 15 9 97 85 5 1 Bengal Assam N-W, Provinces Rajputana Jaypur Panjab Central Provinces Oudh British Burmal Ceylon Nepal Central India Agency 755 15 140 8 5 53 40 61 2 13 33 26 39 19 5 15 ... 107 ... ... ... ... 32 1 4 ... 17 1 2 1 "Рот AI, 2.617 157 607 334 1,098 RELIGION. BENGAL 84 215 Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 1,732 98 72 31 6 11 3:10 22 19 11 669 32 36 18 5 TOTAL 1,333 103 392 260 755 ASSAM. 53 1 8 Ilindus Mahoinedans Otbers 3 1 1 12 1 2 2 1 TOTAL ... 59 1 9 5 15 1879.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 139 N.-W. PROVINCE. NUMBER PASSED. Number of Candidates. First Division, Second Division. Third Divisiou, TOTAL. Hindus 221 16 67 24 107 Maliomedans 28 1 12 2 15 Christians 28 7 5 16 Others ... 1 1 2 Тотли 280 25 85 30 140 JAYPUR. Hindus 5 ... 3 Malomnians 2 ... 1 Christians .. 1 Others 1 1 TOTAL 9 1 5 RAJPUTANA. Hindus 15 1 2 BRITISH BURMAH. Others 2 cao ... 2 134 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, CENTRAL PROVINCES. NUMBER PABSKD. Yuauber TOTAL. Candidates. First Division, Second Division. Third Division, 54 8 5 22 1 ... ... Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 35 1 3 1 6 1 1 . ... TOTAL ... 64 9 26 5 40 CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY. 16 Hindus Others ... .. TOTAL .. 17 1 2 1 OUI)H. 26 14 43 Hindus Mahomelans Christians 75 20 2 3 1 3 8 5 1 9 TOTAL 107 7 39 15 61 PANJAB. Hindus Mahomedons Christians Others ::: 33 7 54 17 21 5 3 1 4 22 5 5 3 8 1 2 1 11 ... ... TOTAL ... 97 8 35 12 55 CEYLON. 1 8 9 ... Christians Others 26 6 TOTAL 82 1 8 4 13 ... NEPAL. Hindus ... 2 .. ... ... ...

MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 1879] 135 The following statement shews the number of unsuccessful candidates of previous years that came up from each province, and the number passed : NUMBER PASSED. Numbor of Candi. dates. Percentage. First Division, Second Division. Third Division. TOTAL. 11 5 ... 632 96 23 29 ... Bengal N.-W. Provinces Assam Oudh Rajputana Central Provinces Panjab British Burmah Ceylon Jaypur Central India Agency. 118 37 3 12 1 2 237 55 6 14 2 108 13 3 2 1 1 1 37.5 57.29 26.06 48.27 66-66 33 100 100 60 50 100 ... ... 1 5 1 3 ... 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 TOTAL 808 17 182 130 329 40:71 The number of candidates registered for the First Examination in Arts was 923, of whom 267 passed, 625 fail- First Examination in Arts. cd and 31 were absent. Of the successful candidates, 61 were placed in the First Division, 123 in the Second and 83 in the Third. Of the 625 candidates who failed, 401 were rejected in English, 283 in the second languages, 210 in History, 534 in Mathematics, 210 in Logic, 182 in Chemistry and 139 in Psychology. A comparative statement of the number of candidates, the number passed, and the percentage of passed candidates from each province, for the years 1877 and 1878, is subjoined : FIRST ARTS EXAMINATION. 1877. 1878. Per- Number of Candidutes, Number pasecd. Number of Candi. datea, Number passed. coniuge. Percentage 18+ 35 208 23 26.53 32.39 50 Bengal N.-W. Provinces Jaypur Panjab Oudh Central Provinces Central India Agency Rajputana Ceylon 655 70 3 21 16 20 28.09 50. 66.66 61 90 62-5 35 ... 784 71 2 22 21 15 1 13 jo 7 11 13 9 50 61.90 60 ... I.. 1 1 25 33.33 6 2 33.33 3 ... TOTAL 791 253 31.98 923 267 28.92 136 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, 9 1 ... The following is a statement of the number of candidates who failed in one subject only :- English 28 Second Innguages History Mathematics 71 Psychology 1 Chemistry A classification of the candidates, according to the second languages and alternative subjects they took up, gives the following results: BENGAL. Yuniber of Candidatos. Latin. Sanskrit. Arabic. Persian, Psychol. Chemis оку. try. 33 110 3 48.5 03 213 U 243 2 11 1 Calcutta Huuli Dacca Krishnaghur Berhampore Patna Katak Chittagong Midnapore 212 66 69 38 18 47 7 1.1 11 13 51 10 8 8 27 10 6 8 3 8 1 ... N-W'. PROVINCES. 22 1 Benares Allahabad Agra 31 28 11 1 1) 19 8 6 6 26 22 6 PANJAB 8 3 ... Lahore Delhi Simla 20 1 1 9 1 18 1 1 .. ... OUDH. Lucknow 21 7 1 13 21 RAJPUTANA. Ajmero 4 3 1 ...

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 137 CENTRAL PROVINCES. Number of Candidates. Latin. Sanskrit. Arabic. Persian Psychol. Cheogy. mistry. Jabalpur 15 14 15 CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY. Indore 1 ... 1 CEYLON, Colombo 3 3 The following tables shew the divisions in which the successful candidates from each province were passed and the religions professed :- PROVINCES. NUMBER PASBBD. Number of Candidates. TOTAL. First Second Third Division. Division, Division. 734 46 73 89 12 71 Bengal N.-W. Provinces Jaypur Punjab Oudh Central Provinces Central India Agency Ceylon Rajputana 208 23 1 11 13 7 21 15 2 ... 1 3 4 1 1 Total 923 61 123 83 267 RELIGION. BENGAL. 37 81 67 185 9 Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 698 36 16 34 .. 1 + 3 10 TOTAL 784 46 89 73 ... 208 138 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. (April 19, N.-W. PROVINCES. NUMBUR PASSED. Number of Candidates. TOTAL. First Second Third Division. Division. Division. 60 6 4 ... Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 10 1 1 20 1 2 . 5 1 ... ... TOTAL .. 71 6 12 5 23 JAYPUR. Hindus 1 1 FI PANJAB. !! 3 5 1 9 Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 18 1 1 1 1 1 .. TOTAL 22 3 7 1 11 OUDII. 17 6 1 1 10 Hindus Mahomedias Christians 3 1 1 1 1 IIC .. .. TOTAL 21 8 1 co CENTRAL PROVINCES. 2 2 Hindus Christians Others 13 1 1 3 1 1 7 1 1 ... .. TOTAL 15 2 5 2 .. CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY. Hindu ... 1 .. ...

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 139 RAJPUTANA. NUMBER PASSED. Number of Candidates. TOTAL. First Division Second Division. Third Division. 2 1 1 ... Hindus Mahomedans Others .. TOTAL ... 1 ... 1 CEYLON. Christians 3 1 1 The following statement shews the number of unsuccessful candidates of previous years that came up from each province and the number passed :- NUYBKB PAGSRD. Number of Candidates. TOTAL, Percentage. First Division. Second Division Tbird Division. Bengal ... 214 3 13 21 37 17.28 N.-W. Provinces 2 5 2 7 33:33 .. Jaypur .. I.. Oudh 4 2 50 Central Provinces 3 1 1 66.66 ... Central India Agency. 1 ... ... Panjab 5 2 1 3 60 ... ... ... Ceylon 2 ... 1 1 50 TOTAL 261 3 23 26 52 2071 The number of candidates registered for this examination was 323, being 95 in excess of the number in B, A. Degree Examination. the previous year; and of these 132 took up the A Course against 90 in 1878, and 191 took un the B Course against 138 in 1878.

140 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, Of the 132 candidates in the A Course, 29 or a little over 21 per cent. were successful, 95 or about 72 per cent. failed, and 8 were absent. Of the successful candidates, 1 was placed on the First Division, 2 in the Second, and 26 in the Third. Of the 191 candidates in the B Course, 62 or a little over 32 per cent. were successful; of these 9 were placed in the First Division, 21 in the Second, and 32 in the Third. In the whole examination, 91 or a little over 28 per cent. passed against 29 per cent. in the previous year. Of the 218 candidates who failed, 113 were rejected in English, 159 in Mathematics, 27 in the second languages, 25 in History, 23 in Philosophy, 14 in Optional Mathematics, 47 in Chemistry, 65 in Physical Geography, 26 in Physics, and 2 in Zoology. The number of candidates who took up these subjects is given in a subsequent table. The following is a statement of the number of candidates who failed in one subject only :- English Mathematics Chemistry l'hysical Geography Physics Optional Mathematics The following tables shew (1) the number of candidates from each province who took up the A and B Courses respectively, (2) the second languages and the optional subjects in Philosophy and History taken up by the A candidates, (3) the different branches of science taken up by the B candidates, and (4) the classes in which the successful candidates were placed :- A COURSE: B. A. EXAMINATION. 12 33 1 8 2 I. PHILOSOPHY. IlISTORY. PASSET. Vumber of Candidates. Yoral Philosophy. Optional Mathematics. Jewish History. Sanskrit. Persian. Greck. Second Division. Latin. Third Division. First Division. Arabic. Butler. Arpold. Logic. Mill. TOTAL. Bengal 100 II. .. 2 117 32 65 ... ... 2 4 21 11 1 22 23 N.-W. Provinces 14 1 . 8 5 10 2 1 3 . 2 ... ... 4 Panjab 6 2 ... 3 ... .. ... 8 ... ... 1 ... 2 Assam 1 ... .. 1 1 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Ceylon 2 ... 2 1 .. 1 . 1 ... . ... ... ... TOTAL 132 5 118 ... .I 1 8 77 ... 41 6 16 23 1 2 26 29 1879.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 141 B COURSE: B, A. EXAMINATION. PASSED. Number of Candidates. Zoology. Physies. Second Division. First Division. Botany. Third Division. TOTAL. Bengal 16.7 91 3 68 8 20 20 48 N.-W. Provinces 18 17 1 ... 1 9 10 ... Oudh ... OC 8 1 3 4 "ГотAL 191 119 4 68 9 21 32 62 The following is a comparative statement of the total number of candidates, the number passed, and the percentage of successful candidates from each province, for the years 1878 and 1879 :-- B. A. EXAMINATION. 1878. 1879. Number of Can. didates. Namber passed. Percentage. Number of Can. didates, Number passed. Perceutage. Bengal ... 179 ... 51 28.49 273 71 26 ... N.-W. Provinces ... 32 10 31.25 33 14 42:42 Punjab ... ... 5 2 40 6 2 33 Oudh ... ... 10 5 50 8 4 50 Ceylon .. ... ... 2 ... ... Assam ... 2 ... 1 ... TOTAL ... 228 68 29-82 323 91 28.17 142 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY, [April 19, The divisions in which the candidates from each province passed, and the religion professed, are shewn in the following tables : PROVINCES. NUMBER PASSED. Nuniber of Candidates. First Division. S. (ond DIVINIOL. Third Division, TOTAL. ... 8 1 21 1 1 13 Bengal N.-W. Provinces Punjab Oudh Assam Ceylon . 273 33 6 8 1 2 71 14 2 4 1 3 ... TOTAL 323 ... 10 23 58 91 RELIGION. BENGAL 7 20 36 63 Hindus Mahomedans Christians Others 229 11 7 26 1 1 5 2 6 1 TOTAL 273 8 21 71 N-W. PROVINCES. 29 1 Hindus Christians Others 11 1 1 12 1 1 2 TOTAL ... 33 1 13 14 PANJAB. Hindus 6 OUDI. Hindus 3 CEYLON. Christians 2 1879.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 149 ASSAM. NUMBBE PASSED. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Third Division, TOTAL. Hindus .. 1 ... B. A. EXAMINATION. A COURSE. The following statement shews the number of unsuccessful candidates of previous years that came up from each province and the number passed :- NUMBER PASSED. Number Percentage. Candidutcs. First Division, Second Division. Third Division. TOTAL. Bengul Assam N.-W. Provinces 29 1 13.79 ... ... ... ... TOTAL ... 38 ... 4 10-52 B COURSE. The following statement shews the number of unsuccessful candidates of previous years that came up from each province and the number passed :- NUMDER PABBED. Number of Candidates. Percentage, First Division. Second Division. Third Division. TOTAL. 1 6 Bengal N.-W. Provinces 65 7 7 4 14 4 25:45 57 TOTAL 62 1 6 11 18 29 144 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, There were 28 candidates for honours in Arts, of whom 18 were successful-1 being placed in the M. A. Examination. First Class, 9 in the Second, and 8 in the Third. For the degree of M. A. there were 20 candidates, of whom 10 were successful. The one candidate for honours who was placed in the First Class passed in Philosophy. A gold medal was awarded to him together with a prize of books. The institutions from which the candidates came up, the subjects of examination, and the number passed, are shewn in the following tables : HONORS IN ARTS. ENGLISA. SANSKRIT. HISTORY. MATHK- MATICS, PAILOSOPHY. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. NAMES OF INSTITU- TIONS. Number of Candidates. General Assembly's Institution 1 ... ... ... 3 Hugli College ... 2 Krishnaghur Coilege 1 Lahore College 1 1 .. ... ... Muir Central College ... Patna College 1 ... .. Presidency Col. lege 3 3 1 1 7 5 1 1 1 .. ... 3 1 . ... ... ... Sanskrit College St. Xavier's Col. lege 1 ... .. ... .. .. TOTAL 7 4 3 1 1 1 7 5 2 1 8 6 ..

1879.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 145 M. A. DEGREE, ENGLISH. SANSKRIT, MATAE- MATICS. PHILOSOPHY, PAYSIOAL SOIBNOE. NAMKN OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Caudidates. Number passed. Sumber of Candidat s. Number passed Number of Candidatee. Number passed. Number of Candidates. Number passed. Number of Candidates. Number passed. Canding College, Lucknow * Cathedral Mission College 1 ... Frco Church Institution 5 4 1 1 ... .. ... Krishnaghur College Presidency College 1 1 10 2 Sanskrit College 1 1 .. ... St. Xavier's College I.. . .. 1 ... Teachers 4 2 .. ... TOTAL 12 7 2 2 2 2 1 For the degree of B. L. there were 84 candidates, of whom 1 passed in the First Class and 46 in the Law Examination. Second. The Colleges from which the candidates came up, and the divisions in which they passed, are shown in the following table : NUMBBB PASSED. NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS. Number of Candidates. First Division. Second Division. Canning College, Lucknow ... 1 . 9 .. Hugli College Krishnaghur Collego ... 2 2 .40 ... Patna College 6 ... 6 Prosidency College ... 66 1 1 35 TOTAL 84 1 1 46 3 146 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, For the First M. B. Examination 14 candidates were registered, and of these 7 passed in the First Divi- Examinations in Medicine. sion. For the first L. M. S. Examination there were 46 candidates, of whom 16 passed. For the second M. B. Examination there were 9 candidates, of whom 1 passed in the First Division and 6 in the Second. For the second L. M. S. Examination there were 91 candidates, of whom 19 were successful. There were 7 candidates for the degree of B. C. E., and 21 for the Licence in Civil Engineering; of the Examinations in Engineer- former 1 passed in the Second Division, and ing. of the latter 5 passed in the Second Division. For the Tagore Law Professorship, vacated by the retirement of Dr. Gurudas Banerjea after delivering Tagore Law Professorship. his course of lectures, 12 candidates offered themselves; of these 2 subsequently retired. At a meeting of the Senate held on the 31st August, Dr. Trailokyanath Mitra was elected Professor for the period of one year. The Professor is now engaged in delivering a course of lectures on the law relating to the Hindu widow. The following institutions have been affiliated during the year up to the standard of the B. A. Examina- Institutions affiliated. tion: Bauliah High School, Trinity College, Kandy, and the Metropolitan Institution, Calcutta. A large collection of Botanical works formerly ordered have arrived this year, and in accordance with University Library. the recommendation of the Library Committee, some second-hand Botanical works, forming part of the estate of the late Dr. Kurz, have been purchased for the Library. The bust of the late Mr. Woodrow, presented to the University by the subscribers to the Woodrow Memo Woodrow Memorial Fund. rial Fund, has been placed in the vestibule of the Senate House, and was unveiled by the Vice-Chancellor at the Convocation of this year. The subscribers to the Woodrow Memorial Fund have also made over to the University the sum of Rs. 4,800 in Government Promissory Notes and Rs. 96 in cfsh, in order to found a scholarship to be awarded to the best student in Physics in the B. A. Examination of each year, provided he has 1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 147 gained no other scholarship. The Woodrow Memorial scholarship for the year 1878 has been awarded to Brajaballabh Datta of the Krishnaghur College. The following Regulations for the examination of female can- Changes in the regulations. didates have been passed by the Senate and approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council : General. I. Female candidates shall be examined in a separate place under the superintendence of ladies. II. No female candidate shall be admitted to any examination without presenting a certificate in the form to be prescribed by the Syndicate, signed by a Member of the Senate, or the head of an affiliated institution. III. In all examinations the fees paid by female candidates shall be the same as those paid by males. IV. No unsuccessful candidate shall be entitled to a refund of her fee. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. The Entrance Examination shall be the same for females as for nales. F. A. EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. Female candidates may be admitted to this examination without studying in an affiliated institution. No candidate, however, shall be allowed to present herself for this examination until two years have elapsed from the time of her passing the Entrance Examination. 2. Every female candidate shall be allowed to take up the subjects prescribed by the University of Calcutta for the F. A. Course, with the option of substituting French, German, Italian or an Indian vernacular for the second language. 3. Female candidates shall also be allowed to substitute Botany for the subjects included in the second mathematical paper in the F. A. Examination.

148 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, B. A. EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CANDIDATES. Female candidates may be admitted to this examination without studying in any affiliated institution. But no candidate should be allowed to present herself for this examination until two years have elapsed from the time of her passing the F. A. Examination. 2. Female candidates shall be allowed to take up the subjects prescribed by the University of Calcutta for the B. A. Course, with the option of substituting French, German, Italian, or an Indian vernacular for the second language. 3, Female candidates shall also be allowed to substitute Political Economy for the Mathematical subjects in this examination. 4. The names of those female candidates who may succeed in passing the B. A. Examination shall be submitted to the Senate every year before the Convocation, with a view to their being admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following addition has been made to the 4th paragraph of the Regulations for the F. A. Examination, and also to the 4th paragraph of the Regulations for the degree of B. A.: “Provided he produces a certificate from the head of an affiliated institution shewing that he has prosecuted a regular course of study for six months since the date of the last examination to which he was admitted.” The following gentlemen have been appointed Fellows of the University by His Excellency the Governor General in Council : The Hon'ble A. Wilson. Major-(tenl. A. Cadell, R.E. Babu Prasannakumar Ray, D. Sc. 6. L. Molesworth, Esq., CI.E. The Rev. A.F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D. Babu Trailokyanath Mitra, M.A., D.L. W. Griffiths, Esq., M.A. Major J. Herschel, R.E. Babu Gurudas Banerjea, M.A., D.L. F. J. Rowe, Esq., M.A. Babu Rasbihari Ghosh, M.A., B.L. The Rev. W. Hastic, B.D. F. Biden, Esq., M.A. A.S. Lethbridge, Esq., M.D. Buden Powell, Esq., C.S. Babu Jagadbandhu Basu, M.D. Captain A. C. Talbot, B.S.C. Babu Suryyakumar Sarbadhikari. R. Harvey, Esq., M.D. Edward Buck, Esq., C.S. A statement of receipts and disbursements, from 1st April 1878 to 31st March 1879, is subjoined. It shews that the ordinary receipts of the year have exceeded the expenditure by Rs. 5,785-8-6.

Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of the Calcutta l'niversity from 1st April 1876 to 31st March 1879. 1879.] Rs. A. P. Ps. A. P. RB. A. P. Rs. A, P. RECEIPTS. DISBURSEMENTS. Balance on the 31st March 1878 3,374 13 5 6,982 38 156 0 0 » Amount received as an advance for the current i expenditure of the year 10,000 0 0 .I. 33 1) 99 ... FEES. 43,500 0 0 22 0 0 910 15 0 4 18 0 720 00 50 0 0 2,451 5 6 199 0 0 325 2 7 100 00 ... ... Paid on account of Salaries Medical Scholarships Remuneration to Esaminers Fecs returned Contingencies Service Postage Stamps Ver gowns Safe custody of gowns Examination espenses to Mofussil Centres Post Master for bearing parcels Medals l'rizes Amount paid to Government as per Receipt Xo. 17-1465, dated 12th November 1878 Furniture, &c. Calendar Municipal Tases Stationery Printing examination papers Fencing the north veraudal Bonus Entrance Examination First Examination in Arts B. A. Examination Honors in Arts aKu M. A. Examination B. L. Examination Second M, B. Examination L.M. S. Examination First M. B. Examination L.M.S. Examination B."C. E. Examination L. C. E. Examination II. 26,170 00 18,480 0 0 9,690 00 2,100 0 0 2,520 0 0 270 0 0 2,275 00 280 0 0 920 0 0 210 0 0 625 0 0 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. ... 10,000 0 0 358 40 800 0 0 753 12 0 1,090 16 3 1,881 2 10 119 00 1,650 0 0 . 3. 63,7-10 0 0 72,817 12 ... Balance in the Bank 5,785 86 Fees for duplicate certificates Contnbution to the Gown Fund Proceeds from the sale of Publications Ditto ditto durma mats Miscellaneous 68 00 350 0 0 139 4 0 25 0 0 906 39 . . 1,488 7 9 TOTAL Re. 78,603 5 2 TOTAL Rs. ..... 78,603 6 2 149 Dr. Account, Premchand Roychand Studentship Fund. Cr.ee Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878.... Rs. A. P. 7,721 911 By Cheques paid for Studentships 8,000 0 0 Interest on Government Secu. rities Commission 24 12 10 > ... 9,920 00 } Remuneration to Examiners 700 0 0 ... >> Studentship Examination fees 192 0 0 10,112 00 8,724 12 10 Balance in the Bank 9,108 13 1 TOTAL Rs. .. 17,833 9 11 TOTAL Rs. 17,833 9 11 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. Dr. Account, Duff Memorial Funi. Cr. Rs. A. P Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 579 3 9 Rs. &. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878... By Scholarships ... 720 00 Interest on Government Securities 1,066 11 4 Commission I. ... ... 2 10 8 722 10 8 Balance in the Bank *** 923 4 5 [April 19, TOTAL Rs. ... 1,645 15 1 TOTAL Rs. ... 1,645 15 1 Account, Tagore Law Professorship. Cr. 1879.) Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 Interest on Government Securities I. 2,760 13 5 12,000 0 0 97 By Professor's salary Cost for printing Lectures Commission Contingencies 10,000 0 0 1,540 8 0 30 0 0 273 9 11 II. Balance in the Bank 11,844 1 11 2,716 11 6 I.. .. TOTAL Rs. ... 14,560 13 5 TOTAL Rs. .. 14,560 13 5 II. . MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. Dr. Account, Ishan Scholarship Fund. Cr. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 523 14 0 ". By Scholarship ... 1.1 450 0 0 ... Interest on Government Securities 560 0 0 ... Commission 1 6 6 I. . Balance in the Bank 632 7 6 TOTAL Rs. 1,083 14 0 TOTAL Rs. 1,083 14 0 151 Dr. Account, Library Fund. Cr. 152 Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 2,000 3 8 By Cost of purchasing new books ... 821 14 0 Balance in the Bank 1,178 5 8 TOTAL Rs. 2,000 3 8 TOTAL Rs. 2,000 3 8 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. Dr. Account, Rallha kanta llemoriul Fund. Cr. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 238 2 11 By Cost of gold inedals 221 14 2 - Interest 120 00 Commission 0 4 10 222 3 0 Balance in the Bank ... 135 15 11 TOTAL Rs. 358 2 11 TOTAL Rs. [April 19, ... 358 2 11 Dr. Account, Mouat T'estimonial Fund. CT. 1879.) Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 407 13 11 By Amount paid for gold medals 218 8 5 Interest 90 00 Commission ..1 I. 0 3 8 ... ... Balance in the Bank 279 1 10 TOTAL Rs. 497 13 11 TOTAL Rs. 497 13 11 MINUTES OF TILE SYNDICATE. Dr. Account, Ritchie Vemorial Fund. Cr. Rs. A. A. Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 211 3 5 . Interest on Government Security 96 0 0 By Balance in the Bank 307 3 5 .. ... TOTAL Rs. 307 3 5 TOTAL Rs. 307 3 5 153 Dr. Account, Tizianagram Scholurship. Cr. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. 500 0 0 By Cheques paid on account of Scholarship 600 0 0 To Balance on the 31st March 1878 , Amount received from Raja Suttchurn Ghoshal, Babadoor 600 0 Balance in the Bank 500 0 0 ... ... TOTAL Rs. 1,100 0 TOTAL Rs. 1,100 0 0 Dr. Account, Harischandra Prize Fund. Rs. A. P. CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY: Rs. A. P. To Balance on the 31st March 1878 Interest 119 11 2 120 00 By Commission 0 4 10 ... > Balance in the Bank 239 6 4 TOTAL Rs. 239 11 2 TOTAL Rs. 239 11 2 Dr. Account, Woodrow Memorial Scholarship Fund. Rs. A. P. Rs. A. P. To Asunt received from the Secretary to the Fund 96 0 0 Br Balance in the Bank 96 0 0 ... [April 19, 1879.] MINUTES OF TIIE SYNDICATE. 155 ... 100 } The Syndicate for the coming year is constituted as follows:-- A. W. Croft, Esq., M.A. A. M. Bose, Esq., M.A. In Arts. The Rey. J. Robertson, M.A. The Hon'ble J. O'Kinealy, M.A., C.S. Law. D. B. Sinith, Esq., M.D. Medicine. Major-General A. Cadell, R.E. Engineering. It is recommended that the Faculties for 1879-80 be constituted as follows: 19 ARTS. President: A. W. CROFT, ESQ., M.A. Members: The Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. The llon ble the Lieutenant-Governor, North-Western Provinces. The Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta. The Hon'ble Sir A. J. Arbuthnot, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. General the Hon'ble Sir E. B Johnson, K.C.B., C.I.E. The Hon'ble Sir J. Strachey, G.C.S.I. The Hon'ble Whitley Stokes, C.S.I. The Hon'ble A. Rivers Thompson, C.S.I., C.S. Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar. H. S. Reid, Esq., C.S. The Rev. K. M. Banerjea, D.I. S. B. Partridye, Esq., F.R.C.S.E. C. U. Aitchison, Esq., C.S.I., LL.D. J. W. McCrindle, Esq., M.A. Rai Rajendralala Mitra, Baladoor, D.L., C.I.E. Maulvi Abdool Luteof, Khan Bahadoor. Raja Harendrakrishna, Bahadoor. The Ilon'ble L. S. Jackson, C.I.E. Rai Jagadananda Mookerjee, Bahaloor. The Rev. W. C. Fyfe. Baboo Piyarichand Mitrn. HF. Blanford, Esq. Baboo Bhuleb Mookerjee, C.I.E. Baboo Prasannakumar Sarbadhikari. The Most Rev. W. Steins, D.D. The Rev. J. P. Ashton, J.A. J, Sime, Esq., B.A. Rev. J. Trafford, M.A. C. H. Tawney, Esq., M.A. A. 0. Ilumc, Esq., C.B., C.S. The Hon'ble T. H. Thornton, D.C.L., C.S.I. C. A. Elliott, Esq., C.S., C.S.I. Col. W. R. M. Holroyd. Colin Browning, Esq., M.A. R. T. II. Griffith, Esq., M.A. Baboo Bapudeb Shastri, C.I.E. Raja Siva Prasad, C.S.I. J. W. Sherer, Exq., C.S.I., C.S. H.G. Keeno, Esq., C.S. J. D. Sandford, Esq., M.A,CS.

156 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, K. Deighton, Esq., M.A. A. S. Harrison, Esq., B.A. C. B. Clarke, Esq., M.A. Baboo Mahendralal Sarkar, M.D. A. C. Lyall, Esq., C.S. J. Beames, Esq., C.S., LL.D. W. W. Hunter, Esq., B.A., LL.D., C.S., C I.E. Major H. S. Jarrett. The Rev. S. Dyson. The Rev. C. E. Vines, M.A. Baboo Durgacharan Law. Baboo Gaurdas Basak. The Hon'ble H. L. Dampier, C.S. The Rev. J. Wenger, D.D. Maulvi Kabir-Uddin Ahmed. Baboo Krishnakamal Bhattacharyya, B.L. B. D. Colvin, Esq., B.A. Baboo Umeschandra Dutt. The Rev. M. A. Sherring, M.A. H. J. Reynolds, Esq., B.A., C.S. A Colvin, Esq., C.S. L. H. Griffin, Esq., C.S. H. B. Medlicott, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. F. 8. Growse, Esq., M.A., C.S., C.I.E. The Hon'ble J. O'Kinealy, M.A.C.S. M. S. Howell, Esq., B.A., C.S. The Hon'ble Moharaja Jatindramohan Tagore. Raja Jaykissen Das, Bahadoor, C.S.I. P. Hordern, Esq., M.A. J. C. Nesfield, Esq., M.A. The Hon'ble Syed Ahmed Khan, Bahadoor, C.S.I. Munshi Rainchandra. V. Ball, Esq., M.A. Thakur Giriprasad of Baiswan. Baboo Khin Singh Bedi, C.I.E. H. Roberts, Esq. Sir S. C. Bayley, K.C.3.1. The Hon'ble A. Mackenzie, B.A., C.S. W. M. Souttar, Esq., M.A., C.S. Nawab Ashgar Ali Khan Baladoor, Diler Jung, C.S.I. Roper Lethbridge, Esq., M.A., C.I.E. A. W. Garrett, Esq., B.A. J. Eliot, Esq., M.A. Pandit Maheschandra Nyayaratna. Rev. Lalbihari Day, Rev. Father E. Lafont, S.J. Rev. J. E. Payne. Anund Mohun Bose, Esq., M.A. Baboo Kalicharan Banerji, M.A., B.L. C. E. Bernard, Esq., C.S., C.S.I. D. M. Barbour, Esq., C.S. C. J. Iyall, Esq., B.A., C.S. W. T. Blanford, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. Dr. Saurindramohan Tagore. Rev. J. Robertson, M.A. A. Pedler, Esq., F.C.S.

1879.] MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 157 A. E. Gough, Esq., M.A. The Hon'ble A. Wilson. Baboo Prasannakumar Ray, D.Sc. The Rev. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D. W. Griffiths, Esq., M.A. Baboo Gurudas Banerjea, M.A., D.L. F. J. Rowe, Esq., M.A. The Rev. W. Hastie, B.D. F. Biden, Esq., M.A. Baden Powell, Esq., C.S. Captain A. C. Talbot, B.S.C. Edward Buck, Esq., C.S. LAW. President : THE HON'BLE J. O'KINEALY, M.A., C.S. Members : The Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Bengal. The Hon'ble Whitley Stokes, C.S.I. W. A. Montriou, Esq. Raja Harendrakrishna, Bahadoor. Maulvi Abdool Luteef, Khan Baladoor. The Hon'ble L. S. Jackson, C.I.E. Rai Jagadananda Mookerjce, Bahadoor. A. P. Howell, Esq., C.S. G. C. Panl, Esq., B.A., C I.E. The lion'ble C. A Turner, C.I.E. The Hon'ble R. Spankie. H. Bell, Esq., C.S. Henry Millett, Esq. Arthur Phillips, Esq. Baboo Aunadaprasad Banerjee. The Hon'ble G. G. Morris. J. H. A. Branson, Esq. Baboo Syamacharan Sarkar. The Ilon'ble Rameschandra Mitra. Amir Ali, Esq., M.A C. F. Eyerton Allen, Esq., B.A. Anund Mohun Bose, Esq., M.A. The Hon'ble H. S. Cunningham. the Honºble H. T. Prinsep, C.S. The Hon'ble G. H. P. Evans. The Hon'ble Mohinimohan Ray. W. C. Bonnerjee, Esq. The Hon'ble A. Wilson. Baboo Trailokyanath Mitra, M.A., D.L. Baboo Gurudas Banerjea, M.A., D.L. Baboo Rasbihari Ghosh, M.A., B.L. MEDICINE. President : D. B. SMITH, Esq., M.D. Members : S. B. Partridge, Esq., F.R.C.S.E. Baboo Chandrakumar Dey, M.D.

. 158 CALCUTTA UNIVIRSITY. [April 19, A. J. Payne, Esq., B. A., M.D. Charles Palmer, Esq., M.D. W. K. Waller, Esq., M.D. W. Jameson, Esq.,C.I.E. J. B. Scriven, Esq. W. J. Palmer, Esq., M.D. J. M. Cuningham, Esq., M.D. Ray Kanailal Dey, Bahadoor. G. King, Esq., M.B. J. Anderson, Esq., M.D. Munshi Tameez Khan, Khan Bahadoor. K. McLeod, Esq., M.A., M.D. Murray Thomson, Esq., M.D). S.C. 'Townsend, Esq. J. L. Bryden, Esq., M.D. J. F. Beatson, Esq., A.D. T. E. Charles, Esq., M.D. II. Cayley, Esq., M.I). T. R. Lewis, Esq., M.B. D. D. Cunningham, Esq., M.B. A. S. Lethbridge, Esq., M.D). Baboo Jagadbandhu Basii, M.D. Suryyakumar Sarbadhikari. R. Harvey, Esq., M.D. 99 ENGINEERING. President : Major General A. Cadell, R.E. Member's : His Excellency the Comınander-in Chief. Colonel The Hon'ble Sir Andrew Clarke, R.E., K.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E. Colonel E. C. S. Williams, R.E., C.I.E. General the Hon'ble R. Strachey, R.E., C.S.I. Thomas Martin, Esq., C.E. H. F. Blanford, Esq. Colonel J. G. Medley, R.E. Colonel J. F. Tennant, R.E., C.I.E. T. S. Isaac, Esq., C.E. W. Smith, Esq., C.E.. H. H. Locke, Esq. H. B. Medlicott, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. Major J. Eckford, R E. B Leslie, Esq., C.E. V. Ball, Esq., M.A. Colonel F. S. Stanton, R.E. W. T. Blanford, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. G. L. Molesworth, Esq., C.I.E. Major J. Herschel, R.E. The under-mentioned gentlemen have conducted the University Examinations for 1878-79 :- Entrance Examination. W. Young, Esq. J. Wilson, Esq. Rev. C. Jordan. (J. V. S. Pope, Esq. English 1879.) MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 159 Sanskrit and Bengali 19 Hindi and Uriya History and Geography Baboo Nrisinhachandra Mookerjea. Nakuleswar Banerjea. Gopal Chunder Gupta. Bireswar Chatterjea. Rev. Dr. K. M. Banorjea. R. Parry, Esq. Rev. K, S, Macdonald. Rev. Lalbihari Day. J. Slater, Esq. Rev. J. P. Ashton. M. Mouat, Esq. W. Booth, Esq. (F. Biden, Esq. .. Mathematics First Arls and B. 4. Erauninations. English Sanskrit History Matbeinatics SW. 11. Paulson, Esq. Ruy W.C. Fyfe. ſ Rev. Dr. K. M. Banerjea. Pandit Maheschandra Nyayai atna. (M. J. White, Esq. K. Deighton, Esq. A. M. Nash, Esq. W. Griffiths, Esq. { Rev. J. Robertson. A. E. Gough, Esq. Jolin Eliot, Esq. ls. A. Iſill, Esq. R. Lydekker, Esq. ... Dr. George King Moral Science ... Physical Science Zoology Botany .. For Entrance, First Arts, and b. A. Examinations. Rev. J. IIector. Latin and Greek Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. Arabic, Persian and Ordu ... Maulvi Kabiruddin Ahmed. S Major H. S. Jarrett. Ilonor and M. A. Degree Examination. English Sanskrit History ... .. SW. H. Paulson, Esq., Rev. W. C. Fyfe. Rev. Dr. K. D. Banerjea. Pandit Maheschandra Nyayaratna. M. J. White, Esq. K. Deighton, Esq. SA. M. Nash, Esq. W. Griffiths, Esq. Rev. J. Robertson. (A. E. Gough, Esq. {s: A. Mill, Esq. Dr. George King. Mathematics ... Philosophy Physical Scienco Botany .. .. ...

160 CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY. [April 19, . ... .. Premchand Roychand Studentship Examination. English A. W. Garrett, Esq. Latin A. C. Edwards, Esq. Greek C. H. Tawney, Esq. History Dr. A. H. Rudolf Hoerule. Mixed Mathematics ... John Eliot, Esq. Pure Mathematics W. Booth, Esq. Philosophy Dr. Prasannakumar Ray. ... .00 ... B. L. Ecamination. P. O'Kincaly, Esq. Dr. Gurudas Banerjea. Medicine. Anatomy Dr. J. G. French. Botany Dr. W. H. Greys. Physiology and Comparative } Dr. K. Macleod. Anatomy Surgery and Ophthalmic Surgery Dr. E. Lawrie. Materia Medica Dr. R. Harvey. Medicine and Midwifery Dr. C. H. Joubert. Pathology and Hygiene Dr. J. M. Coates. Medical Jurisprudence Dr. C. T. () Woodford. Chemistry A. Pedler, Esy. POO Honours in Surgery, Dr. E. Lawrie. Engineering Mathematics Physical Science Drawing Engineering. Major J. H. Crowdy, R. E. S. F. Downing, Esq. W. Griffiths, Esq. A. Pedler, Esq. H. H. Locke, Esq. .. no ... CHARLES H. TAWNEY, Registrar. The 19th April 1879.

Number of Candidates at University Eramations, and the number passed in each year since 1857. 1979.] First Entrance. Examination in Arts. Bachelor of Arts. Master of Arts, Licence in Law, Bachelor in Law. Doctor in Law. LICENCE IN MEDI BACHELOR IN CINE AND SURGERY. MEDICINE. Doctor of Second First Second Medicine First Ex amination. Examin-Examin-Examination. ation, ation. Licence in Civil Engineering. Bachelor in Oivil Engineering. YEAR. No. of candidntes. No passed. No. parsed. -UDO JO ON 12 12 : L. 1857 ... 2 11 24 .. .. 13: 20 19 20 10 3 12 40 31 31 16 6b 13 10 ... I.. ... 13 7 ... ... 22 17 163 15 1 2 10 ... .. 39 341 97 99 149 14 13 2014 17 7 220 24 3 16 8 13 33 18 .. . 1 1 18 35/ 7 MINUTES OF THE SYNDICATE. 8 19 9 15 9 II. 2 2 272 321 25 30 1858 1859.. 1860 1881 1862 1663 1964 1865 1806 1867 1868 ... 1869 1870 8 661 1 1 2 10 5 22 17 . didates. No. passed. No. of candidates. No. passed. No. of can. didates. No, of caldidates. No. of candidatos. : : : : No. passed. en : : : : No. pagsod. wwi bod na ::::::::: No. passed. 446 82 45 15 5 19 17 11 2 2 1 151 202 131 183 1 2 7 17 5 8 18 426 79 13 22 5 5 I.. 122 141 3 11 15 22 15 18 60 39 22 18 15 ... 1 2 2 2 6 244 162 4641 111 1,411 683 808 475 1,058 477 1,114 477 1,307 690 1,396 702 1,500 510 1,350 638 1,507 814 1,734 892 1,730 817 1,905 1,099 1,902 787 2,144 938 2,54 849 2,254 960 2,373 638 2,425 1,355 2,720 1,166 2,617 1,098 B ... ... 388 423 620 17 10 14 3 36 72 198 212 99 25 51 2 1 4 ... 3 2 ... 29 32 13 98 59 3 2 2 1 7 ... 77 98 24 18 97 74 1 9 3 540 507 32 39 35 1871 .. 51 83 26 27 58 2 2 96 16 19 14 42 22 25 11 14 2018 35 10 26 20 17 45 6 13 61 27 20 19 66 42 5 68 38 29 27 68 29 42 27 77 31 113 34 36 156 31 42 13 171 70 56 10 196 46 60 28 104 €0 91 34 48 16 1 91 19 2 1 2 225 233 204 220 306 193 1 12 17 .. 81 100 126 1872 560 32 12 14 100 21 2 ... 24 20 5 3 7 2 ... 30 93 48 23 1 4 2 2 4 174 210 212 232 242 212 217 281 287 228 323 1873... 1874 ... 1875 ... 66 92 18 22 46 6 2 1. 32 18 539 533 575 766 2 2 11 7 1 6 II. 4 . 182 311 57 38 38 49 82 2A 16 12 II. 137 72 103 79 71 40 86 64 83 61 61 29 86 47 . 14 5 . .. 90 73 144 88 9 263 2 2 23 8 1876 1877 1878 1879 9 9 17 7 31 28 24 8 791 923 10 7 287 .. ... 10 7 21 5 1 22 14 49 91 28 7 9 7 .. ... ... 100 Two Entrance Examinations in 1869, 161

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INDEX. ABDUL LUTEEF, Maulvi, KAAN BAHADOOR, Secretary to the Mahomedan Literary Society, Calcutta. Letter from-, dated the 29th August 1878, 49. ACCOUNTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, 149: diferent endowment funds, 150. AMEER ALI, MR.-Letter from-, requesting to postpone the Entrance and F. A. Examinations for the Mahomedan festival, 49; postponed for one week, 49. ANNUAL REPORT of the Syndicate, 129; approved, 1. Anund Mohun Bose, MB., clected a Member of the Syndicate, 124. ARBUTHNOT, THE HON'BLE SIE A.J., K.C.5.1., appointed Vice-Chancellor, 56 ; address delivered by–, 109. B. A. EXAMINATION. Failed candidates to produce a certificato from the head of an affiliated institution that he has prosecuted a regular course of study for at least six months since the date of the last examination to which he was admitted, 3 ; sanctioned, 8; to take effect from 1st January 1879, 24; course for 1882, 87; result of-,78; examiners for 1880, 81; list of successful candidates, 78; examination postponed for oue week, 56. BANK OF BENGAL, Secretary and Treasurer. Letter from dated 15th August 1878 : : conversion of 53 per cent. loan of Rs. 3,000 on account of Duff Memorial Fund to 4 per cent of 1879, 58. BAULEAI HIGH SCHOOL. Affiliation sanctioned up to B. A. standard, 7. BELLETT, MR. G. Recommending that some students be excluded from the En. trance Examination, 60. BIDEN, MR. F., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. BIPINCHANDRA RAY, B. L. Petition from-, praying that his judicial service may be counted as " practice” in his profession to enable him to be a candidate for the degree of D. L., granted, 89. BLOCHMANN, Mr. H., widow of the late. -Remuneration for setting the Entrance and F. A. Examination papers sanctioned to -, 73. B. L. EXAMINATION. Result of-, 80; list of successful candidates, 81; cxaminers for-, 60; examination postponed for one week, 56. BONUS, sanctioned, 126. Buck, MR. EDWARD, appointed a Fellow and altached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. BUDGET ESTIMATE for 1879-80, 91, CADELL, MAJOR-GENERAL A., R. E., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Engineerivg, 118; elected a President of the Faculty of Enginocring and a Representative in tho Syndicate, 121. CALEY, DR. Letter from, recommending a modification of the Regulations for the 2nd M. B. Examination, 89; referred to the Faculty of Medicine, 89; to the Syndicato, 123; to the Senate, 126. CHANDRAMUKAI BAsu recommended to be admitted to the F. A. Examination, 127 ; referred to the Scratc for sauction, 127.

ü INDEX. CHANDRAKUMAR DE, DR. Letter from-requesting the Syndicate to recommend the Senate to substitute in clause 2 of the Regulations for Honors in Arts (5) for (4) academical years, disallowed, 88. COATES, Dr. J. M., Officiating Principal, Medical College. Enclosing a preliminary pass certificate of Mr. C. F. McKeon Bebrend from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and enquiring whether his certificate will be accepted as qualifying him for admission to the College, recommended, 31 ; sanctioned, 47. COBDEN CLUB Secretary. Letter from--, proposing to award a silver medal, 126. COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Regarding the audit of accounts for 1877-78, 116. CONTINGENT BILLS, 10, 24, 43, 62, 74, 92, 127. CONVOCATION. Date fixed for, 88. CBOFT, Mr. A. W., clected President of the Faculty of Arts and one of the Representatives in the Syndicate, 124. DEIGHTON, MR. K., appointed examiner in History, in place of Mr. W T. Webb, for the next F. A. and B. A. Examinations, 32; declining to superintend the B. A. Examination at Ayra unless the University sees fit to guarantee him the sum of Rs. 300, 58; sanctioned Rs. 300, 58. Dixon, MR. A. Letter from, praying that his Bachelor of Science degree of the London University may be considered equivalent to the B. A. degree, and that he may be allowed to be examined for the degree of M. A., 119; recommended to the Senate for sanction, 119. DUFF SCHOLARS for 1879, 72. ELIOT, MR. J., proposing that (5) years may be substituted for (1) in para. 2 of the Regulations for Ilonors in Arts, disallowed, 117. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. Proposal to re-introduce text-books in English literature for--, 28; text-book in English fixed for the Examination of 1880, 31 ; proposal that Physical Geography and Surveying be excluded from-,28; disallowed, 31 ; papers set in English be one from the text-book and one in Grarınar and Composition, 28; text-book to be limited to English prose, 29; result of-, 71; examiners for 1879, 84; course for 1881, 86; text-book in English literature fixed, 86 ; some text-book in English History proposed for, 32 ; text-book in English History fixed for the Examination of 1880, 5L examination postponed for one week, 49; report of the Committee appointed to select text-book in English, 85; Rughuvansu fixed as textbook in Uriga for the examination of 1879, 87 ; alteration in the marginal note of the application for admission to-, 119. EspaN SCHOLARSHIP was awarded to-, 80. EXAMINATIONS of female candidates. Regulations for, 2; sanctioned, 8; forin of applications, 52. EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PRESIDENCY CIRCLE. Letter from“, ostimating the cost of necessary repairs of the University building for the current year at Rs. 1,725; the matter referred to the Superintending Engineer, 51. FACULTY OF, ARTS. Minutes of, 28, 124. Engineering, 121. -Law, 11, 26, 122. - Medicine, 4, 20, 64, 76, 123. Letters to seven members, stating that under the bye-law the Syndicate cannot accept their resignation, 50; resignation withdrawn by-, 56.

INDEX. iii FELLOWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. Letter from four-, dated 22nd July 1878, re. garding the medical examination, 64. FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT. Letter from-to Comptroller General, regarding the audit of University accounts for 1877-78, sanctioning payment to University of Rs. 898-15-3, which remained at credit on the Goverument book, 116; stating that the promissory note for Rs. 800, belonging to the Ritchie Memorial Fund, should be turned into stock, 117. FIRST EXAMINATION IN Arts. Every failed candidate to 'produce a certificate from the head of an affiliated institution that he has prosecuted a regular course of study for at least six months since the date of his last examination to which he was admitted, 3; sanctioned, 8; to take effect from 1st January 1879, 24; examiners for 1879, 84; course for 1881, 86; result of-, 71. GARRETT, MR. A., appointed a Member of the Committee for selecting text-book in English literature and in Enylish History for the Entrance Examination, 57. GOUGH, MR. A. E., appointed a Member of the Committee for selecting textbook in English literature and in English History for the Entrance Examination, 57. GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL. Letter from-, 90. -OF India. Letter from--, 7, 8, 9, 22, 56, 91, 118. -or N. W. P. AND OUDH. Letter from, with reference to remu. neration of Mr. Deighton; (liscontinuance of the B. A. Examination at Agra, 58; letter to-, 120. GRIFFITIS, MR. W., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118- GURUDAS BANDYOPADHYAY, BABOO, D. L., appointed esaminer in Law, 60; appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculties of Arts and Law, 118. HARVEY, DR. R., appoiuted a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Medicine, 118. HASTIE, THE REv. W., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. HEAD CLERK. Salary of-increased, 116. IIERSCIEL, MAJOR J., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Engineering, 118. HOERNLE, TUE Rev. A. F. RUDOLF, appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. HOME DEPARTMENT, Under-Secretary to the Government of India. Letter fromaddressed to the Public Works Department, stating that the Engineer in charge of the University building must take the pleasure of the Vice- Chaucellor and Syndicate as to whether he shall continue executing petty annual repairs, or whether they wish to make other arrangements; but that all repairs of a permanent nature must be cutrusted to an officer of the Public Works Department, 22; appointing new Fellows, 118. Honor EXAMINATION IN ARTs. Result of—, 82; examiners for—, 72; suggesting expedienoy (1) of prescribing no text-book in the Evidence of Revealed Religion, (2) of making the History of Philosophy a compulsory subject instead of Natural Theology, 88; recommended to the Senate for adoption, 88. Honor EXAMINATION IN MEDICINE. Examiner for, 117; result of, 117.

iv INDEX. HUGLI COLLEGE, Principal. Letter from-, requesting that Atul Krishna Ray may be allowed to appear at the Honor Examination from the Hugli College, and to take his M. A. degree from the Presidency College, not granted, 119. HUME, MR. A. O. Letter from, expressing his views on the two letters of Dr. Rajendralal Mitra, 7; referred to the Faculty of Arts, 7. HURISCHANDRA PRIZE awarded to-, 80. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, WESTERN CIRCLE. Letter from-, suggesting that the signatures of Joint and Assistant Inspectors may be accepted in the certificates presented by privato candidates for the Entrance Examination, 59; not granted, 59. ISHWABCHANDRA VINYASAGARA, PANDIT. Letter from— praying for the affi. liation of the Metropolitan Institution up to B. A. standard, 73; recommended to Government, 74; sanctioned, 91. JADUNATA MUKHOPADHYAY excluded from all the University examinations for two years, 5. JAGADBANDHU Basu, Dr., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Medicine, 118. JABBETT, MAJOR H. S., appointed examiner in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, for the Entrance, F. A. and B. A., Examinations, 23; renuncration sanctioned, 73. KABIRUDDIN AJMED, MAULVI. (Same as Major Jarrett.) LA MARTINIERE COLLEGE, CALCUTTA, Principal. Letter from, objecting to Lethbridge's History of England as the University text-book, and suggestiny that professors and heads of affiliated institutions should be consulted is to the merits of the various text-books they are now practically compelled to usc, 9. LAWBIE, DR., appointed examiner for IIonors in Surgery, 117. L.C. E. AND B. C. E. EXAMINATIONS. Result of-, 30; examiners for 1879, 119. LETTER addressed to the Syndicate by four Members of the Faculty of Médicine, and forwarded by Dr. D. D. Cunninghain, 6; replied, 6; referred to the Faculty of Medicine, 24. LETHBRIDGE, DR. A. S., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Medicine, 118. LETHBRIDGE, MB. ROPER, C. I. E., asking that his History of India may be retained as a text-book for the Entrance Examination, 57 ; referred to a Committee appointed, 57; asking that if the University returns to the system of appointing a text-book in English for the Entrance Examination, his selections may be adopted for the first 2 or 3 years, 57 ; referred the matter to the Comunittec appointed, 57. LIBRARY FUND. Contribution to-, 126. L. M. S. AND M. B. EXAMINATIONS. List of 8 natural orders for the examination of 1879, 60; examiners for 1879, 72; result should depend solely on the total of the marks, 73; fifty per cent. on the aggregato proposed, 70; approved by the Faculty of Medicine, 76; sanctioned, 87; proposed that the full number of marks be placed opposite each question, 77 ; sanctioned, 87; results of-, 106 ; list of passed candidates, 106. LYDEKKEE, MR. R., appointed examiner in Zoology, 60. M.A. EXAMINATION. Examiners for-,72; result of-,83.

INDEX. MAHENDRALAL SIRCAR, DR., attached to the Faculty of Medicine, passed by the Senate on the 27th April, 1 ; opposition raised by the Faculty of Medicine, 4; recommended for re-consideration, 7; letter from—, 12; reply to-, 20; second letter from-, 32; referred to the Senate, 43 ; transferred to Faculty of Engineering, 50. MATHEW, Rev. W. Letter from-, enquiring whether under the provision of Act XXI of 1875 can Syndicate confer on him an honorary degree in Arts, 91; refused, 91. MCLEOD, Dr. K. Letter from-, reply of a lotter from the Registrar asking him to forward Jodunath Mookerjee's paper together with the Medical Treatise from which he copied, 5. MEDICAL COLLEGE, PRINCIPAL. Memo. from-, forwarding an application from G. C. Bezbaruya, praying that he may be exempted from the new rules for the First Examination in Medicine, sanctioned, 8. MEDICAL EXAMINERS. Rules for the conduct of Examinations. Paragraphs 3 and 4 bo restored from the instructions issued in 1876, 9. MOFFETT, MR. G. E. Petition from, praying that he may be admitted to the B. A. Examination of this University in Aberdeen, instead of Calcutta or Agra, not granted, 89. MOLESWOBTA, MR. G. L., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Engineering, 118. MUIE CENTRAL COLLEGE, ALLAHABAD, PRINCIPAL. Letter from>, requesting that the F. A. Examination foes of Rs. 20 paid by Anund Kumar Mitra, whoso death was reported to the Registrar before the Examination, may be returned, sanctioned, 73. NASI, MR. A. M., appointed Acting Registrar, 62. NOWROJI Kuory. Petition from-, praying to be admitted to the B. A. Examination without passing the F. A. Examination, disallowed, 88. O'KINEALY, MR. J., elected President of the Faculty of Law and Representative in the Syndicate, 122. O'KINBALY, MR. P., appointed Examiner in Law, 60. Pall, might be included in the list of classical languages, 126. PALMER, DR. W.J. Letter from proposing to amend the wording of paragraph 6 of the Regulations for the L. M. S. and M. B.'degrees, 89 ; referred to the ulty of Medicine, 89; recommended to the Syndicate, 123; to the Senate, 126. PARTRIDGE, Dr. S. B., appointed to officiate for Dr. Charles in tho Syndicate during his temporary absence, 23. PINCOTT, MB. F., requesting to introduce his Sakuntala in Hindi, declined, 59. POWELL, MR. BADEN, appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. PrasANNAKUMAB Ray, DR., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. PREMCHAND ROYCHAND STUDENTSHIP EXAMINATION. Candidates for-, 23; examiners forum, 72; result of-, 82. PRINCIPAL, DACCA COLLEGE. Letter from, suggesting to make a fixed rule of marking in English for the Eutrance Examination ; also the 3rd division of the same be abolished, disallowed, 61.

vi INDEX. ac- PRINCIPAL, MEDICAL COLLEGE. Letter from-, enclosing an application from Mr. A. V. Lazarus, praying that his B. A. degree of Oxford may be cepted in lieu of the F. A. Examination certificate, 61 ; recommended to the Senate for sanction, 61. RADHAKANTA MEDAL, awarded, 80. RAJSHAHI COLLEGE, HEAD MASTER. Application from praying that Bauleah be added to the list of centres for holding the Examinations, disallowed, 8. RasiBIHARI GHOSH, BABOO, appointed a Follow and attached to the Faculty of Law, 118. RAY BAREILLY SCHOOL, HEAD MASTER. Letter from-, asking whether four students who have been admitted to that school as Entranco candidates, and have subseqnently severed their connexion with it, forleit their right of appearing at the Examination, 60. ROBERTSON, THE Rev. J., appointed a member of the Comınittee for selecting text-book in English literature and in English History for tho Entrance Examination, 57 ; also a member of the Syndicate, 121. Rowe, MR. F. J., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118. SENATE. Minutes of --, 1, 12, 45, 108. SMITH, Dr. D. B., elected a President of the Faculty of Medicine and Representative in the Syndicate, 123. STAMP Duty, are not liable for granting receipts for payident of fees at the University examinations, sanctioned, 8. SORYya KUMAR SARBADIIKARI, Baboo, appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Medicine, 118. SYNDICATE, Minutes of-, 5, 7, 22, 30, 48, 50, 56, 57, 71, 78, 106, 115, 125. TAGORE LAW PROFESSORSHIP. Candidates for-, 23; advertisement, 11; appointinent, 47. Talbot, CAPTAIN, A. C., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Arts, 118, TAWNEY, MR. CHARLES II. Leave granted for a month, 62. TENNANT, COL. J. F., snggesting that the business of the University might be done by the votes of the Senate in writing --prohibited under section IX of the Act of Incorporation, õl. TBAILOKYANATU MITRA, Babu D. L., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculty of Law, 118. TRINITY COLLEGE, KANDY, CEYLON, PRINCIPAL. Letter from, praying for the affiliation of the College up to B. A. standard, 5; affiliation sanctioned, 9. TBUBNER & Co., MESSRS., recommending the introduction of Professor Weber's History of Indian literature, 59 ; will be considered hereafter, 59. VICE-CHANCELLOR. Address delivered by-, 109. VIZIANAGRAM SCHOLARSHIP, awarded to--, 80. WARDEN, ST. THOMAS' COLLEGE, COLOMBO, Ceylon. Letter from-, requesting that Colombo may be made a centre for holding the B. A. Examination or that an exception may be made in case of Ceylon students, 51 ; disallowed, 51.

INDEX. vii WILSON, THE HON'BLE A., appointed a Fellow and attached to the Faculties of Arts and Law, 118. WOODROW MEMORIAL COMMITTEE, SECRETARY. Letter from-, forwarded through the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, recommending that the bust of the late Mr. Woodrow be placed in the vestibule of the Uni. versity building, approved, 32; proposing to found a scholarship to be called "Woodrow Memorial Scholarship," also the terms for awarding, 89; forwarding Government promissory notes for Rs. 4,800 in order to establish scholarship, and Rs. 96 to enable the Syndicate to award the same from 1st February 1879, 115; awarded, 116.

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Minutes For The Year 1878-79