The historical register: a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of university honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity Term, 1900.

University of Oxford

Date:: 1900

Credit: The historical register: a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of university honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity Term, 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$Waynplete Peofessokship oe Chemistet. This was another of the four Professorships directed by the Ordinance of the University Commissioners of 1854 relating to Magdalen College to he founded within the College. Under statutes made by the Commissioners of 1877 for the Univer- sity and for Magdalen College respectively, the Professor's stipend will ultimately consist of the emoluments (amounting to ^£200 a year) of a Fellowship in the College attached to the Professorship, and of a payment of ^£600 a year, which may be augmented to £700, from the revenues of the College. The Professor is to be elected by a board, consisting of the Visitor and the President of Magdalen College, the Professor of Experimental Philosophy, the Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cam- bridge, the Presidents of the College of Physicians and of the Eoyal Society, and a person nominated on each occasion by the Hebdo- madal Council to act as an elector on that occasion. The Professor has the charge of the chemical laboratories at the University Museum. Professors. 1865 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., B.A., Balliol, M.A. 1872 William Odling, M.A., Fellow of Worcester. LiNACEE PeOFESSOESHIP OF COMPAEATIVE AnATOMT. Under Ordinances of the University Commissioners of 1854 relating to Jlerton College, a Professorship called the Linacre Professorship of Physiology was founded, and endowed witii the emoluments of four Fellowships in that College to an amount not exceeding £800 a year. Under a statute made for the University by the Counnissioners of 1877 the designation of the Professorship was changed to that of the Linacre Professorship of Human and Comparative Anatomy, which was again changed, in 1893, to that of the Linacre Professorship of Comparative Anatomy, and under statutes made by the same Com- missioners for Merton College a Fellowship in that College, with an emolument of £200 a year, was attached to the Professorship, and a further stipend of £700 a year directed to be paid by the College to the Professor. The Professor is elected by a board consisting of the Visitor of Merton College, the Presidents of the College of Physicians and of tiie College of Surgeons, the Waynflcte Professor of Physiology, a member of Merton College appointed by the College on the oc«\si()n of each election to act as an elector on that occasion, the Ecgius Pro- fessor of Medicine, and a ]5erso}) appointed on each occasion by the Hebdomadal Council to act as an eloclor on that occasion. The Professor lias tiic charge of the anatomical and ethnological collections and the anatomical laboratories in the University museum.$