To commemorate the Jubilee of the University of Calcutta which was celebrated in 1908, the Hon'ble the Vice-Chancellor (Mr. Justice Asutosh Mookerjee) proposed to the Government of India that a Professorship of Economics should be established. This proposal was accepted by Government, and the Senate resolved on the 11th April, 1908, that the chair should be named after the Earl of Minto, the then Chancellor of the University.

The following rules have been adopted for the appointment and duties of the Professor :

The appointment shall be made by the Senate.

1. The salary of the Professor will be Rs. 12,000 a year, to be paid in equal monthly instalments. The Professor will in the first instance be appointed for a term of five years only, but upon the expiry of his term, he will be eligible for re-appointment.

2. The University will pay first class passage to the selected candidate from his place of residence to Calcutta.

3. The duties of the Professor will be as follows:

(a) To devote himself to the investigation of the Science of Economics and its application to Indian Problems.

(b) To deliver (not less than once a week during six weeks every year) a course of at least six lectures upon Economics with special reference to Indian Problems and embodying, as far as possible, the result of his own researches in the subject. (Such lectures, after delivery, will be published by the University.)

(c) To hold classes in Economics not less than twice a week during at least twenty-five weeks every year, for the benefit of post-graduate students and to promote research by them as far as practicable.

(d) To prepare a work dealing with the application of the principles of Political Economy to such Indian topics as may be agreed upon between the Senate and the Professor at the time of his appointment.

4. Applications from candidates for the Professorship must reach the Registrar of the University, not later than (to be specified).

5. Every application shall be accompanied by

(a) a statement of the original work or investigation in Economics which may have been done by the candidate;

(b) testimonials to indicate special fitness for appointment to the Professor ship of Economics;

(c) a statement of the topics on which he undertakes to prepare a work dealing with the application of economic principles to Indian conditions.

6. The Professor will be required to vacate his appointment unless a substantial portion of the manuscript of the work alluded to in para. 3 (d) above, is made over to the University within three years from the date on which he first takes charge of his duties.

7. The copyright in the lectures as well as the treatise (para. 3, clauses (b) and (d)) will be in the Professor; but he will make over to the University 200 copies of his lectures annually for distribution.

8. Canvassing by intending candidates for the Professorship is strictly prohibited; and if any candidate is proved to have canvassed for the appointment, directly or indirectly he will, on that ground alone, be disqualified.

In commemoration of the visit of their Imperial Majesties King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary to India during 1911 and 1912, His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Syndicate and the Senate of the Calcutta University, was pleased to sanction the foundation of a Professorship to be called the George V Professorship of Mental and Moral Science. At the Annual Convocation of the Senate in 1912

His Excellency the Chancellor made the important announcement that a recurring grant of Rs. 65,000 per annum would be made by the Government of India to the Calcutta University for the purposes of higher teaching. The Syndicate, thereupon, decided that the University should have a Professor of Mental and Moral Science of its own. No provision existed at that time for the teaching of this branch of knowledge up to the M.A. standard in any of the Colleges in Calcutta, except the Scottish Churches College where the arrangements for that purpose were likely to be unfavourably affected by the impending retirement of Professor Stephen. Although elaborate Regulations for a course in Experimental Psychology had been framed in 1906, no arrange. ments were made or could yet be made in any College for the teaching of this increasingly important branch of knowledge. Mental and Moral Science has always had great attraction for Indian students and important papers dealing with topics under this head have been written by some of the graduates of this University. It was therefore expected that the establishment of a special chair in the subject would stimulate higher study and research on lines likely to prove fruitful. It was resolved that the salary of the Professor be fixed at Rs. 12,000 per annum.

PROFESSORS.

1913-20 Prof. Brajendranath Seal, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc.
1921-26 Prof. S. Radhakrishnan, M.A.

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HARDINGE PROFESSORSHIP OF HIGHER MATHEMATICS.

To commemorate the visit of their Imperial Majesties King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary to India during 1911 and 1912 and Their gracious reception of a loyal address from the Calcutta University, His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Syndicate and the Senate, was pleased to sanction the foundation of a chair to be styled Hardinge Professorship of Higher Mathematics. At the Annual Convocation of the Senate in 1912, the important announcement was made by His Excellency the Chancellor that higher teaching would receive fresh impetus from the Govern. ment of India, who had decided to make a recurring grant of Rs. 65,000 a year to the Calcutta University. The Syndicate came to the conclusion that the purposes of stimulating higher study and research would be best served by utilising a portion of the Imperial grant for making adequate arrange. ment for the delivery of post-graduate lectures in Higher Mathematics. Inadequate accommodation in the M.A. and M.Sc. Mathematics classes in the affiliated Colleges and the yearly increasing number of candidates for examina. tion in the subjects, since the introduction of the new University Regulations in 1906, convinced the Syndicate of the desirability of founding a chair in Higher Mathematics. It was resolved that the Professorship be associated with the name of His Excellency the then Chancellor of the University and called the Hardinge Chair of Higher Mathematics. It was also resolved that the Chair should carry a salary of Rs. 12,000 per annum. The Senate also agreed to grant to the first Professor Rs. 3,000 a year as house allowance.

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CARMICHAEL PROFESSORSHIP OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE.

Ancient Indian History and Culture constitutes a branch of study in which research can be carried on by the advanced students with every hope of success. In 1912, the Syndicate were of opinion that the foundation of a Chair of Ancient Indian History and Culture was probably the foremost need of the Calcutta. University. It was decided that the money for the Chair would be met from the sale proceeds of the Sanskrit Matriculation and Intermediate Courses and the Sanskrit Grammar published by the University. It was resolved that the Chair be designated the Carmichael Professorship of Ancient Indian History and Culture and that the salary be fixed at Rs. 12,000 per

annum.

1913-14 Prof. G. Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc.

1917-20 Prof. D. R. Bhandarkar, M.A., Ph.D. (Permanent since 1920).

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PALIT PROFESSORSHIP OF CHEMISTRY.

Among the public-spirited and generous benefactors of the University, the first and foremost rank must be assigned to the late Sir Taraknath Palit, whose princely gift worth about Rs. 1,500,000 in 1912 is unsurpassed in the annals of this or any other Indian University. Out of the income derivable from the Palit endowment, two Chairs are maintained one of which is designated the Palit Professorship of Chemistry and the other, the Palit Professorship of Physics. Out of the total value of the endowment, Rs. 1,00,000 will be set apart for the founding of a Scholarship to be awarded to a distinguished graduate of high attainments and character with a view to enable him to proceed to some foreign University for the purpose of advanced study and research in some special branch of Science. It is expressly stated in the Trust Deed that the object of the founder is the promotion and diffusion of scientific and technical education and the cultivation and advancement of Science, pure and applied, among his countrymen by and through indigenous agency. The Senate has agreed, therefore, that the Chairs will always be filled by Indian (that is, persons born of Indian parents, as distinguished from persons who are called Statutory Natives of India). The Professors-elect may in the discretion of the Governing Body of the University College of Science, be required to receive special training abroad, before they enter upon the duties of their office. It shall be the duty of the Professors (a) to carry on original research with a view to extending the bounds of knowledge (b) to stimulate and guide research by advanced students, and as an essential preparation for this purpose, (c) to arrange for the adequate instruction of students for the Degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours, Master of Science and Doctor of Science and also of other students whomay be exceptionally qualified in any of the subjects of study, although they may not be even under-graduates of any University, provided that they be recommended by the Governing, Body constituted as follows:

1. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, President, Ex-Officio, 2. The Director of Public Instruction, Bengal.

3. The Dean of the Faculty of Science.

4. The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

. 5. Four members of the University, to be annually elected by the Senate two of whom at least shall be representatives of Colleges in Calcutta under Indian management, affiliated in Science to this University.

6. Four members to be nominated every three years by the founder and after his death by his representative or representatives in that behalf as is hereafter provided:

The founder nominated

Mr. Lokendranath Palit, I.C.S. (since deceased),
The Right Hon'ble Lord Sinha of Raipur,

The Hon'ble Mr. Justice B. K Mullick, I.C.S.,

The Hon'ble Sir Nilratan Sircar, Kt., M.A., M.D., LL.D., D.C.L.,

to be his nominees on the said Governing Body and they are and each of them is authorized to nominate his or their successor or successors, provided always that the Hon'ble Sir Asutosh Mookerjee shall always be a nominee of the Founder if he has not otherwise a seat on the Governing Body.

The power of nominating a successor or successors shall be inherent in every original or derivative nominee of the Founder.

7. Two representatives of the Professorial staff to be elected by them annually from amongst themselves.

The proceedings of the said Governing Body shall be laid before the Syndicate and may be revised by it.

The following four members have been elected by the Senate to the Governing Body of the Sir T. N. Palit Trusts for the years 1921-22 and 192223:

On the recommendation of the Syndicate the following proposals made by the Governing Body of Sir Taraknath Palit Endowment, regarding the duties and tenure of appointment of Palit Professors, were adopted by the Senate on the 30th January, 1914:

I. That the duties of each of the Professors be specified as follows:(1) To devote himself to original research, in the subject in which he has been appointed, with a view to extend the bounds of knowledge.

(2) To stimulate and guide research by advanced students in his special subject in the University College of Science and generally to assist such students in Post-graduate study and research.

(3) To superintend the formation and maintenance of the Laboratory of the College of Science in his own subject.

II. That the Professors be appointed subject to the following conditions:

(1) (a) The salary of Sir Taraknath Palit Professor of Chemistry be Rs. 800 a month rising to Rs. 1,000 a month by annual increment of Rs. 50. (b) The salary of Sir Taraknath Palit Professor of Physics be Rs. 800 a month rising to Rs. 1,000 a month by annual increment of Rs. 50.

(2) Each Professor shall be a whole-time officer of the University College of Science and shall not, without the special sanction of the Governing Body and of the Senate previously obtained, hold any other office to which any salary, emolument or honorarium is attached.