The princely gift of the late Sir Taraknath Palit, Kt., D.L., and Sir Rashbehary Ghose, Kt., C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A., D.L., Ph.D. have enabled the University to start the University College of Science, and the Laboratories of Physics, Applied Physics, Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Applied Mathematics and Experimental Psychology have been equipped in the Science College Buildings at 92, Upper Circular Road.

With the expansion of the University College of Science and the opening of the Departments of Applied Chemistry and Applied Physics, the want of an up-to-date Technological Workshop was keenly felt. This deficiency has been, to a great extent, made up by the recent construction of a Workshop on modern lines at the Science College Building at 92, Upper Circular Road.

The Biological Laboratories have been equipped in the Buildings and in the surrounding grounds of No. 35, Ballygunge Circular Road which was the residence of the late Sir Taraknath Palit. University Professors of Botany and Zoology are in charge of those Laboratories.

The munificent gift of the late Raja of Khaira, has enabled the University to establish a Chair of Agriculture and steps are being taken to provide for an Agricultural Laboratory with a small plot of land for experimental farming.

XVII

FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR EXAMINATIONS.

(1) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

In the Convocation of the Oxford University held on June 3rd, 1902, the following Revised Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities was approved :Whereas it is expedient, (1) to provide for the making of regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of the Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities; (2) to enable candidates from these Universities under certain conditions to offer themselves for examination in any Honour School of the Second Public Examination, and to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts without having passed either Responsions or the First Public Examination; (3) to confine the requirement of a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language to candidates from Colonial Universities, and to determine the conditions under which candidates shall be permitted to satisfy the requirement by passing approved examinations of such Universities, the University enacts as follows :

1. Any University situated in any part of the British Dominions other than the United Kingdom may apply to this University to be admitted to the privileges of this section of the statutes.

Add., page 932 [1887].

2. The application shall be addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, who shall report the same to the Hebdomadal Council.

3. The Hebdomadal Council, after considering such applicatiɔn and after making such enquiry as it shall deem necessary, shall if it think fit, propose to Convocation that the University so applying shall be admitted to the privi leges of this section of the Statutes. A University admitted to the privileges, conferred by this section of the Statutes may at any time renour ce such privileges, and this University may at any time by a vote of Convocation withdraw the same from any University.

4. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over two years and who shall have passed all the examinations incident to the course may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Junior, Colonial or Indian Student.

5. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over three full years, and who shall have taken Honours in the final examination incident to the course may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Senior, Colonial or Indian Student.

6 It shall be the duty of the Hebdomadal Council to draw up and submit to Convocation, a statement of the conditions under which member of a University so admitted shall be deemed to have taken Honours as aforesaid. Every such statement, if approved by Convocation, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute.

* The University of Calcutta.

7. The status and privileges of a Junior Studert shall be as follows :(a) The term in which he is matrioulated shall be reckoned, for the purpose of any provisions respecting the standing of members of the University as the fifth Term from the matriculation.

(b) A Junior Student shall not be required to pass the Responsions, or to pass in an Additional Subject at Responsions.

(c) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination and has obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examina. tion, shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language.

(d) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination but has not obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for twelve Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language.

8. The status and privileges of a Senior Student shall be as follows :

(a) The term in which he is matriculated shall be reckoned for the purposes of any provisions respecting the standing of the University, as the fifth term from his matriculation.

(b) A Senior Student shall not be required to pass any part of Responsions or of the First Public Examination or any Preliminary Examination of the Second Public Examination.

(c) A Senior Student who has obtained Honours in the Second Public Examination shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language.

9. Every person who, having been matriculated, desires to claim the status of a Junior or Senior Student, shall make his application through an officer of a College or Hall or of the Non-Collegiate Body, to the Secretary to the Boards of Faculties and shall at the same time pay to the University Chest, through the Secretary, the sum of one pound or of two pounds according as he is admitted as a Junior or a Senior Student. If he makes his application later than a week from matriculation, he shall pay an additional fee of one pound.

10. Any person qualified to become a Junior Student on matriculation may be admitted to any part of responsions, any part of the First Public Examination and any Preliminary Examination in the Second Public Exa

mination.

That any member of the University of Calcutta who shall have passed the Examination at the University for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and shall have been placed in the First Division in two or more subjects of that Examination, shall be deemed to have taken Honours as required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II, Sect. VIII, cl. 5, October 22, 1903.

The above decree remained in force until December, 31, 1915.

On January 1st, 1916, the following decree came into force instead :

"That any member of the University of Calcutta who shall have passed the Examination at the University for the degree of Master of Arts and shall have been placed in the First or Second Class in that Examination, shall be deemed to have taken Honours as required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II, Sect. VIII, cl. 5." (Minutes, 1st August, 1914.)

11. Every person who, being qualified to become a Junior or Senior Student on matriculation, desires to have his name entered for an examination before he has been matriculated, shall make his application to the Secretary through an officer of a College or Hall of the Non-Collegiate Body, who shall send the name to the Secretary seven clear days before the day fixed for entering names for the examination in question, together with

(a) the statutable fee, and in addition thereto the sum of one pound or of two pounds according as the candidate claims to be qualified to become a Junior or a Senior Student;

(b) a declaration that the candidate in his bona fide opinion desires admission to his College or Hall or as a Non-Collegiate Student as the case may be; and (c) evidence showing that the candidate is qualified as aforesaid.

Any candidate whose name has been entered for an examination as aforesaid shall, as soon as he has been matriculated, become a Junior or a Senior Student as the case may be.

12. A Colonial Student shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language if he has passed

either (a) one of the examinations enumerated below in the Schedule,

or (b) such examination or examinations of his University as shall satisfy the conditions laid down under the provision of the next following clause. Provided that evidence of his having satisfied these conditions shall have been produced to the Secretary within one week from his matriculation and that a registration fee of five shillings shall have been paid through the Secretary to the University Chest.

13. It shall be the duty of the Hebdomadal Council to draw up a statement of the conditions under which a Member of a University which has been admitted to the privileges of the Statute shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language in the examinations of his University. Every such statement shall be submitted to Convocation and, if approved, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute.

14. The Secretary shall have power to make and vary from time to time regulations for the admission of qualified persons the status of Junior or Senior Students, and for enabling Junior or Senior Students, or persons quali. fied to become Junior or Senior Students to offer themselves for Examination under the provisions of this section provided that all such regulations and any variation in them shall be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors for approval.

15. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a sufficient record of the members of the University who have the status and privileges of a Junior or Senior Student, respectively, and of the persons not yet matriculated whose names have been entered for an examination under the provision of the section and to see that no candidate is admitted to the examination or to any of the privileges of a Junior or Senior Student who has not satisfied the conditions of this section.

SCHEDULE.

1. The examination in Stated Subjects in Responsions, or any examination which under Tit. VI, Sect. 1 § 2, exempts a candidate

Add. p. 1026 [1898]. from Responsion.

2. The examination in aditional subjects in Responsicn, the subject offered being a Greek book, or any examination, including Greek, which is accepted by the University as equivalent to the examination.

3. The examination of candidates in the Greek language only at Respon. sions.