Another long service was that of the Rev Thomas William Irby (B.A. 1840). Mr Irby was presented to the Rectory of Rushmere, near Lowestoft, two years after his ordination, and had been Rector for fifty years when he died suddenly of apoplexy on June 8.

At the biennial election to the Council of the Senate, held on November 7, the following members of the College were returned-Dr Taylor, our Master, Professor A. Macalister, and Mr R. F. Scott, Senior Bursar. Dr D. MacAlister, Secretary of the Council, and Mr R. T. Wright, Law Lecturer of the College, continue to hold office until 1894.

Dr Donald MacAlister has been re-appointed Assessor to the Regius Professor of Physic; Professor A. Macalister has been appointed a member of the Museums and Lecture-rooms Syndicate; Dr Sandys an Elector to the Prendergast Studentship; Mr C. E. Haskins an Examiner for the Classical Tripos Part I; Mr H. F. Baker an Examiner for the Mathematical Tripos Part II; Professor Liveing an Examiner in Elementary Chemistry; Dr W. J. Sollas and Mr Harker Examiners in Geology; Mr A. C. Seward an Examiner in Botany; Dr A. M. Marshall an Examiner in Zoology; Mr E. H. Acton an Examiner in Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Professor Gwatkin an Examiner for the Historical Tripos; Mr C. E. Haskins a member of the Botanic Garden Syndicate; Mr W. Bateson a member of the Library Syndicate; Mr R. F. Scott a member of the Proctorial Syndicate; Professor A. Macalister a member of the State Medicine Syndicate; Professor Liveing a member of the Observatory Syndicate; Mr J. T. Ward a member of the Examinations Board; Dr D. MacAlister a member of the Special Board for Medicine; Mr H. S. Foxwell a member of the Special Board for Moral Science; Dr E. C. Clarke one of the Sex Viri; Mr C. E. Graves an Examiner for University Scholarships and Chancellor's Medals; Mr H. R. Tottenham an Examiner for the Bell and Abbott Scholarships; Mr G. F. Stout and Mr A. Caldecott Examiners for the Moral Sciences Tripos; Dr F. Watson an Examiner for the Norrisian Prize; and Dr Sandys an Elector to the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts.

Dr A. A. Kanthack, Fellow Commoner, and John Lucas Walker Student in Pathology, has resigned his Studentship to assume the duties of Medical Tutor and Lecturer in Pathology at University College, Liverpool. The managers of the John Lucas Walker Fund have expressed to him "their complete approval of the manner in which he has conducted his work as Student, and their high appreciation of the valuable researches which he has carried on during his tenure of the Studentship."

The obituary notices of Tennyson and Renan in the Academy were written by Mr J. Jacobs, Senior in the Moral Sciences Tripos 1876.

The following ecclesiastical appointments of members of the College are announced:

Atkinson, R. W., M.A. (1882) C. St Paul, Onslow

(1866) St John's, Working. V. Kirkoswald, Cum

(1888) Gloucester and Bristol St James, Cheltenham

Name.

White, C. W.

Godwin, H., M.A.

(1888) Lichfield

Burton, O.

(1888) Manchester

Kidsgrove

St Philip's, Blackburn
Bedford Leigh

Par. Church, Halifax

During the Long Vacation and Michaelmas Term, the Cambridge Electric Supply Company have been engaged in laying cables and wires for the electric lighting of the Chapel, Hall, and First Court lamps. The managing director of the Company is the Hon C. A. Parsons (Eleventh Wrangler 1877), formerly Scholar of the College. The fittings in the Hall and Chapel are the work of Mr W. A. S. Benson, of Bond Street, London. It is hoped that the electric lighting will be in full operation by the end of this term.

Messrs Macmillan have in active preparation an important. series of volumes on the natural history of animals, which is to be called The Cambridge Natural History. The volumes will be mainly written by Cambridge men, among whom are the following members of the College: Mr J. J. Lister (Mammals), Mr W. Bateson (Fishes), Professor W. F. R. Weldon (Crustaceans), and Professor W. J. Sollas (Sponges). The series will be fully illustrated, and some of the volumes will be ready next year.

J. H. B Masterman has been elected President of the Union Society for the Lent Term; P. Green, Vice-President; and Yusuf Ali a member of the Committee. Mr E. E. Sikes is Librarian of the Society,

During the summer two pieces, The Noble Art and Chalk and Cheese, have been produced at Terry's Theatre, London. The author's pseudonym, Eille Norwood,' is said to conceal the personality of an old Johnian, Mr A E Brett, who acted in the first piece. His successors on the editorial committee of the Eagle wish him continued prosperity in his dramatic career.

A manuscript from our Library, which is believed to be the very book King Charles I held in his hand during his Coronation, has been transcribed by the permission of the Master and Fellows, and edited for the Henry Bradshaw Society by the Rev Christopher Wordsworth. Accompanying the text is a collation of two other contemporary MSS, and a number of other appendices containing other English Coronation Services, several of which have not before been printed, or are difficult of access. A critical introduction precedes the work, the printing of which is nearly finished. It will very soon be ready for distribution among the Society's subscribers of 1892.

The following books by members of the College are announced: The eighth book of Thucydides (Macmillan), edited by Dr T. G. Tucker; Key to Arithmetic for Beginners (Macmillan), by J. and E. J. Brooksmith; The Applications of Elliptic Functions (Macmillan), by A. G. Greenhill; Analecta Latina, and Analecta Græca (Macmillan), by Professors J. Strachan and A. S. Wilkins; Prendeville's Livy, book v. (Bell and Sons), by J. H. Freese; The Student's Handbook of Physical Geology (Bell), second edition, by A. J. Jukes-Brown; Selections from Livy, books v. and vi. (Macmillan), by W. Cecil Laming; Shakespeare's Tempest, with notes, etc. (Sampson Low), by the Rev David Bain; Fairy Tales from India (Nutt), by Joseph Jacobs; Aristotle's Constitution of Athens (Macmillan), by Dr J. E. Sandys; Vergil Aeneid i. (Macmillan), by T. E. Page; Elementary Latin Grammar (Macmillan), by Dr H. J. Roby and Dr A. S. Wilkins; Wise Words and Quaint Counsels of Thomas Fuller (Clarendon Press), by the Rev Dr A. Jessopp; Extinct Monsters (Chapman and Hall), by the Rev H. N. Hutchinson; Geometrical Drawing (Percival and Co), by A. J. Pressland; The Schism between the Oriental and Western Churches (Longmans), by the Rev G. B. Howard; Human Origins and Problems of the Future (Chapman and Hall), by Samuel Laing; Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate (University Press), by A. C. Seward; Jurassic Rocks of Cambridge (University Press), by the late T. Roberts; Education from a National Standpoint (Appleton and Co), by Alfred Fouillée, translated by W. J. Greenstreet; Man's Great Charter, an exposition of the First Chapter of Genesis (Nisbet), by F. E. Coggin; The Still Life of the Middle Temple with some of its Table-Talk, preceded by Fifty Years' Reminiscences (Bentley), by W. G. Thorpe; Christian Doctrine and Modern Thought: Boyle

Lectures for 1891 (Longmans), by the Rev Dr T. G. Bonney; Aristophanes Vespae (Pitt Press), by the Rev C. E. Graves; M. Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore libri tres (Clarendon Press), by Dr A. S. Wilkins; Researches in Stellar Parallax by the Aid of Photography (Clarendon Press), by the Rev Professor C. Pritchard; The Year-Book of Science, second year (Cassell and Co), by the Rev Dr T. G. Bonney; A Practical Treatise on Midwifery (Charles Griffin), by Dr John Phillips; The Book Genesis a True History (S.P.C.K.), by the Rev Dr F. Watson.

JOHNIANA.

An influential committee, which includes among its members Lord Ray leigh, Lord Brooke, and Sir T. Fowell Buxton, has been formed for the purpose of promoting the presentation of his portrait to Lord Rookwood for services rendered to Essex during many years. Lord Rookwood is, of course, our old friend, Sir H. J. Selwin-Ibbetson [B.A. 1849]. In his Parliamentary days he filled the posts of Under-Secretary for the Home Department and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and he represented Essex constituencies in the House for a quarter of a century. He has never lost the old-world courtesy which is a prominent feature of his character, and he is the most popular man in the county, and perhaps the most useful. Pall Mall Gazette: November 10, 1892.

Before becoming a Templar he (the author) was a very rolling stone. Educated privately in his boyhood, he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, from which he migrated to Queens', because his tutors would not guarantee him anything above a sixth wranglership, and this would not have given him a chance of a fellowship at the larger college. He tells us that this practice for this reason was common, and that the Queensmen resented Saturday Review (Notice of W. G. Thorpe's Still Life of the Middle Temple): October 1, 1891.

it.

The Anniversary Meeting of the GENTLEMEN educated at ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, Cambridge, will be held at the Turk's Head Inn, in Newark, on Monday the 6th of May.

Dinner on table at two o'clock.

Cambridge Chronicle: April 27, 1782.

An anniversary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, will be held at the George inn, St Martin's, STAMFORD, on Tuesday the 6th of May.

N.B. Those gentlemen who mean to attend are requested to send in their names to Mr Teirewest, master of the above inn, a few days previous to the meeting. Ibid: April 12, 1783.

ST JOHN'S COLlege.

THE Gentlemen Educated at St John's College, resident in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent Counties, will meet at the Blackmoor's Head, in Nottingham, on Monday the 8th of May next, to commemorate the foundation of the College.

Dinner at two o'clock.

J. CARR, President. DERBY, April 17th, 1786. Ibid.: April 15, 1786.