Upon the advice of Canon Raven, with whom I have been in correspondence about our Tenor Bell, I send you drawings of the inscription and ornaments it bears. It is believed that the Bell was given to the Priory of Burscough by Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and at the dissolution of that Monastery given to Ormskirk.

I shall be pleased to hear if you can make anything out of the inscription, and to give you any further particulars. Yours truly,

W. L. HUTTON.

[The inscription is given below, but the Editors have failed to decipher all its meaning. They are prepared to present a copy of the Index to the member of the College who furnishes them with the best explanation of it.]

RB 1497 SENESBIATMI

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OUR CHRONICLE.

Michaelmas Term 1891.

The Rt Hon Sir J. E. Gorst, Honorary Fellow of the College, has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in succession to Mr Jackson, now Chief Secretary for Ireland. Sir John Gorst was invited to be a candidate for the University seat vacant by the death of Mr Raikes, but felt it expedient to decline. A memorial requesting him to stand at the General Election for the seat now held by Sir Gabriel Stokes, who does not seek re-election, has received much support, and it is hoped that this time it will be successful. Since 1832 St John's has sent up only one University member, namely, Mr C. E. Law (M.A. 1812), who was returned in 1835, 1837, 1841, and 1847.

The late Sir Patrick Colquhoun, Honorary Fellow of the College, bequeathed to St John's "his Lady Margaret twohandled cup, trusting it will be used in each year on the 6th May and the 27th December at least."

Dr Taylor, our Master, was chosen to act as Chairman of the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists held in London this summer. He delivered a very interesting presidential address, in which he referred to the labours of Sir Patrick Colquhoun in promoting the organization of the Congress. On September 11 a number of the members visited Cambridge, and were received by the Master, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, in the Senate House. The visitors were afterwards entertained by him at luncheon in the College Hall.

At the Annual Election on November 2 the following were elected to the vacant Fellowships :-William McFadden Orr B.A., Senior Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos Part I 1888, First Class (division 1) Part II 1889, Examiner in Mathematics in the Royal University of Ireland; Percival Horton-Smith B.A., First Class (distinction in Physiology) Natural Sciences Tripos 1888-9, late Hutchinson Student; and Edward Ernest Sikes B.A., First Class (division 1) Classical Tripos Part I 1889, First Class (a, d) Part II 1890, late Newton Student in Archeology in the British School at Athens. Among the dissertations

submitted to the Electors by the successful candidates for Fellowships were:-by Mr Orr, Method of transforming theorems in Spheroconics, and Some contact relations among systems of circles, being extensions of Hari's Theorem; by Mr Horton-Smith, On the composition and action of peptonised milk, and The life and times of Stilicho; by Mr Sikes, The Nike of Archermos, a dissertation on the winged female type of the sixth century B.C.

The first election to the newly founded Isaac Newton Studentships in Astronomy and Physical Optics took place on November 4, when the choice of the electors fell on Mr Ralph Allen Sampson, Fellow of the College. The value of the Studentship is 200 a year. Mr Sampson was third Wrangler in 1888, and first Smith's Prizeman in 1890, and has lately been Lecturer in Mathematics at King's College, London. We understand that he proposes to come into residence at Christmas.

Our Junior Dean, the Rev Alfred Caldecott, has been appointed Professor of Logic and Mental Philosophy at King's. College, London, in succession to our late Fellow, Dr Momerie.

The following extracts from the Annual Report of the University Library Syndicate, and from that referring to the Divinity Library, issued last June, deserve record in the Eagle, for the references they contain to the Johnian benefactors, Mr Hancock and Professor Selwyn.

"The Syndicate wish to record here the names of the benefactors who are commemorated by statues placed in the niches of the old gateway, On the outside, in the lowest row, Henry VI (included because of his connexion with the site), between Sir R. Thorpe and Archbishop Rotherham ; above them, Dr Andrew Perne, between Archbishop Parker and Bishop Tunstall; and at the top Dr Holdsworth, between Bishop Hacket and Mr Henry Lucas. On the inner front is placed George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, between Mr Rustat and Mr Worts. A statue of Mr Hancock, whose bequest of £10,000 was expended upon the new building, stands in the N.W. corner of the court. The cost of these statues was defrayed out of the donation of Dr Taylor, in whose vice-chancellorship the work was mainly done."

"We have also received from the executors of the late Professor Selwyn about 140 volumes, which by his will were to be given to the library after the death of Mrs Selwyn. These comprise a few very fine editions of the Fathers, and many books of great value for the study of the Septuagint. They are all in most excellent condition."

Dr H. D. Rolleston, Fellow of the College, has been appointed Assistant-Examiner in Anatomy at the University of London, and Examiner in Osteology and Anatomy at the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.

Mr James Ross Murray M.A. (B.A. 1884), has gained the Maitland Prize for an essay on The Present State and probable Development of the Native Ministry in the Indian Missions of the English Church. The prize was founded in 1844 by friends of Sir Peregrine Maitland K.C.B., and consists of the interest on £1,000.

T. T. Groom B.A. (First Class Natural Sciences Tripos 1887-89), formerly Scholar, has been appointed AssistantLecturer and Demonstrator of Zoology in the Yorkshire College, Leeds.

The Worshipful Chancellor L. T. Dibdin (B.A. 1874) has this term been delivering a course of lectures on Parochial Law at Ridley Hall. On June 24 he was admitted to the degree of D.C.L. honoris causa at Durham. In presenting him to the Warden, the Ven Archdeacon Watkins, Professor of Hebrew, said:-" Mr Warden and Proctors, it is no small honour to this our University that one of her younger graduates, Dr Sir Francis Jeune, has been called to the high office and dignity of a Judge of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice. It is no small loss to our diocese that it has thus been deprived of the judgment and counsel of so eminent a Doctor of the Civil Law. But

......Primo avolso non deficit alter.

Lewis Tonna Dibdin, a Master of Arts of St John's College,. Cambridge, is known in his own University by a successful effort to restore the study of three centuries of silenced Ecclesiastical Law, and has obtained from experts full recognition of his wide and exact knowledge of the subject. He is known to a larger class of readers by his studies of monasticism, and by a series of articles over which the veil of anonymity has hitherto been allowed to rest. He has for some years been Chancellor of the dioceses of Rochester and Exeter. He has by the choice and appointment of our Visitor become Chancellor of the diocese of Durham, and now, with the assent of this Convocation, Doctor of Civil Law of the University of Durham. Those who know him best doubt not that the Alma Mater which by adoption honours him will in him, too, find a son who will reflect honour upon herself.

....Primo avolso non deficit alter

Aureus et simili frondescit virga metallo.

I present to you Lewis Tonna Dibdin, Chancellor of this. diocese, to be admitted to the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in this University."

The Rev O. Rigby M.A. (B.A. 1882), has been appointed Professor of History at Trinity College, Toronto.

On June 25 the University of Dublin conferred the degrees of M.A. (ad eundem), LL.B., and LL.D. on the Rev D. Bain M.A. (B.A. Natural Sciences Tripos 1884), Principal of Waterloo College, near Liverpool.

Mr J. W. Iliffe M.A. (B.A. 1884), has been appointed Master of Method in the Day Training College about to be established in Cambridge under the direction of the Teachers' Training Syndicate.

Ds F. F. Blackman (First Class Natural Sciences Tripos 1889-1891), Scholar of the College, has been appointed University Demonstrator of Botany.

The Rev Norman Langham M.A, F.L.S., F.C.S. (B.A. 1885), formerly Science Master at Ripon Grammar School, has been appointed Head-master of Rastrick Grammar School. There were 96 candidates for the post.

The Rev F. W. Tracy (B.A. 1880), Head-master of Totnes Grammar School since 1887, has been appointed Head-master of the South Eastern College, Ramsgate.

L. B. Radford B.A. (First Class Classical Tripos 1890-91), Scholar of the College, has been appointed Second Master of the Warrington Grammar School.

St J. B. Wynne-Willson B.A. (First Class Classical Tripos 1890), Scholar of the College, has been appointed Assistant Master at the Leys School, Cambridge.

The Rev E. Hill, Rector of Cockfield, has been appointed by the Council of the Senate a Governor of Woodbridge Grammar School, Suffolk.

The Rev F. Sandford M. A. (B.A. 1883), formerly Scholar and Naden Divinity Student, joined in November the Cambridge Mission at Delhi. Two other members of the College have been some years at work there, namely Mr Allnutt (Principal of the Mission College) and Mr Kelley.

Mr S. Lavington Hart (B.A. 1880) D.Sc. London, Fellow of the College and Lecturer in Physics, has given notice of his resignation at the end of the present academical year. With his wife and his brother he proposes to proceed to Northern China to undertake missionary work under the London Missionary Society.

The second series of Mind will be edited by Mr G. F. Stout, Fellow of the College, with the co-operation of Dr Sidgwick, Dr Venn, Dr J. Ward, and Professor William Wallace. Mr Stout succeeds as Editor Professor A. Croom Robertson, of University College, London.