ELECTIONS.

Mr. Robert Blackburne, B.A. Scholar of Balliol College, has been chosen a Fellow of Brasennose College.

Mr. James Hill, Scholar of New College, has been admitted Actual Fellow of that Society.

Charles Walter Bagot, B. A. Student of Christ Church, (third son of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford), has been elected to a Fellowship of All Souls' College.

Mr. John Price, from Winchester School, has been admitted Actual Fellow of New College, being of kin to the founder.

Mr. Hugh Jones, of Jesus College, has been elected a Scholar of that Society.

Mr. John Burdon, B.A. of University College, has been elected and admitted a Scholar on the Michel Foundation at Queen's College.

Mr. Frederic Rogers, B.A. and Fellow of Oriel College, has been unanimously elected to a Scholarship on the Vinerian Foundation, vacant by the death of F. Poval, Esq. of St. John's College.

The nomination of the Rev. William Hayward Cox, M.A. and late Michel Fellow of Queen's College, to be a Public Examiner in Literis Humanioribus, and the nomination of the Rev. William Robert Browell, M.A. Fellow of Pembroke College, to be a Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, have been approved in Convocation.

The Rev. Ashhurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. and Principal of Brasennose, has been nominated (and the nomination approved) a Delegate of Accounts, in the room of Mr. Ogilvie, of Balliol, resigned.

The Rev. John William Hughes, M.A. of Trinity College, has been nominated by the Vice-Chancellor to be one of the Clerks of the Market, in the room of the late Mr. Brown, of Magdalen College.

DEGREES CONFERRED.

DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW.

The Rev. Francis Jeune, Fellow of Pembroke Coll. and Master of King Edward's School, in Birmingham.

MASTERS OF ARTS.

Edw. D'Oyley Barwell, New Inn Hall.
George Henry Franks, Exeter Coll.
Rev. G. Robbins, Magdalen Coll.
T. Chamberlain, Student of Christ Ch.

H. Anth. Jeffreys, Student of Christ Ch.
E. Vernon, Christ Ch. grand compounder
Hon.& Rev. R. Liddell, Fell. of All Souls
Francis L. Popham, Fellow of All Souls
Rev. Thomas Goodson, Worcester
John Cannon, Magdalen Hall
H. Norris, Balliol Coll. grand compounder
Rev. W. S. Richards, Scholar of Jesus Coll.
Newton Barton Young, Fellow New Coll.
Rev. George Murray, Magdalen Hall
Rev. J. Salt, Balliol Coll. grand compound.
Rev. Clement D. Strong, Magdalen Hall
Rev. John F. S. Phabayn, Queen's Coll.
Rev. William Laxton, Trinity Coll.
Rev. Alex. M. Bennett, Worcester Coll.
Rev. Wm. James Heale, Wadham Coll.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Henry M. Sherwood, Queen's Coll.
Edward Henry Niblett, Exeter Coll.
John King, St. Alban Hall.
William Jones, Balliol Coll.

C. W. Bagot, Student of Christ Church.
Lewis F. Bagot, Student of Christ Church.
William A. Ormsby, University Coll.
Cornelius Bourne, Oriel Coll.

Thomas Butler, Demy of Magdalen Coll.
William Buckton Holland, Wadham Coll.
Harcourt N. T. Busfield, Worcester Coll.
William Paul Prendergast, Trinity Coll.
John Sidney, Brasennose Coll.
Charles E. Radclyffe, Brasennose Coll.
Robert Moore, Christ Church.
W. G. Ward, Scholar of Lincoln Coll.
W. West, Scholar of Lincoln Coll.
N. Pocock, Exhibitioner of Queen's Coll.
Edward Henry Dewar, Exeter Coll.
John Garnier, Exeter Coll.
Arthur Lowth, Exeter Coll.
John Brande Morris, Balliol Coll.
Richard Sleeman, Balliol Coll.
Arthur Fitz-John Foster, Trinity Coll.
H. J. F. Coxe, Fellow of St. John's Coll.
T. Brancker, Scholar of Wadham Coll.
W. Wellington Cooper, Wadham Coll.
Thomas Blencowe, Wadham Coll.
John P. Clark, Worcester Coll.
H. Le Grand Boyce, Worcester Coll.
R. Richardson, Brasenn. Coll. grand com.
Jeus Pell, Exeter Coll. grand compounder.
Lord T. Pelham Clinton, Christ Church.
Lord C. Pelham Clinton, Christ Church.
Henry E. Bell, University Coll.
Charles R. Pettat, University Coll.
Robert Crosse, Balliol Coll.

Durbin Brice, Queen's Coll.

William Josiah Irons, Queen's Coll.
John Aldersey, Queen's Coll.
Robert Cole, Queen's Coll.
George Marsland, Brasennose Coll.

Henry Knowles, Brasennose Coll.
John D. Matthias, Brasennose Coll.
Rev. N. Oxenham, Fellow of Exeter Coll.
R. E. Copleston, Fellow of Exeter Coll.
Charles Cobbe, Exeter Coll.

Richard Henry Jackson, Jesus Coll.
John Morris, Jesus Coll.
Benjamin Rees, Jesus Coll.
James Parry, Jesus Coll.

James Brace Alexander, Trinity Coll.
Charles Marriott Leir, Trinity Coll.
G. Augustus Payne, Pembroke Coll.
W. Winston Curtis Hayward, Oriel Coll.
Zachary Mudge, Oriel Coll.

John Claxton Savage, Oriel Coll.
Robert Pinhorne Allen, Magdalen Hall.
Denham C. J. Cookes, Worcester Coll.
William Holden, Worcester Coll.
Herbert Woodward, Worcester Coll.

BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW.

Rev. G. Jekyll, Lincoln Coll.

An anonymous paper was read on a singular optical phenomenon.

The Secretary gave a short account of his researches on the Achromatism of the Eye.

The following gentlemen were elected members :-E. Thornton, Esq. B.A.Christ Church; Rev. T. Pearson, M.A. Queen's College: M. Atkinson, Esq. B. A. Lincoln College.

A paper was read by the Secretary on the repulsion produced between bodies by heat.

A paper was read by Mr. Twiss, of University College, on the Grotto Blû, in the Island of Capri; illustrated with drawings.

The following query was proposed by a member:-" Are there any proofs of the generally received opinion, that the component parts of living animals are constantly changing?

ASHMOLEAN SOCIETY.

The President in the chair.

T. S. Davies, Esq. F.R.S. L. and E. and Professor at the R. M. Academy, Woolwich, was elected an honorary member.

A handsome set of the Dictionnaire P'Histoire Naturelle, was received as a present from Sir Joseph Lock.

Mr. Johnson, of Queen's College, read a paper on the cause of motion in plants.

MARRIED.

Herman Merivale, M.A. Fellow of Balliol College, an Eldon Scholar, and late Ireland Scholar, and of the Inner Temple, to Caroline, daughter of the late Rev. W. Villiers Robinson, Rector of Grafton Underwood, Northampton.

Rev. Arthur B. Mesham, B.D. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, to Moncrieffe, third daughter of Col. Paterson, of Cunnoquhie, in Fife, N. B.

ELECTIONS.

The election of Vice-Chancellor for the ensuing year took place, as usual, on the appointed day, in the Senate-House, and no one seemed to expect that there would have been any thing but the regular order of proceeding, viz. the election according to rotation. Upon the assembling, however, of the Members of the Senate, at ten o'clock, it appeared that the Heads of Houses, in whom is vested the nomination of two fit and proper persons to serve the office, had, on the previous day, nominated the Rev. Dr. French, Master of Jesus College, and the Rev. Dr. Ainslie, Master of Pembroke College; the order of seniority being, Dr. French, Dr. Lamb, and Dr. Ainslie. After several hours voting, the numbers were declared, for Dr. French, 73, for Dr. Ainslie, 35. It should seem that a radical Vice-Chancellor is not liked in the Caput, and the Heads of Houses will not have him at the head of the poll.

The Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College have given notice, that in the week after the admission of the Commencing Bachelors, 1835, there will be an examination open to candidates from any college in the University, for two Mathematical Exhibitions on Mr. Taylor's foundations. One Exibitioner will be elected from those Undergraduates who, in the ordinary course, would become Commencing Bachelors of Arts in January, 1836; the other from those who would become Commencing Bachelors in January, 1837. The Exhibitioners are to receive at least 50%. per annum each, and to have rooms in college rent free; if elected from another college, they will be required to remove to Sidney on their election. The examination will be confined to Mathematics only. Those Undergraduates who intend to offer themselves as candidates, are required to send in their names and testimonials, with a certificate of the terms they have kept, to the Master of Sidney Sussex College, on or before the last day of the present term.

The office of Hulsean Lecturer being vacant, the trustees of Mr. Hulse's benefaction have given notice that they propose to proceed to the election of a Lecturer on Wednesday, the 31st day of December

next.

By the death of the Earl of Hardwicke, the High Stewardship of this University has become vacant: his Grace the Duke of Northumberland and the Marquis of Camden, are candidates for the office.

Examinatione publicâ mense Januarii 1834.-Placeat vobis ut eadem exceptio concedatur in Examinatione mense Januarii 1835.

4. To confer the degree of D.D. upon Mr. Hawtrey, of King's College, by Royal mandate.

5. To appoint Mr. C. Wordsworth, of Trinity College, Mr. Blakesley, of Trinity College, Mr. Hildyard, of St. Peter's College, and Mr. W. Selwyn, of St. John's College, Examiners for the Classical Tripos in 1835.

6. To appoint Mr. Jones, of Magdalene College, Mr. Dalton, of Queen's College, Mr. Tucker, of St. Peter's College, and Mr. Kuhff, of Catherine Hall, Examiners at the Previous Examination in Lent term, 1835.

7. To allow Mr. Perry, of Jesus College, to resume his Regency.

8. To appoint the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Trinity College, the Master of Caius College, the Master of Christ's College, the Lucasian, Plumian, and Lowndian Professors, Professor Miller, of St. John's College, Mr. Whewell, of Trinity College, Mr. Bowstead, of Corpus Christi College, Mr. Evans, of St. John's College, and Mr. Gaskin, of Jesus College, a Syndicate for visiting the Observatory till November 1835.

9. To authorize the payment of 1977. 9s. 11d. to the Plumian Professor, in conformity with the regulations adopted by grace of the Senate, February 27, 1829; the receipt of the Plumian Professorship in the last year having amounted to 3021. 10s. 1d.

GRACES.

The following have passed the Senate, 1. To confirm the following report: viz. :-The Syndicate appointed to take such steps on the part of the University as they may think necessary respecting the Nine Wells, beg leave to recommend to the Senate, that a sum not exceeding 150. be placed at the disposal of the Vice-Chancellor for the purchase and inclosure of land in the neighbourhood of Nine Wells, under the Shelford Inclosure Act.

2. To allow the Vice-Chancellor, from the University chest, the sum of 341.4s. 6d. the amount of fees paid for Sir David Brewster's degree, in June 1833, and omitted to be brought forward at the time.

3. Cum in gratiâ a vobis concessâ de admissione ad respondendum quæstioni 25to die Martii 1833, exceptio facta est pro iis, qui honores adepti fuerint, in

PRIZES.

The Seatonian Prize Poem was, on Saturday last, adjudged to the Rev. T. E. Hankinson, of Corpus Christi College. Subject, Jacob.

The subject for the Norrisian Prize Essay for the present year is, "The person, character, and actions of Jesus Christ afford a satisfactory fulfilment of all the Prophecies in the Old Testament which relate to the Messiah."

At a subsequent meeting, many presents were produced and noticed, among which was the magnificent volume of the Experiments of Col. Beaufoy, printed for private distribution by his son; and the Cambridge Observations for 1833, which now include regular Observations, with the Mural Circle as well as the Transit. Several specimens of fish, sent from Madeira, by Mr. Lowe, were also presented,