TABLE OF FEES SHOWING THE TOTAL COST FOR
GRADUATION IN DENTISTRY.

To those students who use the University Microscope a fee of £1 for each course is charged +Fees payable to Dental Hospital.

TABLE OF FEES SHOWING THE TOTAL COST OF GRADUATION IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.

To those students who use the University Microscope a fee of £1 for each course is charged.

+At present taken outside the University.

MICROSCOPES.

IN the Practical Courses of Biology, Physiology, Pathology, and Bacteriology, students may use the microscopes provided by the University, for the use of which a charge is made. But they are strongly recommended to purchase for themselves microscopes of an approved pattern, and to use them throughout their course. A microscope suitable for bacteriological work, and for the proper clinical examination of the blood, and which must also include an oil immersion-lens, is now an essential part of the equipment of every medical man. It is, moreover, a great advantage for the student to use his own microscope during his undergraduate course, as he thus becomes familiar with its working, and is in a better position to profit by its use in after years. With the exercise of a little care the efficiency of a good microscope will not thereby be impaired.

Excellent microscopes are supplied by the English firms, Beck, Ross, Swift, and Watson; by the American firm, Bausch and Lomb; and by the Continental firms, Zeiss, Reichert, and Leitz. The student is particularly warned against the purchase of an inferior type of microscope which will not be approved by the Professors, and it is hardly necessary to point out that not every microscope made by the above-named firms is of a type that can be approved. Students are, therefore, invited to consult the Professors before making any purchase.

The following types of microscope, procurable in Sydney from agents of the manufacturers, are recommended as adequate, and at the same time moderate in price. With the accessories given they are adapted for the Practical Biology and the Practical Physiology courses :-

W. Watson & Sons' Edinburgh Student's Microscope, Stand "B," with and inch objectives, Nos. 2 and 4 eye-pieces, double nose-piece, and illuminating apparatus. Price, £10 12s. 6d.

Or W. Watson & Sons' Stand "C," similar to "B," but with compound rackwork substage and better illuminating apparatus,

etc. £12 17s. 6d.

Bausch & Lomb's Microscope BB6, with Abbé condenser and iris diaphragm, double nose-piece, two eye-pieces, two objectives in. and in. (N.A. 066) etc., £11 12s.

Leitz Microscope, Stand IIa, with Abbé condenser and iris diaphragm, double nose-piece, two eyepieces, III. and IV., two objectives 3 and 6, etc., £10 10s.

Reichert's "New Sydney University" Stand, with Abbé condenser and iris diaphragm, double nose-piece, two eyepieces, III. and IV., two objectives, 3 and 6, of best quality, etc., £11.

For Practical Pathology and Bacteriology, a-inch oilimmersion objective is also required, and costs about £5 5s.

The microscope and its accessories should be selected, not only with a view to the immediate requirements of the student, but also with regard to his future work. Since for practitioners of Medicine microscopic work consists mainly in the examination of bacteria and of the blood, students will find it advantageous to purchase from the beginning a triple instead of a double nose-piece, and to see that the ordinary high power objective is adapted for the counting of blood cells in a Thoma-Zeiss chamber.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

Students may use their own microscopes in the demonstrations on Petrology, provided they are of an approved pattern. Students who wish to obtain a microscope suitable for both Biology and Geology should purchase a petrological, and not simply a biological, stand. Advice will always be willingly given to any students desiring to purchase a microscope. The microscopes in use for demonstrations are the following:

(1) Student's Petrological Microscope, with centering stage
or nose-piece, revolving double nose-piece, and two
objectives, both of highest numerical aperture.
latter should be 1 inch and inch, or 1 inch and

The

inch. The best combination is of three or triple nose-piece, 1 inch, inch, and inch. Price in London, about £15, including two objectives.

(2) The Dick Petrological Microscope, with revolving nosepiece and objectives as in (1). Price in London, about £23, including two objectives.

The above microscopes are made by Messrs. James Swift and Son, 81 Tottenham Court Road, London, W., and can be obtained in Sydney at a very slight advance upon London prices.

FOUNDATIONS.

I.

CHALLIS FUND.

IN 1880, the late John Henry Challis, Esq., formerly of Sydney, bequeathed his residuary real and personal estate to the University, "to be applied for the benefit of that Institution in such manner as the governing body thereof shall direct." The bequest was subject to a tenure until death or re-marriage on the part of his widow, and to the payment of various annuities, and also to a period of five years' accumulation after such death or re-marriage. By the death of Mrs. Challis, in September, 1884, the University became entitled, in September, 1889, to the accumulated estate with the exception of certain portions which were retained by the Trustees as a capital sum to provide for annuities payable under the will. The last of these annuities having terminated in 1905, the whole capital of the Challis Fund, amounting to £276,856 8s. 8d., has now been transferred by the Trustees to the University.

By a resolution of the Senate passed in 1885, it was determined that the Challis Fund should be applied as a permanent provision of income for educational uses.

From the income of the Fund a sum of £7,500 was applied for the payment of half the cost of the erection of a new Chemical Laboratory, and a further sum of £1,200 devoted to the erection of a marble statue of Mr. Challis, which has been placed in the Great Hall opposite to that of Mr. W. C. Wentworth.

The income arising from the Fund is now devoted to the maintenance of seven Challis Professorships in the following subjects, viz., Anatomy, Biology, Engineering, History, Law, Logic and Mental Philosophy, and Modern Literature; four Challis Lectureships in Law, and a Lectureship in Military Science.

CHALLIS PROFESSORSHIPS.

Anatomy, 1890-James T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M. (Edin.)
Biology, 1890-William A. Haswell, M.A., D.Sc. (Edin.)