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 usual,’ to row the head boat of Cambridge, and beat them easily, ‘The latter statement is correct. Mr, Brickwood in his treatise demurs to the accuracy of the B.N.C. allegation that such matches were ‘usual,’ and research qualifies his scepticism. The B.N.C, hon. sec. of that day seems to have been draw- ing somewhat upon his imagination, He had probably heard of these various Leander and other matches at Henley in other years ; hence his inference.

1837. Henley. College match. QUEEN'S. LADY MARGARET (St. John’s).

1. Lee, Stanlake. 1. Shadwell, Alfred H. 2. Glazbrook, Robert. 2. Colquhoun, Patrick, 3. Welsh, Jos. 3. Wood, H. 0. 4. Robinson, John. 4. Antrobus, Edmund. 5. Meyrick, Jos. 5. Budd, R. H. 6. Todd, Jos. 6. Fane, W. D. 7. Eversley, John. 7. Fletcher, Relph.

Penny, Chas. J. (stroke). Hurt, Robert (stroke).

Berkeley, Geo. T. (cox.). Jackson, Curtis (cox,).

The names of the Queen's and St. John’s crews are here given, instead of recording them in the lists of University oars, for this was not strictly a University race, though in those days it had almost as much prestige as one. :

In 1839 the third University match was rowed, and Henley Regatta was founded, At the Universities, about this date, various prizes were established, all of which gave a stimulus to oarsmanship,

Pair-oar races were established at Oxford in 1839. ‘They were rowed with coxswains until 1847. At Cambridge similar pairs were founded in 1844, and were rowed from the first with- out coxswains. The obsolete rudder of the Oxford pairs is now held by the coxswain of the head eight. ‘The Colquhoun Sculls had been founded at Cambridge in 1837. ‘ University Sculls’ were instituted at Oxford in 1841. Four-oar races, each