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86 Calcutta I believe the number is 5, of which the largest was the gift of a Bombay merchant—the donor of our noble library and clock-tower; Madras 8; while we now possess 28, three of which have been added during the year under review. Two of these—the Merwanjee Framjee Panday and the Kahandas Muncharam Scholarships—are attached to the Civil Engineering College, which opens a road for the study of a science which will be of the greatest importance in developing the industry of the country. As an instance of this, I would mention that the late Munguldass Nathoobhoy Travelling Fellow took the advantage of his residence in England to perfect his studies in Civil Engineering, especially in that branch which applies to the mechanism of spinning mills, and has since his return been appointed to the independent charge of a large mill at Surat. We have now been in possession of this splendid hall for some years. I trust before another Convocation to find that the library is in our hands and our collection of books, including the principal portion of Dr. Wilson's library and that of the Law Classes, deposited on its shelves, while the flow of time will be marked by the harmonious music of the joy-bells in the Rajabai Tower. I may here mention that the subscription for the Bust of the late Dr. Wilson has been nearly filled up, and we hope shortly to send the commission for it home. Our late Chancellor, Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, concluded his last address with the words "Floreat Academia." Sir Philip Wodehouse to-day, though absent, echoes the same wish. Ere we meet again, a new Governor will have come to this Presidency, and a new Chancellor will preside over the University,—one who has been my friend for many years, with whom I studied at College, and whose brilliant career every member of his service has watched with admiration; and I feel sure from his training under the great Arnold, and from the high classical attainments which enabled him to carry away from the Haileybury of old the numerous medals and prizes which he did, that he will, while he rules over this Presidency, ever extend a fostering hand to this our University. May we not then look forward to the future without doubt that the wish of our late and departing Chancellors may not only prove true, but that each successive year will give us greater cause for exclaiming "Floreat Academia."

 

Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Members of the Senate of the University of Bombay,—You will, I am sure, prefer that the 