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Rh obtain employment and remuneration for the services which they may render to Government or the community.

All our prizes and scholarships, we have reason to believe, have been salutary stimulants of study and exertion during the past year, a circumstance which must be pleasing to their liberal founders. The essay which gained the Manockjee Limjee Gold Medal for 1868 is a very creditable production. Though it is not an object with our University to give instruction in the more mechanical of the fine arts, for which we have in Bombay a separate school, founded and endowed by the Jamsetjee family, we have given encouragement to the study of architecture, in connection with engineering, by prescribing the subject of this essay. We have done this, remembering the architectural achievements of India in past ages, and that still

"---ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros."

The physical geography of India, viewed in connection with its history, the subject of the essay for 1869, belongs to our course of instruction. Our Sanskrit scholarships, endowed by Mr. Bhagawandas Purushottamdas, and by Mr. Vinayakrao Jagannath Shankarshet, and our Latin scholarship endowed by Cowasji Jehangier Readymoney,, have proved to be very, useful. So, doubtless, will be the prize in books established through the liberality of one of our European Fellows, the Honourable Mr. Ellis, who will be long remembered in the Bombay Presidency as a wise, faithful, and efficient administrator, and as the first successful advocate of an educational cess for this country.

The Sassoon endowment for a Hebrew scholarship was noticed at last Convocation. The regulations formed for that scholarship will, we hope, encourage the study of a most ancient language, on the highest grounds of undying importance.

Most gratifying to all our feelings is the commemoration through this University of the late Mr. James J. Berkley, one of our first Fellows. Looking to the Sahyadri Mountains (literally, the "Range of Difiiculty") in our neighbourhood, with the courageous eye of true practical science, he determined to do his best to carry over them a pathway for our steam-carriages, acting perseveringly on the determined resolution,

His efforts, through the aid of Providence, were crowned with the success which we all appreciate; and we now surmount, what at one time were the almost unpassable barrier-walls of