Latin Essay." De Stoicorum Disciplina," Thos. Legh Claughton, M.A. Probationary Fellow of Trinity. Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize. English Verse. -"Staffa," Roundell Palmer, Scholar of Trinity. The names of those Candidates, who, at the close of the Public Examinations in Easter Term, were admitted by the Public Examiners into the Four Classes of Litera Humaniores, according to the alphabetical arrangement in each classes prescribed by the statute, stand as follow: FIRST CLASS. J. S. Brewer, Comm. of Queen's Coll. SECOND CLASS. C. W. Borrett, Demy of Magdalen Coll. C. E. Lefroy, Comm. of Christ Church. THIRD CLASS. T. Bachelor, Gent. Comm. of Magd. Hall. FOURTH CLASS. F. Anson, Student of Christ Church. G. B. Rogers, Comm. of Pembroke Coll. E. M. Stanley, Comm. of Worcester Coll. A. J. Sutherland, Student of Christ Church. A. W. Tooke, Gent. Comm. of St. Alban Hall. Bowyer Vaux, Commoner of Trinity Coll. Number of Fifth Class, 105. Examiners.-C. W. Stocker, D.D. Alban Hall; T. W. Lancaster, M. A. Queen's College; R. D. Hampden, M. A. Oriel College; and W. Sewell, M. A. Exeter College. We understand that the Fourth Class of this year contains exclusively the names of those gentlemen, who, not being ambitious of honours, but merely taking up sufficient books for a common examination, performed their exercises in such a manner as to be considered worthy of public notice. DEGREES CONFERRED. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. The Very Rev. John Merewether, of Queen's Coll., Dean of Hereford, Grand Comp. DOCTORS IN CIVIL LAW. Sir David Brewster, K.H. F.R.S. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France. Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President of the Linnæan Society. Michael Faraday, Esq. F.R.S. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France. John Dalton, Esq. F.R.S. Member of the Institute of France. BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. James Robertson Holcombe, Fell. of Jesus Coll. Prebendary of St. David's. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Francis Povah, Fell. of St. John's Coll. BACHELOR IN MEDICINE, WITH LICENCE TO PRACTISE. W. Dallas Bernard, M.A. of Wadham Coll. MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Edw. Auriol, Chr. Ch. Grand Comp. Thomas Prickard, St. Mary Hall, G. Comp. Henry Clark, Worcester Coll. Grand Com. Rev. Robert Dyer, Alban Hall. Rev. Thomas William Webb, Magd. Hall. Sir J. Mordaunt, Bart. Christ Ch. Grand Lord Ashley, Christ Church. Rev. Richard Bellamy, Pembroke Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Henry Hutton, Trinity Coll. Grand Comp. Arthur Whipham, Trinity Coll. C. R. Moore, Chr. Church, Grand Comp. John Rowlandson, Queen's Coll. Harry Jelly, St. Alban Hall. William John Birch, New Inn Hall. Henry Wildey Wright, Magdalen Hall. Charles Woodcock, Student of Christ Ch. James Walrond Burrough, Queen's Coll. Chas. W. Borrett, Demy of Magdalen Coll. Henry Tufnell Young, Balliol Coll. ELECTIONS. William Eyre, Magdalen Hall. The following gentlemen have been admitted ad eundem : John Read Corrie, M.D. C. C. Coll. Camb. T. S. Turnbull, M.A. Pres. of Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb. J. Blackburn, M.A. St. John's Coll. Camb. R. Willis, M.A. Fell. of Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb. E. S. Halswell, M. A. St. John's Coll. Camb. W. Garnons, M.A. Sid. Sus. Coll. Camb. H. E. Fawcett, M.A. Trinity Coll. Camb. W. Miller, M.A. St. John's Coll. Camb. James Cumming, M.A. Trin. Coll. Camb. Walker Gray, M.A. St. John's Coll. Camb. James Bowstead, M.A. C. C. Coll. Camb. J. B. James, B.C.L. Queen's Coll. Camb. James Dunn, M.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin. CAMBRIDGE. The following gentlemen have been appointed Barnaby Lecturers: Mathematical. - Rev. Francis Martin, Trinity Coll. Philosophical.-Wm. Hamilton Turner, Pembroke Coll. Rhetorical. Rev. Edward Baines, Christ's Coll. Logical. Rev. John Croft, Christ's Coll. Robert Gordon Latham, Esq. Scholar of King's Coll. has been elected a Fellow of that Society. James William Lucas Heaviside, Esq. B.A. of Sidney Sussex Coll. has been elected a Foundation Fellow of that Society; and the Rev. Charles James Shaw, M.A. a Fellow on Smith's Foundation. Roger Buston, B.A. of Emmanuel Coll. has been elected a Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar of the first class; and John Æmilius Shadwell, B. A. Scholar of St. John's Coll. a Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar of the second class. M. Claudius Germas, of St. John's Coll., and French tutor in the Grammar School at Huntingdon, has been elected Teacher of the French language for this University, in room of the late M. Jean Baptiste Goussel. PRIZES ADJUDGED. MEMBERS' PRIZES.-For Bachelors of Arts. 1. James Spedding, Trinity Coll. 2. H. S. H. Hildyard, B.A. St. Peter's Coll. DIED. Tugwell Robins, Esq. B.A. Fellow of Magdalene Coll. in this University. DEGREES CONFERRed. DOCTOR IN PHYSIC. Edward Beck, Esq. of Jesus Coll. comp. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. Thomas Gregory, St. John's Coll. LICENTIATE IN PHYSIC. Leonard Richard Willan, St. Peter's Coll. Thomas Briggs, Caius Coll. MASTERS OF ARTS. W. Aldwin Soames, Fellow of Trin. Coll.. Francis Michael M'Carthy, St. Peter's Coll. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW. John Platt, Trinity Coll. Lord Augustus Fitzclarence, Trinity Coll. Rev. John B. James, F.L.S. Queen's Coll. Rev. John Morgan, Sidney Coll. BACHELORS IN PHYSIC. Charles James B. Aldis, Trinity Coll. George Wilson, St. John's Coll. Matthew Scholefield, Caius Coll. Joseph Jones, Caius Coll. Edward Williams, Queen's Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. William Brooke, Fellow of King's Coll. Alex. Fowden Haliburton, St. John's Coll. J. C. Morphew, St. Peter's Coll. comp. The Rev. Henry Parsons, M. A. of Balliol College, Oxford, and the Rev. John Calthorp, M. A. of Brasennose College, Oxford, have been admitted ad eundem of this University. At a meeting of the Syndics of the Public Library, it was agreed as follows:"As it appears to the Syndics that the present Librarian is inadequately remunerated for the time and attention which he devotes to the discharge of the duties of his office agreed, that it be recommended to the Senate to increase the salary of the present Librarian from 210/ to 3001. a year; and to pay the additional 901. out of the common chest; the augmentation to commence from Lady Day 1832." It was intended that a grace should be offered to the Senate, agreeably to the above recommendation, but it was subsequently withdrawn in consequence of a letter which was received from Mr. Lodge, in which, we believe, that gentleman requested that the proposed increase might be deferred until several improvements, connected with the University, had been carried into effect. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, May 21, Professor Cumming, Vice-President, being in the chair. The conclusion of Sir J. Herschel's Memoir was read, "On a ma chine for resolving certain equations." The construction of such a machine was originally contemplated only as a speculative possibility; but Sir J. Herschel happened to be at that time engaged in investigating the elliptical orbits of some of the most remarkable double stars; and in the course of this inquiry he had continual occasion for the numerical resolution of the cases of such equations in every state of the data. Finding the preliminary trials requisite for establishing a rapid convergence of the successive approximations consume a great deal of time, even more than the approximations themselves when once effectually entered upon, he set himself to consider whether some simple contrivance, free from such objections, might not be found, which would give him by inspection at least a first approximation to the solution, and thus prove of immediate practical utility. The paper contains a description of a construction which has been used by him for this purpose; and of modifications of this construction by which several extensions of such equations may be solved. Mr. Willis read a paper "On the use of the ventricles of the larynx." Mr. Willis conceives that the larynx is closed by the mutual pressure of the upper ligaments which lie above the ventricles, and which are locked by the pressure of the air itself, instead of being, as is commonly supposed, closed by muscular action, acting on the vocal ligaments which lie below the ventricles, in which case every increase of pressure would require an increase of effort to keep the larynx close. This opinion has recently been remarkably confirmed by a case which occurred in the Middlesex hospital; in which a person who attempted suicide laid open the larynx in such a manner that the internal motions of the parts could be observed. Professor Henslow commenced the reading of a memoir containing observations on a monstrosity of the common mignonette, tending to throw light upon the question recently discussed among botanists respecting the classification of that plant. After the meeting, Mr. Willis gave a lecture, illustrated by experiments, upon various points connected with the subject of sound. He exhibited Weber's correction of Savart's statement concerning the form of the nodal lines in tubes vibrating longitudinally; and Mr. Wheatstone's experiment to shew the conspiring or counteracting vibrations of the parts of a glass plate, into which its nodal lines divide it; by holding it, while vibrating, opposite to both ends of a bent pipe. Mr. Willis noticed also the differ |