of Science and Lecture Rooms. Botany, wages. Zoology. Mode of appointment Lecture-Rooms Maintenance Fund; such Assistant to be That, on the recommendation of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Report 7 May 1877. Grace 31 May 1877. That a curator in the department of Zoology be appointed with a stipend of £100 a year, to be paid out of the University Chest. That he be appointed by the Professor of Zoology with and removal. the consent of the Vice-Chancellor, and that he be removable by the same authority. Duties. Physiology. Rules. That his duties be assigned to him by the Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and that he be under his general direction. By Grace 15 Nov. 1888 (Report 16 Oct. 1883) the wages of T. Metcalfe, assistant at the Physiological Laboratory, are fixed at £80 a year, and the Syndicate are authorised to pay to the two boys on the Professor's staff wages not exceeding together £1 a week. G. The Goodacre Collection. Report 20 Nov. 1863. Grace 10 Dec. 1863. Dr Goodacre having intimated to the Vice-Chancellor his willingness that the University should accept his Museum of Vertebrate Animals, subject to the following Rules: 1. That a distinguishing label be attached to every specimen, to mark it as belonging to Dr Goodacre's collection. 1 Increased to eighteen shillings a week, Grace 21 Nov. 1878, to 22 shillings a week, Grace 10 Mar. 1881, and to £65 a year, Grace 1 May 1884. Dec. 14, 1876. Mar. 28, 1867. 2. That the objects be duly preserved in a suitable room or Zoological Museum. 3. That the Donor have the privilege of adding to the collection under the same label. 4. That the University have the power to dispose of any specimens or cases by exchange or otherwise, for the purpose of acquiring new objects, such new objects to be marked with Dr Goodacre's distinguishing label. The Council of the Senate recommend that this liberal Acceptance. offer of Dr Goodacre be accepted. H. The Strickland Collection. Placeat vobis ut relatio Syndicorum quibus cura Museorum et Lectorum MRS STRICKLAND to the Superintendent of the Museums Sir, 7 March, 1867. I wish to offer for the acceptance of the Uni- Offer. versity of Cambridge through you the Superintendent of its Zoological Museum the Collection formed by my deceased husband, H. E. Strickland, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. &c. late Deputy Reader in Geology in the University of Oxford. The Collection consists of upwards of a thousand Bird Description. Further stipulations I do not propose to make, but as of Science and Lecture Rooms. Reco:nmended to be kept separate. Catalogue. Acceptance. Collection, and since his death it has been in my charge, My object in offering the Collection to the University is As the Collection almost entirely consists of specimens to which reference is made in the published writings of my husband, my father (Sir W. Jardine, Bart.) and other Ornithologists of established reputation, nearly each specimen in it is the type of some description on record, and I therefore recommend that it be kept separate from any other which the University may now possess or hereafter acquire, in order that persons wishing to consult those types, may the more readily do so; and still further to facilitate the study and examination of these types, it is desirable that none of the specimens it contains should be lent, or mounted, except under very special circumstances. I believe that the publication of a Catalogue of the contents of this Collection would be regarded by Ornithologists in all countries as an eminently useful work. I possess in MS. such a Catalogue, and I shall be happy to render any assistance in preparing it for the Press should the University give me reason to hope it will undertake the printing in such a form as the present state of science demands. In conclusion I have only to request that you will favour me with a reply at your early convenience, and, Believe me, &c. C. D. M. STRICKLAND. 1867. The Syndicate recommend that Mrs Strickland's gift March 21, be accepted on the conditions stated in the foregoing letter, Feb. 26, 1874. Curatorship of the Strickland Collection. That the Report of the Council of the Senate, dated February 9, 1874, respecting the Curatorship of the Strickland Collection, be confirmed. The Council report (Feb. 9, 1874) : That an offer has been made to the University by Miss. Frances Strickland of Apperley Court, Tewkesbury, in a letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor by her Solicitors, to found a Curatorship of the Ornithological Collection, formerly belonging to her brother, H. E. Strickland, Esq., F.R.S., and presented to the University in 1867, by his widow, Mrs Catherine D. M. Strickland. of Curator Miss Strickland proposes to endow the Curatorship with a Endowment permanent stipend of £150 per annum, on condition that the ship. annexed Regulations, prescribing the duties and mode of appointment of the Curator, be adopted by the University. The Council recommend that this very liberal offer be accepted. REGULATIONS FOR THE CURATORSHIP OF "THE STRICK LAND" COLLection. 1. That the Strickland Curator be appointed by the Regulations. Foundress during her lifetime and afterwards by Mrs Catharine D. M. Strickland in case she shall survive the Foundress; and after her decease by the Superintendent of the University Museums of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, but in each case with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor. The person so appointed shall be removable by the same authority. 2. That the Curator, subject to any regulations at present in force or hereafter to be made by the authority of the Senate for the administration of the Museums, shall at all times take his orders from and give due obedience to the Superintendent of the Museums of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. 3. That the first duty of the Strickland Curator be the proper custody and efficient preservation of the Strickland Collection, making an accurate Catalogue of it according to its of Science and Lecture Rooms. Strickland present arrangement, and keeping such Catalogue so that the Collection shall always be of the greatest service to Science. 4. That the next duty of the Strickland Curator be to take similar charge of other Ornithological Collections which the University possesses or may hereafter possess, and to render them of the greatest service to Science by preparing and keeping accurate Catalogues of them, these being drawn up with especial reference to the Strickland Collection. [5. That it be also the duty of the Strickland Curator: (1) To use his best endeavours to increase the ornithological collections of the University; to carry on such correspondence as may be deemed most expedient for that purpose; to keep all such collections duly and properly determined, named, arranged, and catalogued; and especially to take precautions against their sustaining injury in any way. (2) To take charge of the Strickland Library and all other books which may be from time to time added to it. (3) To assist members of the University and scientific visitors to the Museum who may desire to consult the Collections or the Library under his charge, due regard being had to the safety of the books and specimens. (4) Generally, to aid and promote the progress of Ornithological Science. Report 9 Mar. 1883. Grace 15 Mar. 1883.] 6. That it be also the duty of the Strickland Curator, if required by the Superintendent, to assist upon occasion of emergency in attending to the other Collections belonging to the Museums of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. [7. That it be the duty of the Strickland Curator to reside in the University during the full Term, and during at least six weeks of the Long Vacation, except with special leave obtained from the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate, or from the Vice-Chancellor. 8. That while in residence he attend at the Museum for not less than six hours on each of five days in each week during full term-time between the hours of 9 a.m, and 6 p.m.; |