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time and the dividends arising from such investments be
added to the Fund; and that no portion of this Fund be
spent unless by the express sanction and authority of the
Senate.

2. That the £2000 Exchequer Bills at present standing
to the credit of the Fitzwilliam Museum account be placed to
the Special Reserve Fund.

3. That the remaining portion of the annual income of the Museum, after providing for the ordinary working expenses of the Museum, the proper maintenance of the building, and the care and proper arrangement of the Collections, be placed at the disposal of the Syndicate, in order to make such additions to the Collections as they from time to time deem desirable.

Director,

how elected.

2. Staff

That Part I. of the Amended Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Syndicate, dated 4th December, 1875, be confirmed.

That Part II. of the Amended Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Syndicate, dated 4th December, 1875, be confirmed.

That Part III. of the Amended Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Syndicate, dated 4th December, 1875, be confirmed.

The Syndicate recommend:

I. That a new office be constituted in connection with the Fitzwilliam Museum, and that the person appointed to such office be called Director of the Museum.

II. (1) That the appointment of the Director be by a Board of Electors, consisting of the members of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate, with the addition of the Disney Professor of Archæology and the Slade Professor of Fine Art; provided that if any one of the above-named Electors be a Candidate for the Directorship on any occasion, he shall not be entitled to vote or to have any voice in the election on that occasion; and provided also that if either of the above-named Professors be a Member of the Syndicate he shall have no more than one vote in the election.

Feb. 17, 1876.

how elected.

(2) That the Director shall be elected by an abso- Director, lute majority of the votes of those Electors who are entitled to vote under the preceding regulation; and that no Elector shall vote who is not present at a meeting convened by the Vice-Chancellor for the purpose of the election.

notice of

(3) That the Vice-Chancellor shall give public Public notice of the day for the first election and of any future vacancy, &c. vacancy and of the day for electing a new Director upon such vacancy; that the day of election shall be not sooner than twenty-eight days nor later than fifty-six days after the date of the notice; and that the Vice-Chancellor shall also send such notice to each of the above-mentioned Electors.

III. (1) That the stipend of the Director be £300 a Stipend. year, to be charged to the Fitzwilliam account.

(2) That the Director shall hold his office so long Tenure. as he discharges his duties to the satisfaction of the Syndicate, who shall have the power of dismissing him by a resolution of the Vice-Chancellor and the majority of the whole Syndi

cate.

(3) That the duties of his office be :

To take charge of the Pictures, Sculptures, Casts, Books, Duties. Engravings, Coins, Gems, and every other object included in the collections, and to see that they are properly cared for, protected, and kept in order.

To make arrangements, under the sanction of the Syndicate, for the placing and exhibition of the various objects which at present compose or may hereafter be added to the collections.

To exercise a general superintendence over the subordinate officers, and to see that all rules laid down by the Syndicate are carried out.

To undertake and superintend, under the sanction of the Syndicate, and with such assistance as they may think necessary, the formation of inventories and catalogues of the collections.

To give, so far as is consistent with the performance of the above duties, assistance and guidance to persons visiting the Museum for purposes of study.

Museum.

Director's duties.

Attendance.

Principal
Assistant.

Second
Assistant.

Third

Assistant.

Attendants.

General servant.

Boy.

To make inquiries and give advice upon the propriety of making acquisitions for the Museum, as opportunity may arise, by purchase, donation or bequest.

(4) That for the performance of these duties the Director be bound to attend in the Museum for at least three hours each day, on not less than 150 week-days in term-time in each academical year, and on not less than 30 week-days during each Long Vacation; but that it be in the power of the Syndicate to deduct from this period of obligatory attendance any days during which the Director, with the consent of the Syndicate, shall be absent on the service of the Museum.

Report 8 Dec. 1883. Grace 21 Feb. 1884.

The Syndicate recommend:

I. That the staff of the Fitzwilliam Museum, including the Museum of Classical Archæology, be organized and paid as follows, provided that no Assistant or Attendant receive at any time any increase of salary except upon a favourable report of the Director to the Syndicate as to his work and general conduct since the last increase:

1. Principal Assistant (Fitzwilliam Museum), at an annual salary rising from £140 to £170 by an increase of £5 every three years.

2. Second Assistant (Museum of Classical Archæology), at an annual salary rising from £100 to £130 by an increase of £5 every three years, together with the house adjoining the Museum free of rent, rates, and taxes.

3. Third Assistant (Fitzwilliam Museum), at an annual salary rising from £80 to £120 by an increase of £5 every three years.

4, 5, 6. Three Attendants (two of them, one a doorkeeper, for the Fitzwilliam Museum, and one for the Museum of Classical Archæology), at an annual salary rising from £55 to £75, by an annual increase of £5 every five years.

7. General servant and fireman (Fitzwilliam Museum), at wages not exceeding 25s. a week.

8. A boy (Fitzwilliam Museum), at wages not exceeding 10s. a week.

II. That the duties and salaries of the present staff be

May 31, 1877.

fixed as follows, subject to the scale of increase of salary above
defined:

Assistants. C. M. Wilson (Principal Assistant), £155.

H. A. Chapman (Second Assistant), £105, and a house.
H. S. Cowman (Third Assistant), £90, Grace 4 Dec. 1884.
£ s. d.
Attendants. T. Reynolds (Door-keeper)............ 76 15 0

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That the Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate, dated May 5, 1877, recommending new regulations concerning admission and copying in the place of the regulations now in force, be confirmed.

The Syndicate recommend the following rules:

A. Rules for admission to the Entrance Hall, Picture

and Sculpture Galleries.

to the Hall

and Galler

ies;

The Entrance Hall, Picture Galleries, and Sculpture Admission Galleries shall be open every day (with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned) from ten to four from the 1st of September to the 30th of April, and from ten to six from the 1st of May to the 31st of August.

All Members of the University shall be admitted during the whole time that the Museum is open.

All other persons respectably dressed shall be admitted during the whole time that the Museum is open, except on one day in each week, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the Syndicate may at any time see fit to make.

On one day in each week, admission shall be reserved to Members of the University (provided that, if Undergraduates, they appear in academical dress) and to friends accompanying them. Provided that from the 21st to the 31st of December no day be thus reserved. Grace 18 Dec. 1884.] The Museum shall be closed upon the following days: Sundays, Christmas-day, Ash-Wednesday, Good Friday, and Ascension-day. It shall also be closed for the purpose of cleaning and verifying the state of the Collections on the first Wednesday of every month, or on such other days as may be deemed necessary by the Syndicate.

Museum.

Admission to Library.

Copying works of art.

Leake

Collections.

Colonel Leake's Will, extract from.

B.

Rules for admission to the Library.

The Library shall be open on the same days as the Entrance Hall, Picture Galleries, and Sculpture Galleries from ten to four during the whole year.

Every Graduate of the University shall be admitted to the Library for the purpose of consulting or examining its contents, and shall have the right of introducing strangers, provided he remain with them during the whole time they are in the room.

Every Undergraduate shall be admitted on the delivery of a ticket signed by himself, and countersigned by his College Tutor; but Undergraduates shall not have the right of introducing strangers.

C. Rules for Copying.

Persons desirous of copying works of art in the Museum shall first obtain written permission from the ViceChancellor. Application for such permission shall be made through the Director, and must be accompanied by a written recommendation from some Member of the Senate. All other regulations concerning the copying of works of art shall be left to the Syndicate.

4. The Leake Collections.

The Trustees, under the Will of the late William Martin Leake, Lieut.-Col. R.A., F.R.S., LL.D., &c., respectfully beg leave to inform the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, that the said W. M. Leake, by his Will, bequeathed his Collections of Greek Coins and other antiquities, together with his Library of Books connected therewith, upon the trusts expressed and contained in the following extract from his Will.

After giving to his Wife, during her life, the use of all his Coins, and the Cabinets wherein the same are deposited, and his Books, Maps, Manuscripts, Electrotypes, Vases, Statues, Marbles, Bronzes, Gems, and Articles of Vertu, the Will proceeds thus:

"And whereas, considering the importance of a sys"tematic Collection of Greek Coins to every branch of lite"rature connected with the Greek language, and considering "also the danger to which such property is peculiarly

28 May,

1863.

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