Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 28

24 ANNUAL REPORT 1850 Senior Optimes One lias been elected Fellow of Trinity and another Fellow of Clare Hall The General Court will be gratified to hear as proof of the wide-spread reputation and usefulness of this Department of the College that seven Egyptians sent by the Pasha of Egypt to be educated in England have just enrolled themselves as occasional Students in General Literature and Science with the special object of qualifying themselves for the profession of diplomacy Mr Stutzer Lecturer in Modern History has taken charge of this class Professor Bullock to the great regret of the Council having been compelled by the pressure of his judicial functions to resign the office of Professor of English Law and Juris- prudence immediate steps will be taken for supplying his place with view to the resumption of Lectures on those subjects In the Department of the Applied Sciences the pro- gress of the Students continues satisfactory The number of occasional Students attending various classes in this Department is much increased and the diminution which is to certain extent observable in the number of its matri- culated Students is accounted for by the general depression which as natural consequence of the excess of railway speculations still affects the profession of engineering but which may before long be expected to pass away The Council have learnt with great satisfaction that several former Students of this Department are employed in various situa- tions of trust some of them not connected in any way with engineering Experience has indeed shown that the course of education prescribed in the Department of Applied Sciences is admirably calculated to fit men for many important prac- tical pursuits without reference to any profession in par- ticular and it is understood that many of the Students have entered the Department with view to these general objects and without any intention of becoming engineers The office of Curator of the Museum of George III which Mr Cockretaius has been separated from that of Super- intendent of the Workshop which the state of his health has