Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 29

annual report 1850 25 compelled him to resign This latter office has been remodelled and the Superintendent has now the charge of all works and repairs required to be done within the College Mr Timme who has been elected to this office is discharging its joint duties most efficiently and the result is already apparent in the increased number of working hours during which the Workshop is open to Students under the care and instruction of the Superintendent in the increased facilities afforded them of acquiring practical information and in the economy and despatch with which repairs and alterations in the fabric of the College are executed The new Department of Military Science as being in some degree related to the two Departments just mentioned seems next to claim the attention of the General Court The an- ticipations which were formed in reference to this new branch of the Institution have been thus far fully realized The number of Students has fluctuated during the year many of the Military Students having entered with the immediate view of preparing for the examination before the Military Board at Sandhurst whilst others are continuing their studies in the higher branches of instruction with the hope of qualifying themselves as thoroughly educated Officers for situations of trust in the Service Experience has pointed out the best method of suiting the instruction to the special wants of each Student Various models have been provided for the illus- tration of the different Military Works partly by the assistance of the Council and partly in presents from friends of the College Amongst the latter the Council wish to specify present spontaneously offered by the Master General and Board of Ordnance one of many proofs of confidence and good-will model of the Fortifications at Portsmouth separate Class has been formed for Officers in the Queen's and the East India Company's Service and four Officers of the latter army who have been several years with their regiments in India have joined it As there is no suitable Institution at which Officers of the East India Company's Service can pursue their studies in the many important branches of their