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annual report 41 to work harmoniously together with such modifications in the studies pursued as their special objects imply Students of the Civil Section on leaving the College readily obtain professional employment and some amongst them have already taken advantage of the regulations of the Secre- tary of State for India who on certain conditions favourable to Engineers' Colleges invite Candidates to compete for offices in the Engineer Establishment of the Department of Public Works in India In the last competitive examination Mr Richard Gervase Elwes and Mr Alfred Penny were amongst the successful Candidates standing respectively first and seventh on the list In the Military Section an increasing number of promising Students is undergoing regular course of training for the various branches of the Army especially for the Royal Artillery and Engineers In the two competitive examina- tions for Woolwich appointments which have taken place since the last Report the following gentlemen formerly Students of the Applied Sciences Department were successful Candidates Arthur George Walker Mark Sever Bell George Firebrace Charles Edward Beadnell Frederick Hamley Fawkes In the course of last summer Professor Τ Goodeve having accepted Government Appointment at Woolwich resigned the Chair of Manufacturing Art and Machinery and that of Natural Philosophy after holding the two respectively since 1852 and 1854 The Council accepted his resignation with very great regret and they desire to place upon record their sense of his faithful services during fourteen years The Council have the satisfaction of reporting that the vacant Professorship of Natural Philosophy has been accepted by James Clerk Maxwell Esq 2d Wrangler and late Fellow and Tutor of Caius College Cambridge and that Percy Bysshe Shelley Esq formerly distinguished