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54 ANNUAL REPORT Harris Robert Liston Hamblin Richard Ebb Hammick Murray Arnold Frederick Sweet Appointments in Indian Civil Scholarship King's Cambridge Scholarship St Catherine's Service Scott Henry von Essen Cambridge Pollock Α Ε Mathematical Exhibition at Trin Coll Cambridge In connection with this Department the Council have observed that the new Regulations proposed for the Caudi- dates for the Indian Civil Service virtually impose on the Candidates selected by the First Examination the necessity of residing in some Collegiate Institution for systematic training in the Universities or elsewhere The Secretary of State for India has publicly declared that all institutions shall be recognised which can offer complete machinery of instruction and provide for regular educational training The Council believing that by the Oriental Section of this Department these advantages can be thoroughly secured propose without delay to communicate with the India Office on the subject and hope to show unquestionable claims for official recognition -The Department of Applied Sciences has again in- creased in numbers and is going on most satisfactorily The first election of Whitworth Exhibitioners has taken place Three Students were elected last year who have worked excellently and there is every reason to hope that the experiment will attain success worthy of the liberality of the Founder -In the Medical Department the total number of Matriculated Students during the present year has amounted to 135 The diminution of number does not arise from any continued falling 03 in the entries of new Students which this year show satisfactory increase but is due to the marked diminution of new Students entering in the year 1874-5 The Council believe that this recovery in the number of entries for 1&75-6 though still partial is proof