Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 63

ANNUAL REPORT 57 65 They feel confident however that this diminution is due not to any defect in the conduct of the work but to the present condition of the professions for which this Department is chiefly designed to prepare In this Department it is to be noticed that since the last report given in 1874 the work of the Physical Laboratory now called the Wheatstone Laboratory has considerably advanced the average number of Third year Students working in it having risen from to 15 besides an average of about Occasional Students who are generally men devoting their chief time to this subject Class of Students averaging about 12 preparing for the the First Sc Examination of the University of London and Class of Evening Students now 15 in number working under the charge of Mr Day The Laboratory with its extensive store of apparatus is believed to supply want much felt in the Higher Education of London enabling men to pre- pare for the higher University Examinations and to pursue their own researches in various branches of Physics The Council have also the pleasure of announcing that in connexion with this Department Chair of Metallurgy has been created to which they have elected Mr Huntington Associate of the Royal School of Mines and also Chair of Practical Fine Art to which Professor Delamotte has been elected Full details of these appointments are given at page 16 -In the Medical Department the advance in the number of Students has been highly satisfactory in spite of the increase in the standard of fees adopted last year The total number has risen from 160 to 185 and that of new Students from 47 to 54 The number of the Department now stands higher than at any time during the last twenty- five years and the work and discipline are reported upon very favourably The distinctions obtained by Students at the University of London are specially deserving of honorable mention They are as follows