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ANNUAL EEPORT 67 With this sum the Council determined with the cordial approval of the Institute to endow two Professorships with 2001 year first Professorship of Metallurgy which has long been needed for the completeness of the system of Applied Science teaching but could not be established with- out endowment and next Professorship of Practical Fine Art dealing with the application of Art to various forms of manufacture and workmanship and as it appeared likely to supply need in the Technical Education of London To the new Professorships they have appointed Mr Huntington and Professor Delamotte who has now for twenty-five years been labouring in the service of the College and School The only condition attached to this liberal gift is the grant of moderate number of free admissions to the lectures to students recommended by the donors and this condition the Council accept not only readily but gladly feeling pleasure in co-operating with the important work of Technical Education in which the City and Guilds Institute are engaged In the grant itself they grate- fully acknowledge recognition of the good service which the College has already done in this direction and they make use of it accordingly for that purpose for which above all others endowment is useful-for carrying out certain developments of their work necessary to its completeness and yet not likely at least in the first instance to be self supporting By further grant of 500Z from the Worshipful Company of Drapers the Council have been enabled to provide Metallurgical Laboratory and the City and Guilds Institute has further contributed 2001 towards the necessary apparatus for fitting up the School of Fine Art Besides the lectures and teaching of the new Professorship School of Practical Art as commonly understood has been opened by the advice and under the direction of Pro- tessor Glenny in connection with the Science and Art Depart- ment at South Kensington The two Schools are for the present distinct from each other and from the instruction in Drawing which forms part of the regular curriculum of the Ε