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xl REPORT that it will attract to the College many who have hitherto gone to other technical schools Professors Kerr and Shelley the former the Professor of Building Construction and Architecture and the latter the Professor of Manufacturing Art and Mechanical Engineering retire from their respective Chairs at the end of the acade- mical year after having served the College for great number of years and the Council desires to thank them for their long and generous services Mr Banister Fletcher Β Α has been appointed to succeed Professor Kerr and on his appointment has had the kindness to present to the College valuable collection of architectural models which he is arranging to utilize in con- nection with his lectures Lady Siemens the widow of Sir William Siemens has most opportunely presented to the College the sum of £6 000 in memory of her late husband for the purpose of promoting the study of electrical engineering By this munificent gift the Council are enabled to establish another laboratory with the necessary electrical and other scientific apparatus which will place the College in the first rank as school for electrical studies The Council have appointed Dr John Hopkinson President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers to be the first Professor of Electrical Engineering and they must express their satisfaction that the extended work which is being undertaken in this branch of engineer- ing will be commenced under the direction of so eminent an electrician and man of science The Physical Laboratory now known as the Wheatstone Laboratory was established in the College in 1868 and placed under the direction of Professor Grylls Adams During the first eleven years see Report for 1879 the number of students trained in it had risen to 250 During the past eleven years the total number of students trained in the Laboratory has risen to 450 The ork has also been extended by the addition of- Special practical classes for the Prel Sc and for the Science Examinations of the University of London