Calendar: 1899-1900 Page 681

endowed professorships xxix 1899 The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers the sum of £250 in aid of the reduction of the College debt 1899 The Hon Smith the sum of £250 in aid of the reduction of the College debt 1899 Lady Siemens the sum of £250 in aid of the equip- ment of The William Siemens Laboratory 1894-9 Subscribers to the Endowment and Sustentation Fund £17 891 ENDOWMENTS The Council will be thankful to receive under Clause 18 of the King's College Act 1882 any sum that may be offered to them for the endowment in whole or in part of any Professorship or Scholarship or for any of the general purposes of the College Information may be obtained from the Principal or the Secretary as to the particular Endowments most needed by the College ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS -Professorship of the Chinese Language and Literature This Professorship was founded by means of Subscriptions given by Sir Staunton Bart and others in the year 1846 for the purpose of encouraging the study in this country of the Language and Literature of China The Professorship is held for Five Years but the Professor may be re-elected II -Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics Founded in 1859ל in honour of the personal character of and the eminent services rendered to Science by the late Thomas Tooke Esq of Spring Gardens Charing Cross who died on the 2Qth of February 1858