Elected.

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History.

(Founded 1762.)

(Vacant.)

Assistant:-John Toleken, M. D.

Regius Professor of Hebrew.

(Founded 1637, partly endowed by the Board of Erasmus Smith, 1724.)

1849. James H. Todd, D. D.

Lecturer:-Joseph Carson, D. D.
Assistants:-William Lee, A. M.

George Longfield, A. M.

Astronomer Royal of Ireland, and Andrews' Professor of Astronomy.

(Founded 1792.)

1827. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, LL. D.

Archbishop Whately's Professor of Political Economy. (Founded 1832.)

1856. William Henry Harvey, M. D.

Professor of Geology.

(Founded 1844.)

Elected.

Modern Languages.

1842. Professor of French and German :-I. G. Abeltshauser, LL. D.
1956. Lecturer in Italian and Spanish :-Signor Marani.

Law Agent and Keeper of the Records.
John H. Nunn, A. M.

Registrar of University Electors.

Mr. Charles Miller.

Hodges, Smith, and Company, Grafton-street, Dublin.
Longman and Company, London.

Printer.

Michael Henry Gill, University Press.

Professorships vacant in 1857.

Note. The following Professorships will become vacant in the year 1857

Chemistry, June 8.

Moral Philosophy, June 26.

Civil Law, July 6.

All the present Professors are re-eligible.

The following Order of the Board, with regard to the duties of the University Booksellers in Dublin, was made on May 20, 1843:

"It is ordered by the Board, that the Students who obtain College Premiums may direct the College Booksellers to procure for them any suitable books as Premiums which continue to be offered for sale in the priced catalogues of London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, and at the prices marked in the said catalogues; and when the selling price of a book is recognised by the Trade as having fallen below the publication price, the College Booksellers are to supply the book at such recognised reduced price.

→ This notice is to be printed and put in two conspicuous places in the Booksellers' shop"

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UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

INTRODUCTION.

THE University of Dublin is a College incorporated by Char-
ter or Letters Patent, 34 Eliz. (March 3, 1591), as "the
Mother of an University", under the style and title of "The
College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, near Dublin,
founded by Queen Elizabeth." The object of the foundation
of the Society is stated in the Charter to be "for the educa-
tion, training, and instruction of youths and students,
that they may be the better assisted in the study of the libe-
ral arts, and in the cultivation of virtue and religion". The
University obtained an extension of its rights and privileges
from the succeeding monarch, James I.; and in 1637, a new
Charter, confirming the Charter of Elizabeth, and with addi-
tional endowments, was granted by Charles I.

In the Charter of Foundation (34 Eliz.), the Queen nominated one Provost, three Fellows, nomine plurium, and three Scholars, nomine plurium, to constitute with their successors for ever a Body corporate and politic, under the name of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin, with the following privileges:

1. That upon every vacancy of the Provostship, the Fellows and their successors, or the majority of them, be empowered to elect another fit Provost within three months after the occurrence of such vacancy; and in like manner, on the vacancy of any Fellowship or Scholarship, the Provost and

Unum Collegium mater Universitatis. . . pro educatione, institutione et instructione juvenum et studentium in artibus et facultatibus, perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturum, et quod erit et vocabitur Collegium Sanctæ et Individua Trinitatis, juxta Dublin, a serenissima Regina Elizabetha fundatum."-Charta Reg. Eliz.

Ut eo melius ad bonas artes percipiendas, colendamque virtutem et religonem adjuventur."-16.

See the history of the foundation of the University in the Dublin University Calendar for 1858, Introduction.

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A. D.

1591.