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Lectures in the Law Faculty were this year temporarily
suspended, as the fees of their Students were insufficient to remunerate
the Professors without a considerable grant from the College, which
its limited finances were unable to afford, its expenditure, as it was,
already exceeding its income.
The application to the Royal Astronomical Society for the
loan of the Beaufoy Transit was successful, and in April 1864 it
was received, and thereafter set in position between solid stone piers.
Mr. Nathan Fellowes Dupuis was appointed Observer under the
Superintendence of the Director. Mr. Dupuis began his labours
on 1st January 1864, and a daily record was kept by him of
observations made with the Transit and Equatorial, as well as
of the usual Meteorological Observations of the Barometer, and
Thermometer.
The finances of the University at this time required
to be carefully husbanded, and on 2nd Decr 1863, the Revd Dr.
Williamson, from Committee to whom a letter of J.W. Cook Esq.
to the Treasurer, relative to a deduction in the annual allow-
ance to the College from the Temporalities Board, was referred,
submitted a statement upon the subject, which having been read,
was unanimously approved and is as follows, ---
"The Board heard read a communication to

1863-64

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