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Benefactions BENEFACTIONS. LIST OF PRINCIPAL BENEFACTIONS MADK TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNK SINCK ITS FOONDATION IN 1853. a z?i ts 1301 SURSOUIIiERS {Sec. G. W. KnsriKS) ,£850 • Shakespeare Scholarship. > 1S71 HENRY TOLMAN DWIGHT 5009 Prizes for History and Education. q ,„_. ( EDWARD WILSON ( .-^ ISU 1000 Argus Scholarship in Engineering. 1 LAC1ILAN MACKINNON i " o. 1873 SIR GEORGE FERGUSON ISOWEN 100 Prize for English Essay. 'A 1873 JOHN HASTIE - 19,140 General Endowment 1873 GODFREY HOWITT - 1000 Scholarships in Natural History. 1873 SIR WILLIAM FOSTER STAWELL 655 Scholarship in Engineering. 1876 SIR SAMUEL WILSON 30,000 Erection of Wilson Hall. 1883 JOHN DIXSON WYSELASKIE - 8400 . Scholarships 1884 WILLIAM THOMAS MOLLISON 5000 Scholarships in Modem languages. 1884 SUBSCRIBERS . - - . 150 Prize for Mathematics in memory of Prof. Wilson. 1887 WILLIAM CHARLES KERNOT • 2000 Scholarships for Physical ami Chemical Research. 16S7 FRANCIS ORMOND • 20,000 Professorship of Music;. 1890 ROHERT DIXSON 10,837 Soholarships in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering. 1890 SUHSCRHiEKS - - ' - 5317 Ormond Exhibitions in Music. ""' ' 05 1S91 JAMES GEORGE IJEANEY 3900 Scholarships in Surgery and Pathology. If- 1894 DAVID KAY 5704 . Caroline Kay Scholarships. - - to BEN EPA CTIONS (Continued). 1897 SUBSCRIBERS £750 Research Scholarship in Biology in memory of Sir James MacBain. 1902 ROBERT ALEXANDER WRIGHT 1000 Prizes for Music and for Mechanical Engineering, 1902 WILLIAM CHARLES KERNOT .... 1000 Metallurgical Laboratory Equipment. 1903 JOHN HENRY MACFARLAND - 100 Metallurgical Laboratory Equipment. 1903 GRADUATES' FUND 460 General Expenses. 1903 TEACHING STAFF 1100 General Expenses. including PROFESSOR SPENCER £258 PROPRSSOR GRRGORT - 100 PROPRSSOR MASSON - - 100 1903 SUBSCRIBERS Prize in memory of Alexander Sutherland. 1903 OEORGE McARTHUR ...... Library of 2500 Books. 1904-5 SUBSCRIBERS TO UNIVERSITY FUND President—JANIT LADT CLARRR Treasurer—UIUIRY BUTLRR *1 Secretary— CIIARLRS BACK > a SPECIAL FOUNDATIONS— H MRS. AUBREY BOWEN - 500 Equipment of Pathological Museum. O HENRY BOURNES HIGGINS - 1000 Scholarship for Study of Poetry. 21 DAVID SYME 3000 Prize for Scientific Research in Australia. FREDERICK SIIEPPARD GRIMWADE 1000 Prize for Technical Chemical Research. MR. AND MRS. A. E. T. PAYNE AND) MR. AND MRS. J. W. PAYNE J 400 Exhibition in Veterinary Science. SIR HENRY JOHN WRIXON - 600 Exhibition in Agriculture. MEMBERS OF BAR ASSOCIATION 647 John Madden Exhibition in Law, SUBSCRIBERS (Sec, R. J. LARKIXG) 1055 Chamber of Commerce Exhibitiun, and Prices at Commercial Examinations DONATIONS OF £100 AND UPWAHDS- ANDREW CARNEGIE .... 1000 Buildings and Equipment. PROPRIETORS OF "THE ARGUS" - 100 NIEL WALTER BLACK - 100 MRS. WALTER BRIDGES 100 JANET LADY CLARKE - 100 HENUFA CTJONS (Continued). SIMON FRASER £100 Buildings and Equipment. SIR SAMUEL GILLOTT - • . 100 JOHN ORICE 1011 WESLEY R. HM.L - 100 ALICE MANIFOLD .... 100 EDWARD MANIFOLD inn WILLIAM T. MANIFOLD- 100 DAVID ORME MASSON - 100 MELBOURNE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 205 MRS. ALBERT MILLER - 100 MRS. IEDWARD MILLER - 100 WALTER BALDWIN SPENCER 100 GEORGE ALEXANDER STEPHEN - 1011 JOHN TRAIL! 1011 WILLIAM WEATHERLY • 105 MRS. WILLIAM WEATHERLY 100 OTH Kit DONATIONS 128(1 1907 MRS. EDITH LANSELL 1200 Oeorge Lansell Scholarship in Minim Engineering. 1907 MRS. JESSIE LEGGATT 1000 Scholarship in Law. 1008 WILLIAM CHARLES KERNOT • 200 Ue.sen.rch Scholarship in Geology. 11KIS SUBSCRIBERS 110 Equipment of Anatomy School. 1908 HERMAN IIKNIIY SCHLAPP - 400 Ore-treatment Plant. 1908 SUBSCRIBERS ...... 171 1009 JAMES STEWART 25,024 Scholarships in and Advancement of Anatomy, Medicine and Surgery. 1909 JAMES CUMING 1,000 Prize for Agricultural Chemistry. 1909 JAMES CUMING - 1,000 For Veterinary Operating Theatre. 1909 SUBSCRIBERS 260 l>uhlin Prize. 1910 SUBSCRIBERS 134 •lamicson Prize. 1910 GEORGE SWINBURNE ir.o For purchase of Apparatus. 1910 T. EDWARDS- .'.-.. Machinery valued at £'20f). 1910 N. GUTHRIDGE LTD. - - Machinery valued at £140. 1910 PUR H. B. SILBERBERG & COY. • Machinery valued at £151*, donated by F. W. ttraun and W, Ainsjworth fc Sons, . TIES'ENACTIONS (Continued)': OS CH to 1911 ALEX. COWAN & SONS LTD. • . - ( £160 Ore-treatment Plant. CROSSLKY BROS. LTD. - -' - -' ) 1911 NEIL WALTER BLACK - - - -' - 2,065 At disposal of Faculty of Science. 1911 MRS. M. 1). FULTON .... 069 For Medical Scholarsliip, Bill JAMES WILLIAM BARRETT - - - • 500 Department of Anthropology. 1911 SUBSCRIBERS ....'..' 102 Professor Morris Prize. 1912 WILLIAM HARBISON - 2,500 Harbison-Higinbotham Scholarship. 1912 MADAME .MELBA 1,000 Melba Hall. T.I12 BABCOCK A; WILCOX LIMITED Machinery valued at £100. 1913 SUBSCRIBERS ...---' 189 Professor Laurie Prize. 1913 MRS. JESSIE ALEXANDER BAIRD CURRIE 000 John Bain! Bursary. 1913 J. BARTRAM it SON - - ' Machinery valued at £100. 1913 DAVID SYME CHARITABLE TRUST 500 Equipment for Experimental Physiology. 1I1L-! SUBSCRIBERS • ••:•- 022 Phvsiologv Extension. 1913 MISS MARY L. HEID ..'.'.. 300 Melba Hall. 1013 JAMES WILLIAM BARRETT 275 Mr. Albert Mansbridgc's Expenses to Australia. 1913 MRS. ROBERT REID 100 Melba Hall. 1913 JOHN GU1CE 1000 Temporary Cancer Research Scholarsliip. 1H14 JAMES WILLIAM BARRETT 500 Clinical Research Fund. 1914 GEORGE ADLINGTON SYME - 250 Clinical Research Fund. 1915 ALEXANDER MORRISON .... 275 Advancement/}! Knowledge of Nervous System. 1910 Mlt. AND MRS. JAMES GOSSIP MELVIN 1,000 John Melvin Memorial Scholarship. 191U MR. AM) MUS. JOSEPH LEVI 1,000 Keith Levi Memorial Scholarship. ORIENT LINE OF ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS Three First-Class Return Passages annuallv since 1909. ^luivcvsiity ox Melbourne. ANNUAL REPORT, 1915-16. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY FROM 31ST JULY, 1915, to 31ST JULY, 1910. To His EXCELLENCY, THE HON._ SIB ARTHUE LYULPII STANLEY, K.C.M.G., GOVEHNOE OP VICTORIA. MAY IT PLEASE YOUE EXCELLENCY, I have the honour, in accordance with Section 27 of tbe University Act 1915, to submit to your Excellency the following report of the proceedings of the Univer­ sity during th© past year: — 1.—THE WAR. 'J'lie activities arising out of the War, outlined in tlie last report have to a large extent continued during the past year. The Defence Department has continued to make large • use of the departments of Physics, Engineering, Metal­ lurgy, Bacteriology and Veterinary Pathology, and ot 'the respective staffs. Tlie effect on the attendance at the University has not Tjeen so great as was anticipated. Several causes have contributed to this. 1. Tlie return of medical students who had completed the first year, and the consequent stoppage of enlistment amongst such students had a con­ siderable effect. 2. The demand for medical officers, physicists, chemists and veterinary surgeons operated both to encourage students in those courses to complete their training, and also to attract to the courses students 654: ANNUAL REPORT, 19151916. who would probably not otherwise have entered. 3. An increasing number of women students is entering, and largely making up for the loss of men. For 191(> there are 123 more women students than in 1914, and 276- fewer men. Women students have appeared in, the only two departments in which the University had not previously had women, viz.. Veterinary Science and En­ gineering. Tlie latter, however, are taking the Architec­ ture course. In the last report it was stated that over 800 men had gone oversea on war service. This number has now been increased to about 1300. 'J'he past year lias, unfortunately,, added considerably to the toll of lives lost, many of them being men of tlie highest promise. Professor Woodruff volunteered for active service, and was granted the necessary leave of absence. Many other members of the staff have been engaged on home service ass for example : Professor Sir Harry Allen has acted as a member of the Central Council, and the Advisory Committee, and. the Home Hospitals Committee of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society ; Professor Masson and Professor Laby have devoted much time to the Com­ monwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry Professor Skeats assisted in the selection of the Victorian Contingent of the Miners' Corps, and undertook the office of Consulting Penologist for the State Mines Department in place of an officer who had enlisted ; Professor Laby and his staff have supervised the testing and putting up 10,000 Melbourne University Respirators and 5000 spare parts, and have done a largo amount of X Ray work for the Defence Department; Dr. Bull, of the Bacteriological Department, and Mr. Seddon, of the Veterinary Depart­ ment, have co-operated in the supply of 10,000 doses of anti-moningococcal serum to the Defence Department •. Professor Berry has acted as a member of the War Organisation Committee of tlie British Medical Association; Professors Berry, Ewart, and Payne, and Messrs. Higgin and Kernot have accepted seats on tlie New Industries Committee; Mr. Higgin and Mr. Brown have for some time been engaged on a research into the manufacture of tool steel and the requisite ferro-compounds; Professor Payne is a member of tho Committee to send munition workers to Great Britain; and he, Mr. Kernot and Mr. ANNUAL REPORT, 19151916. 055 Higgin were consulting members of the Federal Munitions Committee and Mr. Kernot a member of the Bomb Com­ mittee. Tlie Council has received with mingled feelings of sor­ row, gratitude and appreciation three new Scholarships founded in memory of graduates who had given their lives for their country at Gallipoli. Mrs. Edward Bage has signified her intention to endow with .£1000 a scholarship in Engineering in memory of her son, Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage, B.C.E.-, formerly of the 3rd Field Company Engineers. Mrs. Bage presented to the University in January the sum of .£40, being the annual value of the scholarship, in ordei- that it might be awarded in 1916. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Melvin have presented to the University tho sum of J31000 in the War Loan, to endow a scholarship in memory of their son, John Melvin,. B.C.E. This also is to be a scholarship in Engineering. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Levi have endowed with J1000 a scholarship in Medicine, in memory of their son, Keith Maurice Levi, M.B., B.S.
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