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The following movements have taken place in the personnel of the Board during the year: — Representing Canterbury Members of Parliament. —Ist July—George John Smith, re-elected. Representing Graduates .—lst July—Very Rev. Dean Harper, M.A. ; A. G. Talbot, M.A. (N.Z.), M.B.C.M. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., re-elected. Representing Teachers. —Ist July—Thomas Hughes, 8.A., re-elected. Representing School Committees. —30th June—Thomas William Adams retired. Ist July — Thomas William Rowe, M.A., elected. 19th December—Thomas William Rowe, M.A., resigned. Representing Professorial Board. —lst July—William Izard, M.A., LL.M., re-elected. Representing His Excellency the Governor .—27th August—Thomas William Adams elected. Professor John Macmillan Brown, M.A., was returned as the representative of the District Court of Convocation of Canterbury on the Senate of the University of New Zealand. Hon. Charles Christopher Bowen, M.L.C., was re-elected as the representative of the Board of Governors on the Senate of the University of New Zealand. The death of the Right Hon. It. J. Seddon was announced to the members of the Board on the 11th June by the Chairman, and a resolution was passe*, placing on record the sense of the Board of the high services rendered to the colony by the late Premier and Minister of Education. A series of popular science lectures, eight in number, was delivered in the College hall, and was well attended. For the purposes of these lectures the electric current was introduced into the College hall. A boardinghouse was established in Latimer Square for the use of men students attending the College, but the experience gained does not appear to justify a continuance of the experiment. A deputation of representatives of citizens desirous of furthering the erecting of a new chemical laboratory in connection with the College waited on the Board, and inquired the extent to which they might look for assistance and co-operation on the part of the Board. The deputation was met with the sympathy of the Board. A vote of thanks was passed to the committee of citizens for the interest shown in the proposal. Messrs. Opie and Scott and Dr. Talbot were elected to represent the Board on the citizens' committee. On the 31st December, 1905, Mr. G. H. Elliott severed his connection with the School of Art, and steps were immediately taken to fill the vacancy thus caused. Mr. R. Herdman-Smith, A.M., headmaster of the art department of Wellington Technical School, was selected to take charge of the department. That position he had occupied for four years. All the class-rooms were cleaned and distempered, and Mr. Herdman-Smith took charge of the work of the classes at the beginning of the first term. . The vacancy caused in the Curatorship of the Museum by the death of Captain Hutton, l-.K.b., was filled by the appointment of Mr. Edgar R. W T aite, F.L.S., late Zoologist, Australian Museum, Sydney, who took charge of the institution on the 16th April. On the 26th March, 1906, the Board passed a resolution that Mr. Howard Strong, who had acted hitherto as sublibrarian of the public library, should be appointed librarian. The College. Number op Students. —The following table shows the number of matriculated and non-matri-culated students who have attended lectures since the year 1900 to date: — Matricu- Non-matricu- Tot . Matricu- Non-matricu- T , lated. lated. iotal ' lated. lated. 1900 125 93 218 1904 ... 210 67 277 190 1 148 72 220 1905 ... 200 77 277 190 2 151 74 225 1906 ... 198 106 304 1903 ... 167 82 249 The number of students attending each lecture during the last term of 1906 was as follows: — Classics.— Pass Latin: Translation, 55; composition, 44. Greek: Translation, 2; composition, 3. Honours Latin, 9. Pass Latin, teachers' class, 14. English Literature and Language.— Pass lectures: Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, 43 r literature and set books, 76; essay class, 55; philology, 42. Honours lectures: Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, 7; philology, 3; literature and set books, 12; Anglo-Saxon (M.A.), 3; Middle English (M.A ), 3. ~..«„„ Mathematics.— Pass pure mathematics: Preliminary, 21; upper division, 52. Pass mechanics and hydrostatics, 23. Mathematics for engineering students: Stage 11, 6; Stage 111, 9. Honours mathematics: Section I, 2; Section 11, 2; Section 111, 1; Section IV, 1. Honours elementary mechanics and hydrostatics, 3. ■ Chemistry.— lntroductory, 14; pass, 18; elementary organic, 3. Advanced: Section I, 5. Practical chemistry: Elementary (in connection with introductory lecture), 4; pass (general course) 24; pass (teachers onlv),"o; elementary organic, 2 ; advanced, 5. Sound, Light, and Heat.-^- Pass, 14; honours, 1. Practical, sound, light, and heat: Pass, 9 ; honours, 0. . _ Biology.— Pass general biologv, 18; honours general biology, 0; practical general biology, 17 ; pass botany, 10: pass practical botany, 10; honours botany, 0; practical botany (honours and research), 0; pass zoology, 5; pass practical zoology, 5; honours zoology, 0; practical zoology (honours and research), 0. . , French.— Pass lectures: Composition, 9; authors, 24; sight translation and grammar, 25; literature, 20: commerce course, 3; composition (teachers' class), 2. Honours lectures: Composition, 23; authors, 4; essay and literature, 4; philology, 9; literature, 5.