remaining fellowships, except one, which must be filled by a clergyman acting as chaplain. The prohibition of marriage was removed, subject to certain regulations as to formal permission and residence in College, but at the same time the tenure for life was reduced in the case of ordinary non-official or prize fellowships to seven years, and in the case of the official fellows, doing various forms of work for the College, to variable terms of years subject to re-election. The scholarships were raised in number to 16, but the tenure was reduced to 4 years in two equal periods, and provision was made for an exhibition fund which absorbs most of the old benefactions; it has usually been necessary to suspend 2 of the 12 fellowships for this purpose. Under various clauses the College can elect to some sort of fellowship, if it has the wherewithal, any male person possessing any qualifications which can be described as academic. It is to be feared that, for the fellows, the permission of marriage and the abolition of the life tenure will tend not only to break up the old sociability of life in College, but also to diminish the sense of corporate existence, which has been so strong a bond of union in the past. The New Statutes leave a restricted Visitatorial power to the Bishops of Winchester; at this moment it is for the second time in the hands of an old Trinity man, RANDALL THOS. DAVIDSON, D.D. (Com. 1867), successively Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Rochester and of Winchester, who was succeeded at Windsor' by another Trinity man, PHILIP FRANK ELIOT, D.D. (Com. 1853),

1 Trinity thus possesses simultaneously the three clerical officers of the Order of the Garter, viz., the Bishop of Winchester, Prelate, the Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor, and the Dean of Windsor, Registrar.

while his elevation to the See of Winchester involved the promotion of EDGAR CHARLES SUMNER GIBSON, D.D. (Com. 1867), to the vicarage of Leeds, and the Rev. HUGH PENTON CURRIE (Com. 1873), to the principalship of the Theological College at Wells.

Mr. Wayte was succeeded as President by the Rev. JOHN PERCIVAL, M.A., formerly Fellow of Queen's, headmaster of Clifton College 1862-78. In 1887 Mr. Percival, who had been appointed to a canonry of Bristol in 1882, resigned the presidency on accepting the head-mastership of Rugby School. On 25 March 1895, he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford,1 and received the degree of D.D. by diploma; in 1891 he was elected Honorary Fellow of Trinity. His portrait will shortly be placed in the College hall by the gift of his successor, the Rev. HENRY GEORGE WOODS, M.A. (Fell. 1865–79, re-elected 1883, tutor 1869-80, bursar 1869-87, Hon. Fell. 1898), who took the degree of D.D. in 1892, and discharged many important functions in the University, especially in connexion with the University picture gallery. On Dr. Woods's resignation of the presidency on 1 Sept. 1897, the choice of the fellows fell on Mr. HENRY FRANCIS PELHAM, M.A. (Sch. 1865-9), Fellow of Exeter College 1869–89, Camden Prof. of Ancient History (as successor to another Trinity and Exeter man, Canon G. Rawlinson) and Fellow of Brasenose in 1889.

The greatest event of the last twenty years of the

1 Until last year Trinity had four bishops, their lordships of Winchester, St. David's, Oxford, and Hereford, who were respectively commoner, scholar, fellow, and president of the college, but in each case commoner, scholar, etc. only.

College history, the erection of the New Buildings,1 was the product of the joint exertions of Dr. Percival and Dr. Woods. In 1882 the number of undergraduates living in College was only fifty-seven; the rest lived in lodgings; and, though some of those, such as the “cottages” in Broad Street, belonging to the College, were not far off, it was felt desirable to bring in at least the majority of the freshmen. The College had acquired, in the eighteenth century, most of the land between the old buildings and the street, and had, fortunately, refused, though sometimes only by the efforts of an obstinate minority, to part with any portion of it for a Taylor Building, a Martyrs' Memorial, New Schools, or an Indian Institute. To this area was added Kettell Hall, which had fallen to Oriel College on the expiration of Kettell's lease, and was now sold by Oriel in the most friendly and obliging manner, though part of their original endowment. The site consisted of the presidential kitchen-garden and orchard, stable-yard, brew-house, &c., with the gardens of Kettell Hall and of the cottages, and a corner of the Grove, forming a larger space than would be imagined by any one who remembered only the old approach to the chapel. The new buildings, designed by Mr. T. G. Jackson, now R.A., in a rather advanced Jacobean style, were commenced in 1883 and inhabited in 1885; his

No rooms had been added since 1728, though most of the attics had been raised, and the rooms in the N.W. angle (No. 7, now 14) partly rebuilt. The Chapel Tower was renewed in 1822-3, and the mouldings, etc., touched up with "Roman cement or compot" in 1827. A new Lecture Room was built in 1876, and the nucleus of the undergraduates' library placed there in 1877.