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THE GREEK PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD.

The object of the present of 2,000l. to Professor Jowett is thus explained in a letter addressed to the professor:

“The amount has been confined to the arrears of salary withheld by the University. The reasons for properly endowing your chair are nowise touched by our proceedings, but may be urged as before, whenever it is thought advisable. The promoters of this subscription recommended it to others upon the ground that they wished to mark their sense of the honourable and conscientious manner in which during six years you have fulfilled your professorial duty; to discharge at least some portion of the debt which has accrued to you during that period; and to protest against the injurious precedent of importing theological considerations (as was openly done in the recent debate in congregation) into questions wholly distinct from them. They hope, in all earnestness, that you will approve of their act, by enabling them to announce your acceptance of what has been offered.”

Professor Jowett's answer is as follows:

“My dear ——, —I hardly know how to express the feeling with which I received, through you, the information that the sum of 2,000l. had been placed at my disposal in payment of the salary of the Regius Professorship of Greek, which has hitherto been withheld.

“It is the greatest pleasure to obtain from my friends such a testimony of their regard. I will try to show my gratitude in the only way that I am able, by increasing energy in the work of the professorship.

“But I cannot accept their munificent present. Though I wish to see an endowment provided for the chair, I ought not to receive money from those on whom I have no claim.

“Could I have anticipated such generosity, I would never have allowed you and others to take so much trouble on my behalf.

“Will you give my best thanks to the subscribers, and assure them that the possession of the list of their names gives me a satisfaction far greater than the pecuniary advantage which they designed for me.

“Balliol College, Oxford, Jan. 24.”

Amongst the subscribers are the following: Rev. Charles Arnold, Assistant Master, Rugby (Ball. Coll.) Theodore Aufrecht; Bodleian Library. Lord Belper. *Rev. R. E. Bartlett, Trin. Coll., Oxford. *Rev. T. W. J. Blake, Assistant Master, Rugby (Queen's Coll.) *Rev. J. W. Blakesley, Trin. Coll., Cambridge. *E. C. Boyle, Trin. Col. Oxford. Rev. E. Bradby, Assist. Master, Harrow (Ball. Coll.). *Rev. G. G. Bradley, Head Master of Marlborough School Uni. Coll.) *G. Brodrick, Merton Coll. Oxford. *Rev. H. Montagu Butler, lead Master of Harrow (Trin. Coll., Cambridge). Earl of Carlisle. *Very Rev. the Dean of Ch. Ch. Rev. L. Campbell, Queen's Coll., Oxford. *Rev. W. G. Clark, Public Orator, Cambridge. *John Conington, Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. *Rev. E. C. Cure, Merton Coll. G. W. Dasent, D.C.L., Magdalen Hall, Oxford. *Herbert Fisher, Ch. Ch., Oxford. *Rev. F. Fowler, Lincoln Coll., Oxford. Earl Granville. *F. W. Gibbs, Trin. Coll., Cambridge. Hon. Leveson Gower, M.P. George Grote. W. R. Grove, Q.C. George Grove, Sydenham. *A Vernon Harcourt, Lee's Reader in Chemistry, Ch. Ch., Oxford. Sir E. Head. James Heywood. Rev. Dr. Hodson, Rector of Edinburgh Academy. Dr. J. D. Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew. W. Holman Hunt. *Rev. Dr. Jacobson, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. Marquis of Lansdowne. *Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., M.P. *Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P. *Sir J. G. Shaw Lefevre, K.C.B. *R. R. W. Lingen, Council Office (Ball. Coll.) *Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, Ball. Coll., Oxford. *G. R. Luke, Ch. Ch., Oxford. *Godfrey Lushington, Lincoln's Inn (All Souls). Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S. J. G. Maitland, Secretary to Civil Service Com., Trin. Coll., Cambridge. R. M. Milnes, M.P. W. Morrison, M.P. *Max Mü ler [Müller ?], Professor of Modern European Languages in the University of Oxford. *Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's. *F. T. Palgrave, Council Office (Ex. Coll.) *Rev. E. Palmer, Ball. Coll., Oxford. Earl Russell. Right. Hon. Sir E. Ryan. Rev. W. Rogers, St. Thomas, Charterhouse (Ball. Coll.) *G. Rolleston, Linacre Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford. Edward Romilly, Commissioner of Audit. Rev. Lord Saye and Sele. Lord Stanley of Alderley. F. R. Sandford, Council Office. *Rev. C. W. Sandford, Ch. Ch., Oxford. *W. Y. Sellar, Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrew's (Ball. Coll.) J. C. Sharp, Professor of Latin in the University of St. Andrew's (Ball. Coll.) *Henry Smith, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. W. Spottiswoode, Queen's Printer (Ball. Coll.) *Rev. Canon Stanley Ch. Ch., Oxford. Hon E. Stanley, Ball. Coll., Oxford. Fitzjames Stephen. *Rev. F. Temple, Hd. Mast. of Rugby (Ball. Coll.) Alfred Tennyson. *Rev. W. H. Thompson, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. Rev. Dawson Turner, Principal of the Royal Institution, Liverpool. *Hon. E. Twistleton. *Theodore Walrond, Civil Service Commission, Ball. Coll., Oxford. *Rev. A. G. Watson, Assist. Mast., Harrow (All Souls). *Rev. J. M. Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy In the University of Oxford. Thomas Woolner. *W. Wright, Oriel Coll., Oxford.

The addition of an asterisk (*) marks those who are, or have been, tutors or fellows.