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The total staff of the four University colleges consists ot forty-four professors and forty-two lecturers: in many cases, from want of funds, the Council has been compelled to place two or even more subjects under the charge of one professor, but with increased grants from the Government this difficulty is being gradually overcome. The following table shows the staff of the several institutions : — Professors and Lecturers (1910). Lecturers, Professors. Demonstrators, and Assistants. Auckland University College ... ... ... ... 8 8 Victoria University College ... ... ... ... 10 9 Canterbury University College ... ... ... ... 9 12 Otago University ... ... ... ... ... 17' : 13+ Total ... ... ... ... ... 44 42 Scholarships, Buesaiues, etc. University scholarships may be divided into three broad classes : (1.) Entrance scholarships, (2) scholarships awarded during the degree course, (3) postgraduate scholarships. (1.) University entrance scholarships are awarded annually on the results of the University Junior Scholarship Examination, and are as follows : Junior University, Senior National, and Taranaki Scholarships, in addition to some thirty-seven local and privately endowed scholarships awarded on the results of the same examination. Queen's Scholarships (Victoria College) are not now awarded; there are at present only two holders of these scholarships, and the term of both expires at the end of 1911. In addition to the above, all those who gained "credit" at the same examinations are entitled to hold bursaries which meet the cost of college fees up to £20 per annum. (2.) Scholarships awarded during the degree course are the Senior University, Tinline, and Sir George Grey. The two first are tenable by candidates sitting for their final examination for B.A. or B.Sc, and may therefore be regarded in a sense as post-graduate. (3.) The chief scholarships awarded at the end of the University course are the Rhodes Scholarship, the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, the Medical Travelling Scholarship, and the Research Scholarships. The three first are all travelling scholarships—that is, they are tenable abroad. The Research Scholarships are each of the value of £100 per annum, with laboratory fees and expenses. They are offered by the Government, one to each of the affiliated institutions, to promote research-work likely to be of benefit to New Zealand industries. So far eight Rhodes Scholarships have been granted, three each to students of Otago University and Auckland University College, and two to students of Victoria College. The last scholarship awarded (1911) was to A. G. Marshall, of Auckland University College. So far six Research Scholarships have been awarded, and of these four were held during 1910. The subjects of research undertaken have been in each case closely connected with some New Zealand industry; even if the discoveries made in the course of the research have no immediate commercial value, yet the training of a body of students in the application of scientific methods to the national industries cannot fail to be of great ultimate benefit to the Dominion. Table M 2 shows the number of scholarships, bursaries, and studentships held at each University College during the year.

* Also one Emeritus Profess ir. f Also, the honorary staff of the Dunedin Hospital act as Lecturers on Clinioal Medicine and Clinioal Surgery