The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

The Forthcoming University Boat Race.

As the time for this great aquatic festival approaches it
will be interesting for our readers to be made acquainted
with the doings both at Oxford and Cambridge. The last.
named University having been defeated last year became
as a matter of course the challengers for the contest in 1864,
which challenge Oxford promptly accepted, and active pre-
parations are going on to get the crews together. Since
1829, when Oxford won at Henley, there have been 20 races,
each University having won 10, and as the race in the pre-
sent year will be the odd one in the majority, the contest
will be watched with, if possible, increased interest. The
Oxonians seem of late years to have had the start in get-
ting their crew together, and Mr. C. H. Carr, of Wadham
College, and who is the new president of the Oxford Uni-
versity Boat Club, has already got together a crew, and
steered them down to Iffley several times. The names,
as the Oxford crew is at present constituted, are as follow :
Bow. H. Shepherd, Brasenose
No. 2. J. S. Warnam, Balliol
No. 3. W. B. Jacobson, Christ Church
No. 4. A. E. Seymour, University
No. 5. J. C. Parson, Trinity
No. 6. M. Brown, Trinity
No. 7. F. P. Beechcroft, Exeter.
Stroke. D. Pocklington, Brasenose,
Of this eight the bow and No. 3 rowed last year, and the
absence of Mr. Hoare, the magnificent " three year old"
stroke, will be sorely missed. However, he cannot be per-
petual stroke, and the University and his place will be well
filled by Mr, Pocklington. • Salter, of Oxford, has already
received orders for the new boat. The Cambridge crew
went out on Thursday for the first time, Mr Hawkshaw,
of Trinity (bow last year), coaching them up, the crew
being as follow :
Bow. Piggott, Corpus
No. 2. Cooe, St. John's
No. 3. Stephenson, Trinity Hall
No. 4. Hawkins, St, John's
No. 5. Marsden, St. John's
No. 6. Borthwick, Trinity
No. 7. Beebae, bt. John's
Stroke. Kinglake, Trinity.
Of this crew only Mr. Kinglake was in the racing crew last
year, and with No. 6 and No. 4 will certainly be in this
year's eight. The others are not positively fixed on. Cam-
bridge has lost one of her best men in Mr. Vaurenseker, of
Emmanuel ; and it is a very general report that Mr. Mars-
den, of St. John's, has had a veto put on his rowing by his
father, but it is hoped the ban will be removed. With re-
gard to the boat, Nat Taylor was hourly expected at the
time this report was written (Friday evening), and he will
build the Cambridge vessel. The race will probably take
place on Saturday, the 19th of March.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
WEEK.—To-day—Entomological, at 7; Architects,
at 8 ; Royal Institution, at 2, general monthly meeting.
Tuesday—Anthropological, at 8, " Upper Jaw of a Green-
lander," Professor Carus and Mr. Blake, and "Anthropo-
logical Disiderata,' Mr. Reddie ; Photographic, at 8,
anniversary; Engineers, at 8, discussion upon Mt'.
Redman's "East Coast between the Thames and the
Wash ; Royal Institution, at 3, " Experimental Optics,"
Professor Tyndall. Wednesday—Soc;ety of Arts, at 8,
"Instantaneous Engraving upon Metal," M. Vial; Geo-
logical, at 8, "Permian Rocks of N.W. of England, and
their Extension into Scotland," Sir R. I. Murchison and
Professor Harkness, and "Flint Implements and Fossil
Mammalia," Mr. Wyatt; Society of Literature at 8/9
"New Trilingual Phoenician Inscription," Mr. Deutch.
Thursday—Royal Academy, at 8, "Architecture," Pro-
fessor Smirk° ; Antiquaries, at 8, election of fellows ;
Chemical, at 8, " On Mordenite," Dr. How ; Linnean, at
8, "Reproductive Organs in the Primulaceos," Mr. Scott,
and "Anatomy of Rotatoria," Dr. Moxon ; Royal, at 81;
Royal Institution, at 3, "Experimental Optics," Professor
Tyndall. Friday—Arcbr)logical Institute, at 4; Royal
Institution, at 8, 'The Science of History," Mr, Froude.
Saturday—Royal Institution, at
Mr, Lubbock,—Athentemin, 3 " Antiquity of Mau,"