The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

DURHAM, Nov. s.—At a Convocation holden on Satur-
day last, the Rev. T. Peile, M. A., and the Rev. C. T.
Whitley, M.A., made the requisite declaration on being
appointed to the office of Proctor.
The Rev. Thomas Garnett, M.A., and the R'2V. John
Cundill, M.A., were nominated by the Senior and Junior
Proctors respectively, to the office of the Pro.proctor, and
made the requisite declaration.
The Rev. Temple Chevalier, 8.D., Professor of Ma-
thematics, was nominated by the Wardtn to the office of
Sub. Warden for the ensuing year.
The Professor of Mathematics was nominated by the
Warden, and approved by Convocation, to the office of,
Examiner in Theology, in the room of George Pearson,
13. D.
Roderick Impey Murchison, F. R. S., F. L. S.,
V. P. G.S., was presented by the Professor of Mathema-
tics, and admitted to the honorary degree of M.A., in
pursuance of a grace passed June 19, 1539.
In presenting Mr. Murchison, the Professor of Mathe-
matics took occasion to congratulate the University ui.on
at length having an opportunity of conferring a public
mark of their high regard upon one so distinguished in the
world of science. Mr. Murchison's indefatigable exer-
tions in all philosophical pursuits, and especially in those
of geology, had already pointed him out as a fit person to
fig the important station of President of the Geological
Society. His personal labours had fully justified this d.s.

tinetiou. During the seven years in which he bad been
occupied in classifying anti arranging that portion of the
geological series to which he had aptly given the name of
the " .Silurian System," his eye had been the first to detect
differences which had escaped the notice of former observers,
and his Mind the first to collect the scattered fragments and
combine them into one complete and harmonious whole.
By this minute accuracy of observation, combined with the
far higher power of gcocralization, he had secured for
himself a place in the very first rank of those who have suc-
,l c.:ssfully cultivated the philosophy of geology. Since the
close a these arduous labours, Mr. Murchison had been
actively and successfully engaged in tracir.g the same series
of rocks, which he had been the first to reduce into a sys-
tem, spread over the extensive plains of the Russian em-
pire; the Professor, therefore, hailed with pleasure the
occasion of Mr. Murchison's return to his native land. to
present him to the honorary distinction which the Uni-
versity was anxious to confer.

Tiie following persons were then presented and admitted
ad rundem:—

Rev. W. Robinson Gilby, M. A., late Fellow of Trinity,
Cambridge.

Rev. John Whitley, M.A., Queen's, Cambridge.
Rev. George Fyley Townsend, M. A., Trinity, Cam.
bridge.
The following persons were admitted ad eundem by vote
of house:—

Rev. John Slcath, D. D., Wadham, Oxford, Sub Dean
of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Rev. John Young, D. D. , Trinity, Cambridge.
John Losh, M. A., Trinity, Cambridge.
Rev. 'Wm. Chas. Wollaston, M. A., Trinity, Cambridge.
Rev. William Williamson, M. A , late Fellow of Sidney
Sussex, Cambridge.
Rev. Rich Garvey, M.A., Emanuel, Cambridge.
Rev. Alex. Watson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
William Tiverton Preedy, 13. A., St. John's, Cambridge.
Henry Wall Tibbs, 13. A., Trinity, Dublin.
The following Bachelors of Arts were admitted to the
degree of M. A.:—Henry Stoker. George Herint.
A grace was passed for permitting Richard J. Shields,
an Engineer Student, to become a Student in Arts.
Prizemen.—J. S. Robson, second Year; B. F. Sulli-
van, first year.