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Of students who entered for their third or final year, four completed their studies with success, and, having presented satisfactory certificates of time spent in practical work, were awarded the diplomas and certificates to which they were entitled. These students were as follows : Leslie Maurice Jolly, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Thomas Otto Bishop, diploma of Associate in Mining, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy, certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer, certificate of Mine and Land Surveyor; Harold Tyndall de Renzy Harman, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer ; Frederick Thomas Seelye, diploma of Associate in Mining. Diplomas and certificates were issued during the year to nine students who had already passed the prescribed course, on production of certificates relating to practical work, in accordance with the regulations of the Mining School. The names of these students are as follows : Herbert Edmund Allen, diploma of Associate in Mining; Edward Arthur de Lautour, diploma of Associate in Mining ; George Herbert Royse, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Colin Campbell, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; George Aubrey Gow, diploma of Associate in Mining, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy, and certificate as Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Sydney Parker Street, diploma of Associate in Mining ; James Baillie Macdonald, diploma of Associate in Mining; George Watt Thomson, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; William Graham Eoyse, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy. The attendance in the different classes and the results of the annual examinations in the subjects of instruction in the Mining School are shown in the following tabulated statement : —

Table I.

In addition to these classes, students in their first, second, or third year, according to their standing, had to attend the University classes in mathematics, theoretical mechanics, theoretical physics, practical physics, theoretical and practical chemistry; and two students, with the intention of qualifying for the diploma of Associate in Geology, attended the classes in biology and palaeontology. No failures were recorded in the University classes, with the exception of three in mathematics and three in theoretical chemistry. The results of the examinations in these subjects are shown in the following table : —

Table II.

Students in the different divisions, according to their standing, had also to attend the drawing classes at the School of Art, the Director of which reported satisfactory progress in the case of every one.

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;esa ;s o: Ixaminai Dns. Teacher. Attendance. Subject. First Second Glass, j. Class. Third Glass. Failed. General geology Mining geology Mineralogy Petrography ... General metallurgy Special metallurgy Assaying, first course „ second course Blowpipe analysis Mining, first course „ second course ... Applied mechanics, first course ... 'Mine and land surveying, first Dr. Marshall If 8 6 8 7 11 13 16 10 12 II 4 9 12 1 1 3 1 4 1 3 4 6 8 3 2 3 1 3 3 3 5 2 5 3 3 2 1 1 1 II 1 2 1 6 3 2 8 2 4 L0 D. B. 'Waters 3 3 1 a it it The Director it 1 1 1 a it course Mine and land surveying, second 6 2 3 1 course

Subject. Teaoher. Attendance. lesults of ixaminatii ins. First. Glas-. Second Class. Third Glass. Failed. Mathematics rheoretical mechanics Pheoretical physics ... Practical physics rheoretical chemistry Practical chemistry ... Biology Palaeontology Professor Gibbons Professor Shand 9 10 9 5 14 10 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 1 5 5 4 3 ;/ Professor Black 4 3 4 1 5 7 3 3 Professor Benham it i