“Unde vero conventius poterat illis artibus succurri quam e tua domo quæ in ipsis jam pridem inclaruerat. Notum est Henricum Cavendish quem secutus est Coulombius primum ita docuisse, quæ sit vis electrica ut eam numerorum modulis illustraret; adhibitis rationibus quas hodie veras esse constat.” And they suggest the name as suitable for the building. To this the Chancellor replied, after referring to the work of Henry Cavendish: “Quod pono in officinâ ipsâ nuncupandâ nomen ejus commemorare dignati sitis, id grato animo accepi.” The building had cost far more than the original estimate, but the Chancellor’s generosity was not limited, and on July 21st, 1874, he wrote to the Vice-Chancellor:-- “It is my wish to provide all instruments for the Cavendish Laboratory which Professor Maxwell may consider to be immediately required, either in his lectures or otherwise.” Maxwell prepared a list, but explained while doing it that time and thought were necessary to secure the best form of instruments; and he continues, writing to the Vice-Chancellor: “I think the Duke fully understood from what I said to him that to furnish the Laboratory will be a matter of several years’ duration. I shall consider myself, however,” he says, “at liberty to contribute to the Laboratory any instruments which I have had constructed in former years, and which may be found still useful, and also from time to time to procure others for special researches.” In 1877 in his annual report Professor Maxwell announced that the Chancellor[39] had now “completed his gift to the University by furnishing the Cavendish Laboratory with apparatus suited to the present state of science.” The stock of apparatus, however, was still small, although Maxwell in the most generous manner himself spent large sums in adding to it; for the Professor was most particular in procuring only expensive instruments by the best makers, with such additional improvements as he could himself suggest. In March, 1874, a Demonstratorship of Physics had been established, and Mr. Garnett of St. John’s College was appointed. Work began in the laboratory in October, 1874. At first the number of students was small. Only seventeen names appear in the Natural Sciences Tripos[40] list for 1874, and few of those did Physics.