sentences:  In 1887 he gave £2000 to the university to found scholarships in natural philosophy and chemistry, and in 1893 gave £1000 for the fittings for the metallurgical laboratory.Kernot also assisted Francis Ormond in the organization of the Working Men's College of Melbourne, and was president of this institution from 1889 to 1899.Kernot was president of the Royal Society of Victoria 1895-1900 and of the Victorian Society of Engineers in 1897-8 and 1906-7.