favour of particular sects, or particular branches of science, but persons of all persuasions are at liberty to follow that course of study, which they find suited to their various pursuits and prospects: lastly, its moderate discipline, endeavouring to regulate the behaviour of the Students, by a regard to interest and reputation, more than by authority; and substituting the anxious watchfulness of a parent, in place of the troublesome and vexatious interpositions of a prying, and perhaps unpopular, Magistrate.

In 1799, a very able and luminous account of the University was drawn up by some of its distinguished Professors, and published in Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland; and it is from this account, that the foregoing description has been chiefly abridged. Since that period, the princely collection, termed the Hunterian Museum, has been removed to Glasgow, and placed in an appropriate building. The medals alone, which are not surpassed by any in Europe, unless it be by the Parisian collection, are valued at 30,000l. sterling.

On the 12th of December 1812, the following regulations, respecting Degrees in Medicine, were unanimously enacted into a law, by the Senate of the University of Glasgow.

1. Before any person can be allowed to be a candidate for a Degree in Medicine, in this University, he shall appear, personally, before the Senate; and lay before them satisfactory evidence, that he is not under twenty-one years of age.

2. He shall produce evidence, as above, that he has, during at least three years, (or sessions of six months each,) regularly attended the following Medical classes in some University or Universities; or two years or sessions, if he shall have studied, during other two or more years, under eminent Medical teachers in London; viz. Anatomy and Surgery, during three such sessions; the Theory and the Practice of Physic, during two such sessions; Chemistry, during two such sessions; Materia Medica and Pharmacy, during two such sessions; or one session, if he shall have attended an Apothecary's shop, during

two or more years; Midwifery, during one session; and Botany, during one course.

3. He shall bring forward evidence, that during one year, at least, he has attended Medical classes in this University.

4. The candidate shall undergo three examinations, in private, by the Medical Professors of the University; and write a Commentary on an Aphorism of Hippocrates, and another on a case of disease, propounded to him by the said Examiners. The first examination shall be on Anatomy and Physiology; the second, on the Institutions and Practice of Physic; and the third, on Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy.

5. The Examiners shall report to the Senate their opinion respecting the Medical knowledge of the candidate; and, if their report be favourable, his name, as a candidate for a degree, shall be entered on the minutes of Senate; and a day shall be fixed, when the candidate shall read his Commentaries on the Aphorism and Case; and answer such questions, on the several branches of Medical Science, as shall be put to him by the Examiners, in presence of the Senate. If the Senate be of opinion that the candidate has shown himself worthy of a Degree, it shall be conferred, in presence of the Senate, by the Vice-Chancellor, provided the candidate has not published a thesis, which he may or may not do, according to his own option; but, if he shall have published a thesis, he must defend it, and the Degree must be conferred in presence of the Students and other Members of the University, assembled by Program in the Comitia.

6. The whole of the examination shall be carried on, and the Commentaries on the Aphorism and Case, must be written in the Latin language.

7. Such parts of the above Regulations as are new, viz. these respecting the age of the candidate, and the curriculum of Medical education, shall not be in force till November 1st, 1813.

8. The Clerk of Senate shall cause the whole of the above Regulations to be published, for the information of all whom they may concern.

The offices of Regius Professor of Surgery and Midwifery, were created in 1815.

Office-bearers, Professors, and Professions, in 1816.

His Grace the Duke of Montrose, Chancellor.

The Right Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, Rector. Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Blythswood, Dean of Faculty. William Taylor, D. D. Principal.

Andrew & James Duncan, Printers to the University.

Chancellors of the University.

Conformable to the foundation, the Bishops were Chancellors, ex officio; when Episcopacy was abolished, the office became elective.

10. The Earl of Hyndford was the first Lay Char

cellor after the Revolution,

11. James Graham, Duke of Montrose; he was elected

after the office had been vacant four years,

12. William Graham, Duke of Montrose,

His Grace resigned the office in 1781, when his Son was elected Chancellor.

13. The Marquis of Graham, now Duke of Mon

1715

1743

Principals of the University.

ELECTED IN

1574

1. Mr. Andrew Melville was the first Principal,
Mr. Melville was translated to the Princi-
pality of St. Andrews in 1579.

2. Mr. Thomas Smeaton,

Mr. Sharpe having become superannuated, resigned in 1614.

4. Mr. Robert Boyd of Trochrigg,

Mr. Boyd having had a misunderstanding with Archbishop Law, resigned his office in 1621 +.

5. Dr. Cameron,

The Doctor was from a French University; he resigned in 1624, and retired to France; the office was kept vacant till 1626, in consequence of certain overtures respecting the Church of Govan.

Mr. Ramsay was Minister of the Inner High
Church; he died in 1651.

8. Mr. Patrick Gillespie,

Mr. Gillespie was the first Minister of the Outer High Church; he was in high favour with the Protector, Cromwell, and was turned out of his office at the Restoration, in 1660.

1580

1582

1615

1622

1626

1650

1652

Until the year 1621, the Principal not only taught Divinity, Church History, and Oriental Languages, but also officiated as Minister of Govan. At this period, when Principal Boyd could no longer retain his office, he became desirous to be appointed Parson of Govan, and suggested that that office should be disjoined from the Principality; the proposal was ultimately agreed to by the Bishop and others interested, and although Mr Boyd was not fortunate enough to obtain the situation, there has been a separate Minister in Govan ever since.