University of Appendix, Part II. "1. That before being enrolled as students of the Second Greek, Second Humanity, Civil and Natural History, First and Second Mathematical, Natural Philosophy, and Moral Philosophy classes, all the Bursars shall be examined during the first week of the session; those intending to enter the Second Greek and Second Humanity classes in Greek and Latin; those intending to enter the First Mathematical class in Arithmetic; and those intending to enter any higher classes on the subjects which are taught in the classes immediately below them. "2. That every Bursar, who shall have been found, on such examinations, to have made so little progress in his studies, as to be unqualified for receiving sufficient advantage in the class which he intends to enter, shall be ordered to return to study in those classes in the subjects of which he has been found deficient; and that, if he refuse to comply with this order, he shall be deprived of his bursary, and shall be received in any higher class only as a private student, not wearing a gown." It is intended to extend these entrance examinations to all the gowned students in session 1827-8. Order XXI: ORDER XXI.-Is any Examination required by the Charters, Rules, Statutes, or Laws of the said College, of the Candidates for Bursaries, or any of them, at the said College; who are appointed Examiners; and if any such Examination is prescribed, is it in practice observed? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R. In the foundation charter Examinations of six Bursars there founded are ordered; but of these Bursars no mention or trace has been found in any other record. As far as is on record, candidates for Bursaries have been examined, before their first entrance, by the Principal and Professors, and the senior Minister of Aberdeen, who are the judges, and on whom strict attendance is enjoined (Order of Faculty, 4th January 1781). In the table of Bursaries (Return to Order XII.) it will be seen that the greater number of them are subject to these trials; and in the Returns to the same number the three kinds of Bursars are described. Order XXII. Order XXIII.J Order XXIV. ORDER XXII.-Have any Classes been transferred from one Faculty to another, and the objects and subject of the Course of Study of any of the Classes changed; and if so, by what authority? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-No such changes have taken place in Marischal College as are indicated under this number. ORDER XXIII.-At what period was each Professor limited to one particular department; and when was the practice of each Professor or Regent carrying forward one Class, for the whole period of the course of study, through all the Sciences, discontinued? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R. In the foundation charter (title Regentes ad novas professiones transilire non debent") provision is made for limiting the Professors of the Curriculum to a particular subject or class of subjects, which are laid down minutely for each of the three Regents then founded. It does not appear from any record or account that this provision of the charter was ever followed from 1593 to 1753; the general practice of the whole of that period, of each Regent carrying forward his class through the Curriculum (with the exception of Greek for part of that period, as stated in the following paragraph), having prevailed in the College; and provision is made for resorting to that plan of teaching in the foundation charter (ni aliter Cancellarius, &c.) In 1700, one of the four Regents was confined to the teaching of Greek, by order of the Scottish Privy Council. (See Returns to Order III., in which volume is a copy of Act of the Commission, anent the master of the Greek class, 16th August 1700.) In 1733, an unsuccessful attempt was made by the Principal and Professors of Marischal College to discontinue the practice. of one Regent's carrying forward a class for three years of the course (Minutes of Faculty, 12th June 1733, and 25th June 1734); but this measure was not accomplished, and the Regents fixed to one class or profession till 1753 (Order of Faculty, 11th January), which they have since invariably been. any ORDER XXIV.-Are there any Prizes in the different classes of the College, or Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-The following Prizes have been instituted in Marischal College :— 1. A biennial Prize of £20, open to all students and the public, for an English Essay on a subject prescribed, and Prize adjudged by the Principal, the four Regents, the Professors of Mathematics and Chemistry, and Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, Esq., of Culsh, LL.D., surviving trustee of Mrs. Blackwell, under whose will of 18th May 1793 this prize was founded. 2. A Gold Medal, weighing about two ounces, awarded under the deed of mortification of John Gray, Esq. (19th December 1768), to such of his Mathematical Bursars as are certified by the Professor of Mathematics to possess an uncommon genius for that science, and to have made discoveries or improvements therein." This medal has been adjudged three times (11th February 1795; 25th March 1823; 1st April 1825). 3. The Silver Pen, a premium given annually by comparative trial to students of the junior Greek class, the successful candidate receiving, at the expense of the Library fund, a book of about one guinea value, and his name being inscribed on a silver plate, and attached to a silver peu kept in a large gold box, presented in 1770 by the Earl of Buchan. 4. Prizes to the amount of £50 were given in 1820, and the same sum in 1824, by the Earl of Fife, then Rector, to students in all the classes who were successful at comparative trials instituted by the Principal and Professors. 5. Prize-books, purchased with the money of fines, are given in several of the classes. ORDER XXV.-Have the Students any voice in the appropriation of the Prizes? and if so, on what authority is that regulation founded? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-The Prizes designated in paragraph 5 of the last Return have, in some cases, been awarded by the votes of the Students, subject to the approbation of the Professors; in other cases, by comparative trial, prescribed by the same authority. ORDER XXVI.-Have any Funds been mortified or otherwise appropriated for Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-The only Funds mortified or appropriated for Prizes are― 1. The Endowment of Mrs. Blackwell's Prize Essay, mentioned in Return 24, made by her will of 18th May 1793, and forming part of the rents of the lands of Pulmuir, and under the same management with them. 2. The Endowment of Gray's Gold Medal, provided for in the foundation of his Mathematical Bursary, by his deed of 19th December 1768. ORDER XXVII.-Are any Students admitted to Attendance at any of the Classes in the said College without paying Fees; and if so, is such exemption matter of right or of indulgence by the Professors individually? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-It is considered incompetent for Professors to take less than the full fee from any student who is not a bursar; but poor students are frequently admitted to attend classes without paying fees. The exemption is matter of indulgence by the Professors individually. The Principal and Professors may exempt such poor students from the payments to the two college servants (order of Faculty, 1st November 1796), and they often exempt them from the payment of 3s. 6d. annually for maintaining the college buildings. Four young men from Robert Gordon's Hospital in Aberdeen are admitted yearly to study in the Mathematical and Natural Philosophy classes without paying fees, in consequence of a donation of fifty guineas made by the governors of that hospital to the subscription for the observatory in 1781. (Order of 24th August 1781.) All bursars who have obtained their bursaries by comparative trial, and who are attending the Natural Philosophy and Moral Philosophy and Logic classes, are admitted annually, without paying fees, to the Chemical class, under the will of Mrs. Blackwell, who founded the professorship of Chemistry (18th May 1793). University of Appendix, Part II. Order XXV. Order XXVI. Order XXVII. ORDER XXVIII.-Is there any Regulation requiring the Professors as a body, Order XXVIII. or with their respective Classes, to attend Divine Service on Sunday, in any Church or Chapel connected with the College, or in any particular place of worship; and is the same in observance; or if not, how long has it been in non-observance; and is there any accommodation appropriated for the use of the Students generally, or of any particular Students, in any particular place of worship; and is there any regulation applicable to Students not of the Established Church? Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-A portion of Students has always been in the habit of attending Divine Service in the Greyfriars' or College church, accompanied by one or more of the Professors, and this has been frequently enforced in the course of the ordinary discipline of the college on students of the established church who had not opportunities of accompanying their friends or relations to other churches in the city. The custom of a Professor walking with the students from the college to the church adjoining continued till 1814; but students who choose to attend that church continue to do so, and generally, during the time of session, fill all the seats appropriated for them, and some of the Professors attend in the same gallery along with them. Students of other religious denominations have never been required to attend in the established church. Part of one of the galleries in the College church has been appropriated to the students since 1768, but not holding more than sixty, has ceased to afford the necessary accommodation for the fifth part of the students during the session. The trustees under the will of the late John Gordon, of Murtle, Esq., commenced in 1825 an University of Appendix, Part II. Marischal College and University. Order XXIX. endowment of £50 annually to the Professor of Divinity in Marischal College for a course of Lectures on Practical Religion, to be open to all the students. The first course of lectures was given last session, on the Tuesday afternoons, and attendance on them is enjoined on all under-graduate students wearing gowns, without exception, and under the same regulations as any of the classes of the curriculum is attended. ORDER XXIX.-A Return of the Number of Students matriculated at the said College for the last 50 years, specifying the numbers for each year, and of the numbers entered for the different Faculties respectively. Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-Return of the Numbers of Students matriculated in Marischal College, containing Students of Languages, Philosophy, and Divinity. Order XXX. Remarks on the preceding Table of Numbers Matriculated. The numbers of Matriculated Students, given in the preceding Table, comprehend all those of Languages, Philosophy, and Divinity, with the exception, in some years, of a few private Students of Mathematics, seldom exceeding four or five, who were not matriculated, from its being the practice, till lately, to matriculate only the classes taught by the four Regents, and the Divinity class. The numbers in the Table comprehend also such Students of Law or Medicine as were at the same time Students of Languages, Philosophy, or Divinity; but not those who were attending the Law or Medical classes only. If Students of the latter description be comprehended, the numbers in actual attendance during each of the last five sessions, whether matriculated or not, will be as follows:— This list, however, comprehends the Students of Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, and Materia Medica, who do not belong exclusively to Marischal College, the classes for these branches being under the joint patronage of King's and Marischal Colleges, as is stated in Return 30. The Matriculation of the Natural Philosophy class in 1788-9 was omitted from some cause now unknown. ORDER XXX.-A Return of the Proportion of Medical Students at the said College during the same period, distinguishing the number from the different parts of the United Kingdom, and those from foreign countries. Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-Return of Medical Students belonging to Marischal College, in connexion with King's College. In Marischal College, Lectures on Anatomy began 25 years ago; but the courses were not regular till after the year 1816, nor are the numbers of Students on record. In 1818, Lectures on Anatony and Physiology, Surgery, and Materia Medica, were instituted under the joint patronage of both Universities, according to an agreement then entered into. These Lectures have been delivered in Marischal College, or in apartments near it, and at such hours as to accommodate the Students of both Colleges. The number of Students attending each course pre viously to session 1820-21 cannot now be stated. For the last six sessions the numbers have been as follows: Aberdeen, Appendix, Part II. In the class for Anatomy and Physiology, there are regularly three meetings a-week during the session, with many extra meetings. The meetings are of an hour each at least, but often much longer. The Lecturer's fee is £3. 3s. In the Surgical class there are regularly three meetings a-week, and, in the course of the session, about as many extra meetings as regular ones. The meetings are of an hour each at least, and often longer. The Lecturer's fee is £3. 3s. In the Materia Medica class there are three meetings a-week, of an hour each. The Lecturer's fee is £2. 2s. The Medical Students were not matriculated till session 1824-5. In that session there were matriculated 54 students; and in session 1825-6 there were matriculated 48 students. From a comparison of the catalogues of the above-mentioned three classes for the last two sessions, it appears that the number of individuals studying in them during these sessions was as follows, viz. ORDER XXXI.-A Return of the Number of Students at each Class during each Return by the Senatus Academicus. R.-Return of the Number of Students at each Class during the last Fifty Years. * The matriculation of the Natural Philosophy class was omitted in 1788-9 from some cause now unknowa. Order XXXI. Order XXXI.* Remarks on the preceding Lists. 1. The Second Greek class was not established till 1813, when Greek ceased to occupy a portion of the time in the Civil and Natural History class. 2. The Third Greek class commenced in 1817. Lists of the students attending it have not been regularly preserved. 3. From the want of a professorship of Humanity, no Humanity class, distinct from the classes of the Regents, was taught till 1818. The class then established formed a First Humanity class, and the business of a Second Humanity class has since continued to occupy a portion of the time in the classes of Civil and Natural History, and Moral Philosophy and Logic. This practice is henceforth to be discontinued in the Civil and Natural History class (resolution of 7th October 1825), and a distinct Second Humanity class is to be formed. 4. No lists of the First and Second Mathematical classes, previous to 1780-81, when the present professor began to teach-nor of the Third Mathematical class, previous to 1817-18, have been preserved. 5. No list has been preserved of the class of Oriental Languages, previous to 1793-4, when the present professor was appointed. 6. No list has been preserved of the Chemical class previous to 1809-10. It was taught as a lecturer's class from 1785 to 1793; and it has since been regularly taught as a professor's class. 7. The class for Practice of Physic was not taught till the appointment of the present professor of Medicine in 1823. The number of students attending it has been recorded only for session 1824-5. 8. The lectures on Botany (by Dr. Knight, Professor of Natural Philosophy) began in summer 1823. Botanical lectures were given on many former occasions, but the number of students attending them cannot now be stated. 9. The class for Scots Law was established in 1819, but the numbers of students attending it were not recorded till session 1821-2. A summer course of lectures on Conveyancing has also been given for two seasons. The number of students attending this season was 16. 10. The above omissions in regard to the lists of the numbers of students have arisen from the practice, continued till lately, of matriculating in the Album only the classes taught by the four Regents, and the Divinity class; which matriculation, previously to the forming of classes for Medicine and Law, gave the number of individuals in attendance, with the exception of a few private students in the Mathematical classes. The numbers of students attending the classes for Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, and Materia Medica, as far as recorded, are given in Return 30. ORDER XXXI.*-A Return of the Number of Students at the Divinity Halls of Marischal College, Aberdeen, for the last 25 years, distinguishing the |