CONTENTS.

EXTRACTS from the Minutes and Proceedings of the Commissioners relating to the University

of Aberdeen. [13th Nov. 1826-14th Oct. 1830.] .

Minutes and Proceedings of the Royal Commissioners appointed for Visiting the Universities

and Colleges of Aberdeen.-[17th Sept. to 21st Sept. 1827.]

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE.

KING'S COLLEGE.

Extent of power vested in Principal by the Charter Foundation, 9. Powers of Principal and

Professors when unanimous, 9, 10. Duties of the Principal, 9, 11. Chancellor when elec-

tor, 10. Lectures whether delivered by Principal, 10, 11. Teaching of Chemistry by Hu-

manity Professor, 11. Smallness of incomes possessed by individual Professors, 12.

The Rev. PATRICK FORBES, D.D., Professor of Humanity

Mode of conducting Class, 12. No Latin composition, 12, 18. Examination, 13. Age of

students, 13. Extension of teaching hours, 13, 16; and of Curriculum, 13. Length of Ses-

sion, 14. Pecuniary difficulties of Students, 14. Advantage of so framing the system of Uni-

versity education as to be thrown open to the lowest classes, 14. Postponement of the higher

branches of education till the third and fourth years of course, 14. Examination of students

in Greek and Latin previous to entering the College, 15. Parish Schools and School-

masters, 15. Number of teaching Hours of the Humanity Professor, 16. Imperfect Latin and

Greek scholarship of students upon their leaving College, 16. Remedy for the evil, 16. Pub-

lic Examinations, 16. Examining for degrees in Arts, 17. Degree of Bachelor of Arts, 17.

Period of attendance at Grammar-school, 17. Examination before entering upon the

academical course, 17. Mode pursued with Bursars, 17, 18. Blackstone examination, 18.

Prizes-Decision of students in awarding prizes, 18. Catalogue, 19. Exercises, 19. Me-

thod of conducting the Chemistry class, 19. Extended curriculum of whom to be required, 19.

Additional classes, 19. Introduction of Tutors, 19, 21. Requisite for taking the degree of

Master of Arts, 20. Church attendance, 20. Union of the two Colleges, 20. Medical com-

mittee, 21. Supplementary Evidence-Lengthening of College Session, 21. Laying open

College education to the lowest classes, 23. High requisition of the Church of Scotland from

her ministers, 24. Union of the Universities of Aberdeen into one University, and of the

faculties of Divinity, Laws, and Medicine, 24. Particulars relating to the Chemistry and

Natural History classes, 24, 25. Fees, 25. Museum, 25.

HUGH M'PHERSON, Esq., M.D., Professor of Greek and Sub-Principal

Method of teaching, 25. Ignorance of students on first entering, 25. Remedy proposed, 25.

Parochial Schoolmasters, 25, 26. Sessional and other examinations, 26. Prizes, 26. Exer-

cises, 26. Fees, 26. Second Greek class, 26. Prolongation of College Session, 26. Post-

ponement of public examinations, 27. Punctuality of Professors, 27. Duty of Sub-Principal,

27. Regularity of attendance, 27. How enforced, 27. Effects of better endowing Parochial

Schools, 27. Of little progress in Greek in young men first joining class, 27. Church at-

tendance, 27. Gaelic language, 27. Examinations for degrees in Arts, 28. Private read-

ings, 28. Books read by second class, 28. Extra hour for Greek, 28. Paucity of attendance

on the Oriental Professor, 28. Union of the Colleges, 28. Union of Faculties, 28. Arrange-

ments and state of the Medical School, 28, 29. Requisites as to previous acquirements before

receiving the degree of M.D., and consequent results of raising the standard of education, 29.

On prolonging the session, 29. Additional observations-Augmentation of salaries, 29, 30.

JOHN TULLOCH, Esq., A.M., Professor of Mathematics

Mathematical and Natural Philosophy class, 30. Application of the Fluxionary Calculus, 30.

Arrangement of Chemistry and Greek class, 30. Of Humanity and Mathematical class, 30, 31.

Of second and third Greek class, 31. Moral Philosophy and Logic class, 31. Branches

taught in the Mathematical class, 31. Prizes-Exercises, 31, and Examinations, 32. Second

year's attendance, 31, 32. Age of students, 32. Natural Philosophy taught before Moral

Philosophy, 32. Certificates, 32. Examination of Bursars at the commencement of third

session, 32; of students generally at the beginning of each session, 32. Study of Physics

before that of Intellectual Philosophy, 32. Punctuality, 32. Catalogue, 32. Regularity of

attendance of students, 33. Prolongation of session, 33. Examination for degrees in Arts, 33.

Church attendance, 33. Gaelic chapel, 33. Application from Students respecting shortness

of session, 33. College table, 33. Union of Colleges, 33, 34. Additional Professors, 33.

Increase in number of students, 34. Students resorting to Edinburgh to complete their educa-

tion, 34.

The Rev. WM. PAUL, A.M., Professor of Natural Philosophy

Branches taught in class, and mode of conducting it, 34, 35. Arrangements for Latin, Mathe-

matics and Greek, 35. Afternoon examinations, 35. Astronomy, 35. Observatory, 35.

Imperfect knowledge of students in Mathematics upon their joining the class, and remedies, 36.

Natural Philosophy in fourth session, 36. Augmentation of Curriculum to five sessions, 36.

Rendering parochial teaching more effective, 36. Examinations for degrees in Arts, 37. No
examinations in Classical Literature or Moral Philosophy, 37. Open examinations before all
the Professors, 37. Conferring degrees of Arts on non-students, 37. Of Divinity on mem-
bers of the Associated Synod, 38. Regulation respecting candidates at the public competition
for Bursaries, 38. Union of Colleges, 38. Of Medical Faculty, 38. Prizes, 38. Certificates,

-39. Advantage or disadvantage of Bursaries, 39. Examination for Bursaries, 39. Church

attendance, 39.

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King's College.

The Rev. HERCULES SCOTT, A.M., Professor of Moral Philosophy

Separate Logic and Rhetoric class, 40. Mode of conducting Moral Philosophy class, 40. Cata-

logue, Fines, Exercises, 40. Class Examinations, 41. Order and nature of course, 41. Third

year for Logic class, 41. Second Mathematical class, 41. Separate Professor of Logic, 41.

Teaching hours 41. Prolongation of session, 41. Addition to preliminary education, 41. No

composition required in any but Logic class, 41, 42. Prizes for general proficiency, 42. For

individual essays, 42. Students judges of essays, 42. Certificates, 42. Expulsion of students,

42. Fines for non-attendance, 42. Meeting of many classes at the same hour, 42. Course

for the first two years, 42. Reading Greek with students, 43. Classes attended in the fourth

year, 43. Examination for degree in Arts, 43. Master of Arts' degree necessary for higher

degree, 43. Age of students, 43. State of preparation of students, 43. Use of multiplication

of small bursaries, 43, 44. Withholding of bursaries upon examination in the second and third

years, 44. Union of Colleges, 44. Conduct of students attending College in Old and New

Town, 44. Divinity students, 45. Tabular view of Professorships in the event of a union

of the two colleges, 45.

ALEXANDER DAUNEY, LL.D., Professor of Civil Law

Attempt to revive class, and delivery of Lectures in 1825, 45. Mode of rendering the Professor-

ship more efficient, 46. Abolition of the Professorship, 46. Substitute for Civil Law, 46.

General management of the College, 46. Union of the two Colleges, 46. Conjunct Civilist, 47.

Retiring Professor, and appointment of assistant and successor, 47. Qualifications of candi-

dates for the Professorship, 47.

JAMES BENTLEY, Esq., A.M., Professor of Oriental Languages

Injunction to attend Hebrew Class, 48. Course of proceeding in the class, 48, 49. Lecture

hours, 48. Grammar and Vowel-points, 48. Number attending, 49, 50. Sessions requisite

for imperative attendance of students of Theology on class, 49. Union of Colleges, 49.* Pri-

vate teacher of Hebrew in Aberdeen, 49. Divinity students, 50. Presbyterial examination,

50. Certificates, 50. Second class, 50. Modification of Professorships, 50.

JAMES BANNERMAN, Esq., M.D., Professor of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine without an Hospital, 50. No lectures given, 50.

The Rev. DUNCAN MEARNS, D.D., Professor of Divinity

Method of conducting Class, 50. Discourses required from Students, 51. Mutual criticism by

Students, 51. Irregular attendants, 51, 52. Compelling Divinity Students to attend Hebrew

Professor, 51. Presbyterial examinations, 51. Supply of Books from Divinity Hall, 52.

Plan of course and heads of subjects, 52. Division of Students into two classes of Theology,

52. Institution of a Professorship of Biblical Criticism and Ecclesiastical History, 52. Exten-

sion of Divinity Session, 52. Students commencing their studies at intermediate part of

course, 52. Class examinations, 52. Of Divinity Students, 52. Prescribing discourses, 52.

Prizes, 52. Taking discourses of Students in proper year. 53. Augmentation of teaching

hours by Professor of Theology, 53. Exaction of fees from Divinity Students, 53. No Profes-

sorship of Church History, 53. What additional classes requisite, 53. Concert of Divinity

Professors, 53. Union of Colleges, 53. Advantages of Bursaries, 53. Whether Bursaries

are permitted to be held by partial attenders, 54. Modification of Bursaries, 54. Manage-

ment of Divinity Library, 54. Endowment of Divinity Professor, 55. Attendance on Hebrew

Class by Divinity Students, 55. System of Deposit, 55. Reading in the Library, 55. Ex-

amination before entering Divinity Hall, 55. Presbyterial Examinations, 55. Certificates, 56.

Prizes, 56. Examination of Philosophy Classes, at the middle and end of Session, 56. Private

Examinations previous to the public ones, 56. Examination for degree in Arts, 56. De-

pendence of Moral Philosophy Professor's income on fees paid by Masters of Arts, 56. As to

Principal of Divinity teaching a class, 57. Distribution of the Classes in the Faculty of

Arts, and the order of study, 57. Additional Professorships, 57. Disuniting the Logic and

Rhetoric from Moral Philosophy. 57. Logic preceding Moral Philosophy, 57. Additional

hours for Greek and Latin, 57. Dispensing with Elementary Greek Class, and providing a

higher class of schoolmasters, 57. Superfluous Professorships, 57. Substitution of class for

that of Civil Law, 57. On changes of magnitude in Scottish Education, 57. Qualifications

of Parish Schoolmasters, 57. Branches to be taught by them, 58. Effects of a standard of

higher attainments, 58. Higher requisites for Candidates for Orders, 58.

Mr. JAMES EDMOND, Clerk

College Property, 58-60.

Mr. DAVID HUTCHEON, Procurator and Master of Mortifications

State of College Property and Mortifications, 61-63. Yearly Rents and Feu-duties, 63.

The Rev. WILLIAM PAUL, A. M., Curator of Library (Further Examination)

Library Funds, general management and state of Library, 64, 65. Stationers' Hall, 64, 65. De-

posit, 65. Ley's Bursaries, 66.

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MARISCHAL COLLEGE.

Marischal College. CHARLES SKENE, Esq., M.D., Professor of Medicine

Number of Students in Class, 67. Nature of Lectures, 67. Failure to open a course on the
Institutes of Medicine, 67, Fuller instruction for Medical Degree, 67. Establishment of
School of Medicine for completion of course, 68. Infirmary, 68; and Clinical Lectures, 68, 69.
Extension of lecturing time, to qualify for Army and Navy, 68. Certificate of attendance, 68.
Petition of Medical Students at Aberdeen, 68. Tickets, 68. Description of persons attending
Class, 68. Importance to the north of Scotland of the establishment of a Medical School at
Aberdeen, 68. Age of Students commencing, 68, 69. Prolongation of Session, 69. Prelimi-
nary Education required, 69. Students removing to Edinburgh or Glasgow to prosecute their
studies, 69. How received in London, 69. Classes necessary to complete course of Medical
Instruction, 69. Increased attendance on the Lectureship, 69. Arrangement for lecturing on
Anatomy, 70. Professional gentlemen delivering course of Lectures, 70. Class Examinations, 70.
Fees, 70, Selection of the subject of Practice of Physic, 70. No regular instruction previous
to the Anatomical course in 1803, 70. Difficulty in getting subjects, 70. Collection of prepa-
rations, 70. Hour of class meeting, 70. Alteration of hour, 70. Country practitioners, 70.

Pharmacy and Chemistry, 70. Extension of session not bearing hard on country Students, 70.

Walking the wards of the Infirmary, 71. Number attending the Clinical Lectures, 71. Im-

portant Surgical Operations performed in the Hospital, 71. Granting degrees of Medicine to

Students educated in the University, 71. Summer courses, 71. Preliminary knowledge of

Greek, 71. Suggestions for improvement of Medical School, 71. Union of Colleges, 71.

Examinations for Medical Degrees on the more improved system, 71, 72. Examination in

English, 72. Certificates under the old regulations, 72. Library, 72, 73. Course for Medical

class, 72. Students' Petition, 72. Passing of Students in London, 72. Professor studied at

Edinburgh, and completeness of course, in that city, 72. Election of Rector, 72. Age of Stu-

dents entering Greek class, 73. Students of Divinity allowed to vote, 73. Period of election,

73. Public Class Examinations, 73. Blackstone Examination, 73. Entrance Examinations,

and remission of Students not sufficiently prepared, 73. Attendance by Professors of the full

hour, 73.

The Rev. JAMES MELVIN, A.M., Lecturer on Humanity

By whom appointed, and head master of the Grammar-school, 74. Manner of conducting Huma-

nity class, 74. State of first and second class, 74, 75. Ignorance of Prosody, 74. Exercises, 74.

Authority of Lecturer, 74. Regular attendance and ca'alogue, 74. Fines, 74. Age of Stu-

dents, teaching hour, 75. Comparative knowledge of Students from the Grammar-school and

the country, 75. Number attending the second Humanity class, 75. Public Examinations

and Prizes, 75. Institution of a distinct Latin class in the University, and effect of requiring a

higher preliminary education, 75. Reading additional authors to those used in class, 75.

Greek in the Grammar-school, 76. What Grammar used, 76. Teaching of Greek, by whom

introduced, 76. Proportion of Students from the country, and others, 76. Of Students sent

to College solely for the Humanity and Greek classes, 76. Falling off in number before the

completion of the course of Philosophy, 76. Effects of the election of Rector, 76. Library, 76.

Prosodial exercises and exercises in Composition, 76. Writing of verses, 76.

Mr. ROBERT REID, A.M., Teacher of Greek

By whom appointed, 76. Manner of conducting class, books used, and process with the first,

second, and third classes, 77. Second session devoted to recapitulation, 77. Mode of proceed-

ing with Students from the Grammar-school, and those from the country, 77. Ignorance of

the elements of Greek in Students from the country, 78. Small proportion of Students from

the south, 78. Improvement since the examinations for the degree of M.A., 78. Annual ex-

pense of books, 78. Effect of the new regulations, 78.

The Very Rev. WM. LAWRENCE BROWN, D.D., Principal and Professor of Divinity

Junction of Professorship of Divinity with office of Principal, 78. Principal obliged by Charter

to teach Syriac and Anatomy, 78. Course pursued as Professor of Divinity, 78. Irregular

Students, 79. Opening College Session with a Latin oration, 79. Exercises, opinion

delivered in Latin, Homily, Exegesis, Exercise, and Addition, 79. No examinations of

Students on Lectures delivered, 79. Extension of length of Divinity Session, 80. Institu-

tion of Professorship of Biblical Criticism, and of Church History, 80. Professorship of

Oriental Languages rendered Professor of Church History, 80. Arrangement for hearing

the Exercises and critical Discourses, in the event of the institution of a Professorship of Bib-

lical Criticism, 80. Consequences of Professor of Divinity lecturing daily, 81. Union of Col-

leges, 80. Conferring degrees in Arts by respective Colleges, 80. One Divinity Hall, 80.

Professors in both Colleges lecturing on same subjects at the same time, 80. Election of

Rector, 80. Non-residence of Rector, 81. Period of attendance by regular and irregular

Divinity Students, 81. Cramming of lectures, and German Students at Gottingen, 81. As

to prescribing four years of attendance, 81. Additional classes, 81. Period for attending

Hebrew class, and attendance made imperative, 81. Separate endowment of Divinity class,

and duty to be discharged by Principal, 81. Principal not necessarily a clergyman, 81.

Duties of Principal as described in Charter, 81. Inconvenience of Students not commencing

at the beginning of course, 81. Division of Theological class into two, 82. Discourses of

Students, and taking them out of their proper year, 82. Suggestions for promoting interest

of the College, 82. Satisfactory discharge of duty by Professors, 82. Medical department,

82. As to institution of new Professorships in Medicine, 82. Elementary knowledge of

Greek by young men before entering College, 82. Present state of classical attainments of

Divinity Students, 82. Small Bursaries, 82. Parochial Schoolmasters, 83. Narrow cir-

cumstances of Students for the Church no reason for exempting them from bestowing a pro-

per time on the study of Theology, 83. Supplementary-Latin prayer in capacity of Princi

pal-Lecture on Practical Theology as Professor of Divinity, 83. Allotting due proportion of

leisure to Professors for self-improvement, 83.

The Rev. ROBERT JAMES BROWN, Professor of Greek

Method of conducting class, 83. On Greek Grammars, 83. Second and third classes, 84. As

to dispensing with teaching the elements of Greek within the Colleges, 84. Matthia's Gram-

mar, 84.

JAMES DAVIDSON, Esq., M.D., Professor of Civil and Natural History

Manner of conducting class, 84. No syllabus of lectures, 85. Latitude of subjects under the

description of Civil and Natural History, 85. Examinations, 85. Hour of eight in the morn-

ing how occupied, 85. What understood by Civil History, 85. Zoology and Mineralogy, 85,

Chemistry, 85. Extensive reading necessary, 85. Works recommended, 85. Fees to the

Professor of Humanity, 85. For the second Greek class, 85, 86. Conversion of class into one

of Civil and Natural History, 86. Classes attended in addition to that of Mathematics, 86.

Essays imperative, and subjects of them, 86. Geography and Chronology, 86. Deficiency of

Students in general knowledge, 86. Comparative proficiency of Students from the Grammar-

school of Aberdeen, 86. Prizes, 86. Veto in case of deficiency, 86. Election of Rector,

party-spirit, and "How to choose a Rector," 87. Galvanism and Magnetism, 87. No con-

cert with Dr. Knight, 87. Light and heat, 87, 88. Chemical Affinity, 87. Pneumatic Che-

mistry, 89. On the state of Medicine, and the formation of a proper Medical School, 88. Au-

thority upon which the Professorship of Chemistry was instituted, 88. Union of Colleges, as

one University, 89.

ROBERT HAMILTON, Esq., LL.D., Professor of Mathematics

Not taught the Mathematical class for some years, 89. Successor, by whom appointed, 89.

Care taken in the lectures to keep pace with the alterations in the state of science, 89. Length-

ening of Session, 89. Union of Colleges, 89. Of the Faculties of Divinity and Medicine, 89.

A single Professor in the department of Oriental Languages sufficient, 89. Opinion on the

University of

Aberdeen.

election of Rector, 90. Arrangement respecting assistant and successors, 90. Dr. French, 90.

Professor of Modern Literature a valuable accession to the University, 90.

Marischal College. JOHN CRUICKSHANK, Esq. A.M., Assistant and Successor to Dr. Hamilton

Errors in Returns, 90. Manner of conducting the Mathematical class, 90, et seq. Catalogue, 90.

Attendance upon the third and fourth classes voluntary? 91. Fee for teaching these classes,

91. Gray's Bursary, 91, 92. Prizes, 92. Certificates, 92, 93. No Monitors, 93. Extension

of class and importance of daily examinations, 93. Advantages from a Union of the Univer-

sities, 93. Irritation excited by the election of Rector, 93. New buildings required, 94. En-

dowment for a Professorship of Humanity suggested, 94. Small Bursaries, 94. Dialling

class, 94. Attaining a knowledge of Mathematics of greater difficulty than a knowledge of

Greek, 94. Advantage of being taught the elements of Greek before entering College, 94.

Acquirements of parochial Schoolmasters, 94. Initiatory examinations, 94. Lengthening of

College Session, 95. Additional endowment for Chemical Professorship, and increase in time

of teaching, 95. Exemption from Militia Laws, 95. Students in Aberdeen assisted by young

men reading with them, ,95. Fixed Tutors, and application of Bursary Funds, 95. Order

of attendance on the Classes, 95. Dynamics and Astronomy, 95. Natural Philosophy

class, 95. Emolument as conjunct Professor, 95, 96. Addition of a year to the Curriculum,

95, 96. Explanations and additions, 96. Vacation, 96. Way of extending the Curriculum for

the degree of A. M., 97. State of the Burse Fund, 97. Royal Commission for visiting, 97.

WILLIAM KNIGHT, Esq., LL.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy

Manner in which the class is conducted, 97. Lectures on Botany, 97. No drawings used to

supply the want of specimens of plants, and system of viva voce examinations, 98. Age of

Students, and number of class, 98. Resemblance of subjects to those taught by the Professor

of Civil and Natural History, 98. No concert with another Professor, 98. Proficiency of

Students to follow in the course, 98. Apparatus, 98. Gives no instruction in Practical Astro-

nomy, 99. Postponement of the more difficult parts of Moral Science to the last year of the

Mathematical course, 99. Preference in taking Physical Science before Intellectual Philo-

sophy, 99. Exercises prescribed, 99. Prizes, and restraining veto, 99. Election of Rector,

99. Union of the two Universities, 99. Union of the two Colleges, why objectionable, 99, 100.

System of permanent Visitors, 100. New Professorships, 100. As to the state and adapta-

tion of various portions of Sciences, 100. Suggestions in the order of the Returns-smallness

of the emoluments of Professors, 100-length of Session, 101. Endowment of a Professor-

ship of Humanity—want of funds for class-libraries—of fund for prize-books-entrance-exami-

nations-Principal's office ought to be one of teaching according to charter-duties pro-

posed for him-Mr. Gordon's mortification-reviving dress worn by under-graduates-neces-

sity of new buildings-funds for College library-facilities for transmitting articles of Natural

History-hardship of Professor's assistants, 101. Increasing the standard of merit of Paro-

chial Schoolmasters, 102. Construction of passage in Charter respecting the examination for

the degree of A.M., 102. Diary of the Natural Philosophy class, and number of Students

attending, 102, 104.

The Rev. GEORGE GLENNIE, D.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy

Manner of conducting class, 105. Exercises, 105. Criticising each other's productions, 105. No

backwardness in Students to be examined, 105. Utility of examination, 105. Want of time for

a full discussion of subjects of class, 105, 106. Separation of Rhetoric and Logic from Moral Phi-

losophy class, 106. No prizes, and bad effects of the mode of adjudging prizes by Students, 106.

Separate hour for examination, 106. Dictating notes, 106. Synopsis of lectures, 106. As

to Students bearing additional fee - Detaching Logic from Moral Philosophy class, 106.

Other classes attended during the fourth year, 106. Professor's class the leading one for the

fourth year, 106. Attendance on Mathematical class after that of Natural Philosophy, 106.

No Political Economy, 106. Lectures on Jurisprudence, 106. Proportion of course devoted

to Logic, 106. Of Students graduating previously to the late regulations, 106. Diminution in

numbers, from what cause arising, 106. Church attendance, 106, 107. As to checking im-

proper practices at church, 107. When appointed, 107. Explanation of Students not going

forward to the Moral Philosophy class, 107. Attendance of Students at Divinity Hall, 107.

No lecture on the New Testament on Sunday, 107. Certificates, 107. Students expelled

from other Colleges how received, 107. Dismissal, 107. Election of Rector, 107, 108. Pro-

longation of Session, 108. Poverty of Students, 108. Fees, 108. Increase in the number of

Students, 108. Attendance of young lads for the first two or three years only, 108. Average

age of Students, 108. Object in view in reading Greek and Latin classics with the Students,

108. Strictness of the annual examination, 108. Proportion of Students destined for the

church, 108. On partial attendance at Divinity Hall, 109. Students Parochial Schoolmasters

before attending class, 109. Union of the two Colleges and two Universities, 109. Super-

session of elementary Greek class, 109. Increased remuneration to Parochial Schoolmasters,

109. Essays read in the class, 109. Exemption from the Militia Act, 109. Curator of the

library, 110. Management of library, 110.

The Rev. JAMES KIDD, D.D., Professor of Oriental Languages

Method of delivering lectures, and of teaching class, 110. Necessity of a knowledge of Hebrew,

110. Attendance-No fees-Grammar, 111. Neglect of Hebrew, 111. Chaldee, 111. At-

tendance should be made imperative, 111. Number of years that should be required by the

church to attend, 111. Church attendance, 111. Inadequacy of Salary, 112. Impractica-

bility of discharging the duties of Professor and the office of Pastor in the church at the same

time, 112. Memorial, 112.

ALEXANDER EWING, Esq., M.D., Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology

Nature of course, and mode of conducting it, 112. Possibility of establishing a Medical School,

and requisites proposed, 112, 113. Course that might be pursued, 113. Importance of Ana-

tomy, 113. Physician in the Infirmary, 113. Clinical lectures, and admission of Students to

see the operations, 113. Establishment of a Midwifery class, 113. Pecuniary loss to Lecturer

at first commencement, 113. Want of a separate dissecting-room, 113. Proficiency of

Aberdeen pupils, and passing the Royal College of London, 113, 114. As to Professor of

Medicine and Professor of Chemistry lecturing every day, 114. Philosophy class, 114. On

conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 114. State of the Anatomical class, and expense

incurred by lecturer, 114.

GEORGE FRENCH, Esq., M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University

Method pursued in the course of lectures, 114. State of class, 115. As to establishment of a

course of Medical Instruction, 115.

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