University Library.

Ar a meeting of the Faculty of Arts, held in the Pedagogy on 13th August 1456, it was agreed to make provision for instituting a Library in the University, and various donations of books are recorded in the Faculty Register. Each College at its foundation is believed to have been provided with the nucleus of a Library of its own, and in course of time these College Libraries became extensive and valuable. The general University Library was founded by James VI. in 1612, from whom, and from each of the members of his family, it received a valuable donation of books. At the same time a number of volumes were presented to it by Dr George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. The different Libraries were gradually augmented by many liberal benefactors, among whom may be mentioned the Earl of Buccleuch; Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit; Sir John Wedderburn, physician to Charles I., who was a regent in St Leonard's College from 1620 to 1630; the famous Alexander Henderson; and especially the Rev. Dr Mungo Murray, sometime rector of Wells, and Professor of Astronomy in Gresham College, London. Dr Murray had been previously a regent in St Leonard's College, to which, at his death in 1670, he bequeathed several thousand volumes.

The principal contributors in more recent times have been the King of Naples, the Earl of Kinnoull, Lord Melville, the Earl of Leven, Lord Francis Egerton, the Duke of Northumberland, Dr Carstairs of Stratford Green, London, the King of Oude, the King of Prussia, H.H. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, H.R.H. Prince Albert, the Czar Alexander of Russia, Miss Crombie, Dollar, Mrs Fischer, St Andrews, Mr C. Hean, Exeter, Mr Stephen Williamson, formerly M.P. for the St Andrews Burghs, Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., the King of Siam, Major Sprot, Stravithie, Miss E. M. Hill, Hampstead, the Rev. Oswald M. Holden, Rector of Steeple Langford, Mrs Veitch, The Loaning, Peebles, Principal Sir James Donaldson, St Andrews, the Executors of the late Very Rev. Principal Stewart, St Andrews, Mrs Menzies, St Andrews, and the Executors of the late Mrs Rodger, Southcourt, St Andrews. Contributions of interesting and valuable works are received from British and Foreign Societies, and other

learned bodies; and donations of single books are also frequently presented by their respective authors or publishers.

The University Library, about the middle of the eighteenth century, when those of the three Colleges were transferred to it, became the common one. It has since been considerably increased, and at present contains nearly 160,000 printed volumes. Among other interesting works may be mentioned, a copy of Quintilian printed about 1470; a copy of Homer's Iliad in Latin, printed in 1497, and the Hebrew Phrases of Stephanus, printed in 1558, both of which belonged to the celebrated George Buchanan, Principal of St Leonard's College, and contain copious notes in his handwriting; the Canons of the Council of Trent in Latin, printed at Antwerp in 1577, which belonged to James Melville, and contains his autograph; and Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism, printed at St Andrews in 1552.

The Library contains a number of Manuscripts, some of which are of great interest and value. There are several very fine Persian Manuscripts, a copy of the Koran which belonged to Tippoo Saib; part of a beautiful copy of the works of Augustine on vellum; a volume of Ecclesiastical Styles written in the early part of the sixteenth century; an old MS. of Wintoun's Chronicle; the original copy of the Solemn League and Covenant, which was subscribed at St Andrews in 1643; an early Hebrew roll containing some of the historical Books of the Old Testament; and a large folio Antiphonarium.

As regards books and periodicals, the Library is maintained by an annual payment of £630 from the Parliamentary Grant to the University, in lieu of the privilege enjoyed under the Copyright Act, and by occasional special grants from the General Fund of the University. An annual grant is also received from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

The books in the Library are divided into three sections: (1) the Lending Library, (2) the General Reference Library, (3) the Special Reference Library. Books in the Lending Library are available for all classes of readers, and may either be consulted in the Library or taken out for home reading. The General Reference Library includes manuscripts, scarce and valuable books, encyclopædias, dictionaries, transactions of learned societies, atlases, library editions of standard authors, maps, portfolios, unbound books and periodicals, litera. I translations of the classics, text-books temporarily transferred from the Lending Library at the request of Professors or Lecturers, &c. These are for the most part available for reference only, but some of them may, at the discretion of the Librarian, be lent out for short periods to members of the teaching staff. Certain rare books and

manuscripts can only be consulted in presence of the Librarian or an Assistant. The Special Reference Library contains a selection of the best books bearing directly upon the different subjects taught in the University, and is mainly intended for the use of students, who have direct access to the shelves. It is strictly a Reference collection, and no volume belonging to it may be taken out of the Library under any pretext whatever.

REGULATIONS REGARDING THE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE LIBRARY AS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES NOS. 8 AND 64 or THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONERS AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE No. 22 OF THE UNIVERSITY COURT.

I. A Committee, to be called the Library Committee, shall be constituted, consisting of seven members of the University or others, not being members of the Senatus Academicus, appointed by the University Court, and of fourteen members appointed by the Senatus Academicus. The said Committee shall be charged with the immediate superintendence of the University Library, and of the contents thereof, and of any libraries acquired, or to be acquired, for the use of the University or of any class therein. The members of the said Committee, in the proportions aforesaid, shall be appointed by the University Court and Senatus Academicus respectively at their first meeting after the commencement of the Winter Session in each year.

II. The Librarian shall have the ordinary management of the Library of the University, subject to the superintendence of the Library Committee.

III. The Librarian and such Assistant-Librarians as the University Court, on the report of the Library Committee, may think necessary, shall be appointed by the University Court. The University Court shall also have the power of suspending or dismissing such Librarian and Assistant-Librarians.

IV. All books ordered for the Library by the Library Committee shall be sent direct to the Librarian, and all books received by him shall be forthwith catalogued by him in such manner as the Library Committee may direct, and stamped with the Library stamp; and no person shall be allowed to use or borrow any book until it has been entered in the catalogue and stamped. V. The Librarian shall, with the approval of the Library Committee, from time to time prepare a list of such books, manuscripts, and other works as cannot, in consequence of any deed of gift or otherwise, be lent out of the Library; and the Library Committee shall from time to time make such regulations as

they shall think expedient for allowing access to such works for consultation.

VI. Manuscripts, rare books, works of reference, and such other works as the Library Committee shall determine, shall not be lent out of the Library, except under regulations to be made by the Library Committee and approved by the Senatus Academicus and the University Court; and, in addition to such general regulations, the Library Committee may, in each individual case of borrowing such works, impose such special conditions as they may think necessary or expedient: Provided always that every such special permission and all such additional conditions imposed by the Library Committee shall be entered in the Minute-Book of the Committee.

VII. It shall be in the power of the Librarian at any time to withdraw any work from circulation, subject to appeal to the Library Committee.

VIII. It shall be in the power of the University Court, after consultation with the Senatus Academicus, and on the report of the Library Committee, to sell or exchange such works as they consider it in the best interests of the Library to dispose of.

IX. A general inspection of the Library shall take place at such times and during such periods as the University Court, on the report of the Library Committee, shall determine, and all works whatsoever, and by whomsoever borrowed, shall be returned to the Library before the commencement of such periods, under a penalty previously fixed and publicly notified by the University Court.

X. The Library Committee shall frame regulations to be approved by the University Court, under which the persons hereinafter mentioned may respectively borrow or consult books. Such regulations shall prescribe, inter alia, (a) the number of books which the said persons shall be entitled to borrow; (b) the period for which they shall be allowed to retain them; (c) the penalties to be imposed in the event of their failure to return books in due time, or in the event of books being lost or injured. The persons entitled to borrow books shall be—

1. Members of the Senatus Academicus and University Lecturers.

2. University Assistants and Examiners.

3. The Librarian and Assistant-Librarians.

4. Matriculated Students.

5. Extra-academical Teachers, recognised by the University Court, in the town in which the University is situated. 6. Students enrolled in any Scottish University as attending

the lectures of extra-academical teachers in the town in which the University is situated, and who are already entitled by Ordinance to the use of the Library.

7. Persons who have retired or who shall hereafter retire from the office of Principal or Professor.

8. Members of the University Court.

9. Members of the General Council.

Provided that no member of the University Court or of the General Council shall be entitled to obtain from the University Library books required by the teachers or students of the University in the prosecution of academic work and research, and that it shall be in the discretion of the Librarian, subject to appeal to the Library Committee, to decide from time to time what books are so required.

In fixing the number of books to be borrowed by the aforementioned persons respectively, due regard shall be had to the preferable claims of those engaged in teaching and studying in the University.

XI. Members of the General Council shall be required, as a condition of exercising the privilege of borrowing books, to pay such subscription as the University Court shall fix from time to time. XII. The University Court shall determine what sum, if any, shall be deposited by those entitled to borrow books.

XIII. The Library Committee, with the approval of the University Court, may admit to the use of the Library, upon such conditions as to subscription and otherwise as they may require, members of the General Councils of other Scottish Universities and graduates of the University who, by reason of being under the age of twenty-one years, are not qualified to be members of the General Council.

XIV. It shall be in the power of the Library Committee from time to time to grant the use of the Library to such extent and on such conditions as they shall think expedient to persons who may not be members of the University, for purposes of literary research, and the names of those privileged readers shall be reported annually to the University Court.

XV. So long as any Library subscription or any fine incurred remains unpaid, and so long as any person continues in possession of a book which he is not entitled to retain, the right of the defaulter to the use of the Library shall be suspended and remain in abeyance.

XVI. The Library Committee shall, in an annual report to the Senatus Academicus, furnish information as to