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REGENTS (Continued).

1715 William Meston, The Jacobite poet 1717 Patrick Hardie

David Verner

John Anderson

George Cruden, Prof. of Greek

1721 George Turnbull

1723 Thomas Haddow, Prof. of Greek Thomas Blackwell, Prof. of Greek

1724 Daniel Gordon

1727 William Duff

1729 Matthew Mackaile, M.D.
1734 Francis Skene, Prof. of Civil and
Natural History, 1753

1739 Alex. Innes
1742 David Fordyce

1752 Alex. Gerard, Professor of Moral Philosophy

1625 Robert Barron ¶ 1649 John Menzies 1684 Patrick Sibbald

1697 James Osborn

1711 Thomas Blackwell

1728 James Chalmers

1753 William Duncan, Professor of Natural Philosophy

1758 William Kennedy, Prof. of Greek
1760 JAMES BEATTIE, Professor of Moral
Philosophy +

George Skene, Professor of Natural
Philosophy; of Civil and Natural
History, 1775

1775 Patrick Copland, Prof. of Natural
Philosophy

1779 Robert Hamilton, Prof. of Natural Philosophy

1782 John Stuart, Prof. of Greek

1787 James Hay Beattie, Prof. of Moral Philosophy

1788 William Morgan, Prof. of Civil and
Natural History

James Beattie, Prof. of Civil and
Natural History

1796 George Glennie, Professor of Moral
Philosophy

1811 Robert Rainy, Prof. of Civil and
Natural History

James Davidson, Prof. of Civil and
Natural History

1817 Patrick Copland, Prof. of Natural
Philosophy

1823 William Knight, Prof. of Natural Philosophy

1827 Robert James Brown, Prof. of Greek 1841 Wm. MacGillivray, Prof. of Civil and Natural History §

1845 David Gray, Professor of Natural Philosophy

1846 William Martin, Professor of Moral Philosophy

1853 James Nicol, Professor of Civil and Natural History

1856 James Clerk Maxwell, Professor of Natural Philosophy ||

PROFESSORS OF DIVINITY.

1745 Robert Pollock

1759 Alexander Gerard
1771 George Campbell

1795 William Laurence Brown

1831 Alexander Black **

1843 William Robinson Pirie

* Afterwards Regent, Edinburgh University.

+ Appointed Regent at King's College in 1711, but declined to accept.
Author of the "Essay on Truth,"
"The Minstrel," &c.

Author of "A History of British Birds," and other Zoological works. ||Author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism," and other works on Physics. Afterwards Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge University. Previously Regent, St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews. One of the "Aberdeen Doctors ** Afterwards Professor in New College, Edinburgh.

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* Author of "A Complete System of Fluxions," and other Mathematical works Afterwards Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh University.

+ Author of the famous "Inquiry into the National Debt".-From 16th November, 1780, Professors Copland and Hamilton, with the approbation of the Magistrates and College, made an exchange of their Classes and Duties, Professor Copland resuming charge of the Natural Philosophy Class, and Professor Hamilton acting as Professor of Mathematics. No formal change of offices was, however, made until

1817.

Afterwards Professor of Anatomy, Glasgow University.

Mention is found of a Humanist in 1620-4 (David Wedderburn), in 1650-5 (John Forbes), and in 1660 (George Whyte).

|| Afterwards Professor of Greek, Edinburgh University.

University of Aberdeen
(since 1858).

ON the 2nd of August, 1858, the Royal assent was given to an Act of Parliament (21 and 22 Victoria, cap. 83), intituled "an Act to make provision for the better government and discipline of the Universities of Scotland, and improving and regulating the course of study therein; and for the Union of the Two Universities and Colleges of Aberdeen ".

By Ordinance No. 7 of the Commissioners appointed by and for the purposes of the aforesaid Act, approved by Her Majesty by Order in Council, dated 30th June, 1860, the two foundations of the "University and King's College of Aberdeen " and " Marischal College and University of Aberdeen" were, from and after the 15th September, 1860, united and incorporated into One University and College, under the style and title of the "UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

The University as thus constituted is a corporate body, consisting of a Chancellor, Rector, Principal, Professors, Registered Graduates and Alumni, and Matriculated Students. Its government is administered by the University Court, the Senatus Academicus, and the General Council. It possesses all the powers, privileges, and property of the two Universities and Colleges above-mentioned, and, by virtue of the Universities Act (Sect. I.), it takes rank among the Universities of Scotland as from the date of the foundation of the University of 1494-5.

By the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, (52 and 53 Victoria, cap. 55), which, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, is to be read and construed along with the afore-mentioned Act of 1858, important changes have been made in the administration of the government of the University, and Commissioners were appointed with extensive powers for the regulation of the arrangements of this as well as the other Scottish Universities. The University Court is much enlarged, and its powers are greatly extended. Power was also given to the Commissioners

to grant a constitution to the Students' Representative Council; and a new body, the Scottish Universities' Committee of the Privy Council, which stands in a common relation to all the Scottish Universities, has been instituted.

UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS.

The University Buildings, formerly of King's College, are situated in College Bounds, Old Aberdeen, where the Classes in the Faculties of Arts (as defined on p. 56) and of Divinity are conducted. The Buildings contain also the Chapel, General Library, Observatory, and Archæological Museum.

Of these buildings, the most notable, architecturally, are the Chapel and its crowned Tower, which have been preserved remarkably intact through various vicissitudes, and together form a group of Academic buildings unique in Scotland. The Tower is flanked by strong buttresses, and terminates in a double crown, surmounted by ball and cross. On two of these buttresses are coats of arms of the Royal Patron, James IV. (dated 1504), and his son, Alexander, Archbishop of St. Andrews, who perished, yet a youth, with his father, at Flodden. Near the West Door is an Inscription, still legible, defining the day and year (2nd April, 1500) when the masons (latomi) began to build, under the auspices of James IV., who is styled, among other honours, "invictissimus,"-internal evidence that the inscription is older than 1513, the date of the disaster of Flodden. On a smaller buttress near, we have the heraldic insignia of his Queen, Margaret Tudor, through whom the Stuarts came to inherit the English throne. The Chapel, which consists of a long nave without pillars or side aisles, and terminates in a triangular apse, was originally built of freestone, but is now enclosed on the South Side in a casing of granite. Into this granite casing outside have been inserted various interesting coats of arms, including those of James IV., Bishop William_Elphinstone, Bishop Gavin Dunbar, Bishop William Stewart, Hector Boece (these four being recognised by their respective initials-W. E., G. D., W. S., H. B.), and among the subsequent and more recent benefactors, a prominent place is assigned to the Simpson and the Fraser Arms, in honour of Doctors Simpson and Fraser, whose names are associated with very important and valuable Foundations.

In the interior of the Chapel the most interesting object is the elaborate and richly carved Oak Screen which is without any parallel example in Scotland, and is believed to have few rivals in Great Britain. There is every reason to believe that it is contemporary with the Founder, who is said by his biographer to

have given "caelaturæ, sellae, subsellia," i.e., "carvings, stalls, and sub-stalls," for the service of the Chapel. Other notable features are the tomb of the Founder, Bishop Elphinstone; the double Pulpit, one Renaissance in style, bearing the name of Patrick Forbes of Corse, the other Gothic (originally from the Cathedral), containing the arms of Bishop William Stewart (with initials V. S.), who was one of the last of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Aberdeen before the Reformation. (For an account of the Stained Glass Windows, see later in the Calendar.)

The large square Tower in the N.E. corner of the Quadrangle is known as Cromwell's Tower, having been built about 1658 under the direction of General Monk and his officers, who bore rule for Cromwell at that period in the North. With the exception of the small Ivy Tower, all the other buildings, not previously referred to, are modern, belonging entirely to the present century.

The University Buildings, formerly of Marischal College, are situated in Broad Street, Aberdeen, where the Classes in the Faculties of Science (except those of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy), Law, and Medicine are conducted. The Buildings contain also various Museums and the portion of the Library that belongs to the departments of Natural Science, Law, and Medicine. Of the original College Buildings in the New Town, hardly any fragment remains, except the famous Stone with the Inscription: "Thay haif said; quhat say thay; lat thame say," which is still preserved in the vestibule of the existing building. The foundation stone of the present building was laid by the Chancellor, the then Duke of Richmond, in 1837, the edifice being from the design of Archibald Simpson, who has left not a few kindred monuments of his architectural taste and skill to adorn his native city.

The site was originally occupied by the conventual buildings of the Grey Friars or Franciscan Monastery, which accounts for the proximity of the Greyfriars Church within what is now the College Quadrangle.

A scheme of University Extension is now in progress, which, when developed, will open up Marischal College to Broad Street, and otherwise greatly benefit its surroundings. A portion of the new buildings, including the Mitchell Hall and Tower, University Union Rooms and Anatomical Department, was inaugurated in October, 1895; the new North Wing, accommodating the Departments of Botany, Surgery, Pathology and Chemistry, was completed and thrown open at the commencement of the Winter Session of 1896; and the North Tower, containing Law Classroom, Zoological Laboratory, Secretarial Rooms, etc., was opened in 1897. The new South Wing, which is devoted to the Department of Natural Philosophy, will be completed in 1898.

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