CHANCELLORS— 1860 The Earl of Aberdeen, died 14th December, 1860 jointly. VICE-CHANCELLORS AND PRINCIPALS Elected 1860 The Very Rev. Peter Colin Campbell, D.D., died 1876. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATIVES. 1868 James Moncreiff, LL. D., Lord Advocate. 1869 Edward S. Gordon, Q.C., LL.D., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. 1876 William Watson, LL.D,, Lord Advocate. 1880 JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, OF STRACATHRO, P.C., LL.D., reelected 1885, 1886, 1892, and 1895. RECTORS. Elected 1860 Lord Barcaple. 1863 Earl Russell. 1866 M. E. Grant Duff, M.P., re-elected 1869. 1872 Thomas Henry Huxley, LL. D. 1875 William Edward Forster, M.P., LL.D. 1878 The Earl of Rosebery, LL.D. 1881 Alexander Bain, LL.D., re-elected 1884. 1887 George Joachim Goschen, M.P., LL.D. 1890 THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY, P.C., LL.D., re-elected 1893 and 1896. REPRESENTATIVE TO GENERAL MEDICAL The Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, by the Medical Act of 1858, § 4, were entitled jointly to elect a member of the "General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom". 1858 James Syme, Edinburgh, re-elected 1863. 1868 John Macrobin, M.D., Aberdeen. 1873 William Turner, M.B., Edinburgh, re-elected 1878. UNIVERSITY COURT. By the Universities Act, of 1858, the University Court consisted of six members, and was vested with the following powers : "1. To review all decisions of the Senatus Academicus, and to be a Court of Appeal from the Senatus in every case, except as otherwise provided in the Universities Act. "2. To effect improvements in the internal arrangements of the University, after due communication with the Senatus Academicus, and with the sanction of the Chancellor, provided that all such proposed improvements shall be submitted to the University Council for their consideration. "3. To require due attention on the part of the Professors to Regulations as to the mode of Teaching, and other duties imposed on the Professors. "4. To fix and regulate, from time to time, the fees in the several Classes. "5. Upon sufficient cause shown, and after due investigation, to censure a Principal or Professor, or to suspend him from his office and from the emoluments thereof, in whole or in part, for any period not exceeding one year, or to require him to retire from his office on a retiring allowance, or to deprive him of his office; and during the suspension of any Professor, to make due provision for the teaching of his class: Provided always, that no such sentence of censure, suspension, or deprivation, or requisition on a Professor to retire from office, shall have any effect until it has been approved by Her Majesty in Council. "6. To inquire into and control the administration by the Senatus Academicus or Principal and Professors of any College, of the revenue, expenditure, and all the pecuniary concerns of the University and of any College therein, including funds mortified for Bursaries and other purposes." By the Universities Act, of 1889, the Court was enlarged by the presence of additional Assessors from the Senatus Academicus and the General Council, and by the introduction of representatives from the Town Council of Aberdeen. Its powers were also greatly extended, mainly by the transference to it from the Senatus of the administration of the property and revenues of the University. These powers, subject to any Ordinances made by the Commissioners, are thus defined in the Act : "(1.) To administer and manage the whole revenue and property of the University, and the college or colleges thereof existing at the passing of this Act, including the share appropriated to such University out of the annual grant hereinafter mentioned, and also including funds mortified for bursaries and other purposes, and to appoint factors or collectors, to grant leases, to draw rents, and generally to have all the powers necessary for the management and administration of the said revenue and property: "(2.) To review any decision of the Senatus Academicus on a matter within its competency which may be appealed against by a member of the Senatus, or other member of the University having an interest in the decision, within such time as may be fixed by the Commissioners, and to take into consideration all representations and reports made to it by the Senatus Academicus and by the General Council: "(3.) To review, on representation made by any of its members, or by any member of the Senatus Academicus, within such time as may be fixed by the Commissioners, any decision which the Senatus Academicus may come to in the exercise of its powers under section seven, sub-section one [i.e., in the regulation and superintendence of the teaching and discipline of the University]: Provided always, that the University Court shall not review any decision of the Senatus Academicus in a matter of discipline, except upon appeal taken either by a member of the Senatus or by a member of the University directly affected by such decision: "(4.) To appoint professors whose chairs are, or may come to be, in the patronage of the University; to appoint examiners and lecturers; and to grant recognition to the teaching of any college or individual teacher for the purposes of graduation, under any regulations on the subject laid down by the Commissioners, which regulations after the expiration of their powers may from time to time be modified or altered by the Universities Committee: "(5.) To define on application by any member of the Senatus Academicus the nature and limits of a professor's duties under his commission, subject to appeal to the Universities Committee: "(6.) To take proceedings against a principal or professor, University lecturer, assistant, recognised teacher or examiner, or any other person employed in teaching or examining under section twelve, sub-section five, of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, without the necessity of any one not a member of the Court appearing as prosecutor, and for the purposes of such proceedings to call before it any member of the University to give evidence, and to require the production of documents, and also to institute and conduct any such inquiries as it may deem necessary: "(7.) To appoint from among members of the University or others, not being members of the Senatus Academicus, one third of the members of any standing committee or committees charged, by ordinance of the Commissioners under this Act, with the immediate superintendence of any libraries or museums, or the contents thereof, belonging to the University and college or colleges thereof existing at the passing of this Act, and on representation made by any of its members, or by any member of the Senatus Academicus, to review any decision which the Senatus Academicus, in the exercise of its powers, may come to in respect of the recommendations of such committee or committees : “(8.) To appoint committees of its own number consisting of not less than five members, with powers to report on any business that may be entrusted to them by the University Court, or to carry out special instructions ordered by the University Court: "(9.) To elect the representative of the University on the General Medical Council, under the Medical Act, 1886: “(10.) After the expiration of the powers of the Commission to found new professorships with the approval of the Universities Committee, and after such expiration no new professorship shall be founded except as herein provided." Members of the University Court since its Constitution in 1860 up to 1890. John Webster, of Edgehill, LL.D., 1860, 1863, 1866, 1869, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1887. Library.* Librarians-1860 (1857) Rev. John Fyfe, M.A., LL.D., demitted 1876; died 1897. 1877 Robert Walker, M.A., demitted 1893. 1894 PETER JOHN ANDERSON, M.A., LL.B. THE Library of the University dates from 1500, when Bishop William Elphinstone, the founder of King's College, and Hector Boece, its first Principal, presented many MSS. and printed books, several of which are still extant, bearing their donors' autographs. Other early benefactors were William Hay, the first Sub-principal, John Vaus, the first Humanist, and Alexander Galloway of Kinkell, Rector of the University. Bishop William Stewart, its Chancellor, 1532-45, "built the librarie hous, and with a number of books furnisht the same". A catalogue of books appears in an Inventory of College property, prepared in 1542 for a Visitation (the first on record) by the Rector and his Assessors. In the seventeenth century the library of King's College received valuable gifts of medical works from Alexander Reid, M.D., the first lecturer on Surgery in London; of theological works from the Scougals, father and son; and of works on law from Thomas Sandilands, Commissary of Aberdeen. The collection of early works on Civil and Canon law is the finest in Scotland. In 1624, Thomas Reid, Latin Secretary to King James VI., endowed a Librarian at Marischal College, and bequeathed "the best library that ever the north pairtes of Scotland saw," including "the fairest and largest editions of the Classics that were printed from the time of Aldus Manutius until the year 1615, the Philosophers, Lawyers, Greek and Latin Fathers, with the works of the chief critics, Scaligers, Casaubons, Lambins, etc., that flourished in that period, and many valuable and curious MSS.". In the eighteenth century the most generous supporter of the library was James Fraser, LL.D., Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, who presented many books to King's College, restored the library build *For notes on the History of the University Library, see Appendix B, Calendar 1893-94. For account of CLASS LIBRARIES in the Faculty of Arts and Law and Divinity, see under each Faculty. |