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7. Any other matter which the Librarian may think it of importance to bring under the notice of the Senatus Academicus, or which he may be directed by the Library Committee to report.

The Senatus Academicus shall forward the report to the University Court.

BY-LAWS.

I. No book can be issued except to the borrower in person, or to some one having written authority from him; provided that it shall be allowable for the Librarian to forward books by parcel post or in a locked box by rail to any borrower who sends a written request to that effect, and who prepays the carriage either by stamps or postal order or by leaving a sum of money with the Librarian. The borrower shall be liable for the books on the Librarian producing a receipt of the despatch of the parcel as requested. Suitable boxes may be rented from the Library.

II. The Library and Reading Rooms in both buildings are, in the meantime, open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from Ten A.M. to Four P.M., and on Saturday from Ten A.M. to Two P.M.; except during the Christmas Vacation, and the months of August and September.

The Law Library is open, for consultation only, during the Winter Session every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (except in the Christmas Vacation), from Seven to Nine P.M.; and during every alternate Summer Session (when there is a course on Roman Law) every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from Seven to Nine P.M.

III. The Library and Reading Rooms are closed at the time of the Annual Inspection, and on such Public Holidays and during such period in the autumn recess as may be determined by the Library Committee. During the rest of August and September and the Christmas Vacation they shall, in the meantime, be open only from Ten A.M. to One P.M. on three days in each week in each building, the days alternating.

IV. A daily exchange of books between the two portions of the Library has been arranged, so that volumes borrowed from either Library may be left by readers at the other; and books required from the General Library are sent to the Marischal College Library, where they must be called for during Library hours. V. Lists of all additions to the Library are posted up at short intervals in both Colleges; and a List of Additions during each year is issued as a Supplement to the Calendar.

VI. The Library Committee meets, as far as possible, on the Pt. I.

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third Thursday of every month, except April, August, and September.

VII. All annual subscriptions and all deposits by students shall be payable to the Factor of the University.

N.B.-The Committee is desirous of making the University collection as representative as possible of:

1. Books or pamphlets written or edited by Graduates or Alumni of the University.

2. Books or pamphlets relating to or printed in the Northern Counties of Scotland.

The sum that can be set aside from general Library funds for these special purposes is very small, and the Committee confidently appeals to former students and to all friends of the University to present to the Library copies of any publications which they may write or edit. All such, however small, will be gratefully received and acknowledged.

Museums.*

ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM.

Conservator-Charles Michie, M.A.

THE Archæological Museum is in the University Buildings, Old Aberdeen, and contains a number of local and foreign antiquities, coins and medallions, and many rare and interesting objects presented by Alumni and other friends of the University, including an important collection of casts of Egyptian statuary, etc., presented by the late Dr. Grant Bey of Cairo. Some of these casts are distributed through the class-rooms, where they are available for illustration.

In 1889 a number of interesting objects, originally from Aberdeenshire, were added by purchase from the Sturrock Sale. In the same year arrived also from Queensland a valuable collection of objects from Polynesia, illustrative of primitive life, through the generous donation of Mr Soutter of Brisbane. In 1896 Professor Flinders Petrie presented a large collection of Libyan pottery, excavated by him at Haquada in 1894-95.

A printed Catalogue (price 3d.) may be had on application to the Conservator.

THE WILSON MUSEUM.

Curator-The Principal.

The Wilson Museum is in Marischal College, in a room adjoining the Library, and contains a number of antiquities, coins, etc., collected by the late Dr. Robert Wilson in his travels. The Trustees have lately made various purchases of objects according to the directions of the Donor; and the Davis Collection of ancient Coins, numbering 490, according to the Catalogue, has been recently acquired and added to the original collection. In

*For account of Museums connected with the Medical Classes, see under Faculty of Medicine.

1893 a valuable collection of coins of the native states of Rájputána was added by purchase from Captain Webb of the Indian Medical Service. Access to the Museum can be had by applying to the Sacrist, and the Curator will, on due notice, during the session, arrange for any special inspection of the objects.

In connection with the Wilson Museum, there is now exhibited in the Picture Gallery, at Marischal College, a complete series of Electrotypes, exemplifying the principal types of the Coins of the Ancients from B.c. 700 to A.D. 1. These number upwards of 1500 (obverses and reverses included), and are arranged chronologically and geographically according to a descriptive Catalogue which may be consulted by visitors in the Library. There are also in the Picture Gallery two cases of Tanagra figures, being a series of reproductions of the more notable of the Terra-cottas found in the excavations in Boeotia.

In accordance with a resolution of the Trustees, a nucleus of an Archæological Library in connection with this Museum has also been formed, and the collection embraces a number of the most recent works in Assyrian, Egyptian, and Phoenician, as well as Classic Archæology, together with a series of the leading periodicals of learned societies dealing with such subjects. A printed Catalogue can be obtained from the Librarian.

In terms of Ordinance No. 8 of the Universities Commissioners (1889) the superintendence of all Museums is entrusted to a Committee called the Museum Committee, consisting of three members (not being members of Senatus) appointed by the University Court, and six members appointed by the Senatus.

Faculty of Arts.

BURSARY FOUNDATIONS.

I. COMPETITION BURSARIES.

1. ADAM.

Founded in 1691, by Dr. Alexander Adam of Anstruther-Wester, and regulated by Ordinance of Universities Commissioners, 1858, No. 33, Aberdeen, No. 13. The number of Bursaries is three of the annual value of £20 each, and six of £15 each. Tenable for four years, subject to the condition that the Bursar "shall proceed through the Curriculum in Arts in the University, and shall pass the Examinations required by the University of Students proceeding to the Degree of Master of Arts; but, if he shall fail to pass any of the Examinations required as aforesaid of Students proceeding to the Degree of Master of Arts, or shall discontinue his attendance at the University as a Student in Arts, he shall forfeit his Bursary". The Senatus may appoint, in the event of a vacancy, for the remainder of any period of four years unexpired.

2. ADAM AND DAVIDSON.

Founded in 1691, by Dr. Alexander Adam, and, in 1766, by John Davidson, Merchant in Aberdeen, and conjoined into one Bursary of the annual value of £10. Tenable for four years, on the same conditions as are mentioned under the last foundation.

3. CAMPBELL.

Founded in 1853, by Colonel Alexander Brodie Campbell of Elgin. The number of Bursaries is now six, each consisting of one sixth of the free income of the Foundation, estimated at £19 or thereby, tenable for four years. Ordinance (1889) No. 116.

4. CARGILL.

Founded in 1616, by James Cargill, M.D., and regulated by "The Aberdeen (Endowed Institutions) Provisional Order, 1881 ". The number of Bursaries is eight, of the annual value of £20 each, tenable for four years.

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