detect differences in race, group and social class. Inheritance in Man.

Medical Statistics.-Value of the statistical method in the treatment of certain medical problems. Examples.

Eugenics.-Application of statistical methods to eugenic problems, with examples.

Vital Statistics for D.P.H. Students.-General. Modes of deter mining birth, marriage, death and other rates. Crude, corrected, and standard rates. The simpler methods of computing populations in intercensal periods. Central populations. Method of determining post-censal populations. Corrected and general rates compared. Life-tables: principles involved in preparing them, with examples. Numerical examples of all the foregoing worked out.

Practical Work.-The work of the class will be devoted to the application of statistical methods, to particular cases suitable to each course, and students will be shown how to use mechanical calculators and the commoner mathematical tables.

ECONOMIC STATISTICS.

This class meets one hour daily for three days in the week during the Summer term, and qualifies for the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce in the subject of Economic Statistics.

A. Descriptive Economic Statistics. (Not involving the application of Mathematics.)

(1) The distributions of material resources in general and their mutual relationships. (2) The distribution of cereals and their products. Census of production. (3) The returns of acreage, stock, and output of the United Kingdom and their relation to Dominion and Foreign data. (4) The factors concerned in the distribution, growth, and migration of great industries. (5) The statistics of the external trade of the United Kingdom from geographical and historical standpoints. Similar statistics of foreign trade. (6) Government returns, population, and other censuses. B. Elementary Statistical Methods and Applications. (Involving the use of Elementary applied Mathematics.)

I. Methods. (1) The collation of commercial data and precau. tions necessary for proper interpretation. Arrangement of groups into series. (2) Fundamental ideas as to cause and effect and as to relationship between factors in economic life. (3) Definitions and uses of the arithmetic average, the weighted average, the median and the mode. (4) Actual forms of frequency distribution

of observations. Measurement of variation. The standard deviation. (5) Graphic forms of representing observations. Association or correlation and graphic methods of testing degree of correlation. Correlation ratios and coefficients.

II. Applications.-(1) Application of foregoing methods to the statistics of production, consumption, commerce, prices, incomes, population, and weather conditions. (2) The main sources of commercial data, as above, their character and meaning, as found by statistical methods. (3) Some social aspects of the statistics of industry. The influence of industrial conditions on social life. 4 The statistical relations of the problems of poverty, housing, sweating, unemployment, and other economic factors to one another.

No text is at present available on Economic Statistics, but information on certain statistical data can be obtained in Bowley's Elementary Manual of Statistics; Bowley's Elements of Statistics; Sir Robert Giffen's Statistics; G. Udny Yule's Introduction to the Theory of Statistics; J. Macfarlane's Economic Geography and the various Government Returns; Jones's "First Course on Statistics," G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., London; Copeland's "Business Statistics," Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Frequency Curves and Correlation," Elderton, published C. & E. Layton, Faringdon Street, London; "Statistics and Commerce," Boddington, Foulks, Lynch & Co., Ltd., Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside, London, EC. 2. Fisher's "Statistical Methods," published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London.

LAW.

FOUNDED IN 1505.

Patrons-THE UNIVERSITY COURT.

Professors-1860 (1833) Patrick Davidson, LL.D., died 1881.

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1881 George Grub, M.A., LL.D., retired 1891, died 1892.
1891 John Dove Wilson, LL.D., retired 1901, died 1908.

1901 Neil John Downie Kennedy, K.C., M.A., LL.D., demitted 1907,*
died 1918.

1907 James Mercer Irvine, K.C., LL.B., demitted 1919.*

1919 ALEX. MACKENZIE STUART, K. C., LL.B.

LAW OF SCOTLAND.

The course extends to not less than one hundred and twenty lectures during the Winter, Spring and Summer Terms. The lectures will cover, so far as practicable, the Civil and Criminal Law of Scotland. Written examinations will be held from time

*On Appointment as Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute.

to time during the terms. The text-books are Gloag and Henderson's treatise on the Law of Scotland to be published during the autumn, and students must have a copy of this book and also a Parliament House Book of recent date. The text-book recommended for Criminal Law is Anderson's "Criminal Law of Scotland". The class meets during the Winter and Spring terms at 4 p.m. and during the Summer term at 10 a.m.

CIVIL (ROMAN) LAW.

Lecturer-1926 ROBERT PEARSON MASSON, LL.B.

The course which extends to not less than eighty lectures qualifies for Graduation in Arts as well as in Law. Students are recommended to take this class before taking Scots Law. Text-books are Melville's "Principles of Roman Law"; Sandar's "Institutes of Justinian"; Buckland's "Manual of Roman Private Law". Some knowledge of Latin is essential.

CONVEYANCING.

(THE HUGH MCLENNAN CHAIR.)

FOUNDED IN 1927.

Patrons-THE UNIVERSITY COURT.

Professor-1927 ARCHIBALD CAMERON MORRISON, O. B. E., LL.B.*

The course consists of at least eighty lectures. Written examinations are held at short intervals throughout the session. The following books are recommended for private study: (a) On Origins of Feudal Conveyancing, Duff's Feudal Conveyancing; (b) On Developments and Statutory Changes from 1845 to 1874, Bell's Lectures on Conveyancing and Henderson Begg's Conveyancing Code; (c) On further Developments and Statutory Changes from 1874 to 1900, Craigie's Treatise (Heritable Rights, 1899 Edition), and Menzies' Lectures on Conveyancing (1900 Edition); and (d) On Conveyancing to date including the Act of 1924, Burns' Conveyancing Practice (Third Edition) and Wedderburn's Abridgment and Consolidation of Statutes. Students should also read Rankine's Law of Land Ownership, Chapters I., III., VI., VII., VIII., XVIII., and XXVII. and Gloag on Contract, Chapters XVII., XVIII. and XIX. Students are invited to confer with the Lecturer as to courses of reading on Testamentary Writings, Conveyancing in relation to Joint Stock Companies, Casualties and their redemption,

etc.

* Lecturer in Conveyancing in the University of Aberdeen, 1919 to 1927.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY.

Lecturer-1908 ROBERT MOIR WILLIAMSON, LL.B.

The course extends to not less than eighty lectures, which are delivered annually in the first two terms. The lectures will be partly analytical and partly historical. The analytical part will treat of the nature of Constitutional Law; the safeguards of the rights of individuals; the characteristics of the British Constitution; Parliament; the House of Commons and its Procedure including Private Bill Legislation; the House of Lords; the Crown; the Cabinet; Party Government; the Administrative Departments of Government; the relation between the Home Government and the Colonies.

The historical part will treat, in outline, of the development of the Constitution from the Norman Conquest to the present time.

Books-Dicey's "Introduction to the Study of the Constitution"; Anson's "Law and Custom of the Constitution"; G. B. Adams's "Constitutional History of England"; and "Government of Great Britain," by Hogan and Powell.

Attendance on this course is required of all candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and of candidates for Honours in History.

GENERAL JURISPRUDENCE.

1908 Professor Irvine.

1919 PROFESSOR STUART.

The course extends to not less than forty lectures. It includes the history and development of the Science of Law: the Austinian theory: the analysis of Law, persons, rights, duties, obligation, intention, liability, etc. Text-books are Holland's "Jurisprudence and Salmond's "Jurisprudence ".

Attendance on this course is required of all candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Attendance on these lectures also qualifies as a half-course for the Degree of B.L. and the Degree of M.A.

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Lecturer-1908 GEORGE DUNCAN, M. A.

The Class

The course extends to not less than forty lectures. will meet during the Summer Session in 1929, at 9 A. M., and thereafter in alternative Summer Sessions. The lectures will deal with the history and exposition of the doctrines of Public International Law.

Attendance on this course is required of all candidates for

the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Under Ordinance 40 attendance on these lectures also qualifies as a half-course for the Degree of B. L.

The text-books are Lawrence's "Public International Law," Halls "International Law," and Smith's "International Law' (ed. Phillipson).

PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Lecturer-1908 GEORGE DUNCAN, M. A.

The course extends to not less than forty lectures. The Class will meet during the Summer Session in 1928 at 9 A.M., and thereafter in alternate Summer Sessions. The lectures will deal with the principles of International Private Law, and, in particular, with the interpretation and application of these principles by the Courts of Scotland.

Under Ordinances 39 and 40 the lectures constitute a qualify ing half-course for Graduation in Law.

PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE (THE CLARK LECTURESHIP). Lecturer-1904 ALEXANDER BLACK LAW, M.A.

The course will be delivered in the Summer Session, and will consist of about fifty lectures on Procedure and Evidence, including the Practice of the Civil and the Criminal Courts of Scotland.

Under Ordinances 39 and 40 attendance on the lectures on Procedure and Evidence constitute a qualifying half-course for graduation in Law.

MERCANTILE LAW.

THE ALEXANDER THOMSON LECTURESHIP.

Lecturer-1927 WILLIAM DAVIDSON ESSLEMONT, M. A., B. L.

The Course consists of at least 80 lectures and is delivered during the Winter and Spring terms daily at 9 a.m.*

Attendance at this class qualifies for graduation in Commerce and in Law. The Syllabus includes all the subjects prescribed for the accountants' examination.

For the present, Commerce Students are required to attend the Winter Term only.

The lectures will deal with General Law of Contract; Sale of Goods; Carriage of Goods-Land Carriage and Sea Carriage; Agency; Partnership and Winding-up Partnership Estates; Joint Stock Companies-formation, administration and liquidation ; Bills of Exchange; Insurance-Fire, Life, Accident, and Marine ;

* In future, the hour at which the class meets is subject to alteration.