being appointed by the University Court; and it receives in the first instance all reports by such Committees, and, subject to the review of the University Court, confirms, modifies, or rejects the recommendations in such reports. The Senatus elects four Assessors* to the University Court. Previous to the Universities Act of 1889, it elected one. No Principal or Professor of any Scottish University can be elected Rector, or be nominated or elected Assessor to any other person or body than the Senatus Academicus. FACULTIES. The Professors are classified under the five Faculties of ARTS, SCIENCE, DIVINITY, LAW, and MEDICINE. The Faculty of Science was instituted by Ordinance No. 31 of the Commissioners under "The Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889". Readers were added by University Court Ordinance No. 104, Aberdeen No. 14, and by Ordinance No. 127, Aberdeen No. 18, the Senatus may appoint as member of a Faculty a Lecturer who holds office in terms of Section VIII. of Ordinance No. 17. The various Faculties are constituted as under : (1) The following Professors, Readers, and Lecturers constitute the FACULTY OF ARTS: the Professors of English Literature, Humanity, Greek, Hebrew and Semitic Languages, French, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, History, the Readers in German and Celtic and Comparative Philology, and the Lecturers in Spanish and Comparative Psychology. (2) The following Professors, Readers, and Lecturers constitute the FACULTY OF SCIENCE: the Professors of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Engineering, Chemistry, Natural History, Botany, Forestry, Anatomy, Physiology, Bacteriology, Agriculture, Geology, the Reader in Geography and the Lecturers in Veterinary Hygiene and Principles of Agriculture. (3) The following Professors constitute the FACULTY OF DIVINITY: the Professors of Systematic Theology, Divinity and Biblical Criticism, Divinity and Church History, Hebrew and Semitic Languages. (4) The following Professors and Lecturers constitute the FACULTY OF LAW: the Professors of Law, Forensic Medicine, +History, Political Economy and Conveyancing, and the †† Lecturers in Constitutional Law and History, Public and Private International Law, Procedure and Evidence, and ** Roman Law. * For names of Assessors, see under University Court. + By resolution of University Court. By resolution of the University Court of date 20th January, 1925. ++By resolution of the Senatus Academicus of date 25th November, 1924. ** By resolution of the Senatus Academicus of date 30th November, 1926. (5) The following Professors, Readers, and Lecturers constitute the FACULTY OF MEDICINE: the Professors of Chemistry, Natural History, Botany, Natural Philosophy, Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Materia Medica, Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, Forensic Medicine, and the Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Infectious Diseases. UNIVERSITY ASSISTANTS. There are Assistants to all the Professors except those in the Faculty of Divinity. They are appointed yearly by the University Court on the recommendation of the respective Professors. All the Assistants are debarred from private teaching. DEGREES. The following Degrees are conferred by the University : With the exception of the Degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws, which are bestowed honoris causâ tantum, all the Degrees are conferred only after examination. The granting of the Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws is regulated by Ordinance of the Universities' Commissioners No. 41 (General No. 13-Honorary Degrees) as amended by University Court Ordinance No. 128, Aberdeen No. 19. Two Committees are annually appointed by the Senatus, whose duty it is to select persons to be recommended to the Senatus for the respective Degrees. The Ordinance provides that the Committees shall not entertain applications from or on behalf of persons desirous of receiving the Degrees. The recommendations of each Committee are embodied in reasoned Reports which are submitted to the Senatus. GRADUATION CEREMONIAL AND ACADEMIC COSTUME. The ceremony of Graduation takes place at two terms in the year-in the beginning of April and of July respectively. Those who are to receive Degrees are required to wear the Black Stuff Graduate's gown and to be provided with a Trencher cap and the Hood of their Degree. Graduands already holding a degree are not permitted to present themselves wearing the Hood of that Degree. The Hoods for the different Degrees are as follows: M.A.-Black Silk, lined with White Silk. D.Litt. Scarlet Cloth, lined with White Silk. Ph.D.-Scarlet Cloth lined with Black Ribbed Silk, the ribs running horizontally. B.Sc.-Black Silk, lined with Green Silk. B.Sc. Agr.-Black Silk, edged with Green Silk. B.Sc For.-Black Silk edged with wared Green Silk. B.Sc. Eng. D.Sc.-Scarlet Cloth, lined with Green Silk. M.B. For full dress, doctors wear gowns of scarlet cloth with silk facings of the colour peculiar to their Degrees,-White, Green, Purple, Pale Blue, Crimson or Black. With these, no Hoods are required, and, instead of the ordinary Trenchers, Black Velvet Caps of the "John Knox" style are worn. EXAMINERS. I. FOR DEGREES. The Examiners for Graduation in Arts, Science, and Medicine are the Professors whose subjects qualify for Graduation in those Faculties respectively, together with such Readers or Lecturers in the University and such additional Examiners appointed by the University Court, as the Court may deem necessary. The Examiners for Graduation in Divinity and Law are the Professors or Lecturers on the subjects included in the respective Examinations, and additional Examiners appointed by the University Court. As a rule the new appointments are made at the June meeting of the Court. II. FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS. By General Ordinance of the four Scottish University Courts No. 70; General No. 3 (Regulations as to admission to the Scottish Universities for purposes of graduation), which came into force on 31st December, 1918, the Regulations relating to the Preliminary Examination were altered, and a new Entrance Board was constituted, consisting of sixteen members appointed by the four Universities. The Entrance Board annually submits to the University Court a statement specifying the number and the qualifications of the Examiners whom the Board may require. The University Court thereupon makes the necessary appointments. Lecturers-1889-91 1891-93 GIFFORD LECTURESHIP. Edward Burnett Tylor, D. C.L., F.R.S., Oxford. Principal A. M. Fairbairn, D.D., Mansfield College, Oxford. James Ward, D.Sc., LL.D., Trinity College, Cambridge. 1898-1900 Prof. Josiah Royce, Ph.D., Harvard University, U.S.A. 1900-02 Prof. Arch. H. Sayce, D. D., LL. D., Oxford University. 1904-06 James Adam, M. A., LL.D., Cambridge University. 1907-09 Hans Driesch, Ph.D., Heidelberg. 1909-11 1911-13 Prof. William Ridgeway, M.A., D.Litt., LL.D., Cam- Prof. A. S. Pringle Pattison, D. C. L., LL. D., Edinburgh 1913-15 Prof. William Ritchie Sorley, Litt.D., LL.D., Cambridge University. 1917-19 Clement C. J. Webb, M.A., Oxford University. 1921-22 Ernest W. Hobson, Sc.D. (Cantab.), F.R.S., F. R. A.S., Hon. D.Sc. 1924-25 Prof. William Mitchell, M. A., D.Sc., University of Adelaide. 1926-28 The Right Rev. ERNEST WILLIAM BARNES, M.A., Sc. D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Bishop of Birmingham. The sum of £20,000 was bequeathed in 1887 by Adam Gifford, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Edinburgh, for the purpose of founding a Lectureship on Natural Religion. In the testamentary deed executed by Lord Gifford the purpose is more particularly declared to be-" Promoting, Advancing, Teaching, and Diffusing the study of Natural Theology," in the widest sense of that term; in other words-" The Knowledge of God, the Infinite, the All, the First and Only Cause, the One and the Sole Substance, the Knowledge of His nature and attributes, the Knowledge of the relations which men and the whole universe bear to Him, the Knowledge of the Nature and Foundation of Ethics or Morals, and of all Obligations and Duties thence arising". The Lecturers need not belong to any religious denomination, and they sign no test. They are appointed for two years, and may be twice re-appointed for another term of two years. By the deed of Foundation the Senatus is the Patron. JOHN FARQUHAR THOMSON LECTURESHIP. The late Mr. John Thomson, the Aberdeen University Press, Ltd., by his Trust Disposition and Settlement, dated 27th October, 1910, directed his Trustees to pay the University Court the sum of £2000 for the purpose of establishing a Lectureship in memory of his son the late John Farquhar Thomson, M.A. The subject of the Lectureship to be "The Structure and Functions of the Human Body ". Mr. Thomson further stated: "I establish the said Lectureship for the special purpose of affording information to young persons as to the due care of the body in early life with a view to its healthy development and the prevention of its abuse by intemperance, etc.". Under a scheme approved by the University Court on 16th November, 1920, the Court appoints annually a member of the University Teaching Staff as Lecturer. The same Lecturer cannot be appointed two years in succession. During each Winter Session the Lecturer delivers at least six weekly Lectures in Marischal College. The Lectures are open without fee to the Public. Under a scheme approved by the Court on 11th May, 1920, it is arranged that a series of three Lectures shall be delivered each year by distinguished persons or authorities specially invited. The Lecturers are appointed by nomination of each of the Faculties in rotation, subject to the approval of the Senatus. In the Academical Year 1927-28 it falls to the Faculties of Science, Law and Medicine to nominate. WILSON TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP. By his last Will and Testament, dated 15th May, 1862, Robert Wilson, M.D. (K.C.), 1815, sometime Private Secretary to the Marquis of Hastings, Governor of Malta, and latterly residing at Glenairnie Cottage, Morayshire, bequeathed the residue of his estate (1) for the endowment of a Travelling Fellowship, to be held by a Graduate in Medicine of the University of Aberdeen for the purpose of exploring certain parts of Asia and Africa particularly described in the Will; and (2) for the formation and extension of a Museum of Antiquities in the University, of which the Testator's collections were to form the nucleus. The endowment having become partially inoperative and |