2. Altering or revoking any of the ordinances affecting the University which have been or may be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or the Act of 1889, and making new ordinances: Provided that such ordinances, before being submitted to her Majesty for approval, shall have been communicated by the University Court to the Senatus Academicus and to the General Council, whose opinion thereon, if returned to the University Court within one month, shall have been taken into consideration; Provided also that the said ordinances, when finally adjusted by the University Court, shall have been communicated to the University Courts of the other Universities, and that, if notice of dissent to such ordinances shall have been given by any University Court, or by any person directly affected by such ordinance, to the University Court making such ordinances, within one month after the receipt thereof, the dissenting University Court or person may within one month after notifying dissent make a representation in regard thereto to her Majesty in Council; Provided further, that no ordinance made under this section shall be of any validity until it has been approved by her Majesty in Council, and that it shall be lawful for her Majesty to refer such ordinances to the Universities Committee, who shall report to her Majesty thereon; Provided further, that such ordinances shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament in the manner provided by section twenty of the Act of 1889; Provided further, that in computing the period of one month for the purposes of this section, the months of August and September shall not be counted, nor any part thereof. 4. Under Ordinance No. 4 (General, No. 1) of the University Commissioners it is in the power of the University Court, under such general directions as the Court may give, to delegate to its Finance Committee, consisting of not less than five of its members, the power of making or authorising such payments as the said Committee may consider necessary, and of investing the University Funds in any manner authorised by law for investments by trustees and approved of by the said Committee, without previous communication with the Court; and in the event of any such payment or investment being made by the said Finance Committee, the same shall be duly reported to the next meeting of the University Court.

5. Under Ordinance No. 144 (General, No. 17) the University Court possesses the following supplementary powers:

1. The University Court shall have power at any time to revise and adjust the terms of the Commission to be issued at the next vacancy of any chair, founded either before or after the passing of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, with regard

to the number of lectures and the period of instruction, and any appointment made by the Crown, or any other patron, shall be deemed to be made subject to such revision and adjustment, duly intimated and published, as the court shall determine, within four weeks after the occurrence of the vacancy: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorise the alteration of the conditions of tenure, or the main purposes of any Professorship, otherwise than by Ordinance.

2. Before proceeding to the foundation of any new Professorship, the University Court shall ascertain that there are sufficient means for its endowment, and shall also take into consideration the contingent claim which the Professor may have to a pension under the provisions of any Ordinance of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889.

To the University Court belongs the patronage of the Chairs of Greek, Humanity, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Mathematics (Dundee), Physiology, Natural History, Botany (Dundee), Chemistry, Education, English Literature, Engineering (Dundee), Anatomy, Materia Medica, Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, Midwifery, Bacteriology, and French.

The University Court is represented on the General Council of Medical Registration and Education of the United Kingdom, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the Trust for Education in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the St Andrews Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, and the Scottish Universities' Entrance Board, and nominates a member to the Fifeshire Territorial Force Association.

SENATUS ACADEMICUS.

The Senatus Academicus consists of the Principals and Professors of the University. It regulates and superintends the teaching and discipline of the University; and appoints two-thirds of the members of any committee or committees charged by the University Commissioners with the immediate superintendence of the libraries and museums of the University, or the contents thereof. The Senatus receives in the first instance all reports by such committee or committees, and, subject to the review of the University Court, confirms, modifies, or rejects the recommendations in such reports.

The Principal of the University is President, and has both a deliberative and a casting vote. In the absence of the Principal of the University, and of the Principal of St Mary's College, the Principal of University College, Dundee, presides; failing whom, the senior Professor present. One-third of the members of Senatus constitute a quorum.

The Senatus elects three Assessors to the University Court, and a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Senatus is also represented upon the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest; the Governing Boards of the Madras College, St Andrews; the Cupar Educational Trust; the Waid Academy, Anstruther; Wood's School, Newburn; the David Anderson Bursary Trust, Kirkcaldy; Dollar Institution; the Dundee Educational Trust; and the Spence Bursary Trust.

GENERAL COUNCIL.

The General Council was instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, but its constitution and organisation have been considerably altered by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868; the Universities Elections Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1881; the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889; and the Representation of the People Act, 1918.

The General Council consists of the Chancellor; the Members of the University Court, from and after their first election; the Professors; all Masters of Arts of the University; all persons on whom the University has, after examination, conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or Doctor of Science, or Bachelor of Divinity, or Bachelor of Laws, or Bachelor of Medicine, or Bachelor of Science, or any other degree that may hereafter be instituted; all who have furnished evidence that, as Matriculated Students, they had, previous to August 1861, attended the University for four complete Sessions, or for three complete Sessions in this University, and a fourth at another Scottish University-the attendance for at least two of these Sessions having been in the course of study in the Faculty of Arts; and every person who has hitherto been or who shall in the future become ex officio a member of the General Council, owing either to his having been a Professor in or having held office as Member of the University Court in the University, and who shall have paid the registration fee.

All Members of Council who are not Members ex officio must have their names enrolled in the Register of the University. Each Member on being registered must pay a fee of £1, which constitutes life - membership. In future, no person shall be allowed, after examination, to graduate, until he has paid the registration fee, with a view to his enrolment, at graduation, as a Member of the General Council.

The General Council is appointed to hold two statutory meetings every year, one on the last Saturday of January, and another on the last Saturday of June. In addition to these meetings the General Council may hold special meetings at the

instance of the Chancellor, who shall convene such meetings on a requisition from a quorum of members, and the Council may adjourn any meeting, and may appoint committees to investigate into and report upon any matter remitted to them or to carry out instructions given to them by the Council. The quorum of the General Council is thirty, being ten for every complete thousand or fraction of a thousand of members on the register; but no quorum is required at the statutory halfyearly meetings. The number on the Register at 1st January

1922 was 2179.

The business of the Council is "to take into consideration all questions affecting the wellbeing and prosperity of the University, and to make representations from time to time on such questions to the University Court, who shall consider the same, and return to the Council their deliverance thereon."

The Council elects the Chancellor of the University, four Assessors to the University Court, and, jointly with the General Councils of the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, three Members of Parliament. No member of the Senatus Academicus is entitled to vote or take part in the election of any Assessor of the General Council.

The Chancellor is President of the General Council. At the meetings of the Council, in the absence of the Chancellor, Rector, and Principal, the Chancellor's Assessor, and in his absence the Rector's Assessor, shall preside; and in the absence of all of the said officials, a Chairman shall be elected by the meeting, provided that no member of the Senatus Academicus shall preside at any meeting of Council held for the purpose of electing an Assessor or Assessors. In every case the Chairman has a deliberative and also a casting vote. At meetings of the Council the Chairman of the meeting decides all points of order.

STUDENTS.

REGULATIONS AS TO MATRICULATION.

Each Student shall pay a Matriculation Fee of two guineas at the commencement of each Winter Session (or Martinmas Term) for the whole academical year then next ensuing; but any Student attending a class or classes during a Summer Session (or Whitsunday Term) without having matriculated at the commencement of the immediately preceding Winter Session shall, in respect of such Summer Session, pay a Matriculation Fee of one guinea only. (Ord. No. 50, sect. I., as modified by Ord. No. 4 of the Scottish University Courts.)

No person shall be deemed to be a Matriculated Student in the University, or shall enjoy any of the privileges of a Matriculated

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Student, unless, in addition to paying the Matriculation Fee, he is enrolled as a Student in attendance in one or more classes in the University, and has paid the fees entitling him to such attendance. (Ord. No. 147, sect. I.) In the application of this regulation to the case of Students at University College, Dundee, the words "classes in the University" shall include classes at University College, Dundee, attendance on which qualifies for graduation in one or other of the Faculties, and shall include no other classes in the said College. (Ord. No. 162, sect. I.)

In accordance with a resolution of the Senatus Academicus, approved of by the University Court, Matriculation and Class Fees will be received from the commencement of the next Martinmas Term to Saturday, 11th November, from the commencement of the Candlemas Term to Saturday, 27th January, and from the commencement of the Whitsunday Term to Saturday, 5th May. The fees will be received on days and at hours of which due intimation will be made.

The University Court has in special circumstances power to permit persons who have not matriculated as aforesaid to attend any single class in any Faculty, on payment of an Entrance Fee to be fixed by the University Court in addition to the authorised Class Fee, subject to the following provisions-viz., that (1) attendance on any Class without payment of the Matriculation Fee shall not qualify for graduation in any Faculty; (2) that persons who have not paid the Matriculation Fee shall not be entitled to a certificate of attendance on any Class; and (3) that payment of such Entrance Fee shall not confer any University privilege other than the right of attendance on such Class. (Ord. No. 50, sect. II.) In exercise of this power the University Court have resolved that persons who have not matriculated as Students of the University may attend any single Class in any Faculty on payment of an Entrance Fee of 5s. in addition to the authorised Class Fee.

Matriculated Students have the right of admission to the University Library, and to the Museum of Natural History. They also have the privilege of electing, by a general poll, the Rector of the University.

The following is the Sponsio Academica signed by students at matriculation :

"Nos ingenui adolescentes, nomina subscribentes, sancte pollicemur nos preceptoribus obsequium debitum exhibituros in omnibus rebus ad disciplinam et bonos mores pertinentibus Senatus Academici auctoritati obtemperaturos, et hujus Academiae Andreanae emolumentum et commodum, quantum in nobis sit, procuraturos, ad quemcunque vitae statum pervenerimus."