1 1 tf in wrist til :: ^wt : ■ ' HtMltBtt ISP? ■ ■ . mm ■ ■ Mmmm life LP 1 2*^ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM Tj-"= "riversit' Cornell University Library LF1048 1884 ++ Records of the tercentenary festival of 3 1924 030 620 425 olin overs The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030620425 E B C E D S OF THE TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL RE C ED S OF THE TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH CELEBRATED IN APRIL 1884 PuMtgfreo antier tfje sanction of tije Srnatua 3catemt'cu0 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON , MDCCCLXXXV _-&-rrr fc a A- /3 $4- CONTENTS. L— PEELIMINABY. Arrangements by the Senatus Academicus, ...... Preparations by the General Council of the University, .... Preparations by the Students, ....... Preparations by the Corporation of Edinburgh, and by other Public and Learned Bodies, Programme of the Tercentenary Festival, ...... 3 20 21 22 22 II.— THE FESTIVAL. TUESDAY, 15th APRIL 1884. Ordinary Graduation Ceremonial, . . . . . . . .29 Promoter's Address, ......... 30 Eeception by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, in the Museum of Science and Art, .......... 39 Students' Torchlight Procession, ........ 41 Supper given by the Cap and Gown Club, . . . . . . .42 WEDNESDAY, 16th APRIL 1884. Commemoration Service in St Giles's Church, Luncheon in the University New Buildings, Students' Dramatic Entertainment, . Organ Eecital, ..... Conversazione in the Library Hall of the University, Students' Ball, ..... 44 56 75 77 78 81 VI CONTENTS. THURSDAY, 17th APRIL 1884. The Tercentenary Ceremonial, ...... a. Eeception of Delegates, ...... h. Conferring of Honorary Degrees, ..... c. The Chancellor's Tercentenary Address, .... Luncheon given by the President and Fellows of the Eoyal College of Physicians, Eeception by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates, .... Eeception by the Eoyal Medical Society, ..... The Tercentenary Banquet, ....... 82 83 88 99 105 105 106 108 FRIDAY, 18to APRIL 1884. Breakfast given by the President and Fellows of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Eeception of Delegates by the Lord Eector and Students of the University, Concert of the University Musical Society, ..... Eeception by the Eoyal Scottish Academy, ..... Illuminations and Fireworks, ...... Students' Symposium, ....... 146 150 167 169 169 171 SATURDAY, mh APRIL 1884. Departure of Guests, Memorials of the Festival, &c, 176 SUNDAY, 20th APRIL 1884. Sermon in St Giles's by the Eeverend Dr Cameron Lees, 177 III.— CONGEATULATOEY ADDEESSES. Addresses from Universities, Addresses from other Learned Bodies, Addresses from Individuals, . 185 288 315 IV.— APPENDIX. Appendix A — Post-Tercentenary Documents, &c, . Appendix B — Office-Bearers of the University, April 1884, Appendix C — Tercentenary Committees, .... Appendix D — Students' Eepresentative Council, Appendix E— Programme of the Students' Dramatic Eepresentation, Index, .... 333 340 345 347 348 349 I. PRELIMINARY War jyiiiiiiiis 3^ St? ItSj^JiI T Tniversity of Edinburgh Tercentenary Festival 1884 |^_ c P e KpG%A£M£ME SIN mm §tyl 2 JK ■ft % 1 1 i Mb» llfl' ■ fl tf Tjl ■. iHlpaMto & u i Mi|r?jr Myi SSM-^'"^ — ,1^=! fl "^ S^>^f|[[ 1 (f*Gl BSSH®^^£^5^y *^jS*tfVv*teiftS»%idr^- ^AJ|K3*WW*^ "' ^*v| TUESDAY, 8 P.M. Reception of Visitors by the Lord Provost, 16th APRIL. Magistrates, and Town Council in the Museum of Science and Art. II P.M. Students' Torchlight Procession. WEDNE8DAY, II A.M. Commemorative Service in the High 16th april. Church of St Giles. I P.M. Luncheon by invitation of the Principal and the Professors of the Faculty of Medi- cine in the University New Buildings. 3 P-M. Dramatic Representation given by the Students in the Theatre Royal. 4 P.M. Organ Recital by Professor Sir Herbert Oakeley in the Music Class Room. 8 P.M. Conversazione in the Hall of the University Library. IO P.M. Ball given bythe Students in the Assembly Rooms. • THUR8DAY, IO.30 A.V t. Tercentenary Ceremonial in the United 17TH APRIU Presbyterian Hall : — Reception of Delegates. Honorary Degrees conferred. Address by the Chancellor. Thursday, 1.30 P.M. Luncheon by invitation of the President 17th april. and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in the Physicians' Hall. 3 P.M. Receptions by the Faculty of Advocates, Advocates' Library, and by the Royal Medical Society, Melbourne Place. 6.30 p.m. Tercentenary Banquet in the Drill Hall, Forrest Road. FRIDAY, 18th APRIL 10 a.m. Breakfast by invitation of the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Surgeons' Hall. 11.30A.M. Reception of Guests bythe Lord Rector and Students in the United Presby- terian Hall. Visits to Holyrood Palace, the Castle, the University Buildings, National Gallery, etc. Excursions to the Neighbourhood. 2.30 p.m. Concert of the University Musical Society in the Music Hall. 4.30 p.m. Reception by the President and Council of the Royal Scottish Academy. 9 P.M. Illumination and Fireworks. 10 p.m. Students' Symposium, Drill Hall, Forrest Road. FACSIMILE OF OFFICIAL PROGRAMME. I. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. n.—PREPARA TIONS. T a dinner given in honour of the late Sir Robert Christison, Bart., on 23d February 1872, on the occasion of his having completed his fiftieth year of office as a Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., the Principal of the Univer- sity, in responding to the toast of the Universities, said : " . . . In ten years from this time, those of us who are spared will be called upon to celebrate the conclusion of another era. ... I mean the celebration of the Tercentenary of the foundation of the University of Edinburgh." At a meeting of the Senatus Academicus on 20th December 1879, it was moved — " That a Committee be appointed to consider arrangements for the approaching Tercentenary of the University," and a " Tercentenary Committee " was accordingly appointed at that meeting. At the first meeting of the Tercentenary Committee, which was held on 21st January 1880, it was stated by the Principal " that the time of the celebration might be either 1882 or 1883, because it was in 1582 that the charter was granted, and in 1583 that the work of the College was actually commenced." It was thought, however, that the time to be fixed would " depend on the state of the New University Buildings," and " that probably April would be the most suitable time of the year for the celebration ; but October and July were also mentioned." It was also resolved " that representatives should be invited from all the great Universities of the world, and that distinguished authorities in all departments should be invited to receive honorary degrees on the occasion." Among other suggestions offered was one " that a medal should be struck to commemorate the occasion." At the same meeting the Principal offered " to prepare for the occasion — with assistance from the various Professors-— a history of the University." At a meeting of the Senatus Academicus, held on 28th February 1880, the report of the Tercentenary Committee was read, and " it was agreed to request the Principal to TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. prepare for the occasion of the Tercentenary Celebration, with assistance from various Professors, a history of the University." * On 23d October 1882, the Tercentenary Committee was reappointed by the Senatus Academicus. The Committee was convened by the Principal on 20th Novem- ber 1882, and again on 6th December, and at the latter meeting it was "resolved to recommend to the Senatus Academicus that the celebration of the Tercentenary take place on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of April 1884." 2 This recommendation, as well as the arrangements for the Festival made by the Tercentenary Committee at numerous subsequent meetings, were from time to time approved of by the Senatus Academicus. Here may be mentioned in its chronological place a resolution of the Senatus Academicus of 27th July 1883, by which they agreed to give up the old and some- what inaccurate legend on their official seal, " Sigillum Com. Universit. Edinburg. sive Coll. Jac. VI. Scot. Peg.," and to adopt the new legend, " Sigillum Commune Universitatis Academicse Edinburgensis." b.— INVITATIONS. In November and December 1883, the following lists of (1) Universities, and (2) Other Learned Bodies, whose delegates were to be " guests of the University," and (3) Distinguished Persons, Benefactors, and Honorary Graduates of the University, to be invited to " attend the Festival," were drawn up by the Tercentenary Committee, and approved of by the Senatus. I.— UNIVERSITIES. (Italics denote those which were not represented at the Festival.) Aberdeen. Barcelona. Bonn. Cambridge. Adelaide. Basle. Bordeaux. Cape of Good Hope Air. Berlin. Breslau. ChamMry. Amsterdam. Berne. Brussels. Char Imp. Athens. Besangon. Buda-Pestli. Chili. Baltimore — Johns- Bologna. Caen. Christiania. Hopkins. Bombay. Calcutta. Clermont. 1 This work, entitled ' The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its first Three Hundred Years,' in two volumes, was published by Messrs Longmans of London in December 1883. 2 These days were the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Easter Week, during which it was thought that delegates from British and foreign Universities, as well as Members of Parliament and other distinguished persons, could most conveniently attend. October was thought unsuitable, as the celebration in that month would seriously interfere with the ordinary work of the University ; while the end of July was rejected on the ground that many of the principal citizens of Edinburgh, as well as almost all the students, would then be absent from town. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. Coimbra. Harvard. Montreal. Punjab. Copenhagen. Heidelberg. Moscow. Bennes. Cornell. Helsingfors — Univer- Munich. Eio Janeiro. Cracow. sity of Finland. Nancy. Pome. Czernowitz. Innsbruck. Naples. Eostock. Dijon. Jena. New Brunswick. St Andrews. Dorpat. Kasan. New Jersey. St Petersburg. Douai. Kief. Ni: w York — Colum- Salamanca. Dublin — Royal Uni- Kiel. bia College. Santiago, see Chili. versity of Ireland. Kingston, Canada. New Zealand. Santiago (Spain). Dublin— Trinity Coll. Konigsberg. Otago. Saragossa. Durham. Leipzig. Oviedo. Seville. Erlangen. Lemberg. Oxford. Strassburg. Finland, see Helsingfors. Leyden. Padua. Sydney. Freiburg. Liege. Palermo. Tokio. Geneva. Lima. Paris — Universite de Toronto. Genoa. London. France. Toulouse. Ghent. Louvain. Paris — Faculte de Tubingen. Giessen. Lund. M^decine. Turin. Glasgow. Lyons. Pavia. Upsala. Gottingen. Madras. Pennsylvania. Utrecht. Granada. Madrid. Pesth, see Bucla- Valencia. Gratz. Manchester. Pesth. Vcdladolid. Greifsiuald. Marburg. Pisa. Vienna. Grenoble. Melbourne. Poitiers. Virginia. Groningen. Michigan. Prague. Wurzburg. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Missouri. Providence, Rhode Is- Yale. Halle. Montpellier. land — Brown. Zurich. II.— OTHER LEARNED BODIES. {Italics denote those which were not r. Amsterdam . Royal Academy of Sciences. Andover, Mass. Theological Seminary. Belfast . Queen's College. Berlin . . Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Boston . . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Brussels . Royal Belgian Acad, of Sciences. Buda-Pesth . Hungarian Acad, of Sciences. Copenhagen . Royal Danish Acad, of Sciences. Cork . . Queen's College. Dublin . . King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. Dublin . . Boyal College of Maynooth. Dublin . Dublin Dundee . Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh at the Festival.) . Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. . Royal Irish Academy. University College. . Board of Trustees for Manu- factures, &c. . Merchant Company. . New College. . Royal College of Physicians. . Royal College of Surgeons. . Royal High School. . Royal Scottish Academy. . Royal Society. . Society of Antiquaries. TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Edinburgh . Theological College of the Manchester Edinburgh University Club. Episcopal Church. Milan . Royal Lombard Institute. Edinburgh . United Presbyterian College. Munich Eoyal Bavarian Acad, of Sciences. Edinburgh Watt Instit. and School of Arts. New York American Lnstituie. Florence . . Accademia delta Crusca. New York Union Theological Seminary. Florence Royal Institute of Higher Prac- Paris . Academie de Me'decine. tical Studies. Paris AeacUmie- des Beaux-Arts. G-alway Queen's College. Paris . Academie des Inscriptions, &c. Glasgow Anderson's College. Paris . Academie des Sciences. Glasgow . Faculty of Phys. and Surg. Paris . Academie des Sciences Morales Leipzig . . Royal Saxon Acad, of Sciences. et Politiques. Lisbon . . Royal Academy of Sciences. Paris . Academie Francaise. London . . British Museum. Paris . College de France. London . . Edinburgh University Club. Paris . Institut de France. London . . Guy's Hospital Medical School. Philadelphia Franklin Institute. London . . King's College. Rome Eoyal Academy of Lincei. London . . Royal Academy of Arts. St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. London . . Royal College of Physicians. St Petersburg . Imperial Medical Academy. London . . Royal College of Surgeons. Stockholm Royal Caroline Med.-Chir. Acad. London . . Royal Society. Stockholm Royal Swedish Acad, of Sciences. London . St Bartholomew's Hospital Turin . Royal Academy of Sciences. Medical School. Upsala . Royal Society of Sciences. London . St Thomas's Hospital. Venice . Royal Venetian Institute of London . University College. Sciences, Letters, and Arts. Madrid . Academy of Sciences. Vienna . Imperial Academy of Sciences. Madrid . . Royal Acad, of Jurisprudence. Washington . Smithsonian Institution. III.— DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, BENEFACTORS, AND HONORARY GRADUATES. 1 (Italics denote those who, from various causes, were not present at the Festival.) Professor Acland, C.B., LL.D, F.E.S., Oxford. The Hon. Lord Adam. Eobert Adam, City Chamberlain. Stair Agnew, MA., Keeper of the Records of Scotland, and Registrar-General. Charles A. Aitchison, Queen Street. George James Allman, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh. Bailie Anderson. Councillor Anderson. Joseph Anderson, LL.D., Secretary, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Thomas Andrews, LL.D., Vice-President of Queen's College, Pel fast.' T. C. Archer, Director, Museum of Science & Art. Sis Grace, the Duke of Argyll, K.G., LL.D., &c. Matthew Arnold, LL.D., London. Alexander Asher, Q.C., M.P., Solicitor-General. Professor Aufrecht, LL.D., Bonn. Professor Bain, LL.D., Aberdeen. John Bald, Monzie Castle. The Right Hon. Lord Balfour of Burleigh. The Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Advocate, LL.D., M.P. 1 A number of persons originally in this list were afterwards appointed Delegates, or were invited to receive Honorary Degrees. Their names now appear in the lists of Delegates (p. 84) and Honorary Graduates (p. 11) only. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. Arthur J. Balfour of Wliittinghame, LL.D., M.B. J. S. Balfour, LL.B., Emeritus Professor in University of Edinburgh} G. F. Barbour of Bonskeid. Councillor Baxter. Professor Baynes, LL.D., St Andrews. J. Lindsay Bennet, London. Professor Berry, LL.B., Glasgoiu. Eev. Professor Birrell, D.D, St Andrews. The Bight Hon. Lord Blackburn, LL.B., London. John Stuart Blackie, LL.D., Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh. Rev. Professor Blaikie, D.D. Rev. R. P. Blakeney, D.D, LL.D., Canon of York Rectory, Bridlington. E. L. L Blyth, C.E. Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, D.D, Glasgow. Rev. John James Bonar, D.D, Greenock. Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, D.D, St Andrews. Sir Thomas J, Boyd. Treasurer Boyd. Sis Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Brazil. Councillor Bryden. Sis Grace, the Buke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K.G., B.C.L., LL.B. 2 Councillor Buchanan. James Buchanan, Oswald Road. T. R. Buchanan, M.P. James Burgess, F.B.G.S., LL.B. W. P. Burnley, Ainslie Place. The Most Son. the Marquis of Bute, LL.B. Alexander Campbell of Cammo. James Alexander Campbell, LL.D, M.P. Andrew Carnegie, New York and Pittsburg. John Christison, W.S. Councillor Clapperton. Bailie Clark, Master of Merchant Company. The Son. Lord Butherfurd Clark, LL.B. Sheriff Clark, LL.D, Glasgow. Archibald Coats, Woodside, Paisley. Sir Peter Coats of Auchendrane. A. D. Cockburn, Athole Crescent. Auguste Colding, LL.B., Copenhagen. James Colston, Regent Terrace. The Editor of the ' Courant.' George Cousin, Bruntsfield Terrace. Charles Cowan of Logan House. James Cowan, Royal Terrace. John Cowan of Beeslack. Professor Coivcll, LL.B., Cambridge. Robert Cox, Drumsheugh Gardens. John Crabbie of Duncow. The Hon. Lord Craighill. Bailie Cranston. The Bight Son. the Earl of Crawford and Bal- carres, LL.B. Councillor Crighton. Major Crofton, Aide-de-Camp to Commander of the Forces. Bev. Brofessor Crombie, B.B., St Andrews. William Cumming, M.D, F.R.C.P. George Miller Cunningham, C.E. Rev. John Cunningham, D.D, Crieff. Sir Bonald Currie, K.C.M.G., M.B. James Currie, Chairman, Chamber of Commerce. Bev. James Currie, LL.B., Church of Scotland Training College. Rev. Prof. A. B. Davidson, D.D, LL.D, New Coll. Sheriff Bavidson. P. Benny, Bumbarton. The Bight Son. the Earl of Berb'y, LL.B., Secre- tary of State, Colonial Beparlmmt. Bev. Marcus Bods, B.B., Glasgow. J. J. Ignatius v. Bollinger, LL.B., Bector, Uni- versity of Munich. Councillor Drybrough. Rev. Professor Duff, LL.D., Chairman, Edin- burgh School Board. J. Matthews Buncan, M.B., LL.B., London. Councillor Dunlop. Bev. Jas. Oswald Bykes, B.B., London. Andrew Edgar, LL.B., Temple, London. Bev. Lewis Edwards, Bala. Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I, LL.D, Wolfelee. Rev. Principal Fairbairn, D.D, Airedale Coll. Sir James Falshaw, Bart. Sir Joseph Fayrer, M.D, F.R.S, K.C.S.I, LL.D. James Fergusson, B.C.L., LL.B., F.B.S., London. J. B. Findlay, Bothesay Terrace, Rev. Professor Forbes, D.D, Aberdeen. 1 Professor Balfour died on 11th February 1884. 2 The Duke of Buccleuch died on 16th April 1884. TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. William Forsyth, LL.D., London. Rev. Thomas Fowler, LL.D., Professor of Logic, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The Hon. Lord Fraser, LL.D. Wm. Fraser, LL.D., Deputy Keeper of Records. John Fulton, Clinton Eoad. Professor Gairdner, M.D., LL.D., Glasgow. The Right Hon. the Earl of Galloway. Sir Alexander T. Gcdt, LL.D., High Commissioner of Canada. Professor Gardiner, LL.D., King's College, London. Richard Garnett, LL.D., British Museum. J. T. Gibson-Craig, W.S. Councillor Gilmour. The Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, LL.D., D.C.L., First Lord of the Treasury. George Gore, LL.D., Birmingham. Bev. A. B. Grosart, LL.D., Blackburn. R. H. Gunning, M.D., London. Sheriff Guthrie, LL.D., Glasgow. James Haldane, C.A. Bailie Hall. The Host Hon. the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., LL.D., Secretary of State, War Department. Thomas Harvey, LL.D., Rector, Edinburgh Academy. Rev. Edwin Hatch, D.D., Vice-Principal of St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Councillor Hay. Councillor Henry. Jon A. Hjcdtcdin, Lceland. David Milne Home of Milne-Graden, LL.D. Councillor Hope. The Bight Hon. the Earl of Hopetoun. The Bight Hon. Lord Houghton, LL.D., London. Janus Houldsworth, Coltness House. Alexander Howe, W.S. William Huggins, F.B.S., D.C.L., LL.D., London. R. Hutchison of Hillwood, Lord Dean of Guild. Convener Hutton. Professor Huxley, LL.D., F.B.S., London. G. Bolin-Jacquemyns, LL.D., Belgian Minister of the Interior. Robert Jardine of Castlemilk, M.P. Professor Jebb, LL.D., Glasgow. David Jeffrey, Randolph Crescent. Charles Jenner, Easter Duddingston Lodge. R. Bruce Johnston, W.S. Rev. Professor Johnstone, D.D. J. Prescott Joule, F.B.S.,D.C.L.,LL.D.,Manchester. Rev. John Kennedy, D.D., Hampstead. Captain W. R. Kennedy, R.N., Commanding H.M.S. Lord Warden, Queensferry. Rev. Professor Ker, D.D. The Hon. Lord Kinnear, LL.D. Professor Dr Kissner, Konigsberg. Rev. Professor Laidlaw, D.D. Bev. M. Lantaret, D.D., Pomaret. James Law, Buckingham Terrace. Sir J. B. Laiues, F.B.S., LL.D., Bothamsted. James D. Lawrie of Monkrigg. Rev. Professor Stanley Leathes, D.D., Clyffe. Henry Leek, Hollybush. The Hon. Lord Lee. Rev. Professor Lee, D.D., Glasgow. Rev. Alexander Leitch, D.D. Sir Joseph Lister, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S., London. Charles B. Logan, W.S., Crown Agent. The Most Hon. the Marquis of Lothian, K.T. E. L. Lushington, LL.D., Maidstone. Dr Stevenson Macadam, School of Medicine. Major-General A. Macdonald, Commander of the Forces in Scotland. Councillor Macdonald. Councillor Macdougald. William M'Ewan, Manor Place. John Macfie, Hope Terrace. R. A. Macfie of Dreghorn. Rev. James M'Gregor, D.D. Councillor MTntosh. iEneas J. G. Mackay, LL.D., Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh. W. Mackinnon of Balinakill and Loup. Councillor M'Lachlan. Bev. Alex. Maclaren, D.D., Manchester. Duncan M'Laren, Newington House. The Hon. Lord M'Laren, LL.D. Rev. Hugh Macmillan, D.D., Greenock. Lord Provost M'Onie, Glasgoiv. Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B., LL.D., London. Bev. George Matheson, D.D., Inellan. H M. Matheson, Lombard Street, London. Lord Provost Matthews, Aberdeen. J. G. Menzies, Grosvenor Crescent. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. W. D. Menzies, Grosvenor Crescent. Councillor Miller. Sir William Miller, Bart, of Manderston. The Right Hon. Lord Moncreiff, LL.D. The Right Hon. the Earl of Moray. Professor Morley, LL.D., London. Charles Morrison of Islay. F. J. Mouat, M.D., London. Rev. Professor Moulton, D.D., Cambridge. John T. Mowbray, W.S, LL.D. Professor F. Max Miiller, LL.D., Oxford. Rev. H. A. J. Mimro, D.C.L., LL.D., Trinity College, Cambridge. The Hon. Lord Mure. J. A. H. Murray, LL.D., Millhill, Middlesex. T. G. Murray, W.S. Thomas Nelson, St Leonard's. William Nelson, Salisbury Green. Alexander Nicolson, LL.D., Sheriff-Substitute, Kirkcudbright. Sir Richard Owen, F.R.S., LL.D., D.O.L., British Museum. G. E. Paget, M.B., LL.D., Cambridge. F. T. Palgrave, LL.D., London. Provost Paterson, St Andrews. Sir Joseph Noel Paton, LL.D. A. W. Potts, LL.D., Feites College. J. 0. Halliwell Phillipps, LL.D., Brighton. Rev. K. M. Phin, D.D. The Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B, M.P., LL.D., F.R.S. Councillor Pollard. Frederick Pollock, LL.D., London. Rev. W. B. Pope, D.D., Didsbury College. Professor Bonamy Price, LL.D., (bford. The Hon. B. P. Primrose, C.B. Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, LL.D., London. Professor Ramsay, LL.D., Glasgow. Rev. John Rankine, D.D., Sorn. The Right Hon. Lord Reay, LL.D., D.C.L. John J. Reid, Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. James H. Renton, Park Lane, London. The Editor of the ' Daily Review.' Rev. H. R. Reynolds, D.D., Cheshunt College. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, KG., D.C.L., LL.D. Councillor Ritchie. Rev. George Ritchie, D.D. Bailie Roberts. Rev. Professor Roberts, D.D., St, Andrnrs. Councillor James Robertson. Councillor Charles Robertson. Rev. P. L. Robertson, D.D., Glasgow. Rev. Professor Rogers, D.D., Belfast. The Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, LL.D. Rev. A. J. Ross, D.D., Snelston Rectory. Reinhold Rost, LL.D., Principal Librarian, In- dia Office. Councillor Russell. Rev. Principal Sunday, D.D., Oxford . Professor J. B. Sanderson, F.R.S., LL.D., Oxford. Rev. Adolph Sctphir, D.D., London. The Editor of the ' Scotsman.' Rev. R. S. Scott, D.D., Glosgon: Sir C. Farquhar Shand, LL.D. James Shand, Upper Ground Street, London. The Hon. Lord Shand. Thomas Shapter, LL.D., Sudbury, Derby. The Right Hon. Viscount Slierbrodke, D.C.L. , LL.D. John Simon, C.B., LL.D., F.l'.S., London. John Skelton, LL.D. W. F. Skene, W.S, D.C.L., LL.D. William Skinner, City Clerk. Rev. Professor Smeaton, D.D. S. Smiles, LL.D., London. George Smith, CLE, LL.D. Rev. H. W. Smith, D.D., Kirknewton. J. Duncan Smith, S.S.C. Rev. Professor Smith, D.D. Robert Angus Smith, LL.D., F.R.S., Manchester. R. M. Smith, Bellevue Crescent. W. Smith, LL.D., Vice-President, Philosophical Institution. T. B. Sprague, M.A., Buckingham Terrace. The Right Hon. the Earl of Stair, K.T. Councillor Steel. Sir John Steell, R.S.A. Rev. R. H. Stevenson, D.D. Rev. Robert Stevenson, D.D., Dairy. Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson, D.D., Dublin. Professor Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., LL.D., Man- chester. 10 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Sir M. JR. Shaw Stewart, Bart., of Greenock. J. Hutchison Stirling, LL.D. Rev. R. H. Story, D.D., Roseneath. Rev. John Stoughton, D.D., London. Rev. A. Moody Stuart, D.D. Rev. John Stuart, D.D. The Right Rev. W. Stubbs, D.D., LL.D., Lord Bisb op-Elect of Chester- Councillor Sutter. Professor Swan, LL.D., Ardchapel, Helensburgh. Provost Swan, Kirkcaldy. A. Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, LL.D. Councillor Tait. Rev. Isaac Taylor, LL.D., Settrington Rectory. Allen Thomson, M.D., LL.D., Kensington} The Right Hon. G. 0. Trevehjan, M.P., LL.D., Chief Secretary for Lr eland. Rev. H. B. Tristram, F.R.S., LL.D., Durham. Councillor Turnbull. Professor Tyndall, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., London. Andrew Usher, Blackford Park. Professor Veitch, LL.D., Glasgow. Rev. Prof. Wace, D.D., King's College, London. S. D. Waddy, M.P. Councillor Walcot. James Walker of Dairy. Rev. James Walker, D.D., Carnwath. Councillor Wallace. Rev. James Wardrop, D.D., West Colder. The Right Hon. Lord Watson, LL.D. The Right Hon. the Earl of Wemyss and March, LL.D. J. Westlake, Q.C., LL.D., London. Councillor John White. Councillor Robert White. Rev. Alexander Whyte, D.D. Professor A. W. Williamson, LL.D., University College, London. Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., Manchester. Charles E. Wilson, LL.D, F.R.S.E., H.M. Senior Inspector of Schools. Rev. J. H. Wilson, D.D. Rev. J. Stewart Wilson, D.D., New Abbey. Rev. William Wilson, D.D. Prof. Wm. Wright, D.C.L., LL.D., Cambridge. William Aldis Wright, LL.D., Cambridge. R. S. Wyld, W.S., LL.D. The Right Hon. Lord Young, LL.D. Bailie Younger. William Younger, Auchen Castle. The invitations to Universities and other Learned Bodies (see lists 1 and 2, pp. 4, 5), issued in name of the Chancellor, the Eector, and the Principal of the Univer- sity, were in the following terms : — Tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, having now completed its Three Hundredth Session, it has been resolved to celebrate its Tercentenary in Easter week next, upon the 16th, 17th, and 18th April 1884, and to invite Delegates from the most celebrated Universities, Colleges, and Learned Societies in the world to be present on the occasion. We, the undersigned, therefore respectfully invite the to send a representative to be the guest of the University of Edinburgh during the days before mentioned. We beg to be favoured with an early answer to this invitation, and we request that, if a Delegate from the is to honour us with his presence, his name and titles may as soon as possible be communicated. In name and by authority of the University of Edinburgh, JOHN INGLIS, Chancellor. STAFFORD H. NORTHOOTE, Rector. A. GRANT, Principal. University of Edixbubgh, December 1883. Dr Thomson died on 21st Marcli 1884. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. 11 The following invitation was addressed to the persons above enumerated (see list No. 3, p. 6) : — SIR, The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, having now completed its Three Hun- dredth Session, it has been resolved to celebrate its Tercentenary upon the 16th, 17th, and 18th April next. In name of the University, we, the undersigned, respectfully request the honour of your presence at the celebration during those days. We have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servants, JOHN INGLIS, Chancellor. STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE, Rector. A. GRANT, Principal. University of Edinburgh, January 1884. To these invitations numerous acceptances were received. A list of the Delegates who were present at the Festival will be found on pp. 84-88. A number of Univer- sities and Learned Bodies were, however, unable to send Delegates, owing to their distance from Scotland, the shortness of the vacation at their disposal, or other causes ; while considerations of business or health prevented many individuals from attending. c— OFFERS OF HONORARY DEGREES. On 23d February 1884 it was resolved by the Senatus Academicus to offer honorary degrees to the following distinguished persons, 1 whose names had been sub- mitted by the four Faculties : — I.— DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF DIVINITY. {Italics denote those who were unable to attend. Those within brackets received the degree in absentia. Asterisks denote the Delegates.) Rev. Professor Ezra Abbot, D.D., LL.D., Harvard University, U.S.A. 2 *Rev. Professor Beets, Utrecht. *Rev. Professor Briggs, D.D., New York. [Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nico- media, Constantinople.] * Very Rev. Principal Caird, D.D., Glasgow. Rev. Professor C. P. Caspari, D.D., Christiania. 3 Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Rector of Tendring. Very Rev. R. W. Church,Dean of St Paul's, London. Rev. Canon F. C. Cook, Exeter. Rev. Professor Delitzsch, Leipzig. 3 [Rev. Professor I. A. Dorner, Berlin. 4 ] Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham. Rev. Professor Geo. P. Fisher, B.B., Yale Theo- logical Seminary, U.S.A. Rev. Professor Godet, B.I)., Neuchatel. *Rev. Professor W. H. Green, D.D., Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Right Rev. Karl Joseph v. Hefele, B.B., Bishop of Rothenburg, Germany. 3 Rev. Professor Hilzenfeld, Jena 3 Rev. President R. B. Hitchcock, B.B., LL.B., Union Theological Seminary, New York. 1 These lists include the names of a number of the Delegates added subsequently. The full designations of the Tercentenary Honorary Graduates will be found on pp. 89-99. 2 Professor Abbot died on 21st March 1884. 8 See footnote 3, p. 14. 4 Professor Dorner died on 8th July 1884. B 12 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Rev. Professor Kuenen, D.D., LL.D., Leyden. Rev. J. Cameron Lees, D.D. 1 Eev. James Martineau, D.D, Principal of Manchester New College, London. His Eminence Cardinal Newman. Very Rev. J. J. S. Perowne, D.D, Peterborough. Very Rev. Principal Pirie, D.D., Aberdeen. Eev. E. de Pressense, D.D, Senator, Paris. *Eev. Principal Rainy, D.D., Edinburgh. [Eev. Professor Edward Eeuss, Strassburg.] Eev. George Salmon, D.D., D.C.L, Eegius Pro- fessor of Divinity, Trinity College, Dublin. His Grace Archbishop Trench, Dublin. *Very Eev. Principal Tulloch, D.D., St Andrews. Eev. Canon Westcott, D.D., Eegius Professor of Divinity, King's College, Cambridge. Eight Rev. Bishop Wordsworth, St Andrews. II.— DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS. {Italics denote those who were unable to attend. Those within brackets received the degree in absentia". Asterisks denote the.Delegates.) Eev. W. Lindsay Alexander, D.D. Lieut.-Gen, Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., K.C.B, LL.D., Commander of the Forces, Aldershot. E. Eowand Anderson, Architect. Professor T. M. C. Asser, LL.D., Amsterdam} *G. W. Balfour, M.D., P.R.C.P., Edinburgh. *Professor C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Utrecht. Fordyce Barker, M.D., LL.D., President "of the New York Academy of Medicine. Professor de Bary, Strassburg. Professor P. Leroy-Beaulieu, Collige de France. *John S. Billings, M.D., Washington, U.S.A. Sir G. M. Birdwood, C.S.I., India Office. [J. B. J. D. Boussingault, Membre de l'lnstitut.] Sir William Bowman, Bart., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. *J. S. Bristowe, M.D., F.R.S., &c, London. John C. Brodie, Deputy Keeper of H.M. Signet. Professor Brouardel, Paris. Robert Browning, D.C.L. Professor J. Bryce, MP., D.C.L, Oxford. Professor Bugge, Christiania. Br Georg Bilhler, Professor of Sanscrit, Vienna. [Professor R. W. v. Bunsen, F.R.S., Heidelberg.] George Burnett, Lyon King of Arms. Sir James Caird, K.C.B., F.R.S. Rev. Principal Cairns, D.D. *E. M. Caro, Membre de l'lnstitut, Paris. Professor Br Julius Victor Carus, Leipzig. Professor Cayley, Cambridge. 1 See footnote 3, p. 14. 2 Professor Asser afterwards received the degree at the 3 Professor Dumas died on 1st April 1884. Professor J. M. Charcot, Paris. Professor Dr J. B. A. Chauveau, Lyons. [M. E. Chevreul, Membre de l'lnstitut; Paris.] Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Andrew Clark, Bart,, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor Cobet, Leyden. Right Rev. Bishop Cotterill, D.D. Surgeon-General Thomas Crawford, M.D., Direc- tor-General, Army Medical Department. *Luigi Cremona, Prof, of Mathematics, Rome. Professor Ernst Curtius, Berlin. Professor J. B. Bana, LL.B., Yale College, U.S.A. *John William Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., Principal of M'Gill College, Montreal. [The Hon. Lord Deas.J Professor F. C. Bonders, Utrecht. *Sir W. Fettes Douglas, P.R.S.A. Professor Bumas, AcadAmie des Sciences, Paris? *Professor Dr Elze, Halle. [J. E. Erdmann, Professor of Philosophy, Halle.] *J. E. Erichsen, F.R.S, F.B.C.S, London. The Right Hon. Henry Fawcett, M.P., Post- master- General. 41 *Sir S. Ferguson, Q.C, LL.D, Dublin. Prof. Br Carl Ritier Braun v. Fernwald, Vienna. [Professor H. L. Fleischer, Leipzig.] W. H. Flower, LL.D, F.E.S, Director of Natural History Department, British Museum. Graduation Ceremonial on 1st August 1884. 4 Mr Fawcett died on 6th November 1884. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATTJS ACADEMICTTS. 13 Prof. Edward Frankland, D.C.L., F.R.S., Normal School of Science, South Kensington Museum. Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. [The Right Hon. Sir H. Bartle E. Frere, Bart. 1 ] James Anthony Froude, JD.O.L. Charles Clermont Ganneau, Paris. Professor C. Gegeribaur, Heidelberg. Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., Director-General of Geological Survey, London. *David Gill, LL.D., F.R.S. The Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, LL.D., Lord Clerk Register. ProfessorBr Rudolf Gneist, Berlin. 2 Professor Dr L. Goldschmidt, Berlin. Professor Goodwin, Harvard College, U.S.A. Professor Asa Gray, Harvard College, U.S.A. *0. Grdard, Membre de l'lnstitut, Paris. *Principal Greenwood, Manchester. [Samuel D. Gross, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Professor of Surgery, Jefferson College, Philadelphia. 3 ] Sir Wm. W. Gull, Bt., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor David Bierens de Haan, Leyden. Pi. Haeckel, Professor of Zoology, Jena. D. Rutherford Haldane, M.D., F.R.S.E. Charles Halle, Manchester. The Right Hon. Lord Provost Harrison. *Rev. S. Haughton, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor H. L. F. von Helmholtz, Berlin. [F.G. J. Henle, Professor of Anatomy, Gottingen.] Professor Hermite, Academie des Sciences, Paris. Barthilemy St Hilaire, Paris. Sir Joseph Balton Hooker, K.C.S.I., C.B., Kew^ [Professor Joseph Hyrtl, Vienna.] Sir William Jenner, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S. Professor Br Rudolf von Jhering, Gottingen. *Rev. B. Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Thomas Keith, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. Professor G. Kirchhoff, Berlin. Professor A. von Kblliker, Wurzburg. Professor Kovalewsky, St Petersburg. Professor E. P. Kummer, Berlin. Professor Adolph Kussmaul, Strassburg. 1 Sir Bartle Frere died on 29th May 1884. 3 Professor Gross died on 6th May 1884. 4 Sir J. D. Hooker afterwards received the degree at the Graduation Ceremonial on 1st August 1884. 6 It may be mentioned here that the degree was offered to M. Pasteur and many others before their appointment as Delegates. Professor Baron von Langenbeck, Berlin. *Professor de Laveleye, Liege. Rev. Professor J. Legge, Oxford. *Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A., D.C.L. Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps. Very Rev. Dean Liddell, D.D., Oxford. *His Excellency J. Russell Lowell, D.C.L, LL.D. *Sir J. Lubbock, Bt., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L, LL.D. [Professor Ludwig, Leipzig.] J. H. A. Macdonald, Q.C., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. Professor Madvig, Copenhagen 2 Sir Henry J. S. Maine, K.C.S.I., F.R.S., D.C.L, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. [Count Terenzio Mamiani Delia Rovere.] [His Excellency P. S. Mancini, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rome.] *John Marshall, F.R.S., President, Royal College of Surgeons of England. *Professor F. de Martens, St Petersburg. *His Excellency M. Martinez, Chilian Am- bassador. H. Maudsley, M.D., F.R.C.P., London. Professor Br Konrad Maurer, Munich. *Professor Mendeleieff, St Petersburg. Very Rev. Dean Merivale, D.C.L. *A. Mezieres, Membre de l'lnstitut, Paris. Professor Br Mommsen, Berlin? His Excellency Sir R. B. D. Morier, K.C.B. Sir W. Muir, K.C.S.I., D.C.L, LL.D. *H. Gueneau de Mussy, M.D., Paris. The Right Hon. Lord Napier and Ettrick, K.T. Professor S. Newcomb, BB.B., Washington, U.S.A. Professor C. T. Newton, British Museum. *His Excellency Count Costantino Nigra, Doc- tor of Laws, Italian Ambassador. Professor Theodor Noldeke, Strassburg. E. Nys, Judge of Higher Tribunal, Brussels. L. Oilier, Professor of Surgery, Lyons. Rev. Sir Fred. A. G. Ouseley, Bart., LL.D., Mus. Doc, Professor of Music, Oxford. Sir James Paget, Bart., F.R.S., F.R.C.S., D.C.L. *Louis Pasteur, Membre de l'lnstitut, Paris. 5 2 See footnote 3, p. 14. 14 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. *His Excellency Baron de Penedo, Brazilian Ambassador. *Gr. Perrot, Membre de l'lnstitut, Paris. *Professor Max von Pettenkofer, Munich. Rev. Principal N. Porter, D.D., Yale College, U.S.A. *W. 0. Priestley, M.D., &c, London. [Dr L. v. Eanke, Professor of History, Berlin.] Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Eawlinson, K.C.B., F.E.S., D.C.L., LL.D. *The Eight Hon. Lord Eayleigh, D.C.L., Pro- fessor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge. Sir John "Watt Eeid, K.C.B., M.D., Director- General, Medical Department, Eoyal Navy. Professor J. Ernest Renan, College de France. *Professor the Abbe Eenard, Louvain. *Professor Eivier, Brussels. Professor Dr W. G. F. Roscher, Leipzig. Professor Dr Rudolf von Roth, Tubingen. John Ruskin, P/.C.L. 1 *Professor Count Saffi, Bologna. *Professor Saxtorph, Copenhagen. Professor Dr 0. Schmiedeberg, Strassburg. Professor J. E. Seeley, Cambridge. Principal Shairp, LL.D., St Andrews. Professor H. Sidgwick, Cambridge. *E. H. Sieveking, M.D., F.R.C.P., London. Professor Jules Simon, Institut de France. Eev. Professor W. W. Skeat, Cambridge. *John Smith, M.D., P.E.C.S., Edinburgh. The Hon. Sir James F. Stephen, K.C.S.I., D.C.L. Whitley Stokes, London. Professor Dr B. J. Stokvis, Amsterdam. *Professor Storm, Christiania. Dr H. v. Sybel, Director of State Records, Berlin. *Professor Szab6, Pesth. Professor Tarnier, Paris. [The Eight Hon. Lord Tennyson, D.C.L., F.E.S.] E. Y. Tyrrell, Professor of Greek, Dublin. *Professor Ussing, Copenhagen. *Professor Vera, Naples. *Professor Pasquale Villari, Florence. *Professor Eudolf Virchow, M.D., Berlin. His Excellency W. H. Waddington, Ambassador of France, London. Patrick Heron Watson, M.D., F.E.C.S.E. *The Hon. Justice E. West, Bombay. Francis Wharton, LL.D., Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Professor W. D. Wliitney, Yale College, U.S.A. Dr Wie.se, Potsdam? *Samuel Wilks, M.D., F.E.S., &c, London. Professor Windscheid, Leipzig. *Professor van der Wyck, Groningen. Col. H. Yule, C.B., Mem. of the Council of India. [Dr E. Zeller, Professor of Philosophy, Berlin.] The invitation to the persons above enumerated was in the following terms : — University of Edinburgh, February 1884. The Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh do themselves the honour of inviting to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (Laws), in Edinburgh, on the 17th April 1884, at the Festival of the Tercentenary of the Foundation of the University. In name and by authority of the Senatus Academicus, A. GRANT, Principal. To these invitations also numerous acceptances were received ; but a number of the persons invited were unable to be present, while a few declined the degree. 3 1 Mr Ruskin declined the degree. 2 Dr Wiese received the degree in absentia* at the Graduation Ceremonial on 1st August 1884. 3 Professors Caspari, Delitzseh, Gneist, Hilzenfeld, Madvig, and Mommsen, the Right Rev. Bishop v. Hefele, and Dr Cameron Lees,. thought themselves precluded from accepting the degree of the University of Edinburgh by the terms of similar diplomas which they had received from other Universities. It may be observed here that degrees are not conferred by the University of Edinburgh in absmtid, except on special cause shown. Those persons, how- ever, who were invited to receive the degree at the Tercentenary Ceremonial, but were unable to be present, are entitled to come to receive it at any of the ordinary Graduation Ceremonials, held in the third week of April and on 1st August annually. AERANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS AOADEMICUS. 15 d.— RECEPTION OF GUESTS. It was also the duty of the Senatus Academicus to arrange for the accommodation, of the University guests. Those who accepted the invitation of the University and were present at the Festival were 190 in number (see Lists of Delegates and new Graduates, pp. 84-99), of whom 23 were resident in or near Edinburgh, while 20 pre- ferred- residing at a hotel or in private apartments. Of the remaining 147, about 60 were received by professors and other office-bearers of the University, and the others by old alumni of the University, and by private citizens. Besides these guests, consist- ing of delegates and those distinguished persons to whom honorary degrees were offered, 190 other persons, chiefly consisting of benefactors and former honorary graduates, accepted the invitation " to attend the Festival," and were present (see List III., p. 6). Of that number, about 14 were received by office-bearers of the University and 32 by other persons, while the remainder were either citizens of Edinburgh or resided with friends or in private apartments. The following is a list of the Hosts (besides whom many other persons had offered hospitality if required) and their Guests : — Small capitals in second column denote Delegates, and italic type other guests. Bev. Dr Alison, 1 S. Lauder Eoad Arthur Alison, 3 Moray Place . Professor Annandale, 34 Charlotte Square Dr G-. W. Balfour, 17 Walker Street . Miss Bannatyne, 21 Glencairn Crescent A. Beatson Bell, 2 Eglinton Crescent Dr Geo. A. Berry, 23 Eutland Street . Eev. J. S. Black, 6 Oxford Terrace Professor Blackie, 9 Douglas Crescent Hugh Blair, 12 Clarendon Crescent . Patrick Blair, 19 Ainslie Place . Eev. Dr Horatius Bonar, 10 Palmerston Eoad Horatius Bonar, 15 Strathearn Place Professor Baldwin Brown, 126 Princes Street Professor Crum Brown, 8 Belgrave Crescent John Brown, 7 Morningside Place Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Tenclring. ( Professor Bourcart, Nancy. ( Professor Oilier, Lyons. Professor Erichsen, London. Professor Marshall, London. Surgeon-General Tlwmas Crawford, London. Bight Hon. Lord Watson. Principal Tulloch, St Andrews. Sir W. Muir. Professor Storm, Christiania. Professor Donner, Helsingfors. Professor Minaieff, St Petersburg. Alexander "Whitelaw, Glasgow. His Excellency Marcial Martinez, Chilian Ambassador. Rev. Br Andreiv Bonar, Glasgoiv. Bev. Dr John James Bonar, Greenock. Br Bichard Garnett, British Museum. {Professor Mendeleieff, St Petersburg. Professor Stokes, Cambridge. Brofessor Frankland, London. Professor von Helmholtz, Berlin. Bev. Br J. Stewart Wilson, New Alley. 16 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Dr Alexander Bruce, 16 Alva Street Dr William Brycb, 31 Charlotte Square A. Buchan, 72 Northumberland Street T. E. Buchanan, 10 Moray Place . Mrs Buchanan, 51 Lauriston Place . Professor Butcher, 27 Palmerston Place Dr P. Cadell, 5 Castle Terrace . Professor Calderwood, 7 Napier Eoad Rev. Professor Charteris, 4 Greenhill Gardens Professor Chiene, 21 Ainslie Place Sir A. Christison, Bart., 40 Moray Place . Professor Chrystal, 5 Belgrave Crescent . Bailie Clark, 11 Melville Crescent Dr T. S. Clouston, Tipperlinn House . J. P. Coldstream, 6 Buckingham Terrace Bishop Cotterill, 56 Manor Place Robert Cox (of Gorgie), 34 Drumsheugh Gardens Lieut.-Colonel Dawson, 54 Palmerston Place R. T. Dolan, 8 Abercromby Place Rev. Canon Dowden, Gillsland Road . William Drummond, 4 Learmonth Terrace . Mrs Morison Duncan, 14 Melville Street . Professor Eggeling, 15 Hatton Place Colonel Elliot, Murrayfield W. M. Ellis, 49 Minto Street Mrs Eairbairn, 85 Leith Walk . Sir James Palshaw, Bart., 14 Belgrave Crescent J. Hope Finlay, 19 Glencairn Crescent William Pinlay, 16 Belgrave Crescent Rev. Professor Flint, Craigmillar Park General Forlong, 11 Douglas Crescent David Gill, Cape Town. Professor Bryce, Oxford. Professor Ballot, Utrecht. Sir John Lubbock, Bart. Professor Straszewski, Cracow. Rev. S. Haughton, Trinity College, Dublin. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. Professor Sidgvjick, Cambridge. Professor Angellier, Douai. Professor Heinrich, Lyons. Rev. Professor Briggs, New York. Principal Dawson, Montreal. Bev. Professor Stanley Zeathes, Clyffe. Bev. Dr TV. Fleming Stevenson, Dublin. Professor Saxtorph, Copenhagen. Sir Joseph Fayrer. Professor Cremona, Rome. Professor Hermite, Paris. Sandford Fleming, Kingston, Canada. Bev. Professor Moidton, Cambridge. Dr Maudsley, London. Professor Stengel, Marburg. , Very Bev. Dean Merivale, Ely. Octave Greard, Paris. Comte de Lessees, Paris. Dr W. B. Carpenter, London. President Moffett, Queen's College, Galway. Bev. Professor Salmon, Trinity College, Dublin. Bev. Dr John Cunningham, Crieff. {Professor van der Wyck, Groningen. Principal Shairp, St Andrews. Dr B. H. Gunning, London. C Professor Hoffmann, Kiel, ■j Professor Kielhorn, Gottingen. { Professor Zupitza, Berlin. Sir Walter Elliot. Archibald Geikie, Geological Survey, London. Bev. Principal Fairbairn. Bev. Dr TV. B. Pope, Didsbury College. Principal Greenwood, Manchester. President Sullivan, Queen's College, Cork. !E. Caro, Paris. Professor Mezieres, Paris. Bev. Canon TVestcott, King's College, Cambridge. Rev. Dr Hatch, Oxford. Dr G. W. Leitner, Lahore. Ch. Clermont-Ganneau, Paris. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS AOADEMIOUS. Prof. A. Campbell Eraser, 20 Chester Street Professor T. R. Fraser, 37 Melville Street Henry Goudy, 9 Dundas Street . Principal Sir A. Grant, Bart., 21 Lansdowne Crescent Professor Greenfield, 7 Heriot Row . Richard Haldane, Murrayfield . Mrs Hargrave, 38 India Street . Lord Provost Harrison, 7 Whitehouse Terrace Archibald Hewat, 12 Saxe-Coburg Place . John Hope, 31 Moray Place Thomas Hunter, 5 Henderson Row Charles Jenner, Easter Duddingston Lodge R. Bruce Johnston, 18 Royal Circus Lord Kinnear, 2 Moray Place . Professor Kirkpatrick, Murrayfield Professor Laurie, Duddingston . Lord Lee, 26 Charlotte Square . Dr Littlejohn, 24 Royal Circus . R. Lockhart, Polwarth Terrace . Professor Lorimer, 1 Bruntsfield Crescent George Lumsden, 30 Drumsheugh Gardens Dr M'Bride, 16 Chester Street . Dr M'Callum, 3 Brandon Street . J. M. M'Candlish, 27 Drumsheugh Gardens Francis A. Mackay, 3 Buckingham Terrace A. K. Mackenzie, 19 Grosvenor Crescent . Thomas M'Kie, 1 Gloucester Place William Mackintosh, 6 Randolph Crescent Professor Maclagan, 28 Heriot Row D. Douglas Maclagan, 5 Eton Terrace Lord M'Laren, 46 Moray Place . 1 Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham. Rev. Professor Fowler, Oxford. Rev. Br Isaac Taylor, Settrington Rectory. {Professor Ball, Paris. Professor Schmiedeberg, Strassburg. Professor Stokvis, Amsterdam. ( Professor Schipper, Vienna. ( Professor Kissner, Konigsberg. ( Hon. Justice West, Bombay. ( Professor Tyrrell, Dublin. ( Dr John S. Bristowe, London. ( Professor Chauveau, Lyons. Professor Venable, Virginia, U.S.A. Professor Balfour Stewart, Manchester. Dr John S. Billings, Washington. Sir Wm. W. Gull, Bart. Dr Andrew Fergus, Glasgow. Rev. Canon Blakeney, Bridlington. Dr J. A. S. Murray, Millhill, Middlesex. Sir William Jenner, Bart. Sir Peter Coats of Auchendrane. Archibald Coats, Paisley. Hon. Justice Sir James F. Stephen. Professor Ask, Lund. Professor Cleve, Upsala. Professor Villari, Florence. Rev. Professor Lee, Glasgow. Professor Elze, Halle. Professor Fredet, Clermont. Professor Jebb, Glasgow. ( Professor de Martens, St Petersburg. ( Judge Nys, Bru,ssels. Dr James Alex. Campbell, M.P. Professor Chiari, Prague. Principal Peterson, University Coll., Dundee, j Professor Vera, Naples. ( Professor Seeley, Cambridge. Sir John Watt Reid. Rev. Dr H. B. Tristram, Durham. Professor Legge, Oxford. W. Markby, Oxford. Right Rev. Lord Bishop-Fleet of Chester. Professor de Laveleye, Liege. Right Rev. Bishop Wordsworth, St Andrews. (Professor van Hamel, Amsterdam. Professor Sylvester, Oxford. Sir William Thomson. TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Professor Macpheeson, 2 Eandolph Cliff Miss Mair, 5 Chester Street, Peofessoe Masson, 58 Great King Street James Melvin, 43 Drumsheugh Gardens W. D. Menzies, 6 Grosvenor Crescent . Loed Moncreiff, 15 Great Stuart Street W. 0. Morrison, 32 Abercromby Place Peofessoe Muiehead, 2 Drumsheugh Gardens Thomas Nelson, St Leonard's W. Nelson, Salisbury Green Miss Nicolson, 10 Warriston Crescent Henry H. Noeie, Murrayfield Whaley B. Nutt, Grange Loan . Peof. Sie Heebeet Oakeley, 16 Blackford Road De Geo. A. Pateeson, 15 Merchiston Park . Rev. Principal Rainy, 33 Douglas Crescent John Rankine, 10 Melville Street George Readman, 9 Moray Place J. J. Reid, 15 Belgrave Place Ralph Richardson, 10 Magdala Place Mes Richardson, 16 Coates Crescent . De James Ritchie, 10 Northumberland Street Lieut.-Gen. Robeetson, 86 Great King Street De D. Argyll Robertson, 18 Charlotte Square Hugh Rose, 3 Hillside Crescent . Hugh Rose, jun., Blackford Avenue . Mrs George L. Ross, 7 Forres Street Peofessoe Eutheefoed, 14 Douglas Crescent De James A. Russell, Canaan Lane . Peofessoe Sellae, 15 Buckingham Terrace Dr John Sibbald, 3 St Margaret's Road Professor Simpson, 52 Queen Street . John Small, 10 Carlton Terrace . Walter A. Smith, Murrayfield . Professor Piazzi Smyth, 15 Royal Terrace. Professor Michaelis, Strassburg. Peofessoe Oncken, Berne. | Peofessor Count Saffi, Bologna. ( Robert Browning, B.G.L. Professor Reis, Portugal. Sir James Caird. His Excellency Baron de Penedo, Brazil. Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. Professor von Pettenkofee, Munich. Professor Rivier, Brussels. Professor Goldschmidt, Berlin Sir Henry J. S. Maine. Professoe Geddes, Aberdeen. President Porter, Queen's College, Belfast. Rev. Dr A. J. Ross, Snelston Rectory. Sheriff Nicolson. Professor Guizot, Paris. Professor Newton, British Museum. Professor Rachmaninoff, Kief. Rev. Prof. Sir Frederick A. G. Ouseley, Bart. Br Thomas Shapter, Sudbury, Derby. Rev. E. de Pressensi, Paris. Rev. Dr John Rankine, Sorn. Rev. Dr Robert Stevenson, Dairy. Professor Ramsay, Glasgow. Dr A. B. Atherton, New Brunswick. Professor Rosenbusch, Heidelberg. Professor Doijer, Leyden. De Samuel Wiles, London. Colonel H. Yule, London. Dr E. H. Sieveking, London. Rev. William Stevenson, Ayr. The Abbe Renard, Brussels. The Right Eon. Lord Napier and Ettrick. Professor J. Burdon Sanderson, Oxford. Peofessoe Kovalewsky, Moscow. Peofessor Jowett, Oxford. Ms Excellency Sir R. Burnett David Morier. Professor Max Mutter, Oxford. Rev. Dr Munro, Trinity College, Cambridge. Peofessor Thorbuen, Manchester. Peofessor Virchow, Berlin. Dr Fordyce Barker, New York. Professor Skeat, Cambridge. Rev. Principal Martineau, London. Professor Herschel, Newcastle-on-Tyne. AEEANGEMENTS BY THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. 19 Miss Stevenson, 13 Eandolph Crescent Peof. Grainger Stewart, 19 Charlotte Square James Syme, Millbank .... James Syme, 9 Drumsheugh Gardens . Professor Tait, 38 George Square Coutts Trotter, 17 Charlotte Square . Major Trotter, Colinton House Mrs Trotter, 10 Eandolph Crescent . Professor Turner, 6 Eton Terrace Miss Urquhart, 5 St Colme Street A. B. Walker, Broughton Hall . Eev. John Webster, 4 Mayfield Terrace Misses Wemyss, 3 Morningside Bank . Dr Wilson, 19 Palmerston Place George Wilson, Murrayfield Professor Wilson, 3 Whitehouse Terrace Dr Woodhead, 6 Marchhall Crescent . H. Guthrie Wright, 4 Bruntsfield Terrace Alexander Wylie, 21 Douglas Crescent Dr P. A. Young, 25 Manor Place H. J. Younger, Grange Loan {Georges Perrot, Paris. Eight Hon. Lord Eayleigh. Professor Ussing, Copenhagen. !Sir J. Eisdon Bennett. Dr Dyce Duckworth, London. Dr F. J. Mouat, London. Sir Joseph Lister, Bart. Dr William Moore, Dublin. Professor Pearce, Durham. ( Professor Cayley, Cambridge. \ Professor de Haan, Leyden. Dr W. H. Flower, London. Very Rev. the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. ( Eight Eev. Bishop Perry, London. { Charles Halle, Manchester. {Professor van Beneden, Louvain. Sir James Paget, Bart. Professor Acland, Oxford. Very Rev. Dean Perowne, Peterborough. J. Lindsay Bennet, London. Rev. Professor Birrell, St Andrews. Rev. Professor Forbes, Aberdeen. Rev. Dr Hugh Maemillan, Greenock. Professor Veitch, Glasgow. Professor Szab6, Pesth. Profkssor Thierfelder, Eostock. Eev. Professor Beets, Utrecht. Rev. Dr John Kennedy, Hampstead. ( Professor Guterbock, Konigsberg. \ Professor Hoffmann, Dorpat. Ant. dAbbadie, Paris. Louis Pasteur, Paris. It was also resolved by the Senatus Academicus to provide a University Conver- sazione and a Banquet for the entertainment of the guests. The arrangements for the former were intrusted to the Secretary of the Senatus, and for the latter to a Banquet Committee, 1 consisting of members of the Senatus, together with several members of the General Council of the University, and presided over by the Principal. The necessary preparations for a Eeligious Service in St Giles's Church were made by the Professor of Divinity and the Secretary to the Senatus, in conjunction with Dr Cameron Lees and the Committee of Management of St Giles's. The arrangements for the Tercentenary Ceremonial were undertaken by a Sub-Committee. 1 1 The various Tercentenary Committees are named in Appendix C. C 20 TERCENTENARY OE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. The Senatus Academicus also resolved to contribute towards the expenses of a Concert to be given by the University Musical Society, under the auspices of the Professor of Music. Lastly, the Principal and the Professors of the Faculty of Medicine agreed to entertain, at their own expense, a number of the University guests, together with the chief contributors to the University New Buildings, representatives of the medical corporations of Edinburgh, and others, at a Luncheon to be held in the new Anatomical Museum. In all these preparations the Senatus was efficiently aided by the Tercentenary Clerk, 1 whose duties were multifarious and onerous. II. PREPARATIONS BY THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY. The approach of the Tercentenary Festival excited much interest among the members of the General Council — a large body composed of graduates and former alumni of the University. At a meeting of the Council on 26th October 1883, it was resolved that that body should be "duly represented" at the Festival; and at a meeting of a Committee of the Council with the Tercentenary Committee of the Senatus on 21st December, it was resolved to send "a circular announcing the Tercentenary celebration" to every member of the General Council resident within the United Kingdom. 2 The following circular, approved of and signed by the Chancellor of the University, was accordingly addressed early in January 1884 to each member, accompanied by a paper inquiring whether he desired to attend the Festival, and intimating that the cost of tickets for the Banquet would not exceed two guineas each. Tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh. SIR, The University of Edinburgh having now completed its Three Hundredth Session, it has been resolved to celebrate the Tercentenary on the 16th, 17th, and 18th days of April 1884, and to invite Delegates from the most celebrated Universities, Colleges, and Learned Societies in the world to be present on the occasion. The proceedings will include a Eeligious Service in St Giles's Cathedral, a Graduation Ceremony, and a Banquet to distinguished guests. 1 Mi George Somerville (from the office of the Secretary to the Curators), assisted hy Mr W. P. Farquharson. 2 About 4500 in number. The total number on the register was 4921. PREPARATIONS BY THE STUDENTS, ETC. 21 The General Council of the University, at their meeting of 26th October last, passed a resolu- tion to the effect that its members should take part in the celebration ; and in pursuance of that resolution, I have now, as President ex officio of the General Council, to request that you will be so good as to fill up and return to the Secretary the enclosed form, not later than 30th January, in order that those intrusted with the arrangements for the celebration may know how many members of the University are likely to attend. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient and faithful servant, JOHN INGLIS, Chancellor. University op Edinburgh, January 1884. To this circular about 1400 affirmative answers were received, including about 670 applications for Banquet tickets. This hearty co-operation of the General Council ensured the success of the festival. On the other hand — as, by the constitution of the University, these numerous applicants took precedence of all others — the tickets avail- able for students and for members of the general public were necessarily very limited in number. III. PREPARATIONS BY THE STUDENTS, The students contributed five important items to the Tercentenary Programme. At a meeting of the Students' Eepresentative Council 1 on 2d February 1884, it was resolved to give a Dramatic Entertainment in honour of the Festival, and the Executive Committee of the Council was at the same time authorised to plan other contributions. The following sub-committees were accordingly appointed : one on 2d February to organise the Dramatic Entertainment ; another on 18th February to make preparations for a Ball ; a third on 28th February to arrange for a Torchlight Procession ; a fourth on 20th March to plan a Symposium ; and a fifth on 2d April to invite distinguished visitors to a Students' Eeception. All these arrangements were energetically and success- fully carried out. 1 See Appendix D. 22 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. IV. PEEPAEATIONS BY THE COEPOBATION OF EDINBUKGH, AND BY OTHER PUBLIC AND LEAENED BODIES. To the Lord Provost, 1 Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, the lineal descendants of those authorities to whom the University chiefly owes its origin and its nurture, belonged the merit of appropriately inaugurating' the Festival with a public Eeceptidn of Guests, and of suitably terminating it with a partial illumination of the city and a display of fireworks. Another valuable contribution to the Festival con- sisted in the embellishment of several of the principal streets, particularly of the " Bridges," and of Forrest Eoad, in which the Banquet Hall was situated, with flags pro- vided by enterprising citizens. The various learned bodies mentioned in the programme also evinced cordial interest in the proposed Festival, and made active preparations for entertainments to be given in connection with it. The above preparations resulted in the publication of the following programme. V. PKOGBAMME. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. PROGRAMME OF TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL— April 1884. Tuesday, 15th April. *1. Reception of Guests, Members of the Uni- versity, and others, by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, in the Museum of Science and Art, from 8 to 10.30 p.m. Students' Torchlight Procession, 11 p.m. "Wednesday, 1 6th April. *2. Commemoration Service in St Giles's, at 11 A.M. 3. Luncheon in the University New Buildings, by invitation of the Principal and the Pro- fessors of the Faculty of Medicine, at 1 p.m. Dramatic Entertainment by the Students, in the Theatre Royal, at 3 p.m. Organ Recital by Professor Sir Herbert Oake- ley, in the Music Class Room, Park Place, at 4 p.m. Conversazione in the Hall of the University Library, 8 to 11 p.m. Ball, given by the Students in honour of the Stranger Guests of the University, in the Assembly Rooms, George Street, at 10 p.m. 1 The Right Hon. (now Sir) George Harrison (LL.D.) PEOGEAMME OF FESTIVAL. 23 Thursday, 17 th April. *8. The Tercentenary Ceremonial, in the United Presbyterian Hall, Castle Terrace, at 10.30 a.m. A. Reception of Delegates from Uni- versities and other learned bodies. B. Honorary Degrees conferred in Divinity and Laws. C. Tercentenary Address by the Chan- cellor of the University. 9. Luncheon by invitation of the President and Fellows of the Eoyal College of Phy- sicians, at 1.30 p.m. *10. Eeception by the Dean and Faculty of Advo- cates, in the Advocates' Library, at 3 p.m. 11. Eeception by the Eoyal Medical Society, Mel- bourne Place, at 3 p.m. *1'2. Tercentenary Banquet, Drill Hall, Forrest Eoad, at 6.30 p.m. Friday, 18th April. 13. Breakfast by invitation of the President and Fellows of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, at 10 a.m. Eeception of Guests by the Lord Eector and Students, in the United Presbyterian Hall, at 11.30 a.m. (Cards obtainable from the Students' Eepresentative Council.) Visits to Holyrood Palace, the Castle, Univer- sity Buildings, &c, and Excursions. *14. Concert of the University Musical Society, in the Music Hall, George Street, at 2.30 p.m. *15. Eeception by the President and Council of the Eoyal Scottish Academy, at 4.30 p.m. Illumination in Princes Street, &c, and Fire- works on Castle Esplanade, 9 to 10.30 p.m. *16. Students' Symposium in the Drill Hall, For- rest Eoad, at 10 p.m. NOTES. Admission. — Every Guest of the University, on his arrival in Edinburgh, will receive Cards of Ad- mission for those numbers in the Programme indi- cated by asterisks (*), and also for No. 4 if desired. Every Member of General Council who has duly intimated his intention to be present at the Festival will receive Cards for Nos. 1, 2, 6, and 8. Sub- scribers will also receive a separate Card for No. 1 2. For Students who are not Members of Council, about 250 Cards of admission are reserved for Nos. 1, 2, 6, and 8 respectively. Students may also ob- tain Cards for the Banquet at 25s. each For Ladies and other Guests, a limited number of Cards for Nos. 2, 6, and 8, will be issued by the Secretary of the Senatus. Invitations for Nos. 1, 10, and 15, will be issued by the Town Council, the Faculty of Advocates, and the Royal Scottish Academy respectively ; and for Nos. 5 and 1 4, by the Professor of Music. Ladies will also be admit- ted to the Gallery of the Banquet-Eoom, on Thurs- day at 7.30 p.m., by special invitation of the Uni- versity; and about thirty Students will act as Ladies' Stewards. Admission to Nos. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13, will be by special invitation only. For Nos. 4, 7, and 16, the Executive Committee of the Students' Eepre- sentative Council will issue Cards to Members of the University at rates which may be learned at the Office of the Council. Costume. — At Nos. 2 and 8, Members and Guests of the University are requested, as far as possible, to appear in their Academic Eobes, or in Official Dress. Graduates, and those Guests on whom Degrees are to be conferred, if not already provided with the Academic Eobes of their respective Universi- ties, can obtain Eobes in Edinburgh (where they may be purchased or hired). Those on whom Degrees are to be conferred will also be good enough to provide themselves in Edinburgh with the appropriate Hoods. Congratulatory Addresses. — If any of the Delegates should desire to honour the University with Congratulatory Addresses on the occasion of the Tercentenary Ceremonial (No. 8), they are requested to present them in writing. *** Ordinary Graduation. The Ordinary University Graduation Ceremonial will take place in the United Presbyterian Hall on Tuesday, 15th April, at 11 a.m. The Address to Graduates will be delivered by Professor Calder- wood. Tickets may be obtained from the Secre- tary of the Senatus. University op Edinburgh, Uth April 1884. 24 TERCENTENARY OF THE -UNIVERSITY OE EDINBURGH. To facilitate the arrangements for the Eeligious Service in St Giles's, for the Tercentenary Ceremonial, and for the Banquet, the following circular was also issued : — o'clock. 10 10.30 10.30 REGULATIONS AS TO ADMISSION TO THE Tercentenary Ceremonial (United Presbyterian Hall, Castle Terrace), 17th April 1884. 1. Ladies (white cards) 1 will be admitted by the northmost back entrance (next to Cambridge Street), from 9.45 to 2. Members of the General Council and Students (pink cards) 1 will be admitted by the southmost back entrance (next to Corn- wall Street), from 10 o'clock to 3. All Delegates (red cards) will be ad- mitted by the front entrance at 10 o'clock. (Those who do not come already robed in academic costume, will find a robing-room on the right of 'the entrance.) They are requested to be seated by 4. Those (other than Delegates) who are to receive Honorary Degrees (green cards) will be admitted by the front entrance at 10 o'clock. (The north end of the Library may be used by them as a robing-room.) They are requested to be seated by . 5. Other Guests, who have Hue cards, will be admitted by the front entrance, at 10 o'clock. (A robing-room to the left of the entrance will be available for such as re- quire it.) They are requested to be seated by 10.30 6. The Chancellor, Rector, Principal, the University Court, the Curators, Senatus, and Guests, with platform (yellow) cards, will be admitted by the front entrance, and are requested to assemble in the Library, south end, by 10.30. They will take their seats on the platform at . . . . 10.45 7. Delegates who are to honour the Uni- versity with written Addresses are requested to bring them to the Hall, and to present them to the Chancellor after having been introduced by the Principal. There will, unfortunately, not be time for oral Addresses from the Delegates. i Although the white cards are intended chiefly for Ladies, and the pink cards for Members of Council and Students, admission will be given to all holders of these cards, provided they present themselves at the proper entrance-™., the northmost back entrance for holders of white cards, and the southmost back entrance for holders ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE Service in the High Church op St Giles. Wednesday, 16th April. The Guests of the University are respectfully re- quested to present themselves in the Hall of the Parliament House not later than 10.15 a.m. on the 16th April. As far as possible, they will come in Academic or Official Costume, or in Uniform. They will be formed into a Procession, two and two, in the following order : — University Mace-Bearer. Chancellor. Lord Rector and Principal. Delegates prom Universities. Delegates prom other Bodies. Persons to Receive Honorary Degrees. The University Court. The Senatus Academicus. The Board op Curators. Old Honorary Graduates. Other Guests. At 10.50 a.m. the Procession will start for St Giles's, and passing through the West Door will proceed to the Chancel, where it will be received by the Stewards of the Church. At the conclusion of the Service the Procession will again pass out of the Church, two and two, though with less attention to exact order than before. 10.30 PROGRAMME OF FESTIVAL. 25 ARRANGEMENTS Admission to the Tercentenary Banquet. 1. Those Guests of the University and others ■who are provided with platform cards (white) are respectfully requested to assemble in the platform cloak-room (Mr Forsyth's saloon, Forrest Road), a few minutes before 6.30 p.m., when they will be escorted to their seats by the stewards. 2. Guests of the University who are provided with green cards, and also those Members of the Uni- versity and others (holders of pink cards) who are according hospitality to the Guests, are requested to alight at the Guests' cloak-room (Mr Donald's saloon, Forrest Road), a little before 6.15 p.m. 3. All holders of pink cards, except those above specified, will be good enough to pass through the Banquet Hall to the University cloak-room, at the back of the building, and to take their seats at or before 6 p.m. 4. The Ladies' cloak-room is reached by a stair- case on the right side of the entrance to the Hall. Ladies are requested to arrive at or soon after 7.30, and to leave at or before 10.30 p.m., in order that they may avoid the crowd, of persons leaving at a later hour. 5. Each Guest and subscriber is requested to retain his card until he is seated, and then to give it up to one of the stewards of his table. Ladies' cards of admission will be collected at the entrance to the Hall. 6. Ladies' stewards (yellow cards) are requested to arrive a little before 7.30, when the Guests' cloak-room will be available for their use. 7. Members of the orchestra (red cards) will be admitted by the front entrance at 5.30. Notes. — The platform table is on the side of the Hall farthest from the entrance, and is reached by turning to the left. The seats are numbered 1 R, 2 R, 3 R, &c, and 1 L, 2 L, 3 L, &c, indicating the numbers to the right and left of the chair respectively. The tables adjoining the platform, reached by turning to the left from the entrance, are lettered from A to N ; those nearest the entrance are lettered from O to BB. Each table will be provided with two sub-chair- men, and also with two stewards— one on each side. II. THE FESTIVAL TUESDAY, iSTH oAP'RIL 1884. ORDINARY GRADUATION CEREMONIAL. HE Senatus Academicus having resolved that the Tercentenary Fes- Day preeed- tival should be held on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of April, the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the city of Edinburgh worthily inaugurated the proceedings on Tuesday, 15th April, by according a public welcome to the guests of the University and all others who were to take part in the festival. But while this " Eeeeption of Guests " formed the real introduction to the Festival, and occupied the first place in the Pro- gramme, it was preceded by another event of great interest, which, as not strictly belonging to the Festival, was mentioned in the original programme (p. 23) in the form of a footnote only. This was the Ordinary University Graduation Ceremonial which takes place annually towards the end of April, and which in 1884 was fixed for Tuesday, 15th April, the place appointed being the United Presbyterian Hall, Castle Terrace. 2 By this time many of the distinguished guests of the University had arrived, and a considerable number of them honoured the ceremonial with their presence. Owing to the unusual interest taken in the proceedings, the hall was crowded, about 2500 persons being present. At eleven o'clock in the forenoon the Chancellor, 3 Vice-Chancellor, 4 and Lord Provost, 5 preceded by the mace-bearer, and accompanied by the Senatus and a number of the guests of the University, took their seats on the platform. The Dean of 1 This ceremonial, though not intended to be part of the Festival, became almost incorporated with it, owing to the fact that it was attended by a number of distinguished Tercentenary Guests, who expressed much interest in the proceedings. 2 The University as yet possesses no hall of its own large enough for such assemblies. 3 The Right Hon. John Inglis, Lord Justice-General of Scotland. 4 Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., Principal of the University, who died on 30th November 1884, as these ' Records ' were passing through the press. 5 The Right Hon. (now Sir) George Harrison. ing the Festival. 30 ORDINARY GRADUATION CEREMONIAL. the Faculty of Divinity x having opened the ceremonial with a short prayer, the candi- dates for degrees were presented to the Chancellor by the Deans of the Faculties to which they respectively belonged : By the Dean of the Faculty of Divinity there were presented eighteen candidates for the degree of B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity) ; 2 by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, 3 five candidates for the degree of LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws), 4 and one for that of B.L. (Bachelor of Law) ; 4 by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, 5 117 candidates for the degree of M.A. (Master of Arts);* by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 6 four candidates for the degrees of M.B. and CM. (Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery) ; i by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, one candidate for the degree of D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) 4 in the department of Philology; by the Professor of Chemistry, 7 one candidate for the same degree in the department of Chemistry, 4 and three candidates for the same degree in the department of Public Health ; 4 and lastly, by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, five candidates for the degree of B.Sc. 4 (Bachelor of Science), — one in the department of Natural Science, three in that of Physical Experimental Sciences, and one in that of Engineering. The Chancellor having performed the ceremony of "capping" (i.e., of holding a cap over the head of each candidate, and declaring him admitted to the degree for which he had duly qualified himself), the Professor of Moral Philosophy 8 then delivered, as customary, an address to the new graduates. The address was in the following terms : — Promoter's " Gentlemen, — In name of the Faculty of Arts, and of the Senatus, I have to congratulate you on the high honour you have this day reached. The duty now devolving on me, in ordinary course of rotation, is a very pleasant one, in so far as it allows me to express the gratification of your teachers in the successful examinations you have passed, and in the University distinction you have honourably won. I have now the pleasure of addressing you as Graduates of this University, and offering to you a welcome to membership in its Council. " To you, gentlemen, falls the special honour of being the Graduates of the Tercentenary. In accordance with the feelings naturally arising on this occasion of high interest to the whole Uni- versity, the duties of Promoter will be best discharged by some attempt to make account of the historic situation. In venturing upon this, it will be my aim to regard the history of our Uni- versity more particularly from the Students' point of view, for this is pre-eminently the Students' day, fitly introducing the Tercentenary celebrations. I shall in this be laid under constant obliga- tion to our learned Principal, who has made a most fitting preparation for this special occasion, by undertaking the labour, and winning for himself the honour, of the Historian of the University of Edinburgh. 1 Professor Charteris. 2 Their names will be found in the Edinburgh University Calendar for 1884-85, p. 122. 3 Professor Kirkpatrick. * See Calendar for 1884-85. 6 Professor Campbell Fraser. 6 Professor T. E. Fraser. 7 Professor Crum Brown. 8 Professor Calderwood. PROMOTER'S ADDRESS. 31 " My simple task will be to contemplate and contrast these two periods in the educational history of the Metropolis of Scotland, 1584 and 1884, touching but slightly on intervening points, and only as these may help in securing a true perspective. It will be no part of my object to gather extra honours for the University of to-day, by talking slightingly of the lowly condition of our Alma Mater in her early years. The educational ideas of the Reformers are those accepted and commended in the present day, while we have still to lament, for our country's sake, that these ideas have not, even yet, been brought fully into application. The life of our University is, however, a unity, — a consistent development of the conception which prevailed at the period when it came into being. Accordingly, we who value its present constitution find ourselves in complete intel- lectual sympathy with the design from which it originated. " Meanwhile we must seek to appreciate the differences which 300 years have brought to our educational arrangements and appliances. Taking the Town's College as our standpoint, we are to compare the time when it stood first within the city wall, and when the city's northern boundary was the ' Nor' Loch,' just beyond the Castle Rock, with our days of ever-extending boundaries, when walls are things of the past, and ' the keys of the city ' are symbols of antiquity. We are to contrast the group of students who appeared when the College was opened (over ninety), ' magna multitudo ' of those days, with the crowds, over 3300, who gather to our class-rooms when the au- tumn months return. We are to compare the times when the first Principal, Robert Rollock, was in his own person the embodiment of Principal, Professors, and College all in one, with our day, when Sir Alexander Grant presides over thirty-eight Professors, three Lecturers, thirty-nine Assistants, and twenty-one Examiners. We have to contrast the humble commencement, when there was but one class, and when an entrance examination debarred thirty applicants for admission, sending them to a tutor to prepare them for the next session, leaving a class of sixty students to the solitary Professor, with these days when no entrance examination blocks the way of youthful aspirants, and fifty-seven classes are at work in all departments of study. The contrast is great in many ways; and yet, great as the advance has been, the reference to entrance examination in 1580 tells us that we have received more in ideas from the past than we have inherited in practice, and that reform, waiting accomplishment in the nineteenth century, involves return upon the practice of our first Principal, with approval of the Town Council of this city, in the sixteenth century. "In celebrating our Tercentenary, we are reminded that Edinburgh is the youngest of the Scotch Universities. She alone of the four is the child of the Reformation. The other three were originated by Papal mandate, and had their regulations framed by Catholic Bishops, each one of whom was ex officio Chancellor of the University of his diocese. Edinburgh was from the first the 'Town's College,' originated by the Deed of her Town Councillors, and fostered by the living interest of the most influential ministers of the Gospel. Familiar with agitation and conflict, she was fostered in the bracing atmosphere of intellectual freedom. Under her influence the youth of our land reaped the benefit of the foresight of such leaders of the nation as George Buchanan, John Knox, and Andrew Melville. Their teaching had prepared the way for the systematic instruction given to her students from the first opening of her class-rooms. This University was not born to 32 ORDINARY GRADUATION CEREMONIAL. the privileges and immunities of a mediaeval sanctuary. Of these she knew nothing except by- tradition. She was trained under the conditions, and by participation in the work and achieve- ments, which were to make and support a new phase of national life. " That this city was a place suitable for erecting within it a seat for the higher learning, is amply proved by what is recorded of its history, as well as by reference to its situation, and its importance as the capital. In earlier times, when a plea was presented to the Pope for the erec- tion of a University, it was customary to testify ' that the air was healthy, and that there was abundance of victual and houses.' This city could meet these requirements ; but what most led to the selection of the place in this case was the need for higher education in such a city, and the good to the commonwealth which must accrue. A genuine devotion to education thus belongs to the traditions of Edinburgh from an early period, and remains with an energy and fulness of development telling of long growth. The Eeformers exerted themselves to the utmost to foster an enthusiasm for education. They had indeed in those days a strong belief in the right of the Church to command, and to visit with censure those who were refractory. But faith in the value of high education for individuals and for the nation was the true spring of their action. Moved by this, they did not hesitate to lay down the law for the education of young men, saying, ' If they be found apt to letters and learning, then may they not (we mean neither the sons of the rich, nor yet the sons of the poor) be permitted to reject learning,- but must be charged to continue their study, - so that the commonwealth may have some comfort of them.' This is the authoritative tone, but truly patriotic spirit, in which those Eeformers pressed for high education, requiring that there should be a Grammar School in every parish, and a College for ' Logic, Ehetoric, and the Tongues,' in every notable town ; — and that every school be visited once a quarter by the ministers, elders, and best learned in every town. 1 " Under such teaching and influence, it is easy to understand how the desire sprang up for the erection of a College in Edinburgh. This found expression in the decisions of the Town Council, who petitioned first Queen Mary, and afterwards King James. At length, King James VI., when holding Court at Stirling, on 14th April 1582, issued a Charter for founding the College of Edin- burgh, securing Church property, and giving to the Council power to build houses for Professors, and to appoint and remove Professors. The Kirk-of-Field — the site of the present University Buildings — was bought, and the house standing at the time was adapted to College work. The structure was plain enough in appearance,— having no such imposing effect as the double possession now named our old University Buildings and our new Buildings for the Medical Faculty. But it was suitable for the wants of the time, and the Town Council had good reason for satisfaction with the start secured in the great work of University education. " Our interest gathers mainly around the arrangement made for teaching. In due course it was decided to bring Mr Eobert Bollock from St Andrews to be the first Eegent ; afterwards, when additional teachers had been appointed, to be the first Principal. He was appointed to ' exercise 1 Book of Discipline. PROMOTER'S ADDRESS. 33 the office of the Regent of the College in instruction, government, and correction of the youth.' A full amount of Scotch caution and economy was exercised in completing the transaction, for he was appointed only 'during the space of one year immediately following his said entry, and further so long as the said Mr Robert uses himself faithfully therein, according to the rules and injunctions which shall be given to him by the Provost, Bailies, and Council of the said burgh.' The College authorities had a sharp eye for efficient teaching, wisely holding to the doctrine that Professors are made for students, not students for Professors, — and that faithful discharge of duty must be the condition for holding office. In the same spirit, the Professors afterwards appointed, or ' Regents of Philosophy,' as they were called, were removable after their sixth year of office, — ' especially if they have begun to get tired of their work.' " Scotch thrift was also required of a Regent in those days. Robert Rollock was to have £40 Scots for salary, and the Council was to ' sustain him and one servant in their ordinary expenses.' He was to have the fees besides ; and if these together proved insufficient, he was to have an augmentation,—' not however exceeding 40 merks.' There are several items in the statement ; but the sum total is computed at about £25 sterling, with board for the Regent and one servant. " Fees are matter of concern to the students ; it may therefore be well to quote the provision of the Town Council on this head. The Regent is to receive fees ' from the bairns, inhabitants of the said burgh, forty shillings ; and from the bairns of others not inhabitants therein, £3 or more, as the bairns' parents may please to bestow of their liberality.' 1 "Rollock began teaching in October 1583, and a glimpse of College life may enable us to judge of the state of matters. The preliminary examination in Latin was rigid, for the Regent was to lecture in Latin, and all questions were to be asked, and all answers given, in the same tongue. A four years' course was adopted, and additional Regents were appointed, — the first year being devoted to Latin and Greek ; the second to Rhetoric and Logic ; the third to Hebrew, Rhetoric, and Descrip- tive Anatomy ; the fourth to Geography, Astronomy, and Ethics. The students, according to the original plan, were to reside in the College ; but they seemed to have proved too numerous for the accommodation at command ; it was besides required that they should all ' have and wear gowns.' Under laws issued by the Town Council fully forty years after the College had been opened, students are enjoined to speak Latin in the schools, in the close, in the fields, and in all other places where they are together, and ' none is to be found speaking Scotch.' Those residing in College were not to go out of the gate after it is once locked by the janitor, without leave of one of the Regents. The non-resident students were not to linger on the streets, nor to go to taverns. A recreation-ground was provided on the Borough Muir, now Warrender Park and Merchiston ; but no more than two hours a-day were to be spent there. The College bell was to be rung at five o'clock in the morning in summer, and at six o'clock in winter. The bursars, two each week, were to ring the bell, and 'paidell' the stairs. A fourth-year student acted as janitor, and closed the gate at 10 p.m., kept the keys, and lighted candles in the rooms. 1 The Story of the University of Edinburgh, vol. i. p. 133. 34 ORDINARY GRADUATION CEREMONIAL. " The Eegents took the whole College course in turns, each carrying through the four years' course those students whom he received as Bajans or Freshmen. This plan of circulating, or ' Eegenting ' as it was called, was seriously condemned in the interests of education, and King James had expressed strong dissatisfaction with it; but it was the more economical plan, and, though suspended for a time, the 'circling' or 'rotatory' system was resumed in 1643, and con- tinued in the Faculty of Arts till the beginning of the eighteenth century, when, in the reign of King William, and under the influence of Principal Carstares, the Town Council introduced the professorial system. Thus, for nearly one-half of its history, the Philosophy course was provided for by four Eegents, each teaching all the subjects. " To complete this hurried sketch of the early days of our University, nothing more is needful than a brief reference to Graduation. Prom the first year, graduation was an essential feature in the College life. Eollock made it part of his duty to prepare his class for graduation. Beginning their course in 1583, they were ready in 1587, when they were examined by him, and he gave them their degrees. After the four Eegents had been appointed for the Philosophy course, the Eegent was excluded from the work of examination who had brought forward the class to the magistrand position, and the others tested the results. In this way graduation became an annual feature of College life from 1587 ; though some looseness in arrangement called forth a remon- strance one year against private graduation. " The results of the examinations were reported to the Principal, and the Eegent reported on the conduct and ' carriage ' of each student. The graduates' names were then arranged in distinct classes according to merit, and the students were presented in accordance with this order. Gradua- tion day was a great day not only in the history of the College, but in the life of the city. Solemn preparation was made for it in College on the evening preceding, when those who had been passed for graduation appeared before the Principal and Eegents to sign the Confession of Faith, and pledge themselves to be dutiful to the College. "Graduation day was appointed to be on a Monday, in order that the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 'and other Privy Councillors, the Treasurer and Lords of Exchequer, with the Lords of Session, advocates, and writers, having no meeting on that day, might attend; which they used to do with great frequency.' In fact, the nation believed in the value of the higher education, and attached importance to an annual public recognition of the interest of the com- monwealth in the intellectual life of the youth. For this great ceremonial a Thesis was prepared by the Eegent of the magistrand class, and the graduates were required to defend it against all comers. ' The disputations were conducted in Latin, and lasted all day, till six in the evening.' 1 Neither students, nor College authorities, nor great Ministers of State, were in those days afraid to face a long day's work. When the hour of 6 P.M. had arrived, the disputation was closed ; the graduates were called up in the ranks in which they had been classified; the ceremony was performed by ' imposition of a bonnet (the badge of manumission) upon the head of each of the 1 Story, etc., vol. i. p. 155. PROMOTER'S ADDRESS. 35 candidates. After this had been completed, one of the graduates delivered a brief address of thanks, and the assembly was dismissed.' " Such is a sketch of College life in Edinburgh about the close of the sixteenth century, drawn from a standpoint which includes the main features of interest to the students of our day. There is not space here for reference to the origin of the Theological Faculty, which Bollock himself founded, of the Law Faculty, contemplated from the early days as a necessary feature of College teaching, and of the Medical Faculty, which has risen to eminence, giving fresh renown to the Scottish capital. " A single epoch may be taken as affording the key to more recent developments, which have fully maintained the national interest in our University system. The period is 1708, when the transition is made from Regenting to Professorial teaching. Here also, as at the start, the Town Council of our city show the sagacity and tact of men understanding the wants of the nation. They constituted the six Chairs, which, with the recent addition of English, are included in the Arts curriculum of the present day; they gave their Regents, in the order of seniority, the choice of subjects; they led the van in the course of University reform along a path in which all the other Universities in Scotland followed them, Glasgow taking the path nineteen years later, St Andrews twenty years behind Glasgow, and Aberdeen seven years behind St Andrews. " The Deed of the Town Council of Edinburgh which thus led the way to higher teaching in all the Universities of Scotland is a document of great historic importance. It displaced the mixed and general Course of Philosophy, which had continued from the early times; introduced more concentrated and effective teaching ; and laid the basis on which we recently secured the Depart- mental Division of subjects for the Master of Arts Degree. It originated a Professorship of Greek, and provided for the separation of Moral Philosophy from Logic and Metaphysics. The document runs thus : ' The Town Council of Edinburgh, taking to their consideration what may be the proper methods for advancing of learning in their own College of Edinburgh, have agreed upon the following articles as a rule of teaching in the said College : Primo, That all the parts of Philosophy be taught in two years, as they are by the most famous Universities abroad ; Secundo, That as a consequence of this article, there be but two Philosophy classes in the College, to be taught by two of the four present Regents ; Tertio, That in the first of these classes the students be taught Logic and Metaphysics, and in the last a compend of Ethics and Natural Philosophy ; Quarto, Because there are many useful things belonging to the Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy which the two Professors, in the present method of teaching classes, cannot overtake, therefore it is proposed that one of the two remaining Professors shall be appointed to teaching these two parts of Philosophy more fully at such times as the students are not obliged to be in their classes ; and, because he has not the charge of a class, he may have public lessons in Philosophy in the Common Hall, where all the students may be present, at such times as may be most convenient.' Our esteemed Principal, a recognised authority in interpretation of ancient literature, holds this last provision to imply that the Professor of Moral Philosophy was ' to be apparently the apex of E 36 ORDINARY GRADUATION" CEREMONIAL. the whole teaching establishment.' As an obedient son of the University, I humbly- concur in his rendering, and this quite disinterestedly, as the Professor of Moral Philosophy has no longer the honour of lecturing to all the students in the Common Hall. "In what spirit our civic rulers devised these changes appears from the Council records as concerned with the origin of a Greek Chair. The minute runs thus : ' The Council, considering that as the knowledge of the Greek tongue is a valuable piece of learning, and much esteemed in all parts of the world where letters and sciences do nourish, so they, being willing to contribute their utmost endeavours to advance the knowledge of that language, do judge nothing can more effectually promote the said end than the fixing a Professor of Greek within the College of this burgh.' • " From this bold and brave advance in the work of higher education, the University entered on a career of widening influence. The teaching was at once concentrated and extended in range. Teaching did indeed gain such ascendancy as to throw graduation quite into the shade for a season. But under the influence of more recent legislation, for which we have been specially indebted to our present distinguished Chancellor, this defect has been remedied. And now our College is a Studium Generale in the widest and most generous sense yet realised in the United Kingdom, and our University is fulfilling its function of graduation on an extended scale, though we must confess it is chargeable with neglect of that requirement . with which Robert Rollock began, — an entrance examination. " The recent progress of our University is so well known, not only to its students and to our citizens, but throughout the world, that there is no need for dwelling upon details. The wide influence of its Medical School, which has called for a great extension of class-room accommodation, will have special recognition in the celebrations of this week, in the ceremony connected with the opening of the new buildings, which, in providing for the Medical Faculty, will make it possible to meet the requirements of the Arts Faculty, by placing the entire building hitherto occupied completely at command of the Arts Faculty and the sister Faculties of Theology and Law. " In contrasting the University education of the nineteenth century with that of the sixteenth, as illustrated in the history of the Town's College of Edinburgh, the foremost thing to be recognised is Scotland's obligation to the Reformation. The spirit of the Reformers gave the impulse to education which our national history records all through the centuries following. The Catholic Church set itself to educate the priesthood ; the Reformers, though they did not shake themselves free from the traditional desire for ecclesiastical dominion, set themselves to educate the people. To educate the ministry was indeed still a prominent and quite essential part of their work, but their conception as a whole was that of an educated nation, — for which Scotland has reason to be profoundly thankful to-day. The University of our time is the natural outgrowth of the order of things which the Reformers introduced. In conception and internal plan there is nothing new; the contrast is only in outward form, and in the expansion which growing wealth and advancing education have made possible ; and we are even yet waiting fulfilment of what ■ the Reformers designed. Looking back from our present vantage-ground, it seems a marvel that the PROMOTER'S ADDRESS. 37 sixteenth century accomplished what it did. When we consider the literary appliances of the present day, — the facility for travel, — the rapid circulation of ideas, — we cannot withhold high admiration for the standard of education generally accepted in Reformation times. And, when .estimating the possibilities in respect of actual teaching, we must recognise the service which the Catholic Church had rendered, by making the Latin tongue the learned language all over Europe. When the Reformers were scattered in various directions over the Continent, diversity of national tongue offered no .barrier to their participation in educational privileges in the place of their residence. In due time they returned to their country bearing with them the full advantages of their sojourn abroad, and enlightening the people as to the branches of study which were valued in those educational centres where letters and sciences were flourishing. " Now it devolves upon us who have inherited all these advantages, and are, besides, more favoured than preceding generations, to consider our responsibilities and the claims which the future has upon us. The grand gain of the present time consists in concentrated teaching. The difference between present and past is clearly indicated in the transition from Regents, travelling with their band of students over the whole field of preliminary training, to Professors, each concentrating his life-work on a distinct field of study and research, seeking to make the training introductory to professional study, deeper and richer for all sharing its benefits. Here lie clearly before us the advantages and the risks of the present educational situation. On the advantages there is no need for enlarging. Students gain so much by concentration of each teacher on a selected field, that there is no one who would dream of suggesting a return on the antiquated plan ; while the wonderful advance in knowledge, and facilities for interchange of thought, render it impossible to keep pace with the times, save on condition of the teacher's consecration to a restricted field of study. " Here also, however, appears the one grand danger to which modern education is exposed, — a danger of which our forefathers knew nothing, — and, as usually happens in such cases, we are so occupied with our advantages, that our eyes are not open to the risks. Our lot is cast in the age of specialists, and a quite new order of dangers besets the path of education on this account. Concentration means narrowing. There is no help for it, and it were vain to close our eyes to the inevitable consequences. The nation as a whole, — or, as we should now say, the community of nations, — will reap the gain; but in education, as in all other fields, division of labour for concentration of effort must bring with it restriction of the area of research for the individual teacher. A new responsibility is therefore thrown on every teacher to maintain a literary and philosophic breadth of interest in accord with the recognised unity of all knowledge. Ere long the Universities must adapt themselves to the new situation; it will soon become needful to allow for options in study, hitherto inadmissible; and it will then devolve on the Universities, with large appreciation of the essentials of a liberal and high education, to guard against the risks of more concentrated and narrowed study. 1 Over-pressure, 1 In this connection, it may be well to refer to the opinion of the members of the Philosophical Faculty in the University of Berlin, submitted to his Excellency Herr von Puttkammer, Royal Minister of State, on 8th March 1880 38 ORDINARY GRADUATION CEREMONIAL. against which we are hearing mutterings concerned with all stages of education, while it cannot be treated as a fancied danger, is not the main risk, nor will it be an abiding one. Our coming danger is that arising from the separation of our workers, the intensifying of special study, and abatement of broad and generous interest in the more general problems of intellectual life. Our groups of specialists, concentrating on a region exclusively their own, are in danger of becoming so absorbed, as to lack the inclination, and even to lose the power, for contemplating the problem of the universe, — ever becoming vaster in its proportions. One leading line of defence against this danger will be a clear and unhesitating recognition within our Universities of a varied and liberalising preliminary training for all participating in the higher education, which training it shall be the duty and honour of our Arts Faculty to maintain. "Gentlemen, Graduates of the University, you cannot escape the conditions of the time in which your lot has been cast. You must become specialists, in order to achieve the eminence which renders the highest service to the country, and fills the individual life with continuous works of usefulness. But it is an urgent requirement of our age that you guard against the narrowness of specialism. The current thought of our time carries on its surface the admission, now forced upon it, that no man can be great in all departments of knowledge. We cannot turn back the stream, and we would not if we could ; but let us navigate wisely, as those well acquainted with the hidden rocks which are in the channel. Gentlemen, you are launching away at a period in our nation's history when the words of the great Lord Bacon, — ' I have taken all knowledge to be my province,' would be treated as the utterance of audacity. The days of the noble author of 'The Advancement of Learning' are now far in the rear. True as it was in his time, as he himself said, that 'the generalities of the schoolmen had fallen under popular contempt,' so true is it seen to be in our day that Ins own judgment was at fault, equally as to the possibilities and impossibilities of human learning. But, gentlemen, while you are having it continually pressed on your notice that the honours of the day belong to the specialist, do not forget the lesson coming from the versatility of the great thinkers of the past, who served their country in many spheres. "We must seek to deliver ourselves and our nation from the dangers of specialism. We must not content ourselves with formal acceptance of the commonplace, that all advance of knowledge must carry with it the good of the race; we must make this end a living purpose, shaping our whole career. Gentlemen, carry throughout your life some earnest regard to the claims of the commonwealth on the fruits of her children's training. Remember what the cause of education in Scotland still needs at our hands, and the claim it has on the educated men of the country both in the field of administration, and in the efforts to secure legislative advance. And, rising still higher, I would ask you not only to be strongly and earnestly patriotic, but, devoting yourselves to the God of truth, purity, and salvation, exercise all your life throughout, appended to the Inaugural Address delivered by Professor A. W. Hoffmann, as Rector of the University. Com- paring the technical training of the Reahchulen with the classical training in the Gymnasium, they declare the former to be inferior in educational result, specially because of lack of " interest in learning, not dependent upon nor limited by practical aims, but ministering to the liberal education of the mind." To this opinion are attached the names of such teachers as Zeller, Helmholtz, Mommsen, and Curtius. RECEPTION BY THE LORD PROVOST, MAGISTRATES, AND TOWN COUNCIL. 39 the faith and world-wide sympathy which Jesus Christ has brought into our world. May God bless you, and aid you in a life of faith, of earnest work, of living hope concerning a glorious experience beyond the visible — a life in which no one falls short of a noble destiny." The Dean of the Faculty of Divinity then terminated the ceremonial with a benediction. EECEPTION BY THE LOED PEOVOST, MAGISTEATES, AND TOWN COUNCIL, IN THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND AET. 1 THE Eeception of the guests, members and friends of the University, and others by the Tuesday, Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, was probably, in many 15tlL Apn1 ' ° . . . 8 to 10.30p.m. respects, the most remarkable and interesting assemblage Edinburgh has ever witnessed. About 2500 invitations were reserved by the courtesy of the hosts for the guests and members of the University, while 1500 more were distributed among representatives of important public bodies and influential citizens, including several members of the nobility, the Lord Advocate, the judges of the Court of Session, a number of Crown officials and members of Parliament, the Sheriffs, the Dean, and several members of the Faculty of Advocates, representatives of the clergy, the navy, and the army, of the principal legal and medical societies and colleges, and of the Eoyal Scottish Academy and other public bodies, and the foreign consuls resident in Edinburgh and Leith. Almost all the office-bearers and professors of the University, about 1400 members of the General Council, 300 students, and a large proportion of the University guests, 2 were also present. Ladies and gentlemen began to arrive at the spacious Museum Building (Chambers Street) at half-past seven p.m., and the ceremony of announcing and receiving them lasted from eight till half -past nine. The guests were received by the Lord Provost, Bailies Hall, Anderson, Younger, Eoberts, and Clark, Treasurer Boyd, Convener Hutton, and Mr Skinner, the City Clerk. During more than two hours the great building, which was brilliantly illuminated and appropriately fitted up, was densely thronged, and presented a strikingly picturesque scene. Many of the guests 1 The Invitation Cards were of a highly ornate character, and presented interesting views of the University of Edinhurgh, the University New Buildings, the Scott Monument, St Giles's Church, Holyrood Palace, and George Heriot's Hospital. In the centre were the City Arms above, and the Arms and Seal of the University below. At one end of the Card was left a detachable margin, marked off by a perforated line, which formed the ticket of admission, while the Card itself was intended to be retained by the holder as a souvenir of the occasion. The description of this Reception (which has been kindly revised by the City Clerk, Mr William Skinner, W.S.), and that of most of the other Tercentenary proceedings, are mainly derived from the full and able reports in the 'Scotsman' newspaper. 2 See lists, pp. 6-10, 11-14, and 84-88. 40 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. wore handsome uniforms, but the majority of the gentlemen present were in ordinary- evening dress. To many of the visitors the extensive and valuable collections of the Museum (zoological, geological, architectural, industrial, &c.) formed a great attrac- tion ; but the chief object of interest was the dense assemblage itself, and particularly the guests of the University, among whom were persons from all quarters of the world, eminent in literature, science, and art. The company was entertained at intervals with instrumental music by the Band of the 2d Battalion of the Gordon .High- landers, and by the Edinburgh Police Band, 1 and was supplied with refreshments in one of the galleries of the building. The guests began to disperse at half-past nine, but fully an hour elapsed before the last of them reached their carriages. 1 The programmes were as follows : — Band of 2d Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Overture, Valse, Selection, Cornet Solo, Selection, Dance (Piccolo Solo), . " Plotter Bursche," ' Reminiscences of Haydn.' " Mia Cara," " Airs of all Nations," "LesFolies," "Adelia," . " Les Aborigines/' " God save the Queen.'' Conductor — Mr J. King. Suppe. Bucalossi. . Godfrey. Waldteufel. Donizetti. La Thiere. The Edinburgh Police Band. Langsamer Marsch, " Der Torgauer," . Wagner. Overture, . . " The Bohemian Girl," Balfe. Waltz (with vocal refrain), " Sunny Hours," Colles. Selection, " Semiramide," Rossini. Russian Dance, . " Pas des Patineurs," F. Godfrey. Fantasia (Scotch), . . " Burns's Centenary," . Cavalini. Galop, "Iris," . Faust. " Scots wha hae wf Wallace hied >? Conductor— Mr William Miller. The Edinburgh Police Pipers played selections after the Police Band. Pipe-Major— Constable Finlat. STUDENTS' TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION". 41 STUDENTS' TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION. 1 TMMEDIATELY after the close of the Lord Provost's Reception, a number of the Tuesday, J- guests hastened to secure good places for viewing the Students' Torchlight Pro- 15th Alin1 ' cession, the next item in the official programme ; while others, specially invited, betook themselves to the Waterloo Rooms to partake of the hospitality of the Cap and Gown Club. 2 Between 10 and 11 p.m., about 800 students, provided with torches and badges, assembled in the University Quadrangle, which was illuminated with the electric light (fitted up by the assistants of the Professor of Natural Philosophy), and were there marshalled into a procession. They were accompanied by the band of the Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade and a strong detachment of police - constables. At eleven o'clock, the procession, headed by three mounted policemen and six stalwart constables on foot, behind whom was the band, started amidst a multitude of interested spectators. The route taken was by the South and North Bridges to Waterloo Place, where a halt was made opposite the Waterloo Rooms. 3 The procession then turned, and proceeded by Princes Street, Charlotte Street, round Charlotte Square, and through George Street and Hanover Street to the Mound, and thence by Bank Street, the Lawnmarket, and Castle Hill, to the Esplanade, where a huge bonfire was made with the burning torches. This procession, which was favoured with fine weather, formed one of the liveliest and most picturesque events of. the Tercentenary celebration, and was witnessed by immense crowds of spectators, who lined the' streets in dense, surging masses. Although at places the " rough " element predominated, and occasionally disorganised the procession, order was remarkably well maintained throughout, and no serious accident occurred. The proceedings were enlivened by a selection of Scottish and other popular airs, played by the band ("For he's a jolly good fellow," " Willie brewed a peck o' maut," "Rule Britannia," "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," &c.) ; while the brilliance and picturesqueness of the scene were enhanced by the burning of red and blue lights on balconies and other prominent points, the waving of handkerchiefs by lady spectators, and other expressions of approval, which repeatedly elicited hearty cheers from the students by way of response. At the close of the proceedings the students formed a large ring round the blazing bonfire composed of the torches, and sang " Auld Lang Syne " and " God save the Queen," led by the band. Three ringing cheers were then given for the University, the Students' Representative Council, and the Constables, and the processionists dispersed soon after midnight. 1 Organised by a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs G. L. Gulland, E. M. Macphail, and G. C. Cathcart, appointed by the Executive' Committee of the Students' Representative Council. Description revised by Mr E. M. Macphail. 2 See p. 42. 3 See p. 42.' 42 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 11 P.M. SUPPEE GIVEN BY THE CAP AND GOWN CLUB. 1 T d A LTHOUGH not mentioned in the official programme, the hospitable entertain- 15th April, -£*- ment given by the Cap and Gown Club to a number of the most distinguished guests of the University and others, formed one of the pleasantest features of the Tercentenary festivities. This Club, consisting chiefly of professional men, was founded in 1881, for the purpose of affording its members and their guests an opportunity of meeting once a month during the winter for a social supper, enhanced by music, song, and other entertainment. As the name of the Club indicates, its composition is to a large extent academic. It now numbers one hundred ordinary, nine extraordinary, and twenty-two country members, comprising clergymen, lawyers, doctors, artists, musicians, and men of letters and science, many of whom have studied at the University of Edinburgh. It therefore seemed fitting that, on the occasion of the Tercentenary Festival of the University, the Club should endeavour to take some part in entertaining the distinguished guests of the University who had come from all parts of the world to attend the celebration. Numerous invitations to guests and members of the University were accordingly issued by the Club for the evening of Tuesday, 15th April 1884 ; and on that day, about 11 p.m., the guests and their hosts, numbering upwards of 300 in all, assembled in the Waterloo Eooms, the chair being occupied by Mr J. H. A. Macdonald, Q.C., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. Among those present were Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., Lord Eector of the University of Edinburgh; Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., Vice - Chancellor ; Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B., Member of Parliament for the University; Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps Professor Virchow, Berlin ; Professor Thierfelder, Eostock ; Professor Chauveau, Lyons Judge Nys, Brussels ; Professor de Martens and Professor Mendeleieff, St Petersburg Professor Saxtorph, Copenhagen ; Professor Ask, Lund ; Professor Karl Elze, Halle M. Greard, Academic, Paris ; Count Sam, Bologna ; The Hon. Justice West, Bombay Sir Joseph Lister, Bart. ; Sir Joseph Fayrer ; Captain Kennedy, E.N. ; Major-General Macdonald, Commander of the Forces; Dr Syer Bristowe; Sir Samuel Ferguson, Dublin; Professor Eamsay, Glasgow; Mr David Gill, Astronomer Eoyal, Cape of Good Hope ; Professor Ferrier, London ; Dr Sieveking, London ; Dr Billings, Phila- delphia ; Professor Thorburn, Manchester ; Mr Eobert Browning ; and several of the Professors of the University of Edinburgh. About half-past eleven the students' torch- light procession passed under the windows of the hotel, and was witnessed thence by 1 Materials for this notice were kindly furnished by Mr Robert H. Christie, S.S.C., Honorary Secretary of the Club. SUPPER GIVEN BY THE CAP AND GOWN CLUB. 43 the Lord Rector and others. In response to the greeting accorded to him, the Rector spoke as follows : — - " Gentlemen, I hope you will have a successful night for your interesting meeting. I can assure you that those whom I have met, who are now visiting Edinburgh for the first time, are greatly charmed with what they have seen ; and I venture to say that before they leave this city they will be still more charmed, both with the natural beauties and the acquired beauties of the place, and with the hospitality of its citizens. As regards the procession which we have just seen pass, I could not help being reminded of a very doubtful compliment which was paid to your national beverage by one of the Irish members of the House of Commons. He told us that when he drank Scottish whisky, it seemed like a torchlight procession going down his throat. I can only say that if this is a fair sample of a torchlight procession, then it is a very good thing to go down anybody's throat. I wish you all good-night." About midnight the company sat down to supper, being grouped around numerous small tables, in accordance with the custom of the Club, after which, speeches being prohibited, they were entertained with excellent vocal and instrumental music, and with interesting recitations and anecdotes. About 2 a.m. the proceedings terminated with the singing of the well-known students' song, " Gaudeamus igitur," in which the whole company joined. With this pleasant and unconventional entertainment, which reflected great credit on its organisers, ended the eve of the Festival, the more serious business of which was destined to begin on the following day. 44 WEDNESDAY, 16TH oAP%IL 1884. COMMEMOEATION SEEVICE IN ST GILES'S CHUECH. Wednesday, ||i||||jl|§N the morning of Wednesday, 16th April, the weather being fortunately ti ± -, Pn ' HiK^^iffl bright and bracing, thousands of spectators flocked to the High Street in 11 to i EiliiP * )J - o'clock. m&J ' order to catch a glimpse of the distinguished visitors ; while upwards of la MESagaa 2000 ticket-holders, including about 1400 members of the General Council and 300 students, hastened to secure seats in the nave, aisles, and transepts of the mag- nificent and venerable High Church of St Giles. Meanwhile, about half-past ten, the guests and the office-bearers of the University, attired in full academic or official costume, and numbering in all nearly 500 persons, assembled, as had been arranged, 1 in the noble old hall of the Parliament House, which lies almost contiguous to the Church of St Giles. Here a procession was formed, headed by the stalwart University mace-bearer, immediately followed by the Chancellor of the University, hj the Lord Eector and the Principal, the Delegates from Universities and other bodies, the persons on whom honorary degrees were to be conferred, the University Court, the Senatus Academicus, the Curators, the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edin- burgh, former honorary graduates, and other guests. While the many-coloured robes and hoods, the gold crosses, stars, chains, and other decorations, and a number of hand- some uniforms, presented a singularly brilliant and picturesque scene, it is certain that this ancient hall had never before witnessed so illustrious and so representative an assemblage of men of letters and science from every part of the world. At eleven o'clock the procession quitted the hall by the door in the north-western corner, passed through the vestibule of the Signet Library, crossed the west end of Parliament Square, where the University Company of the Queen's Edinburgh Eifle Volunteer Brigade 2 was sta- tioned as a guard of honour, and entered the church by the western doorway. Here the processionists were met by the clergy, and were then conducted to the seats assigned to them. Among the guests of the University were the Earl of Galloway, the Earl of 1 See Circular, supra, p. 24. 2 Under the command of Professor Turner, their major. COMMEMORATION SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 45 Eosebery, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and Lord Reay, who appeared in Court uniform. These noblemen occupied the Royal pew, which was draped in black, in consequence of the recent and deeply lamented death, of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. The congregation having been seated, the Volunteer Guard next entered the church, and lined the nave and aisles, where they remained during the greater part of the service. The Service was as follows : 1 — Service. , f Pastorale, ....... Kullak. Voluntary 2 -! . , „ ,, \ Andante, ....... -Beethoven. PSALM C: Tune— Old Hundredth. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. come, let us worship and bow down ; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Let us Pray. 3 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who art the dwelling-place of Thy people in all genera- tions, mercifully regard us who have come this day with joyful hearts into Thine house of prayer. Fill us with holy and peaceful thoughts, and grant that our worship, being offered in the name and spirit of Thy Son, may be acceptable unto Thee, and profitable unto ourselves ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. With one heart and with one voice we give thanks unto Thee, the God of our fathers, for all Thy mercies to us, their children ; for the world and all that is therein ; for everything beautiful which Thou hast made, and for all that speaks to us of Thy wisdom and love; for reason and conscience, for our upbringing and nurture, for the success in life which Thou hast given us, and for all the way by which Thou hast led us unto this present hour ; for loving parents, for faithful pastors and teachers, for benefactors never to be forgotten, for brethren of one mind with us, and for all who have helped us onward on our way ; for our inheritance in a nation so great, and in a "Church so free ; for the light of the Gospel of Thy dear Son, ever brightening more and more unto the perfect day ; for the riches of Thy Word, ever yielding up treasures new and old to those who humbly seek them; for the growth of knowledge in all forms among us, enabling us better to understand Thy holy will, and to do Thy blessed work. Especially this day we thank Thee for all Thy mercies, more than we can number, and greater than we can ever know ; to our University throughout three hundred years. . . . For all therein 1 Taken from the Service as afterwards published by Messrs Blackwood. 2 Conductor of the Choir— Mr James Oliver Sinclair (one of the Clerks of the University). Organist— Mr John Hartley (Arts student in the University). 3 The Reverend Dr Cameron Lees. 46 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. on whom Thou didst through many generations bestow talents precious and manifold ; for all whom Thou didst inspire with gifts of wisdom, knowledge, or utterance, with power to seek the truth, to teach or to heal ; for all whom Thou didst raise up to defend our University in troublous times, and to guide its affairs in seasons of perplexity and danger ; for all benefactors who have ministered with their substance to its necessities ; for all whom it has sent forth to serve Thee in the world ; for all Thy mercies, known and unknown, we give Thee thanks this day. Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever. We thank Thee, lastly, for the constant hope of a life beyond the grave, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest ; when Thy whole counsel shall be revealed, no longer doubted or disputed of men ; when we shall know as we are known ; and when the sorrows and separations of earth shall be ended in the catholic and perfect union with one another, and with Thee, Father, and with Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, through Thine eternal Spirit. Thou before whose face the generations rise and pass away, give grace to us all, and espe- cially to the members of this University, to guard carefully and to use wisely the privileges which have come down to them from the past, to serve Thee in their own day and generation, and to understand how great a work Thou hast given them to do in their time for this kingdom and the world. Pardon and forgive our many shortcomings, preserve us from all error and delusion, and grant that our faith may stand, not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only true God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. Sceiptuee, 1 ...... Psalm cxlv. Te Deum, ...... Hopkins. Sceiptuee, 2 . . . . . . 1 Cor. xiii. Let us Peay. 2 We pray for men everywhere, that they may be brought to the knowledge and obedience of the truth ; for the whole congregation of Christian people throughout the world ; for our gracious sovereign Queen Victoria, Albert Edward Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all the members of the Eoyal family ; for the Great Council of the nation now assembled in Parliament ; for the judges, magistrates, and others in authority, especially the magistrates and council of this city, that all in their respective stations may labour to advance Thy glory, and the present and future welfare of mankind, remembering the solemn account which they must all one day give before Thy tribunal ; and for the sake of all, we pray Thee for the ministers of Thy Son's Church, that they may shine like lights in the world, and adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all thinss. We implore Thine especial blessing on all schools, seminaries, and universities throughout the world, that in these and all other places more immediately dedicated to Thine honour and service, what- 1 The Keverend Professor Taylor. 2 The Reverend Dr Cameron Lees. COMMEMORATION SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 47 soever tends to the advancement of true religion and useful learning may for ever nourish and advance ; and, in particular, on the University of this city, on the Chancellor, the Eector, the Vice- Chancellor, the Curators, the Members of the Council, the Professors, and the Students thereof. Grant that this University be a fountain of learning, virtue, and piety, continually enriched with Thy heavenly influences, and constantly supplying pure and abundant streams for the welfare of this nation, the good of mankind, and the honour of Thy exalted name. To these our prayers, we add our unfeigned praises for mercies already received ; for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, particularly for the liberality of founders and benefactors ; but above all, for Thy inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. Finally, we praise Thee for all Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith and fear ; beseeching Thee to give us grace to follow their good examples, that, this life ended, we may dwell with them in life everlasting, through Jesus Christ, in whose most perfect form of prayer we conclude our imperfect addresses to the throne of grace : Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. HYMN. 1 " The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." Within our Father's house of prayer, Our fathers' God, we raise To Thee Almighty and All-wise, Our psalm of praise. "We bless Thy holy name that they Of old were led by Thee, To love Thy Word, and seek the truth That maketh free ; To choose the life of sovereign aim And high desire, that turns From worldly meed of wealth and fame, And wisdom learns. The goodly heritage they left Is ours by Thy decree ; And ours i to make it goodlier still, And worthier Thee. Help us to understand Thy works ; Thy mighty laws reveal ; Give us the soul to sympathise, The hand to heal ; The unselfish thought, the patient mind That reverently inquires ; The heart from carnal grossness cleansed By heavenly fires. Let Thy great Spirit with Thy light, Illume our onward way, And shine until we reach the realm Of perfect day ; Where we — toil, grief, and conflict o'er — Before the eternal throne, Thy glory shall behold, and know As we are known. Amen. 1 The music of this hymn is by Sir Herbert Oakeley, Professor of Music in the University of Edinburgh ; and the words are by the Rev. R. H. Story, D.D., minister of Rosneath. 48 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. SEEMON. 1 " Remember the former things of old : for I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me." — Isaiah xlvi. 9. " Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."— Phtlippians iii. 13, 14. We have come together at this time to "remember the former things of old." Whether drawn hither by interest in an institution in which we hold office, or by gratitude for the benefits of education received in it, or by a patriotic appreciation of the services which it has rendered to our native land, or by a generous recognition of its claims to honour as one of the world's great schools of learning, our common purpose is gladly and gratefully to commemorate whatever in its history we can regard with legitimate satisfaction. And surely we may well so regard its history as a whole. When, three hundred years ago, the University of this city had its small and humble commencement, like a tiny, feeble plant set in a frozen soil, under a wintry sky, and amidst gathering storms, it " scarce reared above the parent earth its tender form " ; its development through its earlier stages was slow and precarious, not its prosperity only but its very existence long depending on a multitude of changeful and conflicting influences, any one of which might have been fatal to it, while no human sagacity could have foreseen their real effect on its destiny ; but the needed protection and support were continuously vouchsafed it, until at length there came happier days and clearer skies, the abundant dew and the bright sunshine, and the truly astonishing growth of recent times. It has throughout been ministered to according to its wants. For example, at critical seasons the fittest men to preside over its affairs have been always granted it. Thus, when, at its origin, its feeble vitality could only be preserved and developed by intense religious zeal, Bollock was given ; when the storms of religious passion swept over the land, the most competent directing mind which Scotland then possessed— that of Henderson— was placed at its service ; when fanaticism and intolerance had converted the country into a well of Marah, in which all sweetness was in danger of being lost, and when safety was only to be had in pious quietness, the saintly Leighton was lent; when political sagacity was peculiarly required, it was conferred in the person of Carstares; and when the transition from an ecclesiastical to a literary epoch needed to be wisely effected, no one more suited to direct the movement could have been found than Eobertson. What has been contributed to the prosperity of the University by patrons, protectors, and benefactors; what measure of strength or renown it has received from the achievements and dis- tinctions of those Who have filled its higher offices and its special chairs; what literature, learning, science, philosophy, medicine, law, theology, owe to those who have taught in it or to those who have been trained in it; what numbers have gone forth from it and what influence they have exerted; how all bitter controversies within it are at length ended; how its students have 1 Preached by the Reverend Dr Robert Flint, Professor of Divinity. COMMEMORATION" SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 49 increased; how its government has been widened; — these are things to which it would be unreason- able to do more in this place than simply refer, but they are among the things most appropriate for us to bear in mind, and things the contemplation of which may well deepen our sense of indebted- ness to the wisdom and the goodness ever present, never failing, through the three hundred years of history which we commemorate. In remembering things like these, must we necessarily indulge in a self-exalting spirit ? I trust not, and cannot see why we should. If, in the proceedings in which we are to be engaged, any one connected with the University should have to descant a little on its glories, or even on those of his own office, must he thereby inevitably lay himself open to the charge of self-glorification, as having been deemed worthy of association with such an institution, or of succeeding certain famous men? Surely not. Surely the true and natural consequence of any thoughts appropriate to this time must be rather to diminish than to increase our feelings of individual self-importance. Surely connection with any great historical institution which has been blessed with length of days, with gradually gathered honours, and accumulated means of usefulness, ought to cause a man to realise that the institution does more for him than he can do for it; that office therein gives to the holder thereof far more of influence and of credit than the holder can give to the office ; that the parts are, in this instance, far more dependent on the whole than the whole on the parts ; that while the worthiest and most active of the parts must soon decay and pass away, the whole can so renew itself as still to live on and prosper ; that the work of the individuals in this large and endur- ing society derives in a great measure its value, not from the personal merit of the workers, but from its relation to what has been done by their predecessors and is being done by their colleagues. It is one chief reason for not ignoring any real and solid ties which bind us to the past and to our fellow-men, that we are thereby in some measure emancipated from the thraldom, of a narrow and selfish individualism. It is one great advantage of connection with institutions which are not the mere products of a day or the creations of an individual mind or will, but truly historical growth, sealed with God's own impress of permanence, that we are, in consequence thereof, naturally, if not necessarily, made to feel that we are sharers with men of many genera- tions in a life far larger than our own. The consciousness of membership in such an institution deserves to be cherished just because it so directly counteracts, an isolating self-glorification, so naturally tends to a due forgetfulness of self in a true recognition of our relations to others, and so manifestly contributes to generate and strengthen that sense of membership in the body politic whence springs patriotism, that sense of membership in the holy Catholic Church which finds expression in Christian piety, and that sense of membership in universal humanity which is the source of philanthropy. It may lead us to magnify our offices ; it may render us more sensible .of the honourableness of our work; it may give us assurance that what we do in connection with, and for the good of, the whole to which we belong, will in some form outlive ourselves, and not cease to influence future generations ; but it ought not to make us think more but less of our own small individualities. Nay, more : to realise aright the significance of the things we would commemorate, and to feel 50 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. what is implied in our relationship to them, must carry our minds and hearts yet farther and higher, — must raise them even to an apprehension of that ultimate truth which gives unity to all thought, and to contact with that sacred presence which gives sanctity to all action. The Univer- sity has grown and prospered. "Why ? Is it merely through what has been done within it or by it ? Is all said in explanation of its growth and prosperity when you have spoken of those who have ruled in it, taught in it, studied in it, and conferred benefits on it ? Certainly not. Obviously, one great reason why the University has grown and prospered is, that it has grown with the growth and participated in the prosperity of a life larger than its own. It has been received into and appropriated by the national life, been responsive to and expressive of the national life ; and placed here in this city at the very centre of that life, the organ has shared in the good fortune and wellbeing of the entire organism. It is what it is this day, after its three hundred years of existence, because these three hundred years have been not only to it but to Scotland what they have been; hence, although almost two out of these three centuries were peculiarly dark and sad, distracted with civil and religious strife, and crowded with manifold crimes, follies, and afflictions, yet throughout the whole period a spirit, a life, large enough to per- vade a nation, and to connect and comprehend a series of generations, has ruled and worked, and made for truth and righteousness, and at length brought about that unity and order, that political independence and spiritual freedom, that measure of reasonableness and good feeling, that degree of peace and prosperity which we are privileged to enjoy, and owing to which so many of our institutions flourish. But is even this all ? Has the University lived only in the life of Scotland ? Has it pros- pered only because it has been enriched with Scottish thought and sustained by Scottish energy ? Nay. On the contrary, Scotland itself has lived and prospered only because participant in a life larger than its own, — a life with which its Universities have especially served to connect it, — the life which rules and works in universal humanity — which binds together all generations and peoples — which, during the last three hundred years, has been lifting up, not Scotland only, but all the nations of Europe into higher regions of thought, into a purer atmosphere of feeling, and marvel- lously revealing itself in the discoveries of science, in the developments of art, in great social changes, in the increase of all kinds of knowledge, in the history of the human intellect and its ideas, of the human heart and its affections, of the human will and its energies. There has been one life which, although working in many lands and under the most diverse conditions, has never lost its unity ; there has been one spirit everywhere present, which, amidst all follies and perversities of men, has never contradicted its character as a spirit of truth, of justice, and of goodness : and this universal life makes of the nations an organic whole and members one of another ; this all-pervasive spirit is the great common teacher of the schools of the world, and causes each to be a debtor to all the others. This life, this spirit, what is it ? What but the life and the spirit of God ? Of God, the unknown, the unknowable, in an infinity of respects ; but also of God, the knowable, the trustable, the lovable ; the ever and everywhere self-revealing God, who shines upon us from the remotest stars, who acts in every atom of matter, who vitalises every cell of our bodies, who is the light COMMEMORATION SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 51 in every true thought and the virtue in every great and good deed, who rules the whole history of humanity from within, determining both its path and its goal ; the God in whom we live and move and have our being, and into communion with whom we can enter alike by the life of reason, of love, and of duty ; the God whom to serve is highest glory, whom to enjoy is deepest happiness. Eemember the former things of old, for God is God, and there is none else ; for He is God, and there is none like Him. It is the traces of the power and wisdom, of the life and love of God in these former things, which make them worth remembering. It is remembrance of them in relation to Him which is the right remembrance of them, — such a remembrance of them as can do us no harm, and may well do us great good. We do well, then, this day to remember the former things of old, and to commemorate the history of the University. We do well if we seek to appreciate at its full value the inheritance which our predecessors have left us ; to stir up within us the consciousness of participation in the corporate and collective life of this national institution; to put away from us the shallow and dangerous spirit which ignores or despises the past, and regards even its most helpful ties merely as chains to be broken ; and to cherish instead a spirit which discerns and reverences the reason that has ruled in history — which would retain, apply, and utilise whatever of truth and goodness the past has brought down to the present — which is humble enough to feel, and intelligent enough to perceive, that it needs whatever strength and wealth it can derive from the past to fulfil the duties of the present and to meet the demands of the future. But this is only the half of the truth and the half of our duty. The God who has been in the past — the Spirit of life, and truth, and goodness which has pervaded the past — is in the present and will be in the future, and we must not so cling to the dead past as to lose hold of the life which was in it, but has now risen above it, and is ever rising higher. The past itself has been, as it were, constantly striving to transcend itself, and we should be unfaithful to the whole spirit and teaching even of the past, if we did not, like the apostle, forget the things that are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before, and press towards the mark for the prize of the high ca llin g of God. While, therefore, we reverence all that has been honourable in the past, and utilise all that is useful which has come down to us from the past ; while we distrust all modes of thought and schemes of reform which do not adequately take account of the past,— let us not suppose that we can abide in the past or perpetuate the past ; that we ought to retain any- thing which has plainly outlived its usefulness; that we can meet new requirements with old resources ; that the problems of the future will not task to the utmost our inventiveness as well as our energy ; that we may afford to shut our eyes to the light which shines from any land, or to reject aid from any quarter. Let the dead bury their dead, but let us follow that which never dies, and the revelations of which are ever increasing in clearness, in fulness, and in beauty. The past has brought nothing to perfection, and the future ought to be in all respects an advance and improvement on the past, since it can start from it and profit by it. The appearance of a pessimistic philosophy here and there, and the still wider prevalence of a pessimistic frame of G 52 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. spirit, do not prevent the present age from being on the whole an exceptionally hopeful one ; and, doubtless, it will be its own fault if that hopefulness prove vain. It is not into a dull and unin- viting future, not into one which we need fear to find empty or unremunerative, but into one filled with the promises of discovery, gleaming with the crowns of victory, that we are called to enter. " Before ns shines a glorious world, Fresh as a banner, bright, unfurled, To music suddenly." In all directions new fields of thought and enterprise are being opened up to the human mind, and new conquests are being placed within its reach. Old subjects, like the speech and thought of ancient Greece and Rome, have come to be seen under new lights, and instead of having lost in value, as the ignorant or superficial may suppose, have acquired in these latter times a previously unknown significance, rendering them more capable than ever of rewarding a life's devotion to them, and more deserving than ever of recognition and support. That in the regions of mathe- matics great discoveries and useful applications may be indefinitely multiplied, if only an adequate supply of competent minds be forthcoming, and sufficient inducement for them to work be provided, is what no one will dispute. The extraordinarily rapid advance of the physical and biological sciences in recent years, has led some to suppose that their present pace of movement cannot long be maintained ; but the suspicion is only shared in by those who judge them from without, and finds no acceptance among those who are able to see from within, and who are consequently aware that, numerous as are the questions which these sciences have of late been answering, still more numerous are the questions which 'they have been raising and leaving to be answered in the future. This, however, is obvious in regard to them, that in the same degree in which they are developed and specialised, in which their spheres of research are extended and their means of research improved, must there be an addition to the demands on any community which would sup- port them in efficiency to submit to the sacrifices involved in increasing the number of their teachers and in providing the more abundant, more elaborate, and more expensive instruments and appliances of investigation required. The mental and moral sciences, historical and social studies, and the various philosophical disciplines, are also becoming inspired with a new spirit, new energy, new hopes, new ambitions, and have manifestly a great future before them. It is a future in the achievements and rewards of which the Universities of Scotland must naturally desire to share in a measure which will be at least not unworthy of their past. But if their desire is not to be an illusion, there must be adequate efforts put forth to realise it. The provision made in our Univer- sities for teaching and study in these departments of knowledge must not be that merely which availed in the past, but that which suits the present and will secure progress in the future. The Faculty of Arts has to reach forth unto such things as securing that its entrants be duly prepared, that certain great departments of thought and learning cease to be neglected, that justice to the various studies be obtained through giving freedom in the choice of studies, and that sufficient provision be made for furthering high special attainments. The Faculty of Medicine COMMEMORATION SEEVICE IN ST GILES'S. 53 has before it the simple but pressing problem of the completion of the New Buildings, and what further problem I know not, save how to go on prospering as it has been doing. The Faculties of Law and of Theology both need great enlargement, and the latter perhaps organic changes. This city itself has within it the materials out of which, if wisely used, there might be built up, within the University, to the great honour and profit of the nation, a magnificent school both of Law and of Theology. Those who aim at this for the Faculty of Law will doubtless press forward towards it with a hopeful spirit as to a thing which is surely, although it may be slowly, obtainable. Those who aim at it for the Faculty of Theology may have less confidence of success, knowing that sectarianism has in Scotland had many a sad triumph over enlightened patriotism, and that the ecclesiastical world has been always peculiarly slow to give heed to the word, " Let the dead bury their dead " ; but they can at least strive in the assured faith that they are on the side of free- dom and of science, of religious progress and the public good. In reaching forward to these things, and to all others which may add to the usefulness of the University, and cause it better to fulfil the ends of its existence — in pressing oh to them, be it as members or as friends, as operating from within or co-operating from without — we need have no hesitation in doing so as called of God to the work, and no fear that in yielding ourselves heartily to this or to any calling of His we shall fail to gain the goal of life, the prize of his approval and blessing. There are no ways by which the University can be benefited but ways by which God's work will also be done and His name glorified. Nay, more : all our work in the University or in connection with it, like all other work to which God calls us, is work to which He calls us in Christ Jesus, and which we may perform in Christ Jesus. For Paul the high call- ing of God was to the work of directly preaching the Gospel ; but that is by no means the calling of all' men, nor is that the work by which all men may do most for the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. A great discoverer in science may contribute, by the light which he throws on the character of God, and by the beneficial effects of his discoveries, far more to the establish- ment and growth of the kingdom of Christ than a thousand preachers. It is a grievous pity when such a man does not know the full glory of his own work, owing to his ignoring its relation to the work of Christ. All good work is work which tends to the advancement of Christ's kingdom, and which should be done in Christ's spirit. Every high and honourable calling is in Him, and the blame is ours if it be not accepted and acted on in Him. We would commemorate, then, the past of the University with gratitude to God for His good- ness, and anticipate its future in the trust that that goodness will be abundantly continued. Its past is, in great part, not dead, but yet living in us and living for us,— a source of strength in the present and a ground of hope for the future. The hearts of the generous and patriotic turn with trust, with affection, with pride, to old things, around which, while meeting the newest needs, noble memories and dear associations cluster. Look around ; for you can have no better illustration of what I mean. Not long ago there could have been no assembly here like that now before me, so grievously marred and deformed had been allowed to become this venerable edifice, although its every stone speaks, and its every pillar is wreathed with the associations of centuries ; but these 54 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. stones did speak to the spirit — these pillars did touch the heart — of one, recently removed from among us, who loved well the old things of his country's history; and on this our Tercentenary, but also the anniversary of "William Chambers, we are profiting by the restoration of old St Giles's, due to his public spirit and munificence. May we not believe that it will not be otherwise with our University? May we not believe that in the time to come there will be many moved by the remembrance of its past to labour in restoring whatever may have been wrongly allowed to lapse into decay ; in improving whatever is defective ; in enlarging, enriching, and beautifying, materially and spiritually, the edifice which through three hundred years our fathers have been building up, but which still admits of many a useful and fair addition, of many a strengthening buttress, of many a higher storey, of many a hall and chamber, of many a chancel and chapel, of many a pillar and turret ? May it be so. And since the God who has blessed our University in the past can bless it still and evermore, — since He it is who was, and is, and is to come — who faileth never, and betrayeth never, — let us commit its interests to Him. To Him also let us commit our own interests, our own selves, our own souls. And to His name be all praise and glory, now and for ever. Amen. HYMN. 1 Tune — Nun danket Alle Gott. " Now therefore our God we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name." Now thank we all our God, With hearts, and hands, and voices ; Who wondrous things hath done, In which glad earth rejoices. Who from our mothers' arms Hath blessed us on our way, With countless gifts of love, Made new from day to day. Who in our castled town, Where hearts for truth were yearning, And tongues to teach were few, Planted the tree of learning ; Which through long stormy times, And years of bloody strife, Grew strong in branchy pride, And fruits of lusty life. And as in times bygone Thy banners went before us, So spread as years roll on, Thy guardian presence o'er us ; That from these thoughtful seats Of men that wisely know, Well seasoned with Thy grace, The words of truth may flow. To teachers and to taught, Do Thou, all-bounteous Giver, In life and death be near, With strength that faileth never. Through clouds that hide the day, Shine with Thy heavenly light ; And point our pathway when We stumble through the night. All praise and thanks to God The Father now be given ; The Son and Holy Ghost, Who reign supreme in heaven ! The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore ; For thus it was and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. 1 The above hymn is a translation from the German, with special verses, by John Stuart Blackie, Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. COMMEMORATION SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 55 Let us Pray. 1 Follow, God, with Thy blessing the worship of this day. May the remembrance of Thy mercies fill us with gratitude for Thy goodness and inspire us with zeal in Thy service. We rejoice that Thou art the living God, and art still with Thy people as in former days ; that while all things round us change, Thou abidest ever the same ; that as our fathers trusted in Thee, and found their refuge and their rest in Thee, we also can turn to Thee with assured confidence, and rejoice in Thee with exceeding joy. Be with us, God, throughout this day, and evermore ; grant us Thy counte- nance and blessing in all our doings in connection with the occasion which has brought us together ; take us, and all our friends and relatives, in this and other lands, into Thy good and holy keeping, and preserve us from all evils and dangers ; go with us where we go, dwell with us where we dwell ; and suffer not that any clouds of this mortal life hide from us Thy love, which is immortal, and which Thou hast manifested unto us, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ANTHEM. Hallelujah. Handel. Hallelujah : for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ ; and He shall reign for ever and ever : King of kings, and Lord of lords. Hallelujah. THE BENEDICTION. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the know- ledge and love of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord ; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. CHOIR. Amen. Amen. Amen. Voluntary, . Grand Fantasia (in F minor), . . Mozart. Before the conclusion of the hymn after the sermon, the Volunteer Guard had retired from the church, and taken up their position at the western doorway. On the termination of the service, about half-past twelve o'clock, and while the closing voluntary was being played on the organ, the congregation left the church, the guests and office-bearers of the University going first, nearly in the same order in which they had entered. 1 The Reverend Professor Flint. 56 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 1 Wednesday, mHIS entertainment was given on Wednesday, 16th April, by the Principal and the 1 to 4.30 1 ' -L Professors of the Faculty of Medicine, for the purpose of appropriately inaugurat- p " m- ing the opening of the extensive University New Buildings, which are set apart for the use of the Faculty of Medicine, and which are now approaching completion. Invita- tions were issued to about 600 guests, of whom about 433 were present, including nearly all the delegates from other Universities and learned bodies. The handsome new hall of the Anatomical Museum was tastefully fitted up for the occasion, the walls being covered with blue and white calico, while the gallery running round the hall was draped with hangings of crimson and gold, and embellished with plants. At the west end of the gallery were placed the armorial bearings of the University. One long table was carried along the south side of the hall, while twelve others were placed at right angles to it, all being suitably decorated with flowers. Each guest was furnished on his arrival with a plan of the hall and the tables, showing the place assigned to him, as well as the names and places of all the other persons who had accepted invitations to be present. The guests were welcomed in the Eeception-room, at the top of the principal staircase, by the Principal and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, after which they were conducted to the Anatomical Hall. Soon after one o'clock the Chair was taken by the Principal, who occupied the central seat at the long south table (Table A), while the twelve professors of the Faculty of Medicine acted as croupiers at the ends of the twelve transverse tables (B, C, &c.) The following is a list of those who had accepted invitations, as taken from the plan above referred to, and who, with very few exceptions, were present : — TABLE A. On the right of the Chair. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham. The Right Hon. the Lord Provost. The Lord Rector (Sir Stafford Northcote). His Excellency Baron de Penedo. The. Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery. His Excellency James Russell Lowell. The Very Rev. Principal Caird, Glasgow. Monsieur Pasteur, Paris. The Rev. Professor Jowett, Oxford. Professor von Helmholtz, Berlin. The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh. His Excellency Sir R. B. D. Morier. The Abbe' Renard, Brussels. The Very Rev. the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Professor de Laveleye, Liege. Major-General Macdonald. 1 Description revised by Professor T. E. Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The speeches have been revised by their respective authors. LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 57 The Eight Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, M.P., K.C.B. The President, Eoyal College of Surgeons, London (Professor Marshall). The Director-General, Army Medical Department (Dr Thomas Crawford). Sir Alex. Christison. Mr T. E. Buchanan, M.P. Sir Andrew Clark, London. The Eev. Professor Hint. Principal Dawson, Montreal. The President, Eoyal College of Physicians, Edin- burgh (Dr G. W. Balfour). The Director-General of the Geological Survey (Mr Arch. Geikie). The Eev. Dr Haughton, Dublin. Professor Heinrich, Lyons. Professor Geddes, Aberdeen. Mr Duncan M'Laren. On the left of the Chair. His Excellency Count Nigra. The Chancellor of the University (Eight Hon. the Lord Justice-General). The Eight Hon. the Earl of Wemyss. Professor Virchow, Berlin. Dr Billings, Washington. The Eight Hon. the Earl of Galloway. The Very Eev. Principal Tulloch, St Andrews. Professor Chauveau, Lyons. The Eight Hon. Lord Balfour of Burleigh. The Eight Hon. the Lord Advocate. His Excellency Don Marcial Martinez. The Eight Hon. Lord Eeay. Eev. Professor Beets, Utrecht. Professor Stokvis, Amsterdam. Comte de Lesseps, Paris. Hon. Justice Eaymond West, Bombay. The President, Eoyal College of Surgeons, Edin- burgh (Dr John Smith). The Director-General of the Navy Medical De- partment (Sir J. W. Eeid). Hon. Lord Kinnear. Sir James Paget, London. The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. Sir William Gull, London. Principal Greenwood, Manchester. General Sir Archibald Alison. Dr Fordyce Barker, New York. Sir J. Eisdon Bennett, London. The President, King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland (Dr Wm. Moore). Dr Carpenter, London. Professor Mendeleieff, St Petersburg. Professor Leishman, Glasgow. On the seats facing the Chair. Professor Angellier, Douai. Dr Hutchison Stirling. The Hon. Bouverie F. Primrose. The President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow (Dr Andrew Fergus). Sir Peter Coats, Paisley. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.E.A., London. Sir Thomas J. Boyd. Professor Bryce, M.P., Oxford. Sir William Thomson, Glasgow. Mr T. G. Murray. Captain Kennedy, E.N. Lord M'Laren. Mr Charles Cowan. Mr William M'Ewan. Mr J. H. Eenton, London. Dr Duckworth, London, Professor de Martens, St Petersburg. Eev. Dr Lindsay Alexander. Professor Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia. The President, Eoyal College of Surgeons of Ireland (Dr W. I. Wheeler). Professor Fredet, Clermont. Sir James Falshaw. Dr Thomas Keith. Mr Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Mr Black. Professor Max Muller, Oxford. Eev. Dr M'Gregor. Eev. Principal Dowden. Bailie Hall. Mr David Jeffrey. Mr H. J. Younger. Mr John Boyd, Treasurer of the City. Dr Alex. Peddie. 58 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TABLE B. Professor Chiene. Sir Joseph Fayrer, London. Bailie Anderson. Mr John Cook. Mr John Milne. Mr Charles W. Cathcart. Dr M'Bride. Lieutenant Matheson. Dr P. A. Young. Mr Howden. Mr Clemow. Mr Caird. Mr James Bennet. Dr Anglin. Dr Macfarlane. Dr Mouat. Sir Arthur Halkett of Pitflrrane. Mr William Nelson. Dr Wyllie. Professor Cunningham, Dublin. Dr P. H. M'Laren. Mr G. C. Macdonald. Mr Tawse Nisbet. Mr Petter. Mr Pockley. Dr David Wilson. Dr Peel Ritchie. Dr Rutherford, Dumfries. Mr Alexander. Mr J. F. Sturrock. Dr Clouston. TABLE C. Professor Greenfield. Professor Thierfelder, Rostock. Professor Wasseige. Dr Macgillivray. Surgeon M'Creery. Mr J. Duncan Smith. Mr J. G. Menzies. Mr A. W. Inglis. Dr Acland, Oxford. Professor Baldwin Brown. Sir Samuel Ferguson, Dublin. Dr Woodhead. Mr Lockhart Gibson. Dr James Ritchie. Mr D. Crawford. Professor Hoffmann, Dorpat. Dr Wilks, London. Dr Littlejohn. Mr James Watson. Mr John Tawse. Mr Henry Moffat. Mr R. Croall. Mr Watherston. Dr Andrew Smart. Mr John Fraser. Mr William Younger. Mr John Macfie. Dr M'Farlane. Mr Gulland. TABLE D. Professor Turner. Professor van Beneden, Louvain. Professor Williamson, Manchester. Rev. Professor Briggs, New York. Dr Gunning, London. Mr Andrew Usher. Mr R. A. Macfie. Mr Imlacb. Professor Flower, London. Professor Kovalewsky, Moscow. Surgeon-Major Lennox. Mr R. Bruce Johnston. Mr George Barclay. Dr Halliday Croom. Mr Henry Leek. LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 59 Professor Tytler. Professor van Hamel, Amsterdam. Professor Pearce, Durham. Professor Sylvester. Mr T. B. Sprague. Dr Murdoch Brown. Dr Allan Gray. Mr Thin. Mr D. Scott Moncrieff. Mr Henry Davidson. Mr Godfrey. Mr G. M. Bennet. Mr Bo wand. TABLE E. Professor Annandale. Professor Saxtorph, Copenhagen. Professor Stirling, Aberdeen. Mr Thomas Nelson. Dr Bramwell. Mr Mitchell Banks, Liverpool. Mr Hare. Mr Philip. Mr Curie, Melrose. Mr Cox. Mr Richard. Mr Christie. Mr Spowart, Dunfermline. Mr Barbour. Professor Oilier, Lyons. Professor Boddaert, Ghent. Surgeon J. Anderson. Mr John "Weir. Rev. Professor Taylor. Professor Bourcart, Nancy. Mr Blackwood. Mr Collinson. Mr Leith. Mr Wade. Mr Peter Miller. Mr W. D. Menzies. Mr James Shand, London. Mr George Wilson. TABLE F. Professor Grainger Stewart. Dr Sieveking, London. Rev. President Porter, Belfast. Rev. Principal Rainy. Dr William Cumming. Dr Stevenson Macadam. Mr Morton. Mr Kemp. Mr William Thomson. Professor Rosenbusch, Heidelberg. Professor Geikie. Mr Skinner, City Clerk. Mr Lockhart Thomson. Mr King. Dr Graham Brown. Professor Ball, Paris. Mr R. Rowand Anderson. Dr James A. Russell. Dr Coupland, London. Dr Brackenridge. Mr Robert Cox, Gorgie. Mr Robert Bell, Midealder. Mr J. M. M'Candlish. Dr Angus Macdonald. Mr A. Whitelaw, Glasgow. The Dean of Guild (R. Hutchison). Mr J. D. Lawrie. Mr J. T. Wilson. Mr George Cathcart. II 60 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TABLE G. Professob Cbum Brown. Professor Giiterbock, Kb'nigsberg. President Sullivan, Cork. Dr A. P. Aitken. Lieutenant Baxter. Mr James Somerville. Mr David Gill, Cape of Good Hope. Dr Craig. Mr Edward Sang. Professor Straszewski, Cracow. Professor Laurie. Professor Storm, Christiania. Mr Patrick Geddes. Mr Arthur Thomson. Mr Barrett. Professor Frankland, London. Professor Cleve, Upsala. Professor Rachmaninoff, Kief. Professor Stokes, Cambridge. Professor Hermite, Paris. Professor Chrystal. Professor Donner, Helsingfors. Rev. Professor Adams. Professor Hoffman, Kiel. Professor Ussing, Copenhagen. Mr W. W. Robertson. Provost Swan, Kirkcaldy. Mr Charles Jenner. Mr R. M. Smith. Mr Atkinson. TABLE H. Professor Maclagan". Professor von Pettenkofer, Munich. Professor Erichsen, London. Sir Geo. D. Clerk, Penicuik. Major Crofton. Professor Harkness, Providence, U.S.A. M. Perrot, Paris. Professor Blackie. Professor Szabo, Pesth. Professor Masson. Professor Elze, Halle. Professor Mezieres, Paris. Professor Kirkpatrick. Professor Guizot, Paris. Mr Stockman. Sir Joseph Lister, London. M. DAbbadie, Paris. Dr S. Smiles, London. Mr John Christison. Rev. Dr Cameron Lees. M. Greard, Paris. Professor Yillari, Florence. Professor Campbell Fraser. Professor Stengel, Marburg. Professor Schipper, Vienna. Professor Caro, Paris. Rev. Professor Charteris. Right Rev. Bishop Parry. Mr F. Simmons. TABLE I. Professor Rutherford. Professor Schmiedeberg, Strassburg. Professor Struthers, Aberdeen. Dr Traquair. Professor Haycraft, Birmingham. Mr Colston. Surgeon Eouth. Professor Cremona, Rome. Sir William Bowman, London. Dr Patrick Heron Watson. Fleet-Surgeon Strickland. Professor Hamilton, Aberdeen. Dr Tuke. • Mr James Haldane. Professor Tyrrell, Dublin. LUNCHEON IN THE- UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 61 Professor Eivier, Brussels. Professor Lorimer. Professor Zupitza, Berlin. Principal Peterson, Dundee. Mr David Hepburn. Mr George .Mackay. Mr Whittingdale. Professor Sellar. Mr Eobert Browning. Count Saffi, Bologna. Dr Arthur Mitchell. Dr Maudsley, London. Dr Archibald Inglis. Mr Matthew Gardiner. TABLE K. Professor Simpson. Master of Merchant Company (Bailie Clark). Professor Thorburn, Manchester. Dr Dunsmure. Mr James Currie. Dr D. B. Hart. Professor Kielhorn, Gbttingen. Professor Eggeling. Professor Minaieff, St Petersburg. Professor Vera, Naples. Professor Muirhead. Professor Michaelis, Strassburg. Mr A. D. Cockburn. Dr J. D. Gillespie. Mr T. S. Wilson. Professor Ask, Lund. Dr Priestley, London. Mr John Cowan, Beeslack. Dr Braidwood, Birkenhead. Dr Blair Cunynghame. Surgeon-Major Jackson. Mr W. J. Kennedy. Mr William Hunter. Mr Swinton Melville. Mr E. Baily. Mr James Syme, Millbank. Mr J. L. Mansfield. Mr E. Clark. Mr Ballantyne. TABLE L. Professor T. E. Eraser. Dr Burdon Sanderson, Oxford. Professor Chiari, Prague. Professor Hay, Aberdeen. Dr Murrell, London. Mr H. H. Norie. Dr Charles Bell. Mr Falconer King. Councillor Steel. Mr Christie Miller. Mr Simpson. Mr James Buchanan. Mr Mackinnon, Balinakill. Mr Shand. Mr J. 0. Sinclair. Dr Gueneau de Mussy, Paris. Dr Bristowe, London. Brigade-Surgeon Lithgow. Professor Ferrier, London. Dr Claud Muirhead. Mr E Tod, Clerwood. Professor Venable, U.S.A. Professor Macpherson. Mr W. Markby, Oxford. The Director of the Museum of Science and Art (Mr T. C. Archer). Mr Macgibbon. Mr H. A. Thomson. Mr Thomas Gilbert. 62 TERCENTENARY OE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TABLE M. Professor Dickson. Bailie Younger. Dr Cieghorn, St Andrews. Mr James Cowan. Dr Affleck. Mr Alexander Gordon, Ashludie. Dr Gibson. Dr Moinet. Mr John Bald, Monzie. Mr R. Adam, City Chamberlain. Professor Nicholson. Sheriff Guthrie Smith. Dr Aubrey Husband. Mr Aitchison. Mr J. R. Young. Dr Atherton, New Brunswick. Dr Haldane. Dr Goodsir. Professor M'Nab, Dublin. Mr Johnson Symington. Professor Mackinnon. Mr James Sime, Craigmount. Dr Cotterill. Dr James Johnston. Mr B. Hall Blyth. Mr Lindsay Bennet, London. Councillor Clapperton. Dr James. Dr G. A. Berry. TABLE N. Professor Ewart. Professor Ballot, Amsterdam. Bailie Roberts. Mr Thomas M'Kie. Mr A. Dowell. Mr John Pulton. Mr George Cousin. Mr Allan Clark. Mr G. Somerville. Mr W. R. Sorley. Mr John Boyd. Mr Alexander Tod, Peebles. Mr John C. Brodie. Rev. Professor Green, Princeton. Mr John SmaU. Professor MTntosh, St Andrews. President Moffett, Galway. Mr Andrew "Wylie, Leslie. Mr Law. Mr Archibald Coats, Paisley. Mr Donald Beith. Mr A. G. Miller. Mr Waddell. Councillor Baxter. Mr John Crabbie. Mr Marshall, Rector, High School. Professor van der "Wyck, Groningen. Professor Calderwood. Professor Herschel, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Professor Doijer, Leyden. Dr Argyll Robertson. 'The Queen. 1 After luncheon, in proposing the health of 'The Queen'— the first toast on the list— the Chairman said — " I am sure at this time I speak your sentiments in expressing regret at the loss that her Majesty, the Royal Family, and the nation have sustained by the death of the Duke of Albany. We hope that Queen Victoria has much happiness in store for her, and let us wish for a long continuance of her just and admired reign." The Chairman in next proposing ' The Donors of the New Buildings,' said— " My Lords and Gentlemen, — For the Senatus Academicus of the Edinburgh University this is LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 63 a proud and happy day, in which we are privileged, in our almost completed medical school, to 'Donors receive so illustrious an assemblage. Of the University of Edinburgh to-day I might almost say of New -r. Buildings.' what was said of Portia — ' Nor is the wide world ignorant of her Worth ; For the four winds blow in from every coast Renowned suitors.' " I and my colleagues are deeply sensible of this honour, and of the great kindness, and, I may add, the courage, of those distinguished gentlemen who, coming from long distances, have pene- trated into this remote and northern region to attend our festival. But the present meeting is not, properly speaking, a part of the Festival of the Tercentenary. This is not a University meeting ; it is of a collegiate and domestic character, or else I certainly should not be occupying this chair. It was by no foresight or calculation that the approximate completion of these buildings has coincided with the celebration of the Tercentenary. But it has fortunately so happened, by a lucky chance, that we are able to see this little house-warming so brilliantly attended and graced by some of the greatest medical authorities in the world. I hope these gentlemen may find leisure to inspect our new medical school, and pronounce whether it is suitable and adequate, taken in conjunction with the noble Infirmary which adjoins it — whether it is thoroughly equipped for the practical teaching of medicine in all its branches. And I hope, also, that our non-medical guests may take a look at those bright and airy theatres and laboratories where all that is repulsive in the study of medicine is mitigated and refined — where the dissecting-room shows like a con- servatory — and where morbid pathology is pursued as a fine art. When they see all the charms of this palace of medicine, perhaps they, too, may wish that they had been medical students. " And now, my Lords and Gentlemen, in this half-finished hall, which is destined to be a great museum, I ask you to drink to the health of the donors of this noble gift. They have, indeed, done a deed of public-spirited liberality — Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. Little more than ten years ago this spot was covered with private houses and gardens. The medical school of the University was at a sore disadvantage for the want of teaching apartments and teaching appliances, and there was not one farthing available to meet that want. And now, within these ten years, the munificent sum of more than £130,000 has been presented to us by private friends — and that has been augmented by a liberal subsidy from the Government — and the buildings that you see around are the result. But there is one shadow which comes over this occasion and this moment, because we had hoped that the kind and princely leader of this movement might have been here to-day. I had fondly hoped that he whom I grieve to speak of as the late Duke of Buccleuch 1 would have answered to this toast ; but he, the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch, has now closed a long life of virtue and of devotion to duty. I think that no life of any person in his station has shown more that he was ever actuated by a- sense of the motto, noblesse oblige. He had no special connection with the University of Edinburgh. The University had no special claims upon him. In fact, had he been a man of less generous heart and of smaller soul, he might have felt resentment against the 1 The Duke of Buccleuch died at 12.15 on the morning of this day (16th April). 64 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. University of Edinburgh, because you all know that at one time he was a candidate for the office of Chancellor in the University, and was rejected by the University in favour of Lord Brougham. But the Duke's mind was far above entertaining resentment for anything of that kind. "When the scheme of these buildings was proposed to him, he entered into it with the warmest interest and the utmost enthusiasm. With the greatest simplicity he worked for us, he spoke for us, he gave us most munificent gifts, and he influenced the Government of the day — of which our present highly esteemed Lord Bector of the University was the Chancellor of the Exchequer — to give assistance from the public funds. The name of the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch will always be associated with the history of these buildings. So will other names, too, of noblemen and gentle- men, and of great merchants in this city, and of ladies and of others who have come forward to assist us. Not only to those whose names will be specially recollected on account of their munificence and the largeness of their gifts — not only to them does the University owe its thanks, but to all those many hundreds of subscribers scattered over the world who have contributed to this result. I only wish that it had been possible for us to have asked them all to be. present here this day, that they might see what their liberality has produced. That they have strengthened and added to the University of Edinburgh is a matter of secondary consideration ; what they have ■ done is that they have contributed to the advancement of human knowledge and to the alleviation of human suffering in all time to come. " And now I will beg you, my Lords and Gentlemen, to combine with this toast a name which is well worthy to be connected with it — the name of the present highly esteemed Lord Provost of Edinburgh. The Town Council of Edinburgh were the founders of the University. They fostered it during many generations, and for more than two and a half centuries they made it -a great University. Since they lost the entire control of it, they have still shown the same kindly feelin» and the same interest in it that they ever did. Four successive Lord Provosts of Edinburgh have been conspicuous for the interest that they have taken in these buildings — Lord Provost Cowan, Lord Provost Falshaw, Lord Provost Boyd, and none, perhaps, so much as the present Lord Provost, the Bight Honourable George Harrison. He has shown a great and deep interest in the completion of these buildings, and by his ability and energy he has greatly helped and furthered the cause. My Lords and Gentlemen, I beg to submit to you the toast, * The Donors of the New Buildings,' coupled with the health of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh." Eeply for Lord Provost Harrison, in reply, said—" I had hoped that the reply to this toast would have bylTrd faUen int ° ° ther handS- At the Same time ' {t does not a PP ear out of P lace > that as the represent- Provost. ative of the lineal descendants of those who founded ' the town's college,' and the head of the Corporation which still has a deep interest in it, I should be considered a proper representative of the donors to this College and to the University. The Vice-Chancellor has told us that for 300 years the city of Edinburgh has shown herself anxious for the prosperity of her school ; that in its early and very poor days it devoted time and thought and all the money ft could procure, in order, first, to found it, and then to foster the growth of its College. I have no doubt that in the future, as in the past, the University will always find most faithful friends in the Corporation and citizens LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 65 of Edinburgh. I may say, further, that I believe we are very far from the height to which the fame of this School may attain. I am very certain of this, that so long as the present patrons — who are changed in some respects, but who, I believe, have the same hearty interest in the welfare of the University — so long as they search for and choose only the very best, the highest talent, so long as those chosen give their best and noblest energies to the work they have to do, so long will this University prosper, so long will the people be proud of it, and so long will it be a blessing and glory to the whole of Scotland. Not to the Corporation of Edinburgh alone, not to the people of Edinburgh alone, shall we look for help and support. To Scotsmen all over the world, and to the lovers of Scotland all over the world, we may at all times appeal with good reason, and with the confidence that they will give us whatever is necessary to supply the material wants of the University. When these material wants are supplied, we must then trust to the University author- ities, the University patrons, and the University teachers, to do the rest; and, with the blessing of God, we believe that their work will prosper in their hand." Professor Tuenee, in submitting the toast, ' The Sister Medical Schools,' said — " The toast which ' Sister Medi- has been intrusted to me is one on which, at this public inauguration of the latest temple that has been erected for the pursuit of medical science, we should bestow the fullest honour. To the sister medical schools we owe a deep indebtedness. It was in London and in some of the great schools on the Continent that Monro primus, Alston, Plummer, Sinclair, Innes, and Kutherford, the founders of our medical school in the early part of the last century, received their training. It is, however, to the great University of Leyden, to which at that time so many young Scotsmen were attracted by the fame of Boerhaave, both as a physician and a teacher, that we must especially look as our nursing-mother. So great, indeed, was her influence, that the regulations which pre- vailed in that University as to examinations and the mode of conferring degrees were adopted in Edinburgh with but slight modifications, and the ' Aphorisms ' and ' Institutiones Medicse ' of Boer- haave were the text-books which controlled the teaching of medicine for nearly forty years in this University, until the spell was broken by the genius of William Cullen. But our indebted- ness to our medical sisters is not limited to these early passages in our history. Our senior ■students and young graduates have always been encouraged to broaden their education, to increase their knowledge of men and things, by a residence at other great centres of professional training. And let us hope that that practice may long continue. If I were to paint a picture of a ' Scot abroad,' I should not depict him, as has been often done, as a soldier of fortune, or a wandering philosopher ready to enter into disputation with any comer on some abstruse metaphysical and ethical problem, but as a young doctor hard at work in the wards of a hospital in London or Dublin, or a great city on the Continent, or advancing his knowledge of medical science by working in the laboratory of a University. But if we owe much in our origin and development to the influence of our medical sisters, we, as time has rolled on, have in some measure been able to repay them, in kind. The great reputation which this school acquired in the latter half of the last century through the genius and labours of the second Monro, of Whytt, Cullen, Gregory, and Black, attracted to this northern city students from all quarters, so that the medical school assumed 66 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. a cosmopolitan character. And as our young graduates returned to their homes and native countries, many of them became connected with existing medical schools or founded new ones. The cosmopolitan character which was stamped on the school by the genius of our predecessors has never been lost, and we are proud to say that there is scarcely a school of medicine in the wide range of the dominions of our beloved Queen in which one or more Edinburgh students and graduates are not acting as teachers. " You have referred, sir, to the satisfaction which you experience in seeing so many representa- tives from different countries assembled at these tables. Let me, on the part of the Medical Faculty of this University, say that we feel highly honoured by the presence of the distinguished company of guests who have accepted our invitation and that of the Principal to luncheon this day. Around these tables are representatives of medical science and learning from France and Russia, from Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Italy, from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, from Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium, from London and the provincial schools of England, from Ireland and our Scottish sisters, from our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic, nay, even from India and distant Australia,— and allow me, sir, to join with you in giving a hearty welcome to all these distinguished men. " Amidst this wealth of intellect and medical fame, it may seem difficult to select from these our cuests one more than another to respond to this toast ; but we, the professorial descendants of the first Monro and his colleagues, may be pardoned, perhaps, for looking to the country of Boerhaave and Albinus, our mother in medicine, and to select one of the distinguished men now holding a chair in a University of Holland to reply to this toast. The reputation which the Universities of Holland attained during the last century has been sustained during the present. I need only mention amongst those who, in recent years, ' have gone over to the majority,' the names of Vrolik, the anatomist — Van der Hoeven, the naturalist — and Van der Kolk, the physician ; but Holland has still in her Universities men of European fame. Donders, one of the great scientific person- ages of Europe, whose unavoidable absence from our festival we greatly deplore, now adorns the University of Utrecht. "We are happy to have with us to-day representatives of the Universities of Leyden, Utrecht, Groningen, and Amsterdam, and of these I will ask Professor Stokvis to reply. Professor Stokvis is eminent as an investigator, both in the physiological and pharmacological sciences, and also as a physician, and he holds in Amsterdam the Professorship of general pathology, medicine, and pharmaco-dynamics. His countrymen have recognised his professional position by four times electing him to be President of the Dutch Medical Association, and by appointing him. last year to be President of the first International Congress for Colonial Medicine. I may summarise his qualifications in three words, and designate him as physiologist, pharmacologist, physician." Reply for Professor Stokvis, Amsterdam, replied in English. He said — " It is with the deepest feelings ' Sister of my own insufficiency that I crave leave to reply in a few words to the hearty toast of Professor Prof. Stokvis. Turner — 'The Sister Medical Schools.' I hope that you will pardon me if I only reply to the toast of the sister medical schools, and not to anything said about myself. If among so many sister medical schools Holland is named especially, we can say that we as Dutchmen are really LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 67 proud of the great sympathy for Holland we find everywhere in Scotland. When I saw the ' Story of the Rise of the Medical School of Edinburgh,' I was struck with the fact that the same thing which happened in Edinburgh repeated itself in Amsterdam. The Medical School of Amsterdam was not a school of the University at first. The school came from the outside ; it was brought into the University. So it was in Edinburgh. Our Professor Ruysch — our great anatomist — and others, were not Professors of the University ; they were Professors of the Surgeons' School, just the same as I find yours were in Edinburgh — just as your great Alexander Monro primus was. I find thus great resemblances between Amsterdam and Edinburgh, and I am proud to reply to this toast. But let me say that we, who represent the sister medical schools, must be heartily thankful for what the Edinburgh Medical School has done in behalf of medical science. I do not speak of the eighteenth century — of Alexander Monro, of William Cullen, and of your Gregorys. I speak of this century — the nineteenth century. When I consider in what the great progress of medicine during this century has consisted, I find three capital points. The Edinburgh Medical School is not only connected with every one of them, but she deserves the honour to be called in all, the glorious pioneer for scientific Europe. The first of these points is the localisation of disease in special organs, the finding out of the functions of every organ, and the analysis of it. It was an Edinburgh man — a Professor of Edinburgh — who first showed us the localised func- tions of the nervous system. That was Sir Charles Bell. He was the man who made possible the work of Charcot and Ferrier in the new progress of medicine. The second point in the progress of medicine is our study of etiology. We are all convinced, as medical men, that the future of medicine is to be found in etiology. And when I ask, how we came to the conclusion that etiology is the first thing to be studied, we find that again it was an Edinburgh Professor who showed us by practice what it is to remove all external influences from surgical wounds. I have only to name to you Sir Joseph Lister. In etiology, Edinburgh was the first medical school of the nineteenth century. The third point in the progress of medicine is the finding out of new medicaments, of new methods of relieving pain. And here, again, I find it was your James Young Simpson who made one of the most important discoveries in medicaments — chloroform. So medical science is for ever indebted, and owes her best thanks, to the Medical School of Edinburgh — to the great men I have named, Sir Charles Bell, Sir Joseph Lister, and Sir J. Young Simpson. To the glorious past, to the happy and glorious future, of the Edinburgh Medical School, I drink in replying." Sir James Paget said — " I account it a very great honour that I am permitted to propose the < Medical next toast, ' Prosperity to the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh.' But, sir, I think Scll ° o1 of Edinburgh that even before proposing a toast, I am bound to express to you our sincere thanks for the University.' hospitality with which you have received us in this noble hall — a hall which may hereafter be put to other and not worse uses. The hospitality is not only that which is expressed on the surface of these tables, but that which you have given us in the company you have collected around them ; so that each one of us may go away with the consciousness of having received that best hospitality which has introduced him to the finest intellects, the best mental powers, the best social feelings, of the time in which he lives. Eor this, sir, we most heartily thank you and the Professors I 68 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. of the School of Medicine. Then as to the prosperity which I wish to propose to that school, it is a thing so plainly to be desired that I might safely leave it to every one here present to drink it with the enthusiasm that he has already in his own heart ; and it is a thing so probable of being fulfilled that there needs no defence, no proof of the wisdom, of the toast. And yet I must speak of it, if only because I feel we are bound to express very strongly our desire for the prosperity of the Medical School of Edinburgh ; we, especially, who come from places that have engaged the deepest of our affections, and for which we have spent the best part of our lives ; we who come from other universities and other schools. But, sir, Professor Turner has well told why we may as heartily as any — nay, perhaps, more heartily — wish for the prosperity of this school ; for we have had to learn all our lives long the great value of a mighty rivalry — a rivalry which has never yet been wanting in the ideal of this University, and a rivalry which, we trust, it will never cease to exercise; for in the active work of life an honest and earnest rival is often far better than a cautious friend. "We are thus deeply indebted to you, and none join more heartily than we do in the desire that the Medical School of this University may prosper and flourish for ever ; and in proposing the toast of its prosperity, what can we wish more than that it may hold on the same course which it has held steadfastly up to this time ? " No one can read the history of the University and of the Medical School, both before and since they became connected, without seeing in it a most brilliant example of that resolute pursuit of good, that strong confidence in opinion, and that earnest desire to maintain its right, which is manifest in Scotland, more than, I think, in any nation of the world. It has worked through times of great adversity, through times of which the Lord Provost has spoken, through times of constant controversy, of constant rivalry. It has illustrated, more than any school that we can speak of, the value of rivalry— the value even of internal competition. And now it has reached a prosperity never before attained here— never, I think, equalled by any school of medicine in the British Isles. And with that prosperity has come peace ; for we hear on all sides that there are now no more disputes, no more controversies ; all are working as with one heart towards one end, the good of the school. May its prosperity be equal in peace to that which it has attained in war ! I believe it will, and even surpass it ; for it is not likely that Scotland will ever fail to produce men of great mental power, of great power of resolve, of ready and earnest pursuit of that which is good for themselves and for the world besides. And if Scotland should ever fail to produce such men, it will not lose that power which it possesses in so marvellous a degree— the power of conversion, of friend-making, of assimilating— the power which is admirably illustrated by the instances Professor Stokvis has mentioned. An Englishman coming to Scotland becomes a Scotsman all over; all the produce of his mind seems as if the result of his residence, whether it be for a short time or for some years in Scotland. Eeally, if we might envy anything, we might envy this. In London we are conscious that we often make a German, or a Frenchman, or a Dutchman become an English- man. Asiatics, Africans, do their best to be like us. Sometimes, even, we convert an Irishman ; but a Scotsman never. Then may this be, if need be— though you will never come to the last resource— yet this might be the last resource— bring Englishmen among you, and they will main- tain your school and University with as much heartiness as you do it here yourselves. LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 6.9 " Then, what kind of prosperity can one hope for in the University school ? Well, more pupils, more wealth, more stately buildings ; the museums — I must not say better filled than this is now, only filled more appropriately with the work of the University and the Medical School ; these shelves filled with treasures of science — treasures that shall have in them that which may now be novel, but which shall be read in centuries hereafter as possessing even a historic interest ; and, with these, a more abundant power of spreading knowledge, and, which will not fail to come with it, a yet more abundant and blissful power of turning knowledge to the utility of men in the remedy of disease, prolonging their time of working power : all these things will come. " All these things we wish you, in the certainty that they will come. And there is but one thing which it seems vain to wish, because of the great improbability that the wish will be fulfilled, — that ever you shall have better men to teach and work than those you have had in time past — such as Alison, and Christison, and Goodsir, and Simpson, and Syme, or than some among you who still live. May I be pardoned if I mention one of them — my dear friend and old pupil, Professor Turner ? Can you have better ? If you can, we wish you them. Nay, we would pray for them with something of the eloquence and earnestness which we heard to-day in your Cathedral. And then, surely, the prosperity of the University will far outshine anything that is now historical, well as it can be spoken of. I propose then, gentlemen, that we drink ' Prosperity to the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh,' and I will connect with it ' The Health ' (for that will minister to its prosperity) ' of Professor Thomas E. Fraser.' " Professor Thomas E. Fkasek, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, in reply, said—" I rise with -Reply for the feeling of my unworthiness to represent in this great assembly the Medical School of the ^J^ 1 * 7 University of Edinburgh, or to respond with any measure of adequacy to the eloquent words School' by which Sir James Paget has to-day, as on many previous occasions, shown how well he can Prof - T - R - employ. At the same time, I recognise that events in which we are taking a part may, by their importance, overshadow all personal considerations; and I think it cannot be doubted that the Tercentenary celebrations which have now been entered upon, in their associations with the past, and in their present circumstances, constitute such an event. In recalling our past ■ history, it is impossible to overlook the fact that accident and the far-seeing wisdom of the originators of the Medical School of this University led to its receiving, more than a century and a half ago, a special form of organisation which perhaps more perfectly than elsewhere in this country satisfied the requirements of the medical profession. The result of this has been, that from a very early period students resorted to Edinburgh from England and Ireland, as well as from Scotland; and when the extension of colonial enterprise led to the formation of new communities in America, that country also supplied students to this Medical School m large numbers. " The great ability of many of the practitioners sent out from Edinburgh, and possibly, it may be, the insight they had here acquired into methods of instruction, led to their taking that import- ant share in the formation and organisation of medical schools in all parts of the world, to which Professor Turner and several other speakers have already made reference. The establishment of these schools naturally lessened the number of students who had previously been received by Edin- 70 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. burgh ; but, as new colonies were formed, and as new outlets for enterprise were opened, it has been the good fortune of this school to maintain its former position. " At the present time the largest number of our students is not derived from Scotland : many come from England, and a very considerable number from the great Australasian colonies, and from India, Canada, and South Africa. We must no doubt anticipate that the formation of well- equipped schools in countries which at present greatly assist in filling our class-rooms, will result in again lessening our supplies from these sources. It might be for us a subject of interesting speculation to inquire from what regions of the world this contingent of our students will in future be obtained ; and if any gloomy forebodings should be entertained, I think they may be removed by the consideration that large areas of the earth's surface still remain uncolonised, and that the enterprise of this country does not appear to languish as time proceeds. " In referring to the past, I am anxious to recall the fact that for many years there has been associated with the University an important body of extra-mural teachers. The learned Principal, in his history of the University, has far from exaggerated the beneficial effects of this association, when he has said that the friendly rivalry of the extra-mural teachers has proved of great import- ance, and has been instrumental in maintaining the efficiency of the Medical School of the Uni- versity. I feel sure that my colleagues will agree with me that what has been stated in regard to the past may be repeated in the present time, and that we owe a large measure of indebtedness to the extra-mural lecturers. " My Lords and Gentlemen, the special organisation of our Medical School, to some of the particulars of which I have referred, and the fact that there has been associated with it, throughout the whole course of its existence, men of remarkable genius, whose names are treasured in the annals of medical science, have raised it to a position of prosperity to which many speakers have already referred, and which may to some extent be expressed in the statement that in a country which at no time has enjoyed a high reputation for wealth, and in a city whose inhabitants number little more than 200,000, the Medical School of the University is at present educating upwards of 1500 students of medicine, and is therefore, I believe, in the position of being the largest school of medicine not only in this country, but in the world. " I have no manner of doubt that my fellow-workers feel, in all humility, that the preservation of this heritage is a task demanding their best efforts. In endeavouring to perform this task, the encouragement we have to-day received will greatly assist us in our resolutions. The good wishes that have been so eloquently expressed and so heartily received by this distinguished assembly will, I hope, be sufficiently far-reaching to enable our successors to point back to the proceedings of this week as the inauguration of a period of usefulness which may contrast not unfavourably with the period that has terminated. " Your presence in this hall emphasises the commencement of the new period. We have in this country a custom, when we enter a new abode, of inviting our friends to inspect our new possession, and to celebrate with us our entry into it. No more auspicious or gratifying a - house- warming ' has, I venture to think, ever before been celebrated. In this hall we present for your inspection a not unimportant part of our new possession. Allow me to announce that the entire LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 71 building is open to you, and that we shall be glad to receive our friends at any time they may be pleased to favour us with a visit. "My Lords and Gentlemen, on behalf of the Faculty of Medicine — of the students as well as of the teachers — I tender you our most grateful thanks for your presence at the inauguration of these new buildings, which so admirably provide us with one of the means for continuing the prosperity of our Medical School ; and I tender you, also, our cordial acknowledgments for your good wishes." Professor Douglas Maclagan, in proposing ' The Non-Medical Guests,' said — " It has been ' Non-Medi- abundantly established, by what has fallen from the Chairman and from those who have preceded me, that the essential object of our meeting in this place now is to return thanks unto our medical brethren, the high priests of our profession, who have co-operated with us to-day in dedicating this temple to iEsculapius, and to return our thanks to those generous donors who put us in possession of the buildings that we are now privileged to occupy. But I do not forget that there remains to us yet what is at once a privilege and a duty, to offer our welcome to those who do not belong to the profession of medicine — to thank them for their being present with us to-day, and accepting from us what we can offer of that hospitality which, I think I may without egotism say, has always been traditional among the members of the medical profession in Edinburgh. '' I labour here, as every one must do in such a meeting, under the embarras des rustlesses — there are so ruany here whose names I should liked to have connected with this toast, but to whose utterances in the larger festival of to-morrow we look forward with expectation and delight. I do not enlarge upon the subject, because my duty is simply to offer them our welcome, and the lapse of minutes, and the recollection that there are other interesting things to take place this afternoon, whisper in my ear, Surgere jam tempus pingues et linquere mensas. But I think I have got out of my embarras des richesses when I am privileged to connect with this toast the name of the very excellent officer who sits not far from the Chair. I am quite sure every one here will give a cordial welcome to Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Alison. 1 do not speak of him here in his military capacity, — I am speaking of him only as a representative of our non-medical guests ; but I might appropriately speak of him without entering into special details, because I am quite sure that a gallant soldier is everywhere an object of admiration and regard, whatever the uniform he wears, and whatever the flag under which he marches. Further than that, I am sure that in an assembly the largest proportion of which are Scotsmen, no man will be more welcome than one who has led a Highland brigade to victory. " I have not to go very far afield to find a connection between Sir Archibald Alison and the University of Edinburgh. The name of his uncle, the former distinguished professor of the practice of medicine in this University, is one that is known only as a name and by his works to the present generation of medical students ; but to those of us who unhappily are not at the student period of their life— who have had the privilege of sitting on the benches where he taught, and of forming part of his clinical staff in the Infirmary — to them there is the lively recollection of, and the grateful thanks for, the instruction received from the excellent teacher, the skilled physician, and the generous philanthropist, William Pulteney Alison. I call upon you to drink with great cordiality to the ' Non-Medical Guests ' of to-day, and to the health of Sir Archibald Alison." TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. ' The Archi- tect.' Eeply for Lieut-General Sir Archibald Alison, who was warmly received, said — " I feel myself in a singularly inappropriate position at this moment. A simple soldier, I am called upon to return Cell VjrU.68tS by Gen. Sir thanks for those great and distinguished men who, in obedience to your invitation, have come from A. Alison. t j ie mog t distant parts of Europe to do honour to this great University upon her three hundredth birthday in the ancient capital of Scotland. I feel that the honour of responding to this toast is one to which I can have no claim in the presence of such men ; but I am a soldier, and I obey my orders. I feel very deeply the kind and touching allusion made to my uncle, Professor Alison. I must ever feel a sort of personal connection with this University, for it was here my father received his education, and it was here my uncle spent the best days of his life. At this time, and when there is so much more to be done, I will not detain you, but in the name of the non-medical guests I return their most sincere and grateful thanks for the princely hospitality with which they have been received, and even more for the personal kindness which has been extended to every one. We thank you for all your kindness to us, and we will never forget it all the days of our lives." Professor Maclagan, on the call of the Chairman, here gave his graduation song, " Chancellor Inglis," amid great applause. Dr Billings, in proposing the toast of ' The Architect,' said — " It is now about one hundred and thirty-five years since the first American received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr John Moultray returned to Charleston to fight the yellow fever on the methods and principles which he had here acquired. Sixteen years afterwards, four or five graduates of the University of Edinburgh became the first medical faculty in America — the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania — which adopted the organisation and the methods of work of this University, their Alma Mater. The seed thus sown has multiplied exceedingly. We have now sixty or seventy medical schools, and sixty or seventy thousand doctors with diplomas. Not all of it, perhaps, is good fruit ; some of the heads may be chaff, with no grain. As the repre- sentative of the University of Pennsylvania, and as the representative also of the youngest University in the United States— Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore — and being specially interested in the subject of the methods of providing for modern medical teaching, I am very glad to have the opportunity of proposing the toast which is set down opposite my name, for I have had the opportunity of examining the buildings which have been constructed for the work of the medical departments of many of the great Universities in Europe and of our own schools, and in this country also. " The time has long gone by when the single little amphitheatre, such as some of you may remember to have seen in the old University of Bologna, with its two or three professors, was sufficient for the teaching of medicine. We have now learned that, in order to teach men to swim, it is necessary to put them into the water, and the whole tendency of modern education is to provide practical facilities, laboratory facilities. The old amphitheatre, while not done away with, is not now the sole method of instruction. The combination of all the methods for the various branches which are now considered necessary for a medical education — the proper com- bination of the eight, nine, or ten chairs, with means for theoretical instruction on the one hand, LUNCHEON IN THE UNIVERSITY NEW BUILDINGS. 73 and practical instruction on the other — is not an easy matter even for a small school ; but the difficulty may be imagined when it is necessary to provide, as we have heard to-day, for 1500 students. After a careful examination of this building, I am prepared to say that these difficulties have been largely overcome, and that this is to-day, taking it altogether, the best planned and best arranged medical school of instruction in the world. I think, therefore, I need not use any special arguments or pleas to induce you to drink the toast which I shall propose to the man who has combined with his own skill all the information derived from all the various sources, to arrive at this perfect and harmonious result ; for the architect must have exercised great judgment and performed a vast amount of mental work, besides assimilating the information which he has obtained elsewhere. The single scraps of information he may have obtained from the professors would not have created a building such as this, no more than a few isolated facts would create a science. I therefore ask you to join me in drinking to the health of the architect of the buildings, Mr Eowand Anderson." Mr E. Rowand Anderson, who was received with loud applause, said in reply — " I esteem it Reply by the no small honour to be called upon to acknowledge this toast, as having been selected to be the ro T ec • architect to design and to superintend the erection of the important public building, the inauguration of which is the occasion of this great meeting to-day. And I ought to feel more than gratified with your verdict, and with the graceful acknowledgment of the manner in which I have accomplished my task, which has been pronounced by Dr Billings, whose distinguished position in the medical profession, as the head of a great department of State, and whose knowledge of all the great buildings of the world of this description, entitle him to speak with the voice of authority. To combine in one building the nine great departments of this School of Medicine, with all the varied and different requirements, was a task of some difficulty. After studying the requirements of the professors, and after visiting the best buildings of this kind that eight years ago existed in Europe, I realised the great change that was taking place in the teaching of medicine and surgery ; and I saw that if the school in Edinburgh was to maintain its position, I must produce a building in which the great side of medical teaching — the practical side — could be carried on under the most favourable conditions, and that no mere pedantic rules of architecture or questions of style should so limit me as to mar the vital object of producing a building thoroughly adapted to its purposes. If I have succeeded — if I have even partly succeeded, — for all the work of the best of men has those imperfections, which are the steps towards the greater degree of perfection to which we are striving to attain, — I shall always feel pride and satisfaction that I have been privileged to contribute to the maintenance of the fame of this great school, and to enable it not only to sustain the traditions of its past history, but to hold the position which it has so nobly won. And when this building is completed by the addition of the Great Hall, I trust it will be a building not unworthy of our own romantic town. " I have been frequently asked why I have adopted that phase of architecture which you see here. Obviously I could not have made use of Greek architecture, and to have adopted Palladian art would have been to sacrifice the interior to the exterior. I have not adopted medieval art, 74 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. because an architect cannot ignore the spirit and tendency of his time ; but I have made use of that phase of art which arose in Italy during the second half of the fifteenth century, when the great minds of that country began to burst the bonds of dogma and ecclesiastical authority, and were determined to inquire into the nature of all things, and which, I believe, will be the meeting- ground where those gifts of the ancient to the modern artists — viz., those principles of construction evolved and perfected during the middle ages, which, so long as we build in stone and lime, must be used, and that love of beauty and humanity for its own sake so characteristic of classic art — will mingle and lead to the production of a phase of art that will respond to and be more expressive of the thought and life of the modern world than anything we have yet seen. " To the Professors and to the Building Committee I owe my most grateful thanks for that confidence they have always placed in me in dealing with all questions — practical or artistic — that have arisen. Of all the contractors that have been engaged in the work, I am bound to say that they have done their duty faithfully ; and I have also to acknowledge the services of Mr Allan Clark, the clerk of works, who has been employed here throughout, and whose knowledge of work, and whose firmness and courtesy, have contributed very largely to the realisation of this building. And to this great and illustrious company I return my most grateful acknowledgment of the hearty manner in which they have responded to this toast." ' The Chair- Sir Joseph Listee, in proposing the toast of ' The Chairman,' said — " You are all acquainted man. ^.-j.^ g^, Alexander Grant's reputation as a distinguished scholar ; and from this time forth his name will be linked with feelings of admiration and of gratitude on the part of all of us on account of the large share which he has taken in this magnificent Tercentenary celebration, and the genial manner in which he has discharged the duties of the Chair on this occasion. It is with peculiar pleasure that I have to propose this toast, because I have had opportunities of knowing his worth and work beyond what has fallen to the lot of many here. Some years ago it was my privilege to occupy a Chair in this University, and I was therefore his colleague in the Senatus Academicus. And I had opportunities of witnessing the manner in which he discharged the duties of his high office as Principal, upon a right discharge of which the prosperity of this University so much depends. I know, then, gentlemen— I have observed— the signal ability, the uniform courtesy, and the entire self-devotion with which Sir Alexander Grant has presided over this great seat of learning, and how much he has contributed to its prosperity and honour. I propose the health of our distinguished Chairman." Reply by the The CHAIRMAN, who was warmly received, said—" I rise to thank you for the great honour you ■ lawman. j mye done me by receiving thig toagt in the manner you have donej and to ac k now i edge tlle too kind words that have been used in proposing it. We have heard that in India, when there are good rains and abundant crops, the two hundred million ryots regard the Governor-General as a great man and an able administrator. Magno componere paroum, that is my case. "When every- thing is prosperous, the Viceroy feels that he should rather be congratulated than praised. And, in the same way, I have had the high happiness during many years to see the great institution with which I am connected prospering and advancing without a single reverse ; and STUDENTS' DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. 75 I have also had the pleasure of seeing these buildings rise, like the realisation of a dream, into their present form and beauty. Under these circumstances, I accept very cordially and very grate- fully what I consider to be your kind congratulations to me on this occasion." During the entertainment, which occupied nearly three hours and a half, a few of the guests left the hall for the purpose of attending the Students' Dramatic Entertainment at three o'clock, or the Professor of Music's Eecital at four o'clock, or in order to enjoy a drive in the environs ; but most of them remained till the end of the speeches, which were evidently listened to with great interest, and frequently elicited hearty applause. The assemblage dispersed about half-past four o'clock. STUDENTS' DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. 1 fYN Wednesday, 16th April, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Dramatic Enter- Wednesday, ^ tainment undertaken by the Students, under the auspices of their Representative 16th Apn1 ' Council, was given in the Theatre Royal, in presence of a crowded audience, including a number of the distinguished visitors. The Lord Rector (Sir Stafford Northcote) was present in one of the stage-boxes during part of the performance, and was greeted with loud cheers, to which he bowed his acknowledgments. The gallery was occupied by students, who amused themselves during the intervals by vocal performances, but were attentive listeners to the proceedings on the stage. 1 Description from the 'Scotsman,' revised by Mr G. P. M'Neill, LL.B., Advocate, who acted as stage-manager. Programme, see Appendix E, p. 347. The company consisted of about fifty students and four lady-amateurs, and the music was supplied by the orchestra of the Students' Club, with a few professionals, conducted by Mr Damb- mann. Invitations were issued to the Universitj' guests, a number of whom were present. Students were admitted gratuitously to the gallery, while tickets of admission were sold to friends for the purpose of defraying the cost of the performance. The closing words of the play had been specially adapted to the occasion. The King, giving Nigel a copy of the 'Counterblast' as a nuptial gift, says : "Read that, and^ye'U never smoke tobacco.'' " Nigel. — And wherefore should I not, my liege ? Your majesty doubtless remembers the old college rhyme In Laudem Tabaci : — ' Sumus fumus Est scintilla In favilla Nostra vita.' " King. — Euge ! Belle ! Optirne ! Here's anither man in the kingdom kens Latin besides mysel' ! And whaur got ye yer learnin', my likely alumnus of the Muses % "Nigel. — From your Majesty's own bounty, I may say, for I studied in the Accidentia Jacobi Sexti, the University of Edinburgh. "King. — By my saul, ye're a ceevilised fella', an' oor royal adoption o' yer alma mater is vera weel minded, tho' oor ain pressin' need hath somewhat hindered oor generosity toward the same. For the remeid n' this defect o' siller we look to those o' oor successors wha sail be better provided wi' this warld's gear. But as wisdom is mair precious than gowd or siller, we doot not that oor University will come to be a precious jewel in the croun o' oor beloved and native city, an' will be celebratin' her fame tae a' the people o' the earth when we hae lain doun tae the lang sleep by the side o' oor Royal ancestors." K 7G TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. The piece selected was the late Mr Andrew Halliday's drama " King o' Scots," a work of considerable merit, which is founded on Scott's novel, ' The Fortunes of Nigel.' Several of the characters are strongly drawn, and there is no lack of telling situations. Nearly all the performers showed an intelligent grasp of the intention of their parts ; their elocution was distinct, and they grouped themselves well on the stage. Some of the impersonations, indeed, were of striking excellence. Such was Mr J. E. Burt's reading of the title rdle. Appearance, gait, and gesture, the strange blending of generosity and meanness, sagacity and folly, regal pride and plebeian familiarity, which made up the character of James VI. as it has been drawn in history and in fiction — Mr Burt reproduced them all with an ease and realism that must have been attained by conscientious and intelligent study, supported by unmistakable his- trionic intuition. He made every " point " in the part with the certainty of a practised actor, and contributed very largely to the success of the performance. Mr A. Y. Eitchie's Eichie Moniplies was also a vigorous and clever rendering. Mr Horsley looked the part of Nigel Olifaunt to perfection, and acquitted himself in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. Mr W. M. M'Lachlan gave a careful and fairly animated ren- dering of the character of George Heriot. Mr A. B. Boak was well made up as Lord Dalgarno, and delivered with sufficient spirit and point the little dialogue that fell to his share. Mr C. M. Hallard played with a good deal of humour and gusto as Jenkin Vincent, and was as dashing a specimen of the " bold 'prentice boy " as one could wish to see. Mr E. M. Eoyle's Trapbois was rendered with remarkable histrionic and elocu- tionary breadth and power : it was, in fact, a presentation of the traditional stage miser that was worthy of the strongest transpontine melodrama. The numerous minor characters were sustained, for the most part, with satisfactory efficiency. The students were also very fortunate in the young lady amateurs whose services they had enlisted. Miss Nelly Petrie was not only a dainty and picturesque representative of Margaret Eamsay — she acted with both refinement and vivacity. Miss Mair was also a spirited representative of the part of Martha Trapbois ; and Miss Kunz did well the little that fell to her share as Lady Hermione — her elocution being especially clear and well modulated. Miss Cameron also threw much comic power into her impersonation of Dame Suddlechop. At the conclusion of the performance, the stage-manager for the company came forward in response to loud calls and bowed his acknowledgments. On the whole, this dramatic performance, owing to the energy of its organisers, 1 and the ability of the actors, proved to be a marked success, and formed a most enjoy- able entertainment in the Tercentenary programme. 1 The Executive Committee of the Students' Representative Council, assisted by the following Committee of Ladies : Lady Grant, Mrs Butcher, Mrs Fleeming Jenkin, Madame Kunz, Mrs Littlejohn, Mrs Masson, and Mrs Sellar. ORGAN RECITAL. 77 ORGAN RECITAL. AT four o'clock on Wednesday, 16th April, a number of the guests assembled in Wednesday, the University Music-Class Room, Park Place, for the purpose of hearing a recital pn ' by the Professor of Music (Sir Herbert Oakeley, Mus. Doc, LL.D.) on the University organ. The room was suitably decorated for the occasion, and embellished with a portrait of the present Professor, recently painted for the University Musical Society by Mr C. Kay Robertson. An interesting collection of models of cathedrals was also exhibited. The programme, which was well calculated to display the excellence of the instrument, was as follows : — • Bach, . (a) Air, " Mein glaubiges Herz." (b) Prelude and Fugue in D minor. Handel, Clioruses, (a) " Hail, Judea, happy land ! " — Judas MaccaboBUS. (V) " May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours : To form fragrant pillows, arise, ye flowers ! Ye zephyrs, soft breathing, their slumber prolong, While nightingales lull them to sleep with their song.'' — Solomon. (c) " Moses and the children of Israel sang this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying : I will sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea." — Israel in Egypt. Haydn, . . " Gloria in Excelsis," Mass Ho. 1. Mozart, . Andante, Menuetto and Trio : Symphony in E flat. Mendelssohn, . Prelude and Pugue, No. 2, Op. 37. Schubeet, Lied (Standchen), " Leise fliehen meine Lieder." Ouselet, . . Prelude for Organ, in P major. Pletel, . . . Motivo, in B flat, Op. 12. Beethoven, March and Chorus, " Twine ye garlands," &c. — Ruins of Athens, Op. 117. " God save the Queen." 78 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. CONVERSAZIONE IN THE LIBRARY HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY. 1 Wednesday, fTlHE next item in the Tercentenary Programme was the Conversazione in the great let pn , _|_ jj a ^ £ ^ University Library, from eight to eleven o'clock. For the conveni- 8 to 11 P.M. J J & ence of the guests, a porch had been erected at the entrance-gateway ; over the steps in the south-east corner of the quadrangle, leading to the Hall and Library, was stretched an awning draped with pink calico ; and the steps and pavement between the gateway and the Library were comfortably carpeted. The space at the foot of the staircase facing the Hall and the Secretary's office was fitted up as a ladies' cloak-room, similar accommodation for gentlemen being provided in the offices on the ground-floor. The staircase and Hall were adorned with palms, ferns, and hothouse plants from the Royal Botanic Garden. In the Library Hall the galleries were provided with seats for ladies, com- manding an admirable survey of the brilliant scene below. At the west end of the Hall was placed a dais, covered with crimson cloth, while most of the deep window- recesses were transformed into miniature boudoirs. In the other recesses stood tables, covered with amber-coloured cloth, on which several of the Professors exhibited interesting objects illustrative of the subjects they teach. 2 Professor Rutherford's table presented an array of physiological apparatus, used in studying the functions of the eye and ear, of the heart and the organs of respiration, and of muscle and nerve ; and several interesting experiments were shown. In the department of natural history, Professor Gossar Ewart submitted a large collection of rare and interesting specimens, including a series of herring, illustrating their growth from the newly hatched fry to the adult stage, and numerous samples of the food of the herring and other useful fishes. Professor Tait exhibited high-pressure gauges corrected for temperature, apparatus for measuring the compressibility of water under very high pressures, and two of the protected deep-sea thermometers used in the Challenger Expedition; and Professor Chrystal exhibited numerous mathematical models. Professor Turner, on behalf of the anatomical department, showed specimens which attracted considerable attention, not the least noteworthy beino- the skull of George Buchanan, the tutor of King James VI. Several heads of savages in good preservation also received their share of notice. Professor Crum Brown's collection of instruments connected with chemistry was 1 Professor Wilson, Secretary to the Senatus Aeademicus, took entire charge of the arrangements for this Con- versazione, and has revised the description. 2 Each recess was also hung with a collection of brightly coloured diagrams of the articles exhibited. CONVERSAZIONE IN THE LIBRARY HALL. 79 an important and valuable one. A Dewar and Liveing spectroscope, showing the spectrum of air and other substances, was exhibited in operation, and excited much interest. There were also shown two exquisitely made balances by Oertling of Lon- don, the larger constructed to weigh from the sixtieth part of a grain to eleven pounds, while the smaller was so nicely adjusted that a hair measuring the sixteenth part of an inch in length could turn the scale. The table set apart for botanical specimens afforded no little gratification. Here Professor Dickson had brought together, chiefly from the Botanic Garden, a collection of rare plants and flowers, including insectivorous plants, such as the Pitcher-plants (Nepenthes) and Sundews (Drosera) ; aquatic plants, such as the Skeleton-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis) from Madagascar; and many other equally uncommon speci- mens. The pathological exhibition, arranged by Professor Greenfield, was likewise noticeable for the rarity and value of the objects shown. It included a complete series of apparatus for bacteriological investigation in its various branches, growing specimens and drawings of many of the more important forms of bacteria and other microscopic fungi, besides a varied selection of pathological rarities. The students' reading-room presented an attractive appearance. The front of the balcony was draped in red cloth, and at intervals were arranged specimens of ancient art, both in painting and sculpture, contributed by Professor Baldwin Brown. Sculp- tured figures and table-plants were also placed in alternate order on the desk under- neath the balcony ; while on a table at the other side of the room were adjusted a number of Argand gas-burners and microscopes, by the aid of which the guests were enabled to examine many curious objects. A portrait of Eobert Eollock, the first Principal of the University, was exhibited in one of the halls by his descendant, Mr Hugh J. Eollo. On a side-screen in the antechamber leading into the students' reading-room were hung forty -two artistically executed and neatly framed pen-and-ink sketches by Mr William Hole, A.E.S.A., of the Professors and leading officials of the University. Each figure was represented in characteristic garb and attitude. The Chancellor, the Lord Eector, and the Principal appeared in their robes of office, and in each case full justice had been done to the details of the portraiture. Professor Butcher, in academic robe, was shaking hands with, and receiving the benediction of, Professor Blackie, the emeritus Professor of Greek, who wore his Highland plaid and straw hat. Professor Flint was represented as a defender of the Faith. Dressed in complete armour of the middle ages, but with ministerial bands of the present date conspicuously displayed, he was in the act of sheathing the sword with which he had apparently vanquished Apollyon. Several of the other likenesses were considered very effective, while a few were less successful. These portraits appeared to be greatly admired by the guests, who crowded round them during the evening. 80 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. There was also exhibited in the anteroom, by Professor Cossar Ewart, a valuable collection of natural history specimens, perhaps the most important of which was a reproduction of part of the Ballantrae bank, showing herring-eggs attached to gravel, stones, and sea-weeds, which had been dredged off Ballantrae by H.M.S. ' Jackal.' On a side-table were shown living herring-fry, hatched in the Zoological Laboratory of the University, and also several forms of hatching apparatus. The guests began to arrive at eight o'clock, and were received at the entrance of the Library Hall by Principal Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., in his official robes. The company consisted of upwards of 2000 ladies and gentlemen, including most of the Tercentenary guests, 1400 members of the General Council of the University, and 300 students. By nine o'clock nearly all the company had arrived, and although almost every cor- ner of the rooms was fully occupied, no inconvenience from crowding was experienced. Owing to the construction of the apartments in which the Conversazione was held, the movements of the guests were free and unimpeded, a stair at each end of the Library Hall enabling them to reach the reading-room and the refreshment-rooms below. The rich dresses of the ladies, the animated and enthusiastic nature of the proceedings, as well as the varied classic and scientific surroundings, combined to form a picture not readily to be forgotten. Great interest was taken in the specimens and the scientific experiments ; and much attention was bestowed on the busts of former professors, in- cluding Sir John Leslie, Dugald Stewart, Sir James Y. Simpson, Sir William Hamilton, Sir R. Christison, Syme, Forbes, &c. During the evening a students' choir sang several pieces of music in excellent style ; the band of the 9 2d Gordon Highlanders played a choice selection of music in the quadrangle ; while the pipers of the regiment marched through the Hall at inter- vals, affording the foreign visitors an opportunity of hearing the peculiar national music of the Highlands. Towards eleven o'clock the company began to disperse, the proceedings being brought to a close with the singing of " God save the Queen" by the choir, accompanied by the full band. STUDENTS' BALL. 81 T STUDENTS' BALL. 1 IHE next event in the Tercentenary Programme, and one in which, a friendly interest Wednesday, was taken by many of the distinguished visitors, was the Ball given by the 16tllA P rll > Students in honour of the stranger-guests of the University, on the evening of Wed- nesday, 16th April, in the Assembly Eooms, George Street. The Assembly Rooms, together with the Music Hall, were tastefully decorated for the occasion. The stair- cases were covered with crimson drugget, and the balconies luxuriantly decorated with flowers. The inner end of the entrance-lobby was converted into a tea-room, draped in red and white, and embellished with coats-of-arms. The retiring-rooms were also hung with coloured calico, arranged in the form of a tent, from the centre of which was suspended a crystal lamp. The supper-room was nicely fitted up, the panels being adorned with the University colours. The decoration of the orchestra was particu- larly successful. Mirrors were here placed along the front, alternating with blue and white draped columns, on which were displayed the shields of several foreign Universities, including those of Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Leipzig ; while behind was a magnificent display of plants and flowers sent by Miss Nisbet Hamilton of Biel, and by Professor Dickson from the Botanic Garden. The guests began to arrive shortly after ten o'clock, and by midnight the company numbered between 500 and 600 ladies and gentlemen. Dancing was heartily enjoyed by many of the guests, and was continued till about four o'clock next morning. Among the ladies present may be mentioned the Baroness de Penedo, Lady Playfair, Lady Fergusson, the Hon. Mrs Blair, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Masson, Mrs and Miss Max Mtiller, Mrs Muirhead, Mrs Goldschmidt, Miss Lubbock, and Miss von Helmholtz. Among the gentlemen were the Baron de Penedo, the Lord Advocate, the Earl of Eosebery, Lord Reay, Professor de Laveleye, Professor de Martens, and Professor Ask. The arrangements gave general satisfaction, and the whole entertainment passed off in a most successful manner. 1 The Ball Committee of the Students' Representative Council consisted of Messrs Masson, Bell, Sturrock, Steel, Home, and F: W. Thomson. Invitations were issued to the stranger-guests. Tickets were allotted to gradu- ates, students, and ladies, at one guinea each, and to a few gentlemen, who were not members of the University, at twenty-five shillings. The Committee was assisted in making the necessary arrangements by a committee of ladies, who acted as patronesses. The hands of Messrs Adams of Glasgow and Mr Dambmann of Edinburgh were engaged for the occasion. Supper was purveyed by Mr John Mitchell, India Street. Description revised by Mr Fitzroy Bell, advocate. 82 THURSDAY, i 7 TH oAP*RIL 1884- THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. Thursday, 17th April, 11 to 1 o'clock. T this great meeting the important business to be transacted was — (1) The official reception of Delegates from Universities and other learned bodies ; (2) The conferring of honorary degrees in Divinity and Laws ; and (3) The delivery of a Tercentenary Address by the Chancellor of the University. As the University at present possesses no hall of its own sufficiently large for assemblies of this kind, or even for its two annual graduation ceremonials, it was arranged that the " Tercentenary Ceremonial " should take place in the United Presbyterian Synod Hall, Castle Terrace. Tickets had been issued to about 1400 members of the General Council of the Uni- versity, 300 students, and 400 members of the public, a large proportion of the latter being ladies. Most of these spectators were seated soon after ten o'clock, and most of the delegates (123 in all) and those other distinguished guests to whom honorary degrees had been offered (67 in all), by half-past ten. Those delegates on whom it had been resolved also to confer honorary degrees (54) x were placed, in the alpha- betical order of the Universities and other learned bodies they represented, in the side- seats to the left of the Chancellor, while the others (69) were similarly arranged in the side-seats on the Chancellor's right. The other guests on whom degrees were to be conferred (67) were, with the exception of the Lord Provost, seated on the central benches immediately in front of the platform. Behind these guests were ranged the greater number (about 165) of those honorary graduates of the University, and those of its principal benefactors and others, who had accepted the invitation to attend the festival. Lastly, about ten minutes to eleven o'clock the Chancellor, the Lord Eector, the Principal, the members of the University Court, the Curators, the Senatus Academicus, and a number of other office-bearers of the University, together with a few of the most distinguished guests, headed by the stalwart mace -bearer, entered the hall in processional order from the south-west doorway (numbering about 1 To a number of these an honorary degree had been offered before their appointment as delegates. THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 83 100 in all), and took their seats on the platform, amid hearty cheers. While the company was assembling, pleasant strains of music 1 were heard from a side -room adjoining the platform. The first number in the programme, a funeral march, was played as a tribute to the memory of the Duke of Buccleuch, a munificent patron of the University. 2 The spacious hall was now densely crowded in every part, and presented a singu- larly picturesque and impressive scene. Many of the learned delegates (representing 76 universities and 53 other bodies) wore rich silken robes of various bright hues, scarlet, crimson, green, and yellow, embroidered with velvet and lace, silver and gold ; while others appeared in uniform, wearing a dazzling array of orders. Others again wore the ordinary black academic gown, enriched with a coloured silken hood indi- cating their academic status, while a few were destitute of any distinguishing badge. At the same time, those eminent persons on whom honorary degrees were to be conferred, as well as the former honorary graduates and most of the members of the General Council, appeared in academic costume. Most conspicuous on the platform were the venerable Chancellor, wearing a handsome black robe, elaborately trimmed with gold lace, with the Principal, in his rich robes of office, adorned with silver lace, on the left, and the Lord Eector on the right. Immediately behind the Chancellor sat the Lord Provost in his municipal robes, trimmed with ermine ; and among others on the platform were the Earl of Eosebery attired as a doctor of laws, Lord Eeay in rich crimson robe, the Earl of Galloway in military, and Captain Kennedy in naval uniform. The proceedings were opened with an appropriate prayer by the Dean of the Faculty of Divinity. (a) Eeception of Delegates. Before introducing each delegate by name, the Principal addressed the Chancellor as follows : " Mr Chancellor, I have now the honour to present to you a number of delegates from Universities, Corporations, and Societies, who have come to greet the University of Edinburgh at this her Tercentenary Festival." The delegates from Universities first, and those from other bodies afterwards, were then conducted by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Professor of Greek, in the order above mentioned, to the platform, and there presented by the Principal to the Chancellor, who cordially shook hands with each in token of welcome. At the same time, most of the delegates from Universities presented written addresses, 3 many of them beauti- 1 Mr Dambmann's band, conducted by Mr Carl D. Hamilton. The programme was as follows : 1. Mai-che Funebre, Chopin; 2. Fest-Ouverture, Leitner ; 3. Edinburgh March, OaJceley; 4. Musette, Gh. Morley • 5. Serenade, Mozhowsld; 6. Jubel-Ouverture, Weber. 2 He died on Wednesday, 16th April, at 12.15 a.m. 3 The University delegates presented 49 addresses, and 30 more were sent by other Universities. See pp. 185 to 287. L 84 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. fully illuminated, and enclosed in rich and handsomely mounted leather or velvet cases, which were received by the Secretary of the Senatus Academicus, and deposited in a basket. Similar addresses 1 were also presented by some of the other delegates. Most of these. addresses were presented in silence, or with a few complimentary words directed to the Chancellor; but Professor Ask, the delegate from the University of Lund, addressed a short congratulatory speech to the Chancellor in Latin; and Professor Stengel, the delegate from the University of Marburg, addressed the fol- lowing words to the audience : " The University of Marburg, the oldest Protestant University of Germany, sends kindest wishes to the oldest Protestant University in Scotland." Both of these little speeches were received with hearty cheers by the audience, while all the best-known men of letters, science, and art were welcomed with loud applause. The following is a complete list of the delegates : — DELEGATES FEOM UNIVERSITIES. Asterisks indicate the Delegates who received Honorary Degrees. Daggers indicate that Addresses were presented. jAbeedeen. — "William D. Geddes, MA., LL.D., Professor of Greek. IAmsteedam. — Dr G. H. van Hamel, Professor of Penal Law. Baltimore, see Johns-Hopkins. IBeelin. — Dr J. Zupitza, Professor of English Philology. IBerne. — Dr A. Oncken, Professor of Political Economy. Bologna. — *Count Aurelio Saffi, Professor of the History of Public Law. tBoMBAY. — *The Hon. Justice Raymond West, M.A., LL.D., F.B.G.S., Judge of H.M. High Court, Bombay, Vice - Chancellor of the University. IBeussels. — *Alphonse Rivier, Professor of Roman Law, General Secretary of the In- stitute of International Law. jBuda-Pesth. — * Joseph Szabo, Doctor of Arts, Laws, and Philosophy, Professor of Miner- alogy and Geology, and Rector. Calcutta. — W. Markby, M.A., Reader in In- dian Law, University of Oxford, former- ly Judge in H.M. High Court, Calcutta, and late Vice -Chancellor of the Univer- sity. tCAMBRiDGE. — George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. (Edin.), Sec. R.S., Fellow of Pembroke College, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University. Cape of Good Hope.— *David Gill, LL.D., As- tronomer-Royal at the Cape of Good Hope. Chill — *tHis Excellency Marcial Martinez, LL.D., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Chili, London. ICheistiania. — *Johan Storm, Professor of Eng- lish Philology. Clermont, Academie de. — Dr Gilbert Edmond Fredet, Professor in the Preparatory School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ofhcer of Public Instruction. tCoiMBRA (Portugal). — Jayme Batalha Reis, Professor in the General Agricultural In- stitute of Portugal. tCoPENHAGEN.— *M. H. Saxtorph, Knight of the Danebrog and Danebrogs-man, and Knight 1 These addresses were 15 in number, and 10 more were sent by other societies. (See pp. 288 to 314.) Besides these, 8 addresses were sent by individuals (pp. 315 to 330) ; while numerous congratulatory and- complimentary letters of a more or less private character, and not intended for publication, were also received. THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 85 of the Order of St Stanislaus, Professor of Clinical Surgery. tCoENELL (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.) — *His Excellency James Eussell Lowell, D.C.L., LL.D., Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures, Envoy, Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States. ICeacow. — Dr Maurice Straszewski, Professor of Philosophy, and Councillor of the City of Cracow. IDoepat. — Dr Friedrich Hoffmann, Professor of Special Pathology and Clinical Medicine, Counsellor of State. Douai, Academie de. — Professor Angellier. IDublin — Trinity College. — *Eev. Samuel Haughton, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.; Senior Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the College. IDueham. — Rev. R. J. Pearce, M.A., D.C.L., Professor of Mathematics and Sub- Warden of the University. Finland, see Helsingfors. IG-hent. — Gkistave Boddaert, Chief Surgeon of Civil Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University. Glasgow. — *The Very Rev. John Cairo!, D.D., LL.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University. tGoTTiNGEN. — Dr F. Kielhorn, Professor of Sanscrit. IGeoningen. — *Dr B. H. C. K. van der "Wyck, Professor of Philosophy. IHalle. — *Dr Karl Elze, Professor of English Philology. Haevaed (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) — *His Excellency James Russell Lowell, D.C.L., LL.D. IHeidelbeeg. — Dr Heinrich Eosenbusch, Pro- fessor of Mineralogy and Geology. IHelsingfoes — Imperial Alexandrian Univer- sity of Finland. — Otto Donner, LL.D., Pro- fessor of Sanscrit and Philology. Ithaca, see Cornell. Johns-Hopkins (Baltimore, U.S.A.) — Professor J. J. Sylvester, D.C.L., LL.D. (Edin.), F.R.S. tKiEF — Imperial University of St Vladimir. — Emeritus Professor Rachmaninoff, Coun- sellor of State, Doctor of Mathematical Science. IKiel. — Dr Georg Hoffmann, Professor of Oriental Languages. tKlNGSTON, Canada — Queen's University. — Sandford Fleming, C.E., C.M.G., Chancellor of the University. tKoNiGSBEEG. — Dr Giiterbock, Professor of Penal Law and Procedure. tLEYDEN. — Dr D. Doijer, Professor of Ophthal- mology, Rector of the University. Liege. — *Emile L. V. de Laveleye, Doctor of Laws, Professor of Political Economy. ILondon. — William B. Carpenter, C.B., M.D., LL.D. (Edin.), F.R.S. tLouvAiN. — Professor M. P. J. van Beneden, LL.D. (Edin.) tLuND. — C. J. Ask, M.A., Doctor of Physic, K.C.G.V., K.P.S., Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics. Lyons — Academie des Sciences, Belles-lettres, et Arts. — M. Heinrich, Dean of the Faculty of Letters. Madeas. — Rev. William Stevenson, M.A., Vice- Chancellor of the University. tMANCHESTEE — Victoria University. — * Joseph Gouge Greenwood, B.A., LL.D., Vice-Chan- cellor of Victoria University, Principal of Owens College, and Professor of Greek. IMaebueg. — Dr E. Stengel, Professor of Ro- mance and English Languages. Melbouene. — The Right Rev. Bishop Perry, formerly Bishop of Melbourne, and Mem- ber of the University Council. tMoNTEEAL — M'Gill University. — *John Wil- liam Dawson, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., C.M.G., Principal of M'Gill College, and Vice-Chan- cellor of M'Gill University. tMoscow. — Professor Maxime Kovalewsky. IMunich. — * Professor Dr Max von Pettenkofer. Nancy, Academie de. — M. Bourcart, Professor in the Faculty of Law. Naples. — *tAugusto Vera, Professor of Philo- sophy, Senator. New Beunswick. — Dr Alfred B. Atherton, B.A., L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. (Edin.) 86 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. tNEW Jersey, College of (Princeton, U.S.A.) —Rev. Prof. W. Henry Green, D.D., LL.D. New Zealand. — Hugh Carleton, formerly Vice- Chancellor of the University. Otago (New Zealand).— Alfred C. Strode, R.M., Member of the Council of the University. tOxFORD.— *The Eev. B. Jowett, D.D., LL.D. Professor of Greek, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University. tPADUA. — *Professor Pasquale Villari, Florence. tPALEEMO. — Alexander S. Herschel, M.A., Pro- fessor in the College of Science, Newcastle- on-Tyne. t Paris — University de France. — * Alfred Mez- ieres, Professor of Foreign Literature, Membre de l'Acaddmie Franchise. Paris — FaculU de Midecine. — Professor Benja- min Ball. Pavia. — *Luigi Cremona, Professor of Higher Mathematics in the University of Rome. IPennsylvania (U.S.A.) — *Dr John S. Billings. Pesth, see Buda-Pesth. IPrague. — Dr Hans Chiari, Professor of Patho- logical Anatomy. Punjab.— G. W. Leitner, Ph.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Principal of the Government College, and of the Oriental College, Lahore. Rio Janeiro — Bom Pedro II. Imperial Univer- sity. — *His Excellency Baron de Penedo, D.C.L., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Brazil. tRoME. — *Luigi Cremona, Professor of Higher Mathematics, Director of the School of Applied Science for Engineers. IRostock. — Professor Dr Albert Thierf elder, Rector of the University. tST Andrews. — *The Very Rev. John Tulloch, D.D., LL.D., Senior Principal and Vice- Chancellor of the University. ISt Petersburg. — *Frederik de Martens, Pro- fessor of International Law, Counsellor of State; *Dmitry Mendeleieff, Professor of Chemistry, Counsellor of State ; Iwan Min- aieff, Professor of Comparative Philology, Counsellor of State. IStrassburg. — Professor Adolf Michaelis, LL.D. tSYDNEY. — Theodore T. Gurney, M.A., late Fel- low of St John's College, Cambridge, Profes- sor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Tokio, Japan. — Rujosaku Kuri, Graduate in Science of the University. ITurin. — *His Excellency Count Costantino Nigra, Doctor of Laws, Italian Ambassador Extraordinary, London. tUpsALA. — Dr P. Theodor Cleve, Professor of Chemistry. tUTRECHT. — *The Rev. Professor Nicolaas Beets, Knight of High Orders, Phil., Theor., Mag. Lit. Hum. Doctor, Theologiae Doctor. tViENNA. — Dr Jacob Schipper, Professor of English Philology. IViRGiNiA (U.S.A.). — Charles Scott Venahle, LL.D., Professor of Mathematics. DELEGATES FROM OTHER LEARNED BODIES. Asterisks indicate the Delegates who received Honorary Degrees. Daggers indicate that Addresses were presented. IAmsterdam — Royal Academy of Sciences. — *Professor C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Director of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Holland. Belfast — Queen's College. — Rev. Josias Leslie Porter, D.D. (Edin.), LL.D. (Glasgow), D. Lit. (Queen's University), President of Queen's College. IBerlin — Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. — *Rudolf Virchow, M.D., Hon. F.R.S.E., Pro- fessor of Pathology, University of Berlin. B oston (U.S.A.) — American Academy of Sciences and Arts. — Sir William Thomson, LL.D. (Edin.), D.C.L., F.R.S. Brussels — Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. — *The Abbe Renard. JBuda-Pesth — Hungarian Academy of Sciences. — *Joseph Szab6, Doctor of Arts, Laws, and THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 87 Philosophy, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology, and Rector, University of Pesth. ■("Copenhagen — Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. — *J. Louis Ussing, Professor of Classical Philology and Archaeology in the University of Copenhagen. Cork — Queen's College. — William Kirby Sulli- van, Ph.D., D.Sc, President of the College. Dublin — King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. — Dr William Moore, President of the College. tDUBLlN — Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. — Dr W. I. Wheeler, President of the College. Dublin — Royal Irish Academy. — *Sir Samuel Ferguson, LL.D., Q.C., President of the Academy. Dundee— University College. — William Peter- son, MA. (Edin. and Oxon.), Principal of the College. Edinburgh — Board of Trustees for Manufac- tures, &c. — Sir Arthur Halkett, Bart., Com- missioner of the Board. Edinburgh — Merclmnt Company. — Alexander Dowell, Treasurer of Company. Edinburgh — New College. — *Rev. Principal Rainy, D.D. tEDiNBURGH — Royal College of Physicians. — *George William Balfour, M.D., President of the College. IEdinburgh — Royal College of Surgeons. — *John Smith, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.E., President of the College. Edinburgh — Royal High School. — John Mar- shall, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and Rector of the School. Edinburgh — Royal Scottish Academy. — *Sir William Fettes Douglas, President of the Academy. IEdinburgh — Royal Society. — Peter Guthrie Tait, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy, Secretary of the Society. Edinburgh — Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. —Arthur Mitchell, M.D., LL.D. Edinburgh — -Theological College of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. — Rev. John Dowden, D.D., Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, and Principal of the College. Edinburgh — United Presbyterian College. — Rev. James Alexander Paterson, M.A., Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, and Secretary to the College. tFLORENCE — Royal Institute of Higher Practical Studies. — *Professor Pasquale Villari. Galway — Queen's College. — Thomas W. Moffett, LL.D. (University of Dublin), D. Lit. (Queen's University), President of Queen's College, Galway ; Professor of History, English Literature, and Mental Science. Glasgow — Anderson's College. — Alexander Whitelaw. Glasgow — Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. — Andrew Fergus, M.D., President of the Faculty. London — British Museum.—*^ John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., one of the Trustees of the Museum. ILondon — Edinburgh University Club. — *Ed- ward Henry Sieveking, M.D., F.S.A., F.R.C.P.L., Physician Extraordinary to H.M. the Queen, Physician in Ordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. London — Guy's Hospital Medical School. — *Dr Samuel Wilks, M.D., F.R.S. London — King's College. — *W. 0. Priestley, M.D., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to King's College Hospital. London — Royal Academy of Arts. — *Sir Fred- erick Leighton, D.C.L., LL.D., President of the Academy. London — Royal College of Physicians. — Sir J. Risdon Bennett, M.D., LL.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.P.L., F.R.S. ILondon — Royal College of Surgeons of England. — *John Marshall, F.R.S., President of the College. London — Royal Society. — *The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, D.C.L., F.R.S. London — Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School — Dyce Duckworth, M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. London, Physician to the Hospital. London — St Thomas's Hospital. — *John Syer Bristowe, M.D., F.B.C.P., F.R.S., Senior Physician and Joint Lecturer on Medi- cine. 83 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. London — University College. — *John Eric Erichsen, F.R.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen, Emeritus Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, University College, London, and Consulting Surgeon to Univer- sity College Hospital. Manchester — Edinburgh University Club. — John Thorburn, M.D., Professor of Obstetric Medicine in Victoria University, and Presi- dent of the Club. Milan — Royal Lombard Institute. — Sir Wil- liam Thomson, LLD. (Edin.), D.C.L., F.E.S., Professor in the University of Glasgow. tMtTNiCH — Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. — *Professor Dr Max von Pettenkoffer. INew York (U.S.A.) — Union Theological Semin- ary. — *Rev. Prof. Charles Augustus Briggs, D.D., Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages. t Paris — Institut de France. — The five Delegates sent by the following four Academies : — Paris — Acad&mie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres. — *Georges Perrot, President of the Academy. Paris — Acad&mie des Sciences. — *Louis Pasteur, Member of the Academy ; Ant. D Abbadie, Member of the Academy. Paris — Acad&mie des Sciences Morales et Poli- tiques. — *Octave Gr^ard, Vice-Rector of the Academy of Paris, Commander of the Legion of Honour. Paris — Acad&mie Frangaise. — *E. Caro, Mem- ber of the Academy. Paris — Acad&mie de M&decine. — *Dr Henri Gueneau de Mussy. IParis — Coll&ge de France. — Guillaume Guizot, Professor of Teutonic Languages and Liter- ature. IPhiladelphia (U.S.A) — Franklin Institute. — Coleman Sellers, Professor of Mechanics in the Institute. IRome — Royal Academy of Zincei. — *Professor Luigi Cremona; *His Excellency Count Costantino Nigra, Doctor of Laws, Italian Ambassador Extraordinary, London; and *Professor Pasquale Villari, Florence. Turin — Royal Academy of Sciences. — Edward Sang, C.E., LLD. (Edin.) IUpsala — Royal Society of Sciences. — Dr P. Theodor Cleve, Professor of Chemistry, University of Upsala. Washington (U.S.A.) — Smithsonian Institution. — *His Excellency James Russell Lowell, D.C.L., LLD. (b) Conferring of Honorary Degrees. The Eeception of the Delegates, which terminated about a quarter to twelve o'clock, was immediately followed by the ceremony of conferring honorary degrees, which occupied about three-quarters of an hour. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on fourteen distinguished theologians in person, to whom the audience accorded a hearty reception, and on three more in absentia. They were introduced to the Chancellor by the Dean of the Faculty of Divinity with the following prefatory words : " I have now the honour to present to you, in the name of the Senatus Academicus, a number of divines and scholars who have won for themselves high renown in various departments of theological study and research, and whose presence and sympathy with us this day are not the least encouraging of the many happy circumstances which mark our festival." The Chancellor then conferred the degree on the persons named in the following list in the usual manner, by holding the academic cap over the head of the recipient THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 89 and pronouncing the words — " In name and by authority of the University I admit you to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity." 1 HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF DIVINITY. Asterisks indicate those who were also Delegates. *Beets, The Rev. Professor Nicolaas : Knight of several High Orders ; Theological Doctor ; Poet, Novelist, and Divine ; author of ' Paulus in de gewichtigste Oogenblikken van zyn Leven,' and many other works. *Beiggs, The Rev. Charles Augustus : D.D. ; Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages in the Union Theological Seminary, New York ; Biblical Critic and Church Historian; joint editor of 'The Pres- byterian Review ' ; author of ' Biblical Study, its Principles, Methods, and History.' [Beyennios, Philotheos : Metropolitan of Nicomedia ; discoverer of sev- eral very ancient Christian treatises ; and editor of TOY KAHMENTOS AI AYO HT02 KOP- IN©IOYS EIH2TOAAI and of the A1AAXH TON AnOSTOAON.— In Absentia.] *Caied, The Very Rev. John : D.D., LL.D. ; Principal of the University of Glasgow; Christian orator; author of 'Intro- duction to the Philosophy of Religion.' Cheyne, The Rev. Thomas Kelly : M.A. ; Rector of Tendring ; Semitic Scholar and Commentator on the Old Testament ; author of ' The Prophecies of Isaiah, a new Translation, with Commentary.' [Doener, Isaac August : D.D. ; Oberconsistorialrath, and Professor of Theology in the University of Berlin; author of ' Entwickelungsgeschichte der Lehre von der Person Christi.' — In Absentia.] Durham, The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of (Joseph Barber Lightfoot) : D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. ; New Testament Scholar, and Commentator on St Paul's Epistles. *Green, The Rev. W. Henry : D.D. ; Professor of Oriental and Old Testa- ment Literature in Princeton Theological Sem- inary, New Jersey; Biblical Scholar and Critic ; author of a work entitled ' Moses and the Prophets.' Martineau, The Rev. James : D.D. ; Principal of Manchester New College, London; Theologian and Metaphysician; author of 'Endeavours after the Christian Life/ and ' Essays, Philosophical and Theological.' Peeowne, The Very Rev. John James S. : D.D. ; Dean of Peterborough ; Hebrew Scholar, and Commentator on the Old Testament; author of ' The Book of Psalms, a new Trans- lation.' Peessense, The Rev. E. de : D.D. ; "Writer on Historical Theology; author of ' Histoire des trois premiers Siecles de l'Eglise.' *Rainy, The Rev. Robert : D.D. ; Principal of New College, Edinburgh ; author of treatises on the History of the Church and of Christian Doctrine. [Reuss, The Rev. Edward : Professor of Criticism in the University of Strassburg ; author of ' Geschichte der heiligen Schriften neuen Testaments.' — In Absentia.] Salmok, The Rev. . George : D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.; Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin ; Mathe- matician and Divine; author of 'Conic Sec- tions/ ' Higher Algebra/ and ' Sermons.' *Tulloch, The Very Rev. John : D.D. ; Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews; Essayist, Church Historian, and 1 The lists of persons on whom the degrees of D.D. and LL.D. were conferred, are reprinted, with a few cor- rections, from the official lists which were distributed among the audience at this ceremonial. 90 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Divine; author of 'Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Cen- tury.' Westcott, The Rev. Brooke Foss : D.D., D.C.L. ; Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, Canon of West- minster; Biblical Scholar, Critic, and Commen- tator ; author of a ' History of the Canon of the New Testament ' and of a ' Commentary on St John's Gospel,' and joint editor of Westcott and Hort's Greek Testament. Woedswoeth, The Right Rev. Charles : D.D., D.C.L. ; Bishop of the Scottish Epis- copal Church, St Andrews : Classical Scholar and Critic ; author of ' Grsecas Grammaticse Rudimenta,' ' Outlines of the Christian Min- istry,' and ' Shakspeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible.' The degree of Doctor of Laws was next conferred upon the one hundred and twenty-three persons named in the following list, of whom sixteen were absent. To all, and in particular to several literary and scientific men who have gained a world- wide reputation, a most hearty reception was accorded by the audience. They were presented to the Chancellor by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, who said : " In the name of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, I have the great honour, Mr Chancellor, of requesting you to confer the high degree of Doctor of Laws upon a long series of illustrious persons who have attained signal distinction in their different spheres, and who have come from all parts of the world to honour us with their presence at this festival." HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS. Asterisks indicate those who were also Delegates. Alexandee, The Rev. William Lindsay : D.D. ; Hebrew Scholar and Critic ; author of theological works, and member of the Old Testament Revision Company. Alison, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald, Bart : K.C.B., LL.D. ; served in the Crimea, in the Indian Mutiny, and in the Ashantee and Egyptian campaigns ; now Commander of the Forces at Aldershot. Anderson, Robert Rowand : Architect of the University of Edinburgh New Buildings. *Balfoue, George William : M.D. ; President of the Royal College of Physi- cians, Edinburgh ; author of a work on Diseases of the Heart. *Ballot, C. H. D. Buys : Professor in the University of Utrecht ; Direc- tor of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Holland ; author of numerous papers on Meteor- ological and Magnetical Science, especially on Abnormal Phenomena ; formulator of the Re- lation of the Wind to Distribution of Atmo- spheric Pressure, now known as ' Buys Ballot's Law of the Winds.' Barker, Fordyce : M.D., LL.D.; President of the New York Academy of Medicine; one of the Founders, and first President, of the American Gynecol- ogical Society ; Professor of Clinical Midwifery and Diseases of Women in Bellevue Hospital, New York ; Physician and Obstetrician ; author of a work on Puerperal Diseases, and of many memoirs on cognate subjects. *Billings, John Shaw : M.D., Lieut.-Colonel, U.S.A. ; Surgeon ; editor of the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S.A.; delegate to the International Medical Congress held in THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 91 London in 1882 ; author of memoirs on Surgi- cal Science. [Botjssingaiflt, Jean Baptiste J. D. : Member of the Institut de France; born in 1802; formerly Professor of Chemistry at Lyons; afterwards Professor of Agriculture in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris ; author of investigations regarding food-materials and the Chemistry of the Atmosphere in its relations to Organic Life ; author of a ' Traite' d'Economie Rurale,' and other works. — In Absentia.] Bowman, Sir "William, Bart. : M.D., P.RS. ; LL.D. Cambridge; Hon. M.D. Trinity College, Dublin ; member of many learned societies ; one of the chief Pounders, and the first President, of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain ; Physiologist, Histolo- gist, and Ophthalmic Surgeon. *Bristowe, John Syer : M.D., P.R.C.P., E.R.S. ; Senior Physician and Lecturer on Medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London ; Pathologist and Sanitarian ; author of a treatise on the ' Theory and Practice of Med- icine,' and of numerous memoirs and reports on subjects connected with Clinical Medicine, Pathology, and Hygiene. Brodie, John Clerk : Writer to the Signet ; Deputy-Keeper of H.M. Signet, and Keeper of the Register of Sasines ; formerly Crown Agent for Scotland; Convey- ancer, and a promoter of reform in the Law of Scotland, especially in the branch relating to landed property. Browning, Robert : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and Hon. Fellow of Balliol College; Hon. LL.D. Cambridge; English Poet. Bryce, James : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and Fellow of Oriel Col- lege; M.P. ; Professor of Roman Law in the University of Oxford; author of 'The Holy Roman Empire,' and other works. [Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm von : Hon. F.R.S. London and Edinburgh ; Professor of Chemistry in the University of Heidelberg ; Discoverer of Cacodyle, Caesium, and Rubidium ; Inventor of the Lamp and the Calorimeter known by his name ; Originator of new methods of Analysis. — In Absentia.] Burnett, George : Advocate, Lyon King-of-Arms of Scotland; editor of seven volumes of 'The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland' (1878-84), with historical prefaces; author of several works and essays on Heraldry and Family History. Caird, Sir James : K.C.B., F.R.S; formerly Member of Parlia- ment, Reporter on Agriculture in Ireland, Chairman of a Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries, and one of the Commissioners ap- pointed to inquire into the subject of famines in India ; author of many contributions to the subject of Agricultural Science. Cairns, The Rev. John : D.D. ; Principal and Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics in the United Pres- byterian College, Edinburgh; author of a treatise on ' Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century.' *Caro, Elme-Marie : Member of the Academie Franeaise, and of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Poli- tiques, Paris; Philosopher and Critic; author of ' La Philosophie de Goethe,' ' Le Mysticisme au dix-huitieme siecle,' ' Le Pessimisme au dix-neuvieme siecle,' 'Etudes morales,' and other works. Cayley, Arthur : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; LL.D., F.R.S. ; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of many other societies; Ex-President of the British Association; Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge; author of memoirs on Hyperdeterminants, Matrices, Quantics, &c, and of a treatise on Elliptic Functions. CHAUVEAU, J. B. A. : M.D., Paris ; Professor in the Faculty of Medi- cine, and Director of the Veterinary College of Lyons; Officer of the Legion of Honour, and member of various scientific societies ; author of pathological researches which have elucidated the character and life conditions of Contagia, and of many memoirs on Infective and Contagious Diseases, including Tuberculosis, Vaccinia, and Anthrax. M 92 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. [Cheveeul, Michel Eugene : Member of the Institut de France; born in 1786; since 1809 a teacher, and author of numerous investigations in Chemical and Physical Science; for many years President of the National Society of Agriculture ; writer of numerous scientific treatises and memoirs, including an article relating to the researches of Leibnitz and Newton, read before the Academie des Sciences in 1883. — In Absentia.] Clark, Sir Andrew, Bart. : M.D., F.E.S., FRCP., London; LL.D. (Aber- deen) ; member of several learned societies ; versed in Pathology and Clinical Medicine ; author of numerous papers on these subjects. Cotteeill, The Right Rev. Henry: D.D. ; Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh ; formerly Bishop of Grahamstown ; Mathematician, Scholar, and Theologian ; author of a work on the ' Genesis of the Church.' Crawford, Thomas : M.D. ; Director-General of the Army Medical Department ; formerly Principal Medical Officer for Ireland, and Principal Medical Officer for India; author of Papers and Parliamentary Reports on subjects relating to the Health of the Army. * Cremona, Luigi : Knight of several high Orders; Hon. F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, and member of other learned societies ; Professor of Higher Mathe- matics in the University of Eome, and Director of the School of Applied Science for Engineers ; author of a treatise on Projective Geometry and works on the Theory of Curves and Surfaces, the Theory of Geometrical Transformation, .and other branches of Pure Mathematics. *DAWSON, John William : LL.D., F.R.S.; Principal of M'Gill College, and Vice-Chancellor of. M'Gill University, Mon- treal ; Geologist and Palaeontologist. [Deas, Sir George : Hon. M.A., Edinburgh; one of the Senators of the Scottish College of Justice ; one of , the oldest alumni of the University of Edinburgh ; contributor, during upwards of thirty years, of a long series of judicial opinions to the Legal Literature of Scotland. — In Absentia.] *Douglas, Sir W. Fettes : President of the Royal Scottish Academy ; Painter. *Elze, Dr Karl : Professor of English Philology, University of Halle ; Critic and Linguist ; contributor to the Shakespearian literature of Germany; author and editor of philological works. [Erdmann, Johann Eduard : Professor of Philosophy in the University of Halle ; author of treatises on Logic, Psychology, and Philosophy during the last fifty years. — In Absentia] *Erichsen, John Eric : F.R.S. and F.E.C.S. London; Surgeon Extra- ordinary to H.M. the Queen; Emeritus Pro- fessor of Surgery, University College; Ex- President of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. ; member of many learned societies ; author of ' The Science and Art of Surgery,' and of treatises on the Diseases of the Scalp, Aneur- ism, the treatment of Asphyxia, and other subjects. *Ferguson, Sir Samuel : LL.D.; one of H.M. the Queen's Counsel; President of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ; Archaaologist and Scholar. [Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht : Professor of Oriental Languages in the Univer- sity of Leipzig; born in 1801; editor of ' Beidhawii Commentarius in Coranum,' and other Arabic Works ; author, during the last fifty years, of numerous contributions to Semitic Philology. — In Absentia.] Flower, William Henry : F.R.S., F.R.C.S., Eng.; LL.D. Dublin; President of the Zoological Society of London, and of the Anthropological Institute ; for many years Hunterian Professor and Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; now Director of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington; a discoverer and author in the domains of Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, and Palaeontology. Frankland, Edward : Ph.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. ; Professor of Chemistry in the Normal School of Science, South Ken- sington Museum; discoverer of Zinc -Methyl THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 93 and other organo-metallic bodies; author of many investigations on the Synthesis of Organic Substances, on the analysis of Gas and of "Water, on the Luminosity of Elames, and on the source of Muscular Power. Freeman, Edward Augustus : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford ;. Hon. LL.D. Cambridge ; member of several learned societies ; Historian and Essayist; author of the 'History of the Norman Conquest.' Erere, Eight Hon. Sir Henry Bartle E., Bart. : G.C.B., G.C.S.I., D.C.L, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. ; Chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope; formerly Governor of Bombay; the suppressor of the slave-trade in East Africa; afterwards Governor at the Cape of Good Hope, and High Commissioner of South Africa ; one of England's great Proconsuls, a promoter of mis- sionary enterprise and of geographical discovery, and author of several works. — In Absentia.] Ganneau, Charles Clermont : Chevalier of the Legion of Honour ; Correspond- ent of the Institut de Prance ; Joint Director of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, &c. ; Orientalist, Archaeologist, and discoverer of many Inscriptions of great interest. Geikie, Archibald : F.R.S. London and Edinburgh ; formerly Pro- fessor of Mineralogy and Geology in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh ; now Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Museum of Practical Ge- ology, London; author of many treatises on Geological Science. *Gill, David : LL.D. Aberdeen, P.E.S.; Astronomer-Eoyal at the Cape of Good Hope; observer of Venus, Mars, and the minor planets, from the islands of Mauritius and Ascension, for the determina- tion of the solar parallax ; author of determina- tions of Longitudes in the Southern Hemi- sphere, of computations of all the Occultations of the Stars by the Moon, observed during the last fifty years from the Cape, and of various Cometary observations. Glasgow, Eight Hon. the Earl of : LL.D.; Lord Clerk Register of Scotland ; Keeper of H.M. Signet. GOLDSCHMIDT, Ludwig : Doctor of Law; Privy Counsellor of Justice; Professor of Mercantile Law in the University of Berlin ; formerly a member of the German Eeichstag ; member of several learned societies ; author of works on Mercantile Law and Legis- lation. *Greard, Octave : Member of the Aeademie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris; Vice-Beet or of the Academy of Paris ; Commander of the Legion of Honour; . formerly Professor of Ehetoric; Educationist and Scholar. *Greenwood, Joseph Gouge : LL.D.; Principal of Owens College, Manchester, and Vice -Chancellor of Victoria University; Professor of Greek in the College and in the University ; Classical Scholar. [Gross, Samuel David : M.D., LL.D.; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford ; Professor of Surgery in Jefferson College, Philadelphia ; member of many learned societies ; author of a 'Treatise on Surgery'; contributor during the last half-century of many original memoirs to the literature of Surgical Science. — In Absentia.] Gull, Sir William Withey, Bart. : M.D., D.C.L., LL.D, P.K.S.; Physician Extraor- dinary to H.M. the Queen ; Physician in Ordi- nary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ; Consult- ing Physician to Guy's Hospital; Physician and Pathologist; author of many memoirs on Pathological Science. Haan, David Bierens de : Professor of Mathematics in the University of Leyden; author of numerous works and mem- oirs on the important subject of Definite In- tegrals. Haldane, Daniel Eutherford : M.D., P.E.S.E. ; formerly Physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ; Lecturer on the Practice of Physic ; and President of the Royal College of Physicians; now a Member of the Edinburgh University Court. Halle, Charles : Pianist and Orchestral Conductor; introducer into Great Britain of works by the greatest Classical Masters. 94 TERCENTENARY OE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Haeeison, Right Hon. George : Lord Provost of Edinburgh ; lately Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce ; formerly a member of a Royal Commission appointed in 1868 to inquire into the Administration of Justice in Scotland; author of memoirs on commercial topics ; Municipal Administrator, and a Patron of the University of Edinburgh. *Hatjghton, Rev. Samuel : M.D., Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; Hon. D.C.L. Cam- bridge; E.R.S.; Senior Eellow and Senior Lec- turer of Trinity College, Dublin ; Mathematician, Geologist, and Anatomist. Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von : Professor of Physics in the University of Ber- lin; formerly Professor of Physiology in the University of Heidelberg; member of various learned societies; author of ' Physiologische Optik ' and ' Die Lehre von den Tonempfind- ungen,' and of memoirs on " Die Erhaltung der Kraft " and " Wirbelbewegung." [Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob : M.D. ; formerly Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Zurich ; now Professor of Anatomy in the University of Gottingen ; one of the founders, and for many years editor, of the ' Zeitsehrift fur Rationelle Medicin ' ; an original worker and writer in the provinces of Histology and Human and Com- parative Anatomy. — In Absentia.] Heemite, Charles : Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Mem- ber of the Aead^mie des Sciences, Paris ; mem- ber of many other learned Societies ; Professor in the Polytechnic School and in the Faculty of Sciences of Paris ; Mathematician ; author of the ' Cours dAnalyse,' containing exposi- tions of recondite branches of Pure Mathe- matics, and of original memoirs relating to the Theory of Forms, the Theory of Equations, and the Theory of Elliptic Functions. [Hyetl, Joseph : M.D. and Ph.D.; K.K. Hofrath; Commander of the Imperial Austrian Order of the Iron Crown and of the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown ; Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in the University of Vienna, and member of numer- ous learned societies ; versed in the technique of his art and in the history of Anatomy; Histologist, Human and Comparative Anato- mist. — In Absentia.] Jennee, Sir "William, Bart. : M.D., K.C.B., F.R.S., Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and Hon. LL.D. Cambridge; President of the Royal College of Physicians, London ; Physi- cian in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ; Physician and Pathologist. *Jowett, The Rev. Benjamin : D.D., LL.D. ; Hon. LL.D. of the University of Leyden ; Master of BaUiol College, Regius Pro- fessor of Greek, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford ; Scholar, Theologian, and Philosopher ; translator and editor of Plato and of Thucydides, and author of several works. Keith, Thomas : M.D., F.R.C.S. Edin. ; Extra Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for the treatment of Ovarian Diseases ; Vice-President of the Medical Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of several Gynecological Societies ; Surgeon and Ovariotomist, and dis- coverer of new methods of diagnosis and oper- ation in cases of ovarian disease ; author of many contributions to the literature of this subject. *Laveleye, Emile Louis Victor de : Doctor of Law ; Professor of Political Econo- my in the University of Liege ; Member of the Royal Academies of Belgium, Madrid, and Lis- bon, and Corresponding Member of the Insti- tut de France ; author of ' La Propridte" et ses Formes Primitives,' and of many treatises and essays on Rural, Political, and Social Economy. Legge, Rev. James : M.A., LL.D.; Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; Professor of the Chinese Language and Litera- ture in the University of Oxford ; long a Mis- sionary in China ; author of a Chinese Dictionary, and translator of many ancient Chinese works. *Leighton, Sir Frederick : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and Hon. LL.D. Cam- bridge ; President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London ; Painter and Sculptor. Lesseps, Comte Ferdinand de : Hon. F.RS.E. ; Founder of the Suez Canal, and Promoter of International Commerce. THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 95 Liddell, The Very Eev. Henry George : D.D. ; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ; Phil- ologist and Scholar ; joint author of Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, and author of other ■works. *Lowell, His Excellency James Russell : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and Hon. LL.D. Cam- bridge ; Poet, Essayist, and Diplomatist. *Lubbock, Sir John, Bart. : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford ; LL.D., F.R.S. ; M.P. ; one of the Trustees of the British Museum ; Archaeologist, Political Economist, and Natur- alist ; author of ' Pre-historic Times,' ' Origin of Civilisation,' ' Origin and Metamorphosis of Insects,' ' British Wild-flowers,' &c. [Ludwig, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm : M.D. ; formerly Professor at Marburg, Zurich, and Vienna; since 1865 Professor of Physiology in the University of Leipzig ; editor of ' Arbei- ten ans der Physiologischen Anstalt zu Leipzig' (1866-76) ; author of a 'Lehrbuch der Physi- ologie,' and of numerous other contributions to Physiological Science. — In Absentia.] Macdonald, John Hay Athole : Dean of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland ; one of Her Majesty's Counsel ; author of a treatise on the ' Criminal Law of Scotland.' Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner : K.C.S.I., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c; formerly Professor of Roman Law in the University of Cambridge ; subsequently Law Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India; afterwards Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford; now a Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Historian, Jurist, and Administra- tor; author of many contributions to the lit- erature of Historical and Comparative Juris- prudence. [Mamiani della Rovere, Count Terenzio : Born in 1800 ; formerly Professor of the Philosophy of History in the University of Turin; afterwards Minister of Public Instruc- tion of the Kingdom of Sardinia ; now Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and member of many learned societies ; Poet, Philosopher, and States- man; editor of 'La Filosofia delle Scuole Italiane.' — In Absentia.] [Mancini, His Excellency Pascal Stanislas : Doctor of Law; Professor of International Law and President of the Faculty of Juris- prudence in the University of Rome ; formerly Italian Minister of Justice, of Public Worship, and of Public Instruction; now Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Jurist, Philosopher, and States- man; author of numerous contributions to Scientific Jurisprudence. — In Absentia.] *Maeshall, John : F.R.S. and F.R.C.S. England ; President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Pro- fessor of Surgery, University College, London, and Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy of Arts ; Surgeon to University College Hospi- tal, &c. ; Surgeon, Anatomist, and Physiologist ; author of ' The Human Body in its Structure and Outlines,' ' Outlines of Physiology,' &c. *Maetens, His Excellency Frederik de : Professor of International Law in the Univer- sity of St Petersburg ; Member of the Institute of International Law ; Attach^ of the Minister of Russia for Foreign Affairs; author of a treatise on International Law, of ' Russia and England in Central Asia,' &c. *Maetinez, His Excellency Marcial : Member of the Faculty of Law and Political Science in the University of Chili ; Hon. LL.D. of Yale College; Member of the College of Lawyers of Lima, Peru ; Corresponding Mem- ber of the Academy of Jurisprudence of Madrid, and of other learned societies; Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Lon- don of the Republic of Chili. Maudsley, Henry : M.D., F.R.C.P. ; Member of many learned societies ; formerly Professor of Medical Juris- prudence in University College, London; Phy- sician to the West London Hospital ; • author of works on 'The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind,' ' The Relation between Mind and Body,' 'Responsibility in Mental Disease,' and 'Body and Will,' and of numerous original memoirs. *Mendeleieff, Dmitry : Counsellor of State ; Professor of Chemistry in the University of St Petersburg; author of a Text-Book of Chemistry, and of many papers in scientific journals on the Absolute Boiling- 96 TERCENTENARY OP THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Point, on the Periodic Law of Chemical Ele- ments, and on other chemical and physical subjects. Merivale, The Very Eev. Charles : D.D.j Dean of Ely; Honorary D.C.L. Oxford; Scholar and Historian; author of a 'History of the Romans under the Empire,' and a ' His- tory of Rome from the Poundation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus,' and translator of Homer's Iliad. *Mezieres, Alfred : Member of the Academie Francaise; Member of the Chamber of Deputies; Professor of Foreign Literature in the Academie de Paris, Universite de France'; Linguist, Scholar, and Critic; author of a work on Petrarch and many other writings. Morier, His Excellency Sir Robert Burnett D.: KC.B. ; H.B.M. ; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Spain at Madrid ; Diplomatist. MuiR, Sir William : K.C.S.I.; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; LL.D. ; for- merly Governor of tbe North- West Provinces of India ; now Member of the Council of India; author of the ' Life of Mahomet ' and other works. *Mtjssy, Henri Gueneau de : M.D. ; Member of the Academie de Meilecine, Paris, of the Belgian Academy of Medicine, and of other learned bodies ; Officer of the Legion of Honour ; formerly President of the Medical Society of the Hospitals of Paris ; author of many memoirs in Medical Science, particularly on the etiology and pathology of Fevers and on the prevention of disease. Napier and Ettrick, The Right Hon. Lord : K.T. ; formerly H.B.M. Ambassador in the United States of America, in Holland, in Russia, and in Prussia; afterwards Governor of Madras, and for a time Acting Viceroy of India; Diplomatist, Statesman, and Educa- tionist. Newton, Professor Charles Thomas : C.B. ; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; Corresponding Member of the Institut de France ; Professor in University College, London ; Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum ; Archaeologist, Explorer, and Scholar ; contributor to the treasures of the British Museum, and author of ' Essays on Art and Archaeology.' s 'Nigea, His Excellency Count Costantino: LL.D. Turin; Ambassador Extraordinary in London of H.M. the King of Italy ; Philologist, Essayist, and Diplomatist. Nys, Ernest : Judge of the Tribunal of Brussels ; Joint Sec- retary of the Institute of International Law; author of ' La Guerre Maritime,' ' Le Droit de la Guerre et les Precurseurs de Grotius,' and other historical and legal works. Ollier, Leopold : M.D. ; Professor of Surgery in the University of Lyons, France ; Chief Surgeon of the H6tel- Dieu, Lyons ; author of numerous memoirs on Surgery, and particularly on the " Regenera- tion of Bone after Injuries and Operations." Ouseley, The Rev. Sir Frederick A. Gore, Bart. Mus. Doc. Oxford, Cambridge, &c. ; LL.D. Warden of St Michael's College, Tenbury Professor of Music in the University of Oxford composer of Oratorios and Church Music, and author of treatises on Harmony and Counter- point. Paget, Sir James, Bart. : Hon. F.R.C.S. England; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, and LL.D. Cambridge; F.R.S. ; Vice-Chancel- lor of the University of London ; President in 1882 of the International Medical Congress held in London ; Surgeon to H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; Consulting Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital ; author of the " Pathological Catalogue " of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of Lectures and Essays on Surgical and Clinical Pathology. *Pasteur, Louis : Member of the Academie des Sciences, Paris ; Hon. F.R.S. London and Edinburgh; discov- erer of the relation between optical activity and enantiomorph hemihedry in organic sub- stances ; author of inquiries into the nature of fermentation, putrefaction, and specific diseases ; and originator of prophylactics against diseases of the lower animals. THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 97 *Penedo, His Excellency Baron de : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Brazil ; Diplomatist. *Perrot, Georges : President of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris ; Classical Scholar ; author of ' L'Eloquence Politique et Judiciaire a Athenes,' ' Essai sur le Droit Public d'Ath- enes,' and ' Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquite.' *Pettenkofee, Max von : M.D. ; Professor of Hygiene in the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich ; Sanitary and Physiological Chemist ; investigator of the subjects of respiration, nutrition, &c, and par- ticularly of the propagation of Cholera, and the mode in which that disease may be arrested. *Priestley, William Overend : M.D. (Edin.); F.R.C.P. Lond. and Edin. ; Hon. Fellow of King's College, London ; for- merly Professor of Obstetric Medicine in King's College, and President of the London Obstet- rical Society ; Consulting Physician to King's College and other Hospitals ; author of treat- ises on Obstetrics and Gynecology. [Eanke, Leopold von : Privy Councillor to H.M. the King of Prussia ; LL.D. Dublin ; Knight of high Orders, and member of several learned societies ; Professor of History in the University of Berlin ; born in 1795 ; Historian during the last sixty years ; author of ' German History in the times of the Reformation,' a 'History of England,' 'Welt- geschichte,' and many other historical works. — In Absentia.] Rawlinson, Major-General Sir Henry Cres- wicke : K.C.B., F.R.S.; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford ; LL.D. ; Oriental Linguist; author of numerous contri- butions to Philological Literature. *Rayleigh, Right Hon. Lord : Hon. D.C.L. Oxford ; member of several learned societies ; Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge ; President- Elect of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science ; author of a ' Treatise on Sound,' and of many other contributions to Scientific Literature. Reid, Sir John Watt : K.C.B., M.D. ; Honorary Physician to the Queen; Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy ; author of reports and memoirs on Pathological subjects. *Renard, Alphonse, The Abbe" : Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels ; Professor in the University of Lou- vain; Keeper of the Mineralogical Collection in the Royal Museum, Brussels; Chemist, Mineralogist, and Petrologist. *Rivier, Alphonse : Doctor of Law, and member of several learned societies ; Professor of Roman Law in the University of Brussels ; General Secretary of the Institute of International Law ; Chief Editor of the ' Revue de Droit International ' ; author of works on Roman, Swiss, German, and International Law. *Saffi, Count Aurelio : Professor of the History of Public Law in the University of Bologna; Scholar, Publicist, and Statesman. *SAXTORPH, M. H. : M.D. ; Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Copenhagen ; Surgeon to the Frederiks Hospital ; author of ' Clinisk Chir- urgi,' and other works. SCHMIEDEBEKG, Oscar : M.D. ; Professor of Pharmacology, and Di- rector of • the Pharmacological Institute in the University of Strassburg; Chemist and Physi- ologist, Investigator and Teacher; author of 'Elements of Therapeutics '; and of numerous memoirs on Pharmacology and the Chemistry of Medicinal Substances. Seeley, John Robert : Historian and Essayist; Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge ; author of the ' Life and Times of Stein,' ' Ecce Homo,' and other works. Shairp, John Campbell : LL.D. ; Principal of the United Colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard, in the University of St Andrews ; Professor of Poetry in the Uni- versity of Oxford ; Scholar, Poet, and Essayist. 98 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Sidgwick, Henry : Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univer- sity of Cambridge; Moral and Political Phil- osopher ; author of the 'Methods of Ethics,' ' Principles of Political Economy,' &c. *Sieveking, Edward Henry : M.D., E.S.A., F.R.C.P.L.; Physician Extra- ordinary to H.M. the Queen ; Physician in Ordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; Physician to St Mary's Hospital; member of numerous learned societies ; formerly President of the Harveian Society; author of works in Pathology and Medicine, and one of the found- ers of the Edinburgh University Club of London. Skeat, Rev. Walter William : Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge ; Anglo-Saxon Scholar and Philolo- gist ; author of the ' Etymological English Dic- tionary,' and of other works chiefly relating to Early English Literature. *Smith, John : M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.E.; President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ; Sur- geon-Dentist for Scotland to H.M. the Queen ; contributor to Surgical and General Literature. Stephen, The Hon. Justice Sir James Fitzjames : K.C.S.I., D.C.L. ; formerly a Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India ; now one of the Judges of the High Court of Justice of England ; Jurist and Legislator ; author of a ' Digest of the Law of Evidence,' of a ' History of the Criminal Law of England,' and of other doctrinal and historical contributions to Legal Literature. STOKVIS, B. J. : M.D. ; Professor of General Pathology, Medicine, and Pharmaco-Dynamics in the University of Amsterdam ; President of the Dutch Medical Association; President in 1883 of the first In- ternational Congress for Colonial Medicine; member of many learned societies; discoverer and writer in the provinces of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Medicine. *Storm, Johan : Professor of English and Philology in the University of Christiania ; Scholar, Philologist, and Critic. *Szab6, Joseph : Doctor of Arts, Laws, and Philosophy; Pro- fessor of Geology and Mineralogy in the Uni- versity of Pesth, and Rector of the University ; contributor of works on the Tertiary Formation, on the Fusibility of Minerals, and on other sub- jects, to Geological and Mineralogical Science. [Tennyson, "The Right Hon. Alfred, Lord : D.C.L., F.R.S.; English Poet-Laureate. — In Absentia.] Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton : Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin ; editor of the ' Bacchse ' of Euripides, ' Cicero's Letters,' &c. *Ussing, J. Louis : Professor of Classical Philology and Archae- ology in the University of Copenhagen ; edi- tor of Plautus ; • joint editor (with Professor Madvig) of Livy ; and author of various works on Classical Philology. *Veea, Augusto : Senator of the Kingdom of Italy ; Professor of Philosophy in the University of Naples ; for- .merly Professor in the Universities of Strass- burg, Paris, . Turin, and others ; Philosopher ; translator and exponent of the Philosophy of Hegel, and contributor of other works in French, English, Latin, and Italian to the Lit- erature of Philosophy. *Villari, Pasquale : Deputy of the Italian Parliament ; Member of the Higher Council of Public Instruction in Italy ; formerly Professor at Pisa ; now Pro- fessor of Modern History in the Royal Institute of Higher Practical Studies, Florence, and President of the Faculty of Philology and Philosophy; Historian, Educationist, and Economist ; author of the ' Life of Savonarola and his Times,' the ' Life of Macehiavelli,' and other works. *VlRCHOW, Rudolf : M.D., F.R.S.; Medical Privy Councillor, and member of many scientific societies ; Professor of Pathological Anatomy in the University of Berlin ; Director of the Pathological Institute ; and President of the Berlin Medical Society; Member of the German Imperial Parliament; THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 99 author of ' Cellular Pathology,' the foundation of the modern science of Pathology, and of numerous pathological and medical works ; also an Anthropologist, an Archaeologist, and a Statesman. Watson, Patrick Heron : M.D., F.R.C.S., Edinburgh; Surgeon to Chalmers's Hospital; Surgeon in Ordinary to H.M. the Queen in Scotland ; formerly President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ; Lecturer on Surgery in the Edinburgh Extra- Mural School ; one of the Surgeons of the Edin- burgh Royal Infirmary, &c. ; teacher and writer on Practical Surgery. *West, The Hon. Justice Raymond : LL.D., P.R.G.S. ; Judge of Her Majesty's High Court, Bombay; President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; Vice- Chancellor of the University of Bombay : Jurist and Scholar. *WlLKS, Samuel : M.D., E.R.S., F.R.C.P.; Senior Physician to Guy's Hospital, London; Ex-President of the Pathological Society of London ; author of ' Lectures on Pathological Anatomy,' of a treat- ise on Diseases of the Nervous System, and of numerous memoirs on Clinical Medicine. *Wyck, B. H. C. K. vander: Ph.D. ; Professor of Philosophy in the Uni- versity of Groningen ; Philosophical Critic ; author of various contributions to Psychological and Metaphysical Science. Yule, Henry : C.B. ; Colonel in the Royal Engineers; Mem- ber of the Council of India ; formerly Secretary of the Burmese Legation and of the Public Works Department of India; editor of the ' Travels of Marco Polo,' and contributor to the science of Oriental Geography. [Zeller, Edward : Professor of Philosophy in the University of Berlin ; Metaphysician and Historian of Phil- osophy; author of 'Die Philosophie der Griechen.' — In Absentia^] Congratulatory Telegram from the Prince of Wales. The Chancellor, rising amid prolonged applause on the conclusion of the above ceremony, now said — " I have just had the distinguished honour to receive from His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales the following telegram : ' The Prince of Wales, Sandringham, to the Eight Hon. John Inglis, Chancellor of the University, Edinburgh. As an old alumnus and honorary graduate of Edinburgh University, I congratulate it on the occasion of the Tercentenary, which has brought together so many learned delegates from all parts of the world.' ' : (c) The Chancellor's Tercentenary Address. The Chancellor then proceeded to deliver the following address :— "My Lord Rector, Mr Vice-Chancellor, Professors, Graduates, and Students— In accordance with what I know to be your wishes, I propose to address a few words of welcome to the honoured guests, who, delegated by famous Universities and learned bodies, or chosen by the Senatus Academicus to receive the highest mark of distinction which it is in their power to offer, or actuated by old feelings of friendship towards the University of Edinburgh, have come together from far and near, to rejoice with us on this auspicious day. I shall ask your permission also to give utterance to a few thoughts suggested by the occasion, when our University, in celebrating her N 100 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Tercentenary, has received such distinguished recognition of the place she occupies in the world of science and letters. To you, then, gentlemen, our guests, I return the warmest thanks of the members of this University for the generous sympathy which has induced you to come from all parts of the world. I assure you that they feel honoured and gratified, far beyond what I have the power to express, by the opportunity of receiving in the Scottish metropolis such a represen- tation of the intellect, the erudition, and the science of modern times, as was never before brought together in this country. No congress connected with educational interests has, I believe, ever been assembled which is so thoroughly international in character and adorned by so many illustrious names of world-wide reputation. In name of the University, and speaking the sentiments of every one of its members, I bid you heartily welcome. " Three hundred years is not a long life for a great school of learning, and in the mere matter of antiquity we must yield to many sister Universities, both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. But a peculiar interest attaches to the fact that our University is only three hundred years old. For had its antiquity been greater by even half a century, it would almost certainly have been founded by a Papal Bull, after the type of the great medieval schools of learning, and would thus have had a different character impressed on it from the beginning. " In 1583 Scotland was still in the throes of a great religious and social revolution, — a revolu- tion which had roused and excited the heart and intellect of the nation. The leaders of the Reformation were for the most part men of learning, and so sound in their theory of education, that it is matter of deep regret even to this day that the system of graduated schools, colleges, and universities developed in the First Book of Discipline was not then or ever afterwards carried into practical operation. They undertook to remodel the older universities, and they framed the scheme of education for the new foundation in Edinburgh. But in all their educational measures, the Reformers showed not only a spirit of practical earnestness, but a craving for severe simplicity, such as in the following century but too much characterised the external aspect of the National Church. "The University of Edinburgh, which came into existence at such a time and under such influences, had in its original constitution none of the stately forms of its medieval predecessors- no array of Faculties, no exclusive privileges, no Rectorial Courts of Justice, no graces of architec- ture, no academical costumes, no imposing ceremonies. It was created as a simple college, with one master or regent to teach its sixty or seventy students, and was housed in very homely buildings. So limited an establishment may seem to be almost contemptible, and to offer no promise of future greatness. But we have evidence that it showed one sterling quality at least both in teachers and pupils — earnestness and devotion to work. This is a quality which I think has a tendency to become hereditary, and the progress of our own University is a standing proof that it is so ; for many distinguished visitors to Edinburgh in recent times have declared that the earnestness of our students is the most remarkable and gratifying feature of the working of the system. "The College of Edinburgh, which afterwards developed into the present University, has been THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 101 called, and justly called, the child of the Reformation. But it had another parent. It could, of course, expect no aid from Pope or prelate. But just as little did it receive from Royal or noble patrons in its early days — for the charters granted by Queen Mary and her son turned out, in a pecuniary point of view, to be almost valueless ; and the promise of James VI., that he would give a ' Royall Godbairn's gift for enlarging the patrimony ' of the College which he had directed to be called after his own name, met the fate of other promises of that somewhat fickle and faithless monarch. But what more exalted personages failed to clo for the metropolis of Scotland the citizens did for themselves. And it cannot be too extensively known that Edinburgh owes the foundation of its University to the Corporation of the city. All honour to them and their successors for the patriotic design, and for its successful accomplishment. " We are very far from being ashamed of our small beginnings in the sixteenth century. On the contrary, looking back in these days of our vigorous manhood to the weakness of our early youth, our feelings are more akin to the honest pride of a man who, being neither born to greatness nor having greatness thrust on him, has achieved greatness by his own exertions, with the generous help of sympathising friends. As founders, the Corporation naturally became at once patrons and administrators of the College, and thus in progress of time there grew up relations between the teaching body on the one hand and the municipal governors on the other, — relations which, as they were anomalous, and I believe unparalleled in the history of a university, naturally produced conflicts and heartburnings, not conducive to the wellbeing of the institution, which it was the interest as well as the duty of both the contending parties to promote. In these conflicts it is needless to say that neither party was always in the right. But it is no more than justice to concede that on many occasions the Corporation carried measures against the desires of the professors which proved beneficial to the University, and that their administration of the patronage was so judicious as greatly to advance the reputation of the University, by securing the services of most distinguished and able men as professors. "In course of time the Corporation's child got too strong to submit to maternal control, and its emancipation became inevitable ; and though it was not without natural reluctance that the Corporation parted with its right to govern the University and administer its affairs, and saw it established in a position of independent self-government, I think I may safely say, in presence of the Chief Magistrate of the city and his colleagues, that the relations of the two bodies are now of the most amicable character, founded on feelings of mutual respect and esteem; that the University finds nowhere a better or warmer friend than the city, and is ever ready to acknowledge with gratitude the benefits derived from the city in times past, and the goodwill manifested by the city in the present day. " It appears to me that the relations of the Corporation and the professors, as being for the time peaceful or strained, depended to a great extent on the character of the man who was the chief of the teaching body and held the office of Principal. In the beginning of the last century, Carstares— theologian, statesman, and diplomatist-had far too much sagacity and experience of men to be tempted by any provocation to assume an attitude of hostility to the Corporation of the 102 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. city ; and the consequence was that he not only effected, almost entirely by his own influence and exertions, one of the greatest and most beneficial changes in the mode of instruction, the sub- stitution of professorial teaching for that of Eegents, but lived long enough to mature to some extent the system of which he was the author, and left the University in a position which enabled it to spring into new life under the beneficent influences of a settled Church and union with England, and to play a great part in those happier days when Scotland had recovered from the depressing effects of long and fierce religious struggles. " The age of Principal Eobertson was one of great intellectual activity and literary excellence in Edinburgh, both within and without the University ; and the eminent historiographer had the good fortune to preside over a Senate composed of men of no ordinary calibre, among whom were Joseph Black, the illustrious Nestor of the chemical revolution of the eighteenth century ; the Gregorys, a family equally renowned in mathematical and medical science ; the second and greatest of the Monros, Adam Ferguson, Dugald Stewart, John Playfair, and Andrew Dalzel, the friend and correspondent of Heyne and Porson, whose scholarship, both in its elegance and its accuracy, could not easily be surpassed. " I do not intend to enumerate all the distinguished names in various departments of learning and science which have adorned our University. I only here allude to some of those which marked the era of Principal Eobertson. As to the condition of student life under these great men, there can be no better witness than one of themselves. Sir James Mackintosh, then a student here, thus expresses himself in his maturer years : ' I am not ignorant of what Edinburgh then was. I may truly say that it is not easy to conceive a University where industry was more general, where reading was more fashionable, where indolence and ignorance were more disrepu- table.' But the Principal was the ruling spirit. His wisdom and prudence, combined with his great learning, his benevolent nature, and an inborn genius for reconciling differences and conciliating opponents, secured the smooth and steady working of the machine, and contributed more than anything else to the great results attained by the University in those days. His distinguished contemporary and biographer, Dugald Stewart, thus speaks of his conduct as President of the Senatus Academicus : 'The good sense, temper, and address with which he presided for thirty years in our University meetings was attended with effects no less essential to our prosperity, and are attested by a fact which is, perhaps, without a parallel in the annals of any other literary community, that during the whole of that period there did not occur a single question which was not terminated by a unanimous decision.' He seems to have been one of those happily constituted men who never quarrel with anybody, and generally succeed in getting their own way, very much to the advantage of others, even of those who may be inclined to differ. " It is not without misgiving that I have thus ventured, for the purpose of illustrating the importance and influence of the office of Principal, to wander for a moment into the realm of University history ; for you all know that there is one among us who has made that subject his own, by telling the story of our University in a book of sterling merit, founded on careful research, and fuH of interest and instruction. That our Principal is a meet and competent successor of THE TERCENTENARY CEREMONIAL. 103 Carstares and Eobertson, and many other worthies who have preceded him, cannot be better established than by the great and increasing prosperity of the University in his time and under his superintendence. I am proud to say that the condition of the University in this, the three hundredth year of its existence, is such as far to surpass the fondest aspirations of its friends and well-wishers in times past. "Among all indications of prosperity and usefulness, there is one fact which stands prom- inently forth as of paramount importance. During the last fifteen years the number of our students has more than doubled, having gradually risen from 1565 in the year 1868 to 3341 in the last year. The question naturally occurs — By what means has our University thus become more popular and attractive ? and the answer, I think, must be, that this is the result of a number of causes acting in combination. "The independent self-government which the University now enjoys, and the influence exercised by the general body of graduates, has attached them to the University by closer ties, and has taught them to feel that the completion of their education is not the termination either of their academic duties or their academic privileges. The 5000 members of the General Council form a most useful medium of communication between the University authorities and the world without. They are removed to a great extent from academic prejudices and conventionalities, and can thus at once bring the power of enlightened public opinion to bear directly on the government of the University, and secure to the University a firm hold on the confidence and affections of the people. " Another potent source of attractiveness will be found in the amount of benefactions which the University has received, chiefly for the aid of meritorious students, and the reward of those who have already attained distinction. Within little more than twenty years there have been founded bursaries to the aggregate amount of £90,000 ; and scholarships, to reward those who have distinguished themselves above their fellows at the end of their course, to the amount of £142,000. These foundations are not only a great incentive to diligence and earnestness among students and graduates, but have, along with other generous benefactions by individuals and by the public, operated as a powerful encouragement to the University at large, which had long suffered under, but manfully struggled against, a somewhat irritating sense of undeserved poverty ; and though much remains yet to be done fully to equip the University with adequate revenues for .all its requirements, the benign influence of these munificent gifts has thawed discontent and melted it into gratitude. " But, after all, the- real and abiding strength of the University, alike in the past and in the present, has been and is the genius, the learning, and the devotedness of its professors. Though I am speaking in the hearing of those who constitute the present teaching staff, to whom a laboured eulogy would, I know, be most distasteful, I am bound to say, in one sentence, that at no time have our professorial chairs been occupied by men of greater capacity or higher reputation. But there is one essential characteristic of the Scottish University system which renders an increase in the number of students a necessary concomitant of increase in the population and 104 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. wealth of the country. Our students are drawn from the community at large. Our gates are freely opened to all classes and creeds and countries without distinction, the one qualification for admission being a healthy thirst for learning. The result has been, that our students are distinguished by a singularly manly and independent spirit. Early trained, many of them, in the school of adversity, or at least of poverty and thrift, unsparing in their assiduity to profit to the utmost by their University career, they bear with them into the world the natural fruits of both their home and their academical experiences, a stout heart and a well-trained mind, with such stores of knowledge as form the best foundation for the larger and more varied education which is the business of the whole after-life. The Scottish Universities have thus contributed largely to the formation and development of the national character ; and this they have been able to do because they have formed, and acted on, a true conception of the relation of a University to the life of a nation. " Once more I bid you all welcome. Welcome ! It is but a short word, and lacks force and emphasis when uttered by one feeble voice. But if you could hear the great voice of the Univer- sity itself, of its 5000 graduates and its 3000 students, you would better understand what our welcome means. No building can be found to contain them all. But you have before you an adequate representation of both classes, to whom I now gladly turn and bid them speak for me." Immediately on the Chancellor's resuming his seat, the entire audience, rising to their feet, gave expression to the request contained in his Lordship's closing sentence by cheering again and again, and waving hats, sticks, and handkerchiefs. After the Chancellor's address, responding to loud and repeated cries of the 'Lord Rector,' Sir Stafford Northcote, who rose amid applause, said — " There is nothing more improper than that one who is in any way in authority should commit a breach of order, and I believe that it is wholly out of order that your Rector should say a word on this occasion. But I think I have one excuse for doing so. I think I caught in the closing words of your Chancellor, that he called upon those who constitute the body of this University to speak for him those words which no single voice can utter. And there is one body, one important body, in this University whom your Rector more especially represents, for whom he ventures to speak a single word, to take up the call of your Chancellor, and to express in the name of the students the feelings with which they are animated upon this occasion. I know that I cannot do wrong in saying, on behalf of the students, how heartily they join in those noble and eloquent words of welcome with which the address to which we have now listened has closed, and how earnestly we trust that the prosperity of this University in future ages may justify the kindness which has been shown by those who have visited us from all parts of the world, and the promise which has been given in your name by your Chancellor." The Dean of the Faculty of Divinity then pronounced the benediction, and the proceedings terminated shortly after one o'clock. RECEPTION BY THE DEAN AND FACULTY OF ADVOCATES. 105 LUNCHEON GIVEN BY THE PEESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF THE EOYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. AT half-past one, as announced in the official Tercentenary programme, the Fellows Thursday, of the Royal College of Physicians entertained at luncheon, in the hall of their 17 p ' College, Queen Street, about one hundred and sixty gentlemen, including those guests of the University who were connected with the medical profession, the Chancellor, Eector, and Principal, and a number of the Professors of the University, represen- tatives of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, and several of the distinguished strangers attending the Festival. The guests were welcomed by Dr G. W. Balfour, the President of the College, who occupied the chair. EECEPTION BY THE DEAN AND FACULTY OF ADVOCATES. 1 ON the afternoon of Thursday, 17th April, the Tercentenary guests and others were Thursday, cordially received by the Faculty of Advocates, who constitute the Bar of the l7th Apri1 ' Supreme Court in Scotland. Advantage was taken of the occasion to inaugurate the completion of a large addition to the Advocates' Library, the most extensive in Scot- land, containing about 300,000 volumes and 3000 MSS., and being one of the five great libraries which receive a grant of every book published in the United Kingdom. On arriving at the Parliament House, an ancient historic building, where the Parlia- ment of Scotland sat until the Union in 1707, now the meeting-place of the Advocates and others engaged in business in the adjoining Courts of Law, the guests were con- ducted through the great hall and ushered into the Advocates' Library. The room not inappropriately chosen for the reception was the handsome Law Library, the somewhat sombre aspect of which was tastefully relieved with floral decorations. After being announced on their entrance by an usher, the guests were received by the Dean of the Faculty, Mr J. H. A. Macdonald, Q.C., LL.D., by the Vice-Dean, Mr J. A. Crichton, and by the Treasurer, Mr J. Balfour Paul, supported by other members of the Faculty. The Dean wore his robes of office over a velvet Court dress, and car- ried his official silver-mounted baton, while the Treasurer bore the purse of the Faculty, of purple velvet, with the arms of that body emblazoned in gold. On passing out of the reception-room, the guests entered the upper corridor of the Library, adjoining one end of which is the new room, which had been formally opened, shortly before the reception, by the Dean, in presence of the members of the Faculty and their friends. 1 The materials for this description were supplied by Mr Balfour Paul, Treasurer of the Faculty. 106 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. This spacious room, handsomely furnished and fitted up, is destined both for the accommodation of books and as a reading-room for members of the Faculty. Pro- ceeding down-stairs, the visitors next traversed the lower corridor, leading to the ' Laigh Parliament House,' a hall immediately below that which they had first entered. This is the central portion of the library, and contains many thousand volumes. Tea and other refreshments were supplied here, while in the adjoining apartments some of the literary treasures of the Library were displayed, including MS. Bible of 12th century, beautifully illuminated; fine copy of the Mazarin Bible; English translation of the ' Speculum Humanse Salvationis,' richly illuminated ; ' Sal- lust,' printed by G-ed of Edinburgh, 1739, said to have been the first book" printed from stereotype plates, one of which was shown; MS. of Martial's Epigrams, 10th century ; the Bannatyne and Auchinleck MSS., being collections of ancient Scottish poetry ; specimens of early Scottish typography ; MS. of Sir Walter Scott, &c. Ee- turning to the Parliament House up-stairs, the visitors were here greeted with martial strains by the band of the Gordon Highlanders, and had ample leisure to admire the beautiful proportions of the hall, with its noble open timbered roof, its beautiful stained-glass window, representing the foundation of the Court of Session by James V. in 1532, designed by Kaulbach, and executed by Ainmuller of Munich in 1868, and its handsome mantelpieces in carved wood. The portraits and statues of distinguished lawyers with which the hall is adorned, several of them possessing considerable artistic value, also attracted much attention, but the chief object of interest was the gay and pic- turesque assemblage itself. Interspersed among a hundred learned advocates, in quaint wig and gown, were numerous ladies, many distinguished foreign guests, some of them wearing handsome uniforms and decorated with orders, and the principal dignitaries and professors of the University of Edinburgh. Upwards of 2000 invitations had been issued, and among the persons present were most of the illustrious guests of the Uni- versity. The reception was a marked success, and the University was greatly indebted to the Faculty of Advocates, and particularly to the office-bearers above named, for con- tributing so interesting an entertainment to the Tercentenary programme. RECEPTION BY THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY. 1 Thursday, mHIS Reception was announced in the official programme for the same hour as that 3 to 6 p.m.' given by the Faculty of Advocates, but many of the University guests honoured both receptions with their presence for a short time. 1 Description kindly revised by Drs Hare and Mackay, presidents of the Society. During the proceedings a selection of music was played by Mr Dambmann's band. The refreshments were purveyed by Mr Grieve, and the decorations and fittings were supplied by Messrs Jenner. RECEPTION BY THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY. 107 At three o'clock in the afternoon the rooms of the Eoyal Medical Society in Melbourne Place were thrown open to a distinguished assemblage of ladies and gentle- men, including the Tercentenary guests and the chief office-bearers of the University. The outside of the building was decorated with bunting, and the interior was taste- fully fitted up for the occasion. The stairs and passages were carpeted with crimson, and embellished with choice plants. The guests were received on the first floor by the annual presidents — Dr Hare, Dr Hunter, Dr Mackay, and Dr Clemow. After partaking of refreshments, and inspecting the valuable library of the Society, which occupies the suite of apartments at this level, the guests were invited to visit the spacious debating hall on the second floor. The hall and ante-rooms, which contained a fine collection of palms and flowering plants, were adorned with busts, paintings, sketches, and photographs of celebrated members of the Society. 1 At the south end of the hall was hung a large painting of the late Professor Hutton Balfour, by Sir Daniel Macnee, and on each side of it were portraits of Joseph Black and the famous Dr Cullen. Under the latter were exhibited interesting autograph letters by Cullen, Black, and John and James Gregory. A portrait of Dr Andrew Duncan adorned the opposite wall ; above the fireplace was a bust of the late Professor Syme ; and among other works of art were portraits of the late Sir Eobert Christison and Dr Andrew Wood. The Eoyal Charter, granted to the Society in 1778, occupied a conspicuous position on the centre table. Here, also, several old minute-books of the Society's proceedings lay open for inspection. Honorary members present were invited to inscribe their names in the roll-book, and among those who took advantage of this opportunity were Sir Joseph Lister, Dr Carpenter, and Sir W. Bowman. Another object of interest was a collection of Edward Forbes's sketches in the north ante-room, surrounding a bust of Forbes himself ; and on a table in the same room was a unique collection of the photographs and autographs of the chief European scientists of the nineteenth century. The south ante-room also contained portraits and mementoes of former members of the Society; and by no means the least interesting curiosity displayed here was the silver medal discovered beneath the foundation-stone of the old hall in Surgeons' Square, when that building was pulled down in 1852. The medal was struck at the time of the founda- tion of the old hall by Cullen in 1775, and after thus lying forgotten for nearly a century, it has become one of the Society's most sacred relics. During three hours the rooms were thronged, and great satisfaction was expressed with the opportunity thus afforded to so many old members of renewing the interests of former days. 1 Most of these were lent for the occasion by old members of the Society or their representatives. 108 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 1 Thursday, fT^HE Tercentenary Banquet, one of the greatest events of the celebration, took place 630p ^ n ' -*- on Thursday evening at 6.30 p.m. in the Drill Hall, Forrest Road, the interior of which had been tastefully fitted up for the occasion. The roof and walls were draped with alternate stripes of blue and white (the University colours), and the girders fes- tooned with evergreens ; while eighteen handsome pendent gasaliers were introduced for the occasion. At the south end, where a gallery for ladies had been erected, there appeared on the centre of the wall a large and elaborately painted achievement of the Scottish Royal Arms, flanked on each side by the shield of the University. At the opposite end was the gallery set apart for the band, above which were placed the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom. The front of this gallery was festooned in crimson, amber, and blue, with a quaintly designed entablature commemorative of James VI, with the date 1582, and the arms of the Stuarts blazoned on a circular medallion. The west side of the Hall, which had been set aside for the Chairman's platform, was embellished with a colossal representation of the arms of the city of Edinburgh, draped with curtains of crimson and amber, and flanked with ornate medallion shields of the University. On the side opposite the platform was erected a second and larger gallery for the accommodation of ladies. Around the entire Hall were ranged twenty oblong panels, each containing the name of a College celebrity the first being James Lawson, 1581, and the last David Brewster, 1859. 'Underneath the ends of the girders was carried a decorative border, showing the national shields and devices. The floor was carpeted, and the tables (twenty-eight in number) were arranged at right angles to the Chairman's platform. The tables, walls, and entrances were richly decorated with flowers and foliage. The total number of seats provided, including 65 at the platform table, was 1063, of which not more than half-a-dozen were vacant. 2 After the table had been cleared, the ladies' galleries, which accommodated 66 and 327 persons respectively, were filled with a brilliant company, whose presence, together with the magnificent surroundings, contributed to form a scene that has probably never been surpassed in an Edinburgh banqueting-hall. 1 The Hall was fitted up by Mr Robert Shillinglaw. The purveyor of the banquet was Mr Albert M. Thiem. The adjoining warerooms of Mr William Forsyth, painter, and Mr John Donald, china-merchant, kindly lent for the occasion, were used as guests' cloak-rooms. The other cloak-rooms were at the back of the banquet-hall. The speeches have been kindly revised by their respective authors. 2 The total number of guests present (viz., 190 delegates and new graduates, pp. 84-99, and 193 old graduates, benefactors, and others, enumerated on pp. 6-10) was about 383 ; and of subscribers, who with few exceptions were omce-bearers and members of the University, about 680. THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 109 Soon after half-past six o'clock the whole company was assembled. At the platform table, on each side of the Chancellor, were ranged a number of delegates and representative men from different parts of the world, interspersed with some of the most distinguished of the British guests, together with the Lord Provost, the Lord Rector, and the Principal, and the Deans of the Faculties of Divinity and Arts, as representing the city and the University respectively. Each of the twenty-eight other tables was presided over by two sub-chairmen, all of these, with two or three excep- tions, being professors or other office-bearers of the University ; while the remaining guests were arranged, as suitably as circumstances permitted, on the right and left of each sub-chairman. The Chancellor of the University occupied the chair, having — On the right. The Lord Provost. His Excellency J. E. Lowell. Professor Elze, Halle. Professor Mezieres, Paris. Professor de Martens, St Petersburg. The Earl of Wemyss. Eev. Professor Beets, Utrecht. Professor Zupitza, Berlin. Professor Schipper, Vienna. Professor Cremona, Eome. Professor Vera, Naples. The Earl of Bosebery. Sir P. Leighton. Professor de Laveleye, Liege. Professor von Pettenkofer, Munich. Professor Ask, Lund. Professor Eosenbusch, Heidelberg. Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Eector. Eev. Professor Jowett, Oxford. Professor Donner, Helsingfors. Professor van Beneden, Louvain. Lord Eayleigh. Emeritus Professor Eachmaninoff, Kief. Sir Henry S. Maine. Sir John Lubbock. Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Professor Storm, Christiania. Lord Watson. Professor Sylvester, Baltimore. Professor van der Wyck, Groningen. Dean of Faculty of Arts. On the left. His Excellency Count Nigra. Professor Count Sam, Bologna. M. Pasteur, Paris. Professor Virchow, Berlin. The Earl of Galloway. His Excellency Baron de Penedo. Professor von Helmholtz, Berlin. His Excellency Sir E. B. D. Morier. The Earl of Glasgow. His Excellency M. Martinez. Sir James P. Stephen. Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps. The Lord Bishop of Durham. Professor Perrot, Paris. Professor Eivier, Brussels. Professor Saxtorph, Copenhagen. Principal Sir A. Grant. Eev. Canon "Westcott. Professor Kielhorn, Gb'ttingen. Professor Michaelis, Strassburg. Lord Napier and Ettrick. Eight Eev. Dr Stubbs. Eight Eev. Bishop Perry. General Sir A. Alison. Sir Lyon Playfair. Lord Eeay. Professor Giiterbock, Kbnigsberg. Professor Straszewski, Cracow. The Lord Advocate. Professor Stokes, Cambridge. Professor Szabi, Pesth. Dean of Faculty of Divinity. 110 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Mr John Cook. Mr John Christison. Mr John Boyd. Professor Taylor. Professor Rutherford. Professor Crum Brown. Professor Maepherson. Professor Sellar. Dr Haldane. Professor Lorimer. Sir T. J. Boyd. Professor Maolagan. Lord Kinnear. Professor Wilson. Mr D. M'Laren. Professor Flint. Mr T. G. Murray. Professor Muirhead. Professor Turner. The Chairmen of the other tables were — Professor Tait. Bailie Clark. Professor Masson. Professor Calderwood. Professor Butcher. Professor Kirkpatrick. Professor Annandale. Mr Robert Cox (of Gorgie). Mr John Rankine. Mr A. Seth. Mr William Skinner. Professor Nicholson. Mr J. M. M'Candlish. Professor Greenfield. Professor Geikie. Professor Chrystal. Professor Tytler. Professor Simpson. Professor Cossar Ewart. Emeritus Professor Blackie. Professor Adams. Professor T. R. Fraser. Professor Sir H. Oakeley. Emeritus Professor Mackay. Professor Dickson. Professor Grainger Stewart. Professor Baldwin Brown. Professor Eggeling. General Forlong. Professor Chiene. Professor Mackinnon. Professor Laurie. Dr Argyll Robertson. Dr Littlejohn. Mr Thomas M'Kie. Dr Clouston. Mr John Small. Grace having been said by the Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, dinner was served about a quarter to seven o'clock. The menu, 1 although short and simple, was not 1 The ornate menu, printed in blue and silver, was as follows : — Page 1. (University arms.) Tercentenary Banquet, 17th April 1884 (Drill Hall, Forrest Road). Chairman— The Eight Honourable John Inglis, Chancellor of the University. Page 2. — Menu. Potage — Tortue claire : Vin — Amontillado. Poisson— Mayonnaise de Saumon aux laitues : Vin — Marcobrunner Auslese. Entrees— Timbales de poulet aux truffes ; Fricandeau a la jardiniere : Vins— Champagne (Ruinart, first quality, 1876), Bordeaux (Chateau Palmer, 1875). Haggis a l'^cossaise, Purde de poinmes (Whisky). RSts — Cote de boeuf aux haricots verts; Dindon roti, Jambon d' York, aux petits pois : Vins — Champagne, Bordeaux. Entremets — Tourtes d'abricot mdringuees, Gelee aux fruits, Creme a la bavaroise : Liqueurs — Curacao ; Cognac. Glaces — Creme aux fraises, Eau de citrons : Vins Champagne, Bordeaux. Dessert — Ananas, poires, bananas, &c. : Vins— Cham- pagne, Bordeaux. Whisky, Cognac, Eaux gazeuses, et Wilhelmsquelle. A. M. Thiem, Windsor Hotel, Edinburgh. Page 3. — Toast List. 1. "The Queen," the Chancellor. 2. "The Royal Family," the Chancellor. 3. " The Tercentenary Guests," the Chancellor: Reply— (1) His Excellency Baron de Penedo ; (2) Monsieur Pasteur. 4. " Lord Provost, Magis- trates, and Town Council of Edinburgh," Earl of Rose- bery : Reply— the Lord Provost. 5. " University of Edinburgh," Lord Bishop of Durham : Reply— the Lord Rector. 6. "Sister Universities," Sir Lyon Playfair : Reply— (1) Count Sam ; (2) Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Oxford; (3) Professor Elze. 7. "Theology, Law, and Medicine," Lord Napier and Ettrick: Reply— (1) Rev. Canon Westcott; (2) Sir Henry J. S. Maine; (3) Professor Virchow. 8. "Literature, Science, and Art," Earl of Wemyss: Reply— (1) His Excellency J. Russell Lowell; (2) Professor von Helmholtz; (3) Sir Frederick Leighton. 9. " International Commerce," Sir John Lubbock : Reply— (1) Monsieirr Ferdinand de Les- seps ; (2) His Excellency Sir R. B. D. Morier. 10. " The Chancellor," Sir James Fitzjames Stephen : Reply— the Chancellor. Page 4. — Programme of Music. Mr Dambmann's Orchestra. Conductor — Mr Carl D. Hamilton. Overture, " Zampa," Hirold. Waltz, " Estudiantina," WaldUufel. Selection, Scotch Airs. Ungarische Tanze, Brahms. March, " Edinburgh," Oakeley. During Dinner-Die Loreley (Paraphrase iiber), Nes- vadba. Reverie (arranged by Lange), Vieuxtemps. For the Toasts— 1. "National Anthem." 2. "God bless the Prince of Wales." 3. "Gathering of Guests," Tann- hauser, Wagner. 4. "Flowers o' Edinburgh." 5. "Alma Mater," arranged by Oakeley. 6. Vom hoh'n Olymp," Schnoor. 7. Chorale, "Allein Gott in der Hoh," Men- delssohn. 8. Minuet in C, Boccherini. 9. « The Sea " Neukomm. 10. " For he's a jolly good fellow." "Good-bye, sweetheart, good-bye." Selection, "Car- men," Bizet. Overture, " Masaniello," Auber. "Auld lang syne." THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. Ill unworthy of the occasion, and the service appeared to be adequate to the requirements of the numerous guests. A small orchestra in the gallery played appropriate music while the company were assembling, and during dinner, and afterwards accompanied each toast 1 with a few bars of a suitable air. Dinner being over soon after eight o'clock, — The Chancellor, rising amid loud cheers, said — " Since the conclusion of the graduation Telegram ceremonial this morning, I have had the distinguished honour of receiving a telegraphic message from H ' M ' b The Queen, from her Majesty the Queen. It is dated from Flushing, and shows that her Majesty is on the course of her journey. The words of the message I will now read : ' In congratulating Our University on the completion of its Tercentenary, I ask you to welcome the guests who have assembled to honour the event.'" The assembly received the message standing, and cheered heartily. The Chancellor then proceeded : " My Lords and Gentlemen, — I propose the health of our ' H.M. The Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria. This is not a formal expression of constitutional loyalty; for l ' i:ieei1- her Majesty reigns in the hearts of her people. Her constant and lively interest in everything that affects the welfare of her subjects, and her ready sympathy with the sorrows and sufferings of the lowest as well as the highest, have secured to her their affectionate regard and their respectful admiration of her personal character and virtues. When the Queen is in affliction the nation sorrows ; and in presence of her recent bereavement our condolences were heartfelt and sincere. I give you ' The Queen.' " This toast was responded to with enthusiasm, the band striking up " God save the Queen." The Chancellor, in proposing " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the ' Prince and "Pti Ti C6SS 01 Eoyal Pamily," said — "We are proud to think, in connection with this toast, that two Princes „ r , of the Royal House are honorary graduates of this University, and we see, from the message we received from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales this morning, that they take a chief interest in its prosperity." This toast was also warmly received, and the band played " God bless the Prince of Wales." The Chancellor again rose and said — '- In such an assemblage as this, I think it would be ' Our Ter- out of place to make special reference to those institutions, domestic as well as national, and , \jt\X.QSZS. to those departments of the public service, to which we are accustomed to do honour in our ordinary festive gatherings, and I therefore pass to what is a much more appropriate toast upon the present occasion — I mean, ' Our Tercentenary Guests.' I had occasion this morning to bid them welcome in name of the University, and I have now a Royal command to repeat that welcome. Nothing could be more gratifying to any one than to be charged with a toast which is certain to meet with an enthusiastic reception ; but the gratification may be marred by the presence of a certain consciousness of inability to do it justice, and such, unhappily, is my position. If you reflect for a moment how very comprehensive this toast is, and how suggestive 1 Each toast was prefaced with a few notes played by a bugler stationed near the Chancellor, in order to attract the attention of the assembly. 112 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. of most varied and interesting topics of discourse, I think you will be inclined to agree with me that within the limited time at my command no man could do it justice. " Viewing the toast geographically, I feel as if I had undertaken to ' put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes ; ' for have we not representatives and delegates from every corner of the civilised world, the area extending from Bologna to St Petersburg, from Harvard, Cornell, and Pennsylvania, on the west, to Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, Sydney and Melbourne, New Zealand and Japan — from the Canadian Universities to those of Cracow and Pesth, from Aber- deen to the Cape of Good Hope — and from Eio Janeiro and Santiago to the Universities of Scandinavia ? And this imperfect and irregular outline requires to be filled up by the names of all the venerable Universities and modern schools of learning on the continent of Europe, in France and Germany, in Austria and Italy, in Holland and Belgium and Switzerland, not to mention the Universities and schools of learning of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. " Viewed in another aspect, the toast appears to me to be still more difficult to handle, for it embraces names rendered illustrious by their possessors in every field of intellectual activity, in every walk of literature and learning, in every department of science, and in the cultivation of art with all its ennobling and elevating influences. " Such being the difficulties with which I am beset, and such the embarrassing riches of my subject, I bethink me of the prudent maxim that discretion is the better part of valour. And therefore I hope I shall stand excused if I shrink from attempting an impossible task, and only repeat what I said in the morning, but which I now repeat in the name of her Majesty the Queen, whose authority I have for so doing, that we cannot sufficiently express GUI' gratitude to our guests for their affording us the honour and the delight of their company on this occasion. " I desire to associate with this toast the names of two very distinguished men now present, representing respectively the New World and the Old. I mean his Excellency the Baron de Penedo, the worthy and fitting representative in this country of a monarch so enlightened and so devoted to scientific pursuits as the Emperor of Brazil, and M. Louis Pasteur, whose profound investigations and brilliant discoveries require no words of eulogy from me. I give you the toast — ' Our Tercentenary Guests.' " After enthusiastic and prolonged cheering, the orchestra played "part of the "Gathering of Guests " from the opera of Tannhauser. Reply for Baron DE Penedo, in acknowledging the toast, said—" It is needless for me to say how 'Guests' by deeply touched I feel with the flattering words just addressed personally to me and with the Baron de . . ' Penedo. honour of haym S< m thls bnllian t assembly, been called upon to reply to the toast of the Tercentenary guests of the University of Edinburgh. But your Lordship will perhaps allow me to make, most respectfuUy, a little remark on this part of the toast list. When I see joined with my own the name of M. Pasteur, one of the greatest celebrities of the day, whom all your illustrious guests, of whichever hemisphere, would be very proud to have as their sole represen- tative on this occasion, I might, without forced modesty, ask myself why I also have been chosen to speak on their behalf. I must, however, bow to this unexpected selection, and taking advantage ji^i THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 113 of the privilege so kindly accorded to me, I am most faithfully interpreting the feelings of all your guests in conveying to you, the representatives of the University of Edinburgh, our heartfelt thanks for your gracious welcome, and for your Scottish hospitality, and our sincere congratulations on this Tercentenary of the University. It is also with great pleasure that we express to you our admiration of the splendid manner in which this happy event has been solemnised. This commemoration has, indeed, been worthy of the high reputation acquired by the University in its career through centuries, and will be, I am sure, an everlasting record in the history of this city (as ancient as it is beautiful), and to which the University is a school of patriotism, a monument of its fame, a standard of its glory, knitting together its national traditions. "While enjoying your kind attention, I beg special permission to tender to you, on behalf of my country, its thankfulness for the honour of the gratifying invitation addressed to its academic institutions to take part in this truly international festivity ; and this sentiment, I can assure you, is fully shared by my august Sovereign, for it is well known that the Emperor of Brazil is an indefatigable protector of the diffusion of knowledge throughout the empire under his beneficent rule. He cannot, therefore, but appreciate and be very sensible of any mark of sympathy and consideration that may enhance, in the comity of nations, the feeling of esteem and respect towards his own country. The honorary distinction conferred on the delegate of the academic institutions of Brazil is an additional token of such consideration. This high honour so graciously bestowed on all your guests is the flower that overflows the cup of our gratitude, and will remain in our memory as a precious souvenir of our visit to your noble city, and as a pledge of thankfulness to the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh." M. Pasteue replied as follows: "My Lord Chancellor, Messieurs, — Permettez-moi de Eeplyfor remercier, tout d'abord, son Excellence le Baron de Penedo des aimables et trop indulgentes M Pagteur _ paroles qu'il a bien voulu m'addresser, lui qui reprfeente si dignement l'illustre savant Don Pedro, Empereur du Brfeil, notre confrere de l'lnstitut de Prance. My Lord Chancellor, Messieurs,— La ville d'Edimbourg donne un spectacle dont elle peut etre fiere. Toutes les grandes institutions scientifiques, ici reunies, apparaissent comme un immense congres de felicitations et d'esperances. L'honneur et la gloire de ce rendez-vous international vous appartenaient a juste titre. Depuis des siecles, l'Ecosse a uni ses destinees a celles de Intelli- gence humaine. Une des premieres parmi les nations, elle a compris que l'esprit mene le monde; et le monde de l'esprit, en repondant a votre appel, vous rend l'hommage que vous meritez. Hier, sous les voutes de St Giles, quand Imminent professeur, Robert Plint,, s'emait en s'adressant a l'Universite' d'Edimbourg, Souviens - toi du passd, et rec/arde I'avenir, tous les delegues, ranges comme les juges a un grand tribunal, evoquaient les siecles dcoul^s, et formaient, du meme coeur, le m§me voeu d'un avenir plus glorieux encore que le passe. "Au milieu des. delegues de toutes. les nations qui vous apportent les illustres temoignages de leur sympathie, la France vous envoie pour la repr^senter celles de ses institutions qui resument le mieux l'esprit Prancais et qui sont la meilleure part de sa gloire. Partout ou se montre dans le monde un foyer de lumiere, la Prance applaudit; et quand la morte frappe, sur un sol etranger, 114 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. un homme de g^nie, elle le pleure comme un de ses enfants. Cette noble solidarity je l'ai ressentie en entendant plusieurs de vos savants parler avec emotion de la mort de l'illustre chimiste, J. B. Dumas, glorieux membre de toutes vos academies, et il y a peu d'anndes encore le panegyriste eloquent de votre grand Faraday. En quittant Paris, j'avais le poignant chagrin de ne pouvoir suivre son cercueil ; mais l'espoir que je pourrais rendre ici un dernier et solennel hommage a ce maitre ventre, a ce grand citoyen de France, m'a fait surmonter mon affliction. D'ailleurs, mes- sieurs, si les hommes passent, leurs 03uvres restent. Nous ne sommes tous que les notes passagers de ces grandes demeures mortales, qui, comme toutes les Universites venues pour vous saluer en ce jour solennel, sont assurers de l'immortalite." ' The Lord The Earl of Rosebery, rising amid loud cheers, next proposed the health of the " Lord Provost, Provost and Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh." " I hardly know," he said, " why I have been so Magistrates.' honoured as to be designated to propose the toast of the representatives of the founders of the University of Edinburgh, and I can only account for it by a fable which is common amonw the Australian aborigines, that in a lake in the interior of that great colony, the worn-out moons of the world are lying like cart-wheels ; and I supposed that it occurred to the managers of this festivity to look in some secluded place for the remains of former Lord Rectors. I am not an extinct volcano, but I cannot hope to be in sufficient activity to do justice to the toast which you have intrusted to me. But if I may be allowed one word, speaking from the antiquated position to which I have alluded, I may be allowed to congratulate the University of Edinburgh, and those whose health it is my duty to propose, on the great assembly which has come hither from the four corners of the world to do honour to an institution which began in humble circumstances. I think that we who were privileged to witness that glowing procession of the celebrities of the nineteenth century to-day, must have felt somewhat in the position of the Muse of history, when she reviews the celebrity of the epoch. I do not know, from any personal experience, how the Muse of history may feel, but I think that we have approached her feelings to-day as nearly as mortals in this sublunar sphere can hope to do. Now, if I might point out another experience of to-day, it was this, that we felt that hero-worship was not dead amongst us, for the plaudits of that vast assem- blage showed that we were willing, that we were ready, and that we were anxious to appreciate the opportunity which the University had afforded us of seeing more celebrities in one room than we may ever hope to see again in our lives. " My Lord Provost, if the founders whom you represent could have seen to-day, they would have been even more astonished than gratified. Because, who were those founders ? As you, my Lord Chancellor, reminded us to-day, they were not the kings and the nobles of the world. And if I might suggest a criticism, it is this, that you were a little hard on the king for giving nothing, and on the nobles for giving nothing, because I strongly suspect that the reason was a simple one— which has occurred to us all— that the king had nothing to give, and that the nobles had very little more. And I am proud to think that they gave nothing, because if they had given anything, it would have been what did not belong to them ; and I should have grieved from my heart to think that the University of Edinburgh was what in slang is called a "fence," or receiver of stolen goods. THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 115 Who were the founders of this University? They were simple, humble, and honest men, who feared God, and, I suspect, did not greatly honour the king. " I know that there are those amongst us who do not greatly respect antiquity, but I hold that the success of the University of Edinburgh is due to the fact that she was not founded by kings or by nobles, but that she was founded by the citizens of this city, and kept up her associations with the citizens of this city. Long may that connection continue ! Had it been the nineteenth century instead of the sixteenth in which this University was founded, what would have been the circumstances of the case ? She would have been brought into being on a charter from Downin" Street, she would have been nourished by inspectors, she would have been nurtured by Royal Commissions, she would have been swaddled in red-tape, and would have become a mere pedantic coxcomb, as compared with the honest, trustworthy individuality which she now presents to us. " It seems to me that the University of Edinburgh, founded by far-seeing persons who did not then greatly trust the circumstances of the other Universities of our country, presents to us a moral which is as true in the nineteenth century as it was in the sixteenth, and reflects the greatest credit on the Provost and Magistrates of that day, which is, that a University should not be dissociated from practical life, but that they should go hand in hand doing the work of education ; and I think that nobody who has seen this great University — though there have been stories of thirty years' war and constant struggle, but they were the quarrels of lovers — nobody who has seen this great University, and who has seen this beautiful city, but must have remarked that while it has been the function of the University to raise and refine the city, the city itself has also had its function in giving a robust practical character to the work of the University. I am sure it is the hope of this vast assemblage that the city and University of Edinburgh may continue to go hand in hand. I am sure that the work cannot be more directly fostered than by such a Chancellor as yourself, and by such a Provost as the present Provost of Edinburgh. I beg to give you ' The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City of Edinburgh.' " The toast was cordially applauded by the whole audience, the band playing " The Flowers of Edinburgh." Lord Provost Harbison, who was received with loud cheers, said — " It is with very peculiar Reply for ' TjOTfl r 1*0— pleasure that I rise to acknowledge this toast — a pride and pleasure, I may say, such as the chief magistrates of few cities have a right to feel. Our most brilliant and accomplished child has come Magistrates - to the house of its fathers in order to celebrate its birthday, and far from being ashamed of its h J the Loi(1 Provost. humble origin, far from being ashamed of its parents, it nobly acknowledges the debt which it owes to the hardy education which it received. Full of wealth, full of honours, and full of accomplish- ments, the child acknowledges its fathers, humble as they appear to be at the present moment. As Lord Rosebery has said, in all probability this University owes its brilliant success to its humble origin, — to that plain living and high thinking on which it was bred. I am afraid when I look around me that we cannot promise a continuance of that plain living ; I hope, however, that for many generations to come we shall have a steady belief in, and continuance of, high thinking. Without that, the progress which has been made will not continue in the future ; with that, this P 116 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. may go on for many generations yet unborn. I am sure all our guests ungrudgingly wish that this University may continue its glorious career, and be a blessing and delight to many generations. " I feel likewise fortunate in being at the head of a municipality which enjoys, I believe, the confidence of its constituents, and which at the same time does a great deal of useful work for them. I know no city in this country where the citizens more ungrudgingly pay their taxes ; I know no municipality which more carefully expends them. I know of no municipality which can congratulate itself more upon the increase of the beauty and amenity of its city, and likewise on the diminution in sickness and in its death-rate ; and on the increase in the general welfare of the people. I know of no city in this country, perhaps not in Europe, where a larger proportion of the people enjoy a good deal of the comforts of life and some of its luxuries, and I trust a con- tinuance of these good times and of that careful government will make Edinburgh for many ages to come an example and beacon-light to surrounding cities here and elsewhere. I have very great pleasure in acknowledging the toast that Lord Rosebery has so kindly proposed, and return thanks to this meeting for the manner in which it has been received." ' The Uni- The Lord Bishop of Durham, in proposing ' The University of Edinburgh,' said — " I rise, a \ersi y o ^ alumnus of this famous University, at the bidding of my academic chief, the Chan- Edinburgh.' J , cellor, to perform a very responsible task, and I claim the indulgence which your clemency always accords to youthful inexperience. The toast which I have to commend to your favourable consider- ation is the ' University of Edinburgh.' I am appalled when I look at this distinguished gathering of representatives of every branch of human learning, all far more competent than I am to do justice to such a theme. But I take consolation in one thought. Standing almost under the shadow of your Acropolis, I recall the saying of Socrates, that it is not a difficult matter to praise the Athenians to an Athenian audience. Your Northern Athens, by some strange fascination, wins the admiration and the hearts of her citizens and of her guests, not less than her ancient prototype. " But is it not a strange irony which has selected the spokesman on this occasion ? The prelatic representative of a prelatical Church, I stand forward at the bidding of your Chancellor to sound the praises of an academic institution which alone of the Universities of Scotland was Protestant in its foundation, which was built up on the ruins of Episcopacy, and whose history throughout has been Presbyterian to the core. " But more than this. Was it not a serious humour which led your Chancellor thus to select a degenerate representative of a warlike race of prelates whose fortress of Norhani frowned over the Scottish frontier, whose contingents were found fighting in every Scottish war, whose Cathedral bears evident marks of the perfervid temper and the iconoclastic zeal of your countrymen, and whose episcopal residence witnesses, in the name of one of its wings, to the time when reprisals led to the detention of Scottish hostages ? Nay, were not the lines of your Flodden wall drawn so as to enclose the future site of your University — the too famous Kirk o' Field ? And did not a contingent of my episcopal ancestors fight for the last time at Flodden ? " A great change has come. You have altered your tactics — yes, you have altered them, in more ways than one. But the point which I had in my mind was the attention you have paid THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 117 to your educational system. You completed and you strengthened your great academic quadri- lateral ; and when you had done this, poor England had no chance whatever. Year after year, starting from this basis of operations, you poured down upon the false Southerners a successive stream of invaders, who have flooded the camp, the forum, the senate, the academic groves, and the literary fields of England, until we have learned to rue the day when we provoked you to this rivalry. Of this academic quadrilateral, your University of Edinburgh is the latest, but not the weakest, fortress. " Not unlike a famous University of Holland, which kept its tercentenary not many years ago, and whose birth-throes were the agonies of a tragic and romantic siege, you took your rise in a period of political and religious trouble. How checkered was the early history of this University, what dangers it passed through, what progress it made, it would be presumptuous in me to relate after the lucid address we heard from your Chancellor this morning. " Why should I speak of that inspiring genius of your academic foundations, Andrew Melville, who did for your Scottish Universities very much what Grossteste did for Oxford, and what Fisher did for Cambridge ? "Why should I mention by name the illustrious men who have guided the destinies of this University — Leighton, Carstares, Robertson, Brewster— the predecessors of him who so worthily fills the Principal's chair at this time, and the lustre of whose rule will be recog- nised as second to none ? Wiry again should I mention the long roll of your professoriate— the illustrious names which have enriched it,— your Gregorys and Maclaurins in mathematics, your Dugald Stewarts and Hamiltons in philosophy, and others equally eminent and illustrious in other branches of science and learning ? Above all, how shall I speak of that galaxy of medical talent and genius, in which, where there are so many bright stars, it would be both unjust and invidious to single out one and another ? " But whatever has been the glory of your University in the past, during the last quarter of a century it has certainly shone forth in increased and ever-increasing lustre. We have heard this morning of the rapid progress it has made— how the number of its students has multiplied, how its teaching has been improved, how its buildings have arisen, and how its coffers have been replenished. But I think you will all agree that the crown of triumph during this period is the gathering which the University of Edinburgh has drawn here on this occasion. I certainly have never witnessed— I doubt whether any one has witnessed— an assembly more thoroughly and more adequately representative of science and literature, of all branches of human knowledge, than that which has met together to-night to celebrate your tercentenary. This assemblage is a far more eloquent comment on the theme which has been intrusted to me than any words of any speaker can be. It is ocular proof of the position occupied by your University in the past, and it is a sure promise and a bright hope for the future. " I am permitted to associate with this toast the name of one who will certainly receive a hearty welcome from you. As your Lord Rector, he has shown himself second to none in zeal for the interests of this- University. As a statesman, he has won the respect of all political parties alike. As a lecturer on the platform he has achieved a signal triumph-he has stultified 118 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. and discredited for ever the vaunted axiom of old philosophers, that nothing can come from nothing. " Having listened so patiently to one who has only succeeded in showing that he can make nothing out of anything, it will be your compensation to be handed over to a magician who can make anything out of nothing. I propose to you, therefore, the ' Prosperity of the University of Edinburgh,' coupling it with the name of Sir Stafford Northcote. May this University withstand the assaults of time and circumstance like your Castle rock ! May the lustre of the present prove only a dim foreshadowing of the glories of the future ; and may the University grow in fame and useful- ness with the growing years, an ever-increasing blessing to this city, to Scotland, and to humanity ! " This toast received hearty applause from the University guests, and was followed by a few bars of ' Alma Mater ' from the orchestra. Reply for '^ lie L° KD Rectok (Sir Stafford Northcote), who was received with loud cheering and waving ' Tlie Uni_ of handkerchiefs, said — " I rise to discharge the office which has been imposed upon me by those versity' hv the Lord * who have ordered this celebration, but at the same time with some feelings of doubt whether the Rector. task has been committed to the right hands ; for if I have rightly read the history of University foundations, I understand that the function of the Rector of a University being of a character which renders it fitting that the office should be filled by a layman — that is to say, by one who is neither a clergyman nor a lawyer — it was not expected of that functionary that he should take upon himself to make speeches ; and in a well-organised University I believe that a public orator was always appointed to relieve the Lord Rector of a duty which he was held to be incapable of performing. Times change, and no doubt the position of a Lord Rector changes ; but his main duty remains the same. It is his duty to guard, so far as he can. the interests of the University which has been good enough to intrust him with its confidence ; and as in the present day those dangers are not apprehended from crowned heads or armed bands, but are much more to be dreaded from the more insidious assaults of Parliament, it is no doubt wisdom in your generation to select a member of Parliament to be your spokesman and your guardian in the event of such attacks being made. " Conscious as I am of the great responsibility, and difficulty, and importance of the position you have so intrusted to me, I feel greatly cheered and greatly encouraged by such a sight as that which it has been my privilege to witness to-day, and in the confidence it gives me of the future of this University to which I belong. I do not know whether it occurred to any of you, but it crossed my mind, when that great celebration was going on this morning, that Dr Johnson may have been gifted with a prophetic second-sight, and inspired by his visits to Scotland, to write those well-known lines — ' Let observation, with extensive view, Survey the world from China to Pern.' For if you will but substitute Japan for China, and Chili for Peru, it is an exact description of what took place this morning. " I own that it is to be regretted that I have taken the place which would have been so much THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 119 more worthily filled up by my noble friend and predecessor, who speaks as the man from the moon —and who, no doubt, would have largely contributed to the further elucidation of the questions which take place in that planet. But even as the assembly was held, it was one that, to the most trivial and superficial observer, was of a striking character. Let us first pay our compliments to the ladies. I cannot doubt that the ladies who witnessed that gorgeous display of colour adorning the male portion of creation, registered a firm vow in their minds that they would not be long before they claimed several honours for themselves, and I think they must have been a little disappointed and vexed that one of the most distinguished of those on whom the degree of Doctor has been conferred this day — I mean Alfred Lord Tennyson — was not present to add a stanza or so to his poem ' The Princess.' " Then we had a collection of celebrities in every walk of science and literature, and I venture to say that no such collection has ever been seen within the British Isles, if anywhere else. I do not say that there may not have been congresses of special professions and special faculties, which may have embraced as wide a sphere as ourselves; but taking all the faculties together, and considering that we saw presented not only literature but science, and not only one kind of science, but many — considering the great variety of interests involved, I say that our meeting this morning was unparalleled. One could have wished for the pen or the tongue of Sir Walter Scott to make worthy commemoration of that great catalogue of worthies. He would, indeed, have made a glorious use of the opportunity. But, for my own part, it seems to me that it would be unwise to attempt to do more than that which the simple alphabetical arrangement has already done for me. It was enough to take up that catalogue of those who were about to receive honours, to see how you ran from New Zealand to Oxford, from Oxford to Palermo, from Palermo to Paris, and turning a little further, from Tokio we come to Turin — from the New World to the Old World. Old Universities of five, six, and seven centuries or more in existence were to be met with in company with Universities the creation of the present century, and in the midst of them all stood the University of Edinburgh prepared to vindicate her claim to an honourable place in that great family — prepared to point with pride to her past, and with hope and confidence to her future. " There is, I think, a saying of the poet Goethe in which he describes the academic life, and in which he says you live in an atmosphere of those who have acquired knowledge, or who are desiring to acquire it; and so you are in an atmosphere from which you are certain to draw nourishment. This is the case in such meetings as these. Where men of such diverse and such brilliant acquirements in different walks of science and literature come together, it cannot be but that they create an atmosphere which must produce a material effect upon the spiritual and intellectual nature of all who breathe their air — it cannot but be that the case is, as was said by one ancient philosopher. It is the case of the man who lights the candle for another, and in giving him light shines none the less to himself. None the less, do I say ? I say shines a great deal the more. From this time forth Edinburgh has no more to do with her third century ; it is her fourth century she is entering upon, and she enters upon it with a noble record of the past and with great encouragement for the future. 120 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. " I feel myself very strongly the great importance of the University element in the system of national education and progress. It seems to me that it is the one thing to which we ought to direct our attention at this time, when there is such an earnest striving to get forward in the national education ; it seems to me to be the one important matter that we should preserve the University characteristics of our system. And, no doubt, a University like that of Edinburgh, which has existed so long, and which has of late developed so largely, and which now has received so signal a mark of appreciation on the part of those by whom to be appreciated is praise indeed — I say that a University in such a position is strengthened in the eyes of the world, strengthened in her own estimation, and strengthened for the work which she has to do. " It will be — I was going to say it will be a disgrace, but I cannot allow such a thought to enter into my mind as that this University, after this celebration, should allow herself to fall back even to what she was before. You have taken a great step — you have been encouraged to take it. You stand now before a cloud of witnesses. The eyes of the world are upon you. You must remember that you form part of a great system, and you must act up to the responsibility which the appreciation of those whom you see around you entails. " The multiplication of Universities may be — is, I believe — a very desirable and a very useful means of the development of education ; but it must be on that condition that the Universities are so multiplied as not to allow of any deterioration of their quality. It must be no mere desire to obtain a large number of students, no mere rivalry which induces that which has been satirically but not untruly called a Dutch auction in the matter of giving degrees. You must hold your lamp high, and you must hold up your standard proudly ; and the only competition which you can allow must be the competition of merit with others. You have that competition of merit. Depend upon it, the more competitors who fairly come into the field the better. " I trust you will forgive me for speaking to you with that feeling of affection which perhaps would be more expected of, and more naturally belong to, those who have received their education among you. But since I have become connected with you, I have received so much kindness that it is impossible for me to do otherwise than to feel and to speak as I have done. Before I sit down, let me say one word for two friends who are here to-day, but who cannot properly speak for them- selves, and yet for whom it is not perhaps wrong that I should speak. I mean the two real leaders, guiders, and governors of this University — your Chancellor and your Principal. It is, indeed, from their exertions that you have derived the great advantages which you have reaped during the last twenty or thirty years ; and it is, as I know, also from the exertions of your professorial staff, and, as your Chancellor well said to-day, from the earnestness of your students, who show that noble love of learning, often under difficulties of pecuniary circumstances, which at all times has been one of the characteristics of Scotland, and which I believe has done so much for the national char- acter of the country. " But besides our official connection here, my two friends have a tie with me, and I with them, which is personal and peculiar. "We are all members of the same college in Oxford, we are all members of the College of Balliol, which was originally founded by a Scottish founder. We have THE TERCENTENARY BANQUET. 121 the privilege to-day of seeing amongst us, among many other dear friends, one who stands at the head of that College, and who occupies the proud position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Professor Jowett and I have been friends and contemporaries for very nearly half a century, and it is with feelings which I am indulging perhaps at your expense, but which I can hardly repress, that I find myself sitting by him on this occasion. Yes, we appreciate greatly the kindness and the friendliness of those who have come long distances to visit us. We appreciate those who have come from America, who have come from India, who have come from Australia, who have come from all parts of Europe, and who have shown so much kindness ; and yet there is a kindly feeling towards our own home Universities too, which lies at the bottom of our mind, and which will colour all that we see and think. I, on the part of the University, return you most hearty thanks for your kindness on this occasion. I feel assured that the University is destined to exhibit in its future career the same high qualities which it has exhibited hitherto. " I thought of an illustration, and it is one that perhaps I may mention to you. I was staying, a very short time ago, in an old house in the country, that belonged to the family of More. There were badges upon the walls, and the badge was the mulberry-tree — the morus ; and this was the inscription : ' Morus tarde moriens ; rnorum cito moritur ' (the mulberry-tree is slow in death ; the mulberry-fruits die quickly). And so it may be with us and with all of this University. The individual may pass away, but the stock will remain. It is a consolation which all who are con- nected with such a body as this may take to themselves, that though the work they do in this life may be short, and the art may seem to be long in comparison — though their individual life is short, the life of the body to which they belong is not short ; and we may fully trust and believe that the future of this University will be connected, and will be proudly connected, with the history of our country and the prosperity of the British nation." Sir Lyon Playfaie proposed 'The Sister Universities.' He said—" The toast which I have the 'Sister Uui honour to propose is ' The Sister Universities.' Probably on no occasion of academic history have so many learned doctors been sent as delegates from Universities in all parts of the world to com- pliment our University on the attainment of an age which, after all, is a young one in the history of such institutions. In olden times, when a foreign doctor visited another University, it was con- sidered courteous to give him a title corresponding to his learning ; for surnames were not in much use. The names attached to learned visitors were such as these— the seraphic doctor, the divine doctor, the acute doctor, the most orderly doctor, the irrefragable doctor, the solemn doctor, and the solid doctor. All of these we have seen pass before us this day when they received honorary degrees. But how am I to characterise the hundred doctors who have honoured us on this occasion as University delegates ? They represent Universities of all ages and of all climes. We have now with us a delegate from the University of Bologna, founded we know not when, but fuU of vigour in the beginning of the twelfth century ; and we have a delegate from the Victoria University of Manchester, which is only three years old. "When the older Universities nourished— indeed, more than eighty years after St Andrews was founded— Columbus had not yet sailed to that marvellous antipodes where men stood with their 111- versities.' 122 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. heads downwards, and where it rained, hailed, and snowed upwards. And now this new world has sent us a poet and philosopher (his Excellency Mr Lowell) to represent her numerous centres of intellectual life. Very early in her history America founded Universities, for Harvard College is little younger than Edinburgh. Our colonies, also, still younger in human history, have estab- lished their Universities with a determination that their inhabitants shall have all the intellectual advantages of the older countries ; and so we are honoured at this gathering by the presence of delegates from every quarter of the globe. The range, therefore, for my observations is considerable. " Strictly limiting myself to the representation at this table, I might carry you from Brazil and Chili to Cracow, and from Bombay to Moscow. But I see, my Lord Chancellor, that you look aghast at the probable length of an oration from your Parliamentarian. I therefore content myself with assuring all the delegates of the sister Universities how much we appreciate their presence on this occasion. We are all engaged in one common mission — the diffusion of intellectual light through material darkness. Bacon used affectionately to call Universities sometimes the ' eyes of the kingdom,' sometimes 'the lanthorns of the kingdom.' They are both. Nations, especially now, when competition is keen among them, can no longer rely on material advantages or national characteristics. The most educated nation will win in the march of civilisation. It may not be to-day, but it certainly will be to-morrow. The old proverb is as true for nations as for individuals — ' A wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness.' " All our Universities, in every land, share in this important mission of lighting up the roads of civilisation through which their countries have to march. It is a glorions thing to feel that, while the lanthorns still burn now as brightly at Bologna and Oxford as they did in the twelfth century, new lights are springing up all over the world to illumine the progress of new nations and new peoples. Universities appear only to reach a limited class of the people, but they influence the happiness of all — ' For just experience tells in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil.' To select among the names of sister Universities names to connect with this toast is a difficulty only owing to their number and excellence. If I were to go back to the types on which Scottish Universities were founded, I would have to dwell on the ancient Universities of Paris and Bolo y most appropriate termination to the celebrations of the preceding week. Dr Cameron The text chosen for the occasion was from Job xxviii. 12: "Where is the place of understanding ? " Many as have been the strange scenes which this venerable church has witnessed, and which have taken place beneath these arches, it may well be doubted whether it ever witnessed a spectacle so imposing in itself, or so suggestive, — I may say so solemnising, — as that of the week just ended. It was not merely the vast multitude that thronged every part of the building — we have seen that before, and may see it again. It was not merely the scenic display, the brilliancy of colours, the quaintness of academic costume, the sweetness of the music, the vast volume of sound, that impressed one ; it was the thought that here, in the temple of God, the wisest men that our time has seen, from our own and from many lands — representatives of every form of intellectual culture — knelt side by side, joined their voices in the same hymn of praise, united in uttering, as with one voice, the one great common prayer of Christendom. It was the tribute of culture to faith — it was the homage of science to religion — it was the wise and reverent acknowledgment of God as the source of knowledge, the light of all our seeing, the fountain of all our wisdom. None of us can ever forget — none of us are ever likely to forget — the sight we witnessed, and which we shall never see again ; which has vanished from us like a beautiful but inspiring vision. It may not be out of place, now at the close of the Festival, while its memory is fresh with us, to dwell for a few moments on the relation of that culture, whose devoted servants have been among us, to religion ; on the connection between science, whose high priests we have seen and heard, and faith — between the University, the home of human learning, and the Christian Church, the home of worship, reverence, belief; and to put and answer the question— " Where," in the thought of Christian men, " is the place of understanding ? " It was a saying of one of the Fathers of the Christian Church, Clement of Alexandria,— the great school where the learning of the Eastern and Western worlds met and coalesced,— "Neither knowledge without faith, nor faith without knowledge." They are noble words— worthy to be writ- 178 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. ten in letters of gold on the portals of every school and university in the land. Their sentiment has not been forgotten by our own. Human knowledge and faith are related as parts of a common whole — they cannot be dissevered — they are vitally bound up with one another ; both would perish if they were, torn asunder. Strike a blow at either, and you wound both. We see this strong union from every point of view we look at it. They seem to be united in the very nature of things. Try to imagine science perfected without religion — all the phenomena of the universe explored and classified — referred to their laws, and these laws to their causes, — and you would still have to oo back in thought to a first cause of these causes, and a great final cause of these laws, such as you can only find in Him who is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end — God over all, blessed for ever : or, on the other hand, try to imagine religion perfected without science, try to imagine God revealed in all the plenitude of His perfections, and you would still need as a counter- part of this revelation such an illustration of His perfection as the sciences can alone afford, — astronomy to unfold His immensity, physics to display His wisdom and goodness — the moral sciences to approve His holiness, justice, and truth. If pure intellect without religion would land you in the absurdity of a creation without a Creator, pure religion without science would land you in the abstraction of a Creator without a creation. Or if you view the subject historically, we see how true is the saying we have quoted. Look at some of the aspects of our modern culture historically. That culture, that great educational force, that scientific research, which is the glory of our time, whence has it come ? It has been the offspring of religion, though religion has, like an infatuated and maddened mother, tried often to strangle her child. Whence have we the idea of general education ? The root idea of education is religious— it is grounded in the perception of the worth of the individual, the possibilities of every human soul,— an idea which religion, and especially Christianity, which deals with each man apart, emphasises. Take physical science. The root idea of science is religious — it is grounded on the universality of law. The two ideas by which the founders of modern science were guided, were the harmony of the world and the simplicity of its laws— two ideas which could never come from polytheism, where a special god presided over every department of nature, but which flow naturally from the Christian conception of one sovereign God, whose works, being the product of one mind, must be in harmony. Or, pass from Science and take our Art. Whence have come its special and distinctive features ? Its purity of aim, its freedom from sensual taint, its insight into the spirit of nature— above all, its glorification of common life,— these are the features impressed on it by Christianity, which taught men to look from the letter to the spirit — to see in nature " something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns ; " to call nothing common or unclean ; to see a beauty in self-sacrifice, and suffering, and duty ; to see in the humblest forms of human life something worthy of admiration. Or, once more, take Music : it is an art which Christianity has almost created. It was the long-continued vision of heaven— the struggle to produce by voice and instrument the deep feelings of the soul— that gave birth to the lofty music of our time. There could have been no music had not depth of feeling come to man. There was a love stronger than life before hymns like those of Wesley could break from the heart. "The CONCLUDING SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 179 doctrine of repentance must live in the world before we can have a Miserere ; there must be the exultant Christian hope before you can have a Gloria or Alleluia." The culture in its various aspects, then, of our time, is really the daughter of faith. Can there be, ought there to be a separation between the mother and the child ? If we look at the subject from one other point of view, the social, the union between science and faith, between culture and religion, is even closer. What would society be were religion cultivated to the absolute neglect of science ? Put from you all thought of the progress in culture of all kinds that this wonderful era of ours has seen, and try to imagine what we should be without it. You are brought back, not to good old times, but to a region of superstition and fetichism, of tyranny and barbarism, like that which covered Europe during the dark ages. Or, on the other hand, think what society would be were science cultivated to the neglect of religion. History has answered that question. Eead the wondrous story of the ' French Eevolution ' by Carlyle, and in its marvellous pages you have the comment of history on the text of Scripture^" "Where there is no vision the people perish;" and you can understand the saying of one of the actors in that fearful episode — as he saw society going to pieces, clattering on like a machine without a balance- wheel — " Man needs a God ; and if we cannot find one, it behoves us to make one." It is for us to remember, then, the indissoluble union between science and faith, between religion and culture, — to remember it when, on the one hand, we see religion, as we sometimes do, allying itself with ignorance and intolerance, — in the past history of the world setting itself against the discoveries of science, as when Eamus was banished, and Bruno was burnt at the stake, and Columbus anathematised, and Galileo forced on his knees to recant, and the heroic Kepler persecuted alike by Protestant and Catholic ; or, as now too often, looking with doubt on the researches of criticism — stigmatising intellectual. insight as rationalism — protesting and denouncing — setting up an infallible Church to save them from using the faculties God has given them, and to do all their thinking for them. When you see these things — and you may see them in Protestant Scotland as in Papal Eome — hold fast by the first part of the old Father's saying, "No faith without knowledge." He whose faith is untouched by knowledge, only believes that he believes. And on the other hand, when you see the dogmatism of certain specialists, coiling themselves up in their own little shell and sneering at the world, despising the religious feeling which lifts the soul upward to an invisible Lord of the conscience — which makes duty the paramount rule of the life — which chastens and subdues the higher region of thought and emotion with an all-constraining ideal of perfect righteousness,— then cling tenaciously to the other side of the question — to the other part of the aphorism of Clement. It is for you, then, to remember that intellect is too apt to become its own end, and culture to degenerate into a personal luxury, disregarding the wail of the world's sorrow, looking at it from the loopholes of classic retreat, and hiding out of sight the sore of its moral evil. It is for you to remember that if religion has been found ready to unite itself with ignorance and intolerance, culture has been found quite as capable of allying itself, not merely with frivolity— not merely with a lack of all feeling and of all earnestness of purpose— but even, in certain times and at certain places, with the foulest corruption. What was the moral state of Greece when its z 180 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. culture was highest ? And the Italy of Leo X., and the France of Louis XIV. ? Art, philosophy, sesthetics flourished, and yet the brutish nature of man asserted its power in the very presence of that culture which lacked the power to, overcome it. "No knowledge without faith." The words of the old Father express the spirit of the late gathering. They were almost repeated by one of the most illustrious men who visited us. " The grand, the noble, the inspiring feature which struck me," he said, " in this celebration, was the harmony, the union — the intimate union — between religion, patriotism, and science, which has presided over all the proceedings connected with this festivity." It was perhaps the noblest tribute out of many paid. It was not wonderful that it should be so — that religion, patriotism, science should thus combine. Our youngest Scottish University was the, offspring of patriotic feeling allied to religious earnestness. She received her being from the quickened national life of Protestant Scotland. There was a fitness that here, in the church of the nation — in the church of Knox — in the church where Henderson, and Pollock, and Carstares ministered — she should pay her homage and render her thanksgiving. Nobly, by the blessing of God, has our great University repaid all that she has received from Scotland, — all the anxiety of her founders — all the care of those who, in troublous times, guided her destinies — all the generosity of her benefactors. Let us hope and pray that this celebration may be for her a new starting-point in a career of usefulness, and that the future may be even more brilliant than the past has been ; and let us, the citizens of Edinburgh, — let the strangers who have rejoiced with us, and who have become, in the heartiness of their joy, no more strangers, but friends, — - let us, one and all, go back to our ordinary life impressed for good by what we have seen and heard. Let us hold more and more in reverence that intellectual life of man whose triumphs have been brought before us in a way they have never been brought before, here or elsewhere, by the presence of the greatest men in physical science, in literature, and art, that our marvellous time has seen. Let us reverence profoundly the understanding of men. Let us, in our own small sphere, "buy the truth, and sell it not;" let us keep our minds open to the light, from whatever quarter it may come, and pick up every beautiful pebble and shell by the ocean of truth that we can find, though, like Newton, we feel the great undiscovered ocean is ever before us. And let us not believe it possible that science and religion can ever contradict one another. As it is only in unhealthy conditions that mind and body are not in harmony, so it is only in un- healthy conditions that mind and spirit are not in harmony — that there is undue friction between the intellectual and the religious life. Truth in the one sphere cannot contradict truth in the other. All truth is one, not to be dissevered by us. Let the philosopher and the theologian each pursue his own way, keeping peace with one another, and cultivating that charity which is equally essential to both. And lastly, let us beware, even now, while the after-glow of this great Festival is on us, — let us beware of regarding the intellectual life as everything — as supreme. There is a class of faculties that beautify man's life besides what have been called the " knowing faculties " — Reverence, Rectitude, Adoration, Benevolence. The whole of the religious faculties are as truly constituent elements and forces of human nature as reason is. There are sentiments that have coloured and characterised human history, of which have been born the richest literature, the CONCLUDING SERVICE IN ST GILES'S. 181 noblest art, the grandest heroism, the sweetest patience, the noblest characters the world has seen. "Worship is as real as stones, or stars, or nerves, or germs. When a man asks himself what is right, when he is scrupulously just or widely generous, when he performs acts of homage or worship, when he opens his soul to the Infinite and prays for the inflowing of the eternal Spirit, he is quite as true to himself, to his inmost promptings, to his constitutional necessities, as when he seeks to know the nature of things. We have thought of the discoveries of science ; but there is a region into which the high priests of science, as such, cannot enter, but into which the little child can come. We know the facts science has laboriously collected ; but there is another class of facts of which she has nothing to say. There are hours in life when we must turn from the mere teaching of science to the teaching of faith — when all that science can tell us of law, and force, and genesis, seems to us only as the prattle of a child. The soul thirsts for God — for the living God — and finds its rest in Him ; and penitence kneels at the foot of the Cross. These are some thoughts which we may well carry back with us from the high and imposing celebration of the past week. III. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES A.-ADDRESSES FKOM UNIVERSITIES. UC^IZ)E1{SITY OF qABEI&EEWI. SENATUS TOIYERSITATIS ABERDONENSIS SENATFI TOIYERSITATIS EDINENSIS S. P. D. Q. B. F. F. F. S. CADEMIAM Jacobi VI. Edinensem, ludos saeculares nunc tertium agentem, salutat soror, saeculo ferme senior, Academia Jacobi IV. Aberdonensis. Aemulatio quidem, qualem decet esse sororum, quanquam viget prout vigere debet, utra sit formosior, utra eruditior, in hoc uno tamen communiter elaborandum est, ut et respublica in melius provehatur et altera alterius felicitate laetetur. Eadem fruimur patria; multorum quoque et illustrium nominum intercessit haereditas quasi commune vinculum. De Professoribus adhuc vivis nihil dici opus est, qui multi pollentesque ex altera in alteram commigrarunt, sed valde juvat utriusque memores Fastos percurrere, et tot splendida ingenia in lucem hodiernam proferre, Gxegorios, Joannem Ker, Colinum M'Laurin, aliosque, quorum nomina temporis decursu haud evanuerunt. Quam bene quoque Academia Edinensis de patria vel potius de orbe terrarum merita est ! ex qua, ut de ceteris sileatur, tot tantaque in re medica tropaea provene- rint, atque in philosopbia in litteris in scientia mathematica in historia naturali exstiterint lumina multa et praeclara inter proceres scientiae numeranda. Ne ipsae quidem Athenae magis Atticae fuisse videntur quam Athenae nostrae septentrionales. Quapropter Academiae Edinensi iterum atque iterum gratulatur faustaque omnia precatur Academia Aberdonensis. Abekdoniae, Nonis Aprilibus, A.S. MDCCCLXXXIV. 186 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. U7UT{HAM. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE CHANCELLOR, THE GENERAL COUNCIL, AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TT7E, the Warden, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Durham, desire to ' ' express to you our sincere congratulations on the auspicious occasion of the celebration of your Tercentenary. We view with mingled feelings of admiration and respect your great achievements in the past, and your signal influence and power in the present. Founded in the days when intellectual freedom began to awake in Europe, and learning ceased to be the exclusive possession of the few, the University of Edinburgh has been the happy instrument of developing and satisfying the thirst for knowledge in every rank of society. We most heartily congratulate you, not only on the long list of illustrious names that adorn your annals, but more especially on the manner in which you have solved that most important problem of bringing within the reach of the poorest and humblest the opportunities both of obtaining instruction and of testing their intellectual acquirements. Our sincere and earnest wishes are with you, that your past glorious history may be continued with no abate- ment of success. Given in our House of Convocation, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. Sigillatur, E. J. PEAECE, Sub-Warden. 212 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. UT^IVE'KSITY OF E^LA^QGEC^Q. AN DIE UNIVEKSITAT EDINBURGH. Eelangex, den 28 Januar 1884. HOCHGEEHRTE HERREN ! TjWPFANGEN Sie vor Allem unseren besten Dank fur die uns zugekommene freund- J-^ liche Einladung zu den Festlichkeiten, mit welclien Sie demnachst das dreihun- dertjahrige Bestehen Ihrer Universitat zu feiern gedenken. Je herzlicher aber die Wlinsche sind, welche wir fiir das Gedeihen Ihrer Hoch- schule hegen, um so grosser ist unser Bedauern, dass wir in Anbetracht der Umstande, namentlich der weiten Entfernung, es uns versagen mlissen, Ihnen unsere Gliick- und Segenswiinsche durch eine Deputation aus unserer Mitte personlich zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Wir senden sie Ihnen daher schriftlich aus der Feme, und versichern Sie unserer lebhaftesten, freudigen Theilnahme an Ihrem Feste, dem wir zugleich den schonsten Verlauf wiinschen. Moge Ihre alma mater, auf welche Sie mit vollem Rechte stolz sein konnen, sich im Laufe der Zeiten zu immer reicherer Bluthe entfalten und mit dazu beitragen, Wis- senschaft und Bildung zu einer immer hoheren Stufe zu erheben ! Der Senat der Koniglich Bayerischen Friedrich-Alexanders-Universitat Erlangen, De W. LEUBE, prof. p. o. h. t. prorector. universit. erlangens. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 213 UU^IVE'KSITY OF F%EIBU7iG. PEOEECTOE ET SENATUS UNIVEESITATIS FEIBUEGENSIS ILLUSTEIS ACADEMIAE EDINBUEGENSIS EECTOEI SENATUI CIVIBUS S. P. D. SI verum est Platonis illud omnes artes quae ad humanitatem pertinent habere quoddam commune vinculum et quasi cognatione quadam inter se contineri, idem dicendum est de virorum doctorum collegiis quibus artium illarum et scientiarum studium tamquam proprium munus mandatum sit. Communis autem huius vinculi quo omnes inter se continentur academiae vel litterarum universitates nullo profecto tempore laetiores possumus recordari quam nunc ipsum ubi vos tertium universitatis vestrae saeculum condituri estis. Atque cum adpropinquent iam solemnes illi dies qui- bus vos in summa cuiusvis nationis gratulantium frequentia tria saecula feliciter peracta animo perlustratis, quo aegrius nos ferimus quod ne ipsi adsimus prohibemur instante iam novi anni academici initio, eo sinceriora esse debent vota ominaque nostra quibus prosequamur faustam vestrae universitatis solemnitatem gratulabundi. Gratulamur autem vobis ex animi sententia non in hoc solum quod incluta vestra academia per trecentos annos incolumis atque integra stetit aliisque haud paucis facem eruditionis praetulit sed magis etiam quod eandem per tot aequiorum iniquiorumve temporum spatia quorum historiam arte egregia et admirabili diligentia pertextam etiam nobiscum nuper communicare benigne voluistis in dies laetiora incrementa cepisse manifestum est. Permaneat igitur vobis, enixe hoc optamus precamurque, etiam novo quod auspicaturi estis saeculo ea virorum doctorum et illustrium ubertas qua tribus saeculis peractis academia vestra semper eximie se floruisse hodie merito gloriatur, permaneat vobis quae cum magistrorum laudibus coniunctissima est adsiduitas discentium et frequentia, res vestras procurantium fides et sapientia. Nihil detrahatur umquam de privilegiis vestris iuribusque academicis, numquam deficere coeperit ea qua semper adfluebatis omnium rerum copia et beneficiorum abundantia. Quidquid denique vestram Academiam amplificare auctioremque reddere poterit, quidquid poterit studiis vestris consiliis contentionibusque felix fortunatum esse, — Id Deus O.M. duit pronus propitius. Valete nobisque favete. Dedimus Friburgi Brisigavorum mense Aprili a. mdccclxxxiv. Dr AUGUSTUS WEISMANN, h. t. Pronator. 2 D 214 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. UtfidlVEltSITY OF GENEVA. MAGNIFICO EECTORI ILLUSTEISSIMISQUE EDINBUEGENSIS UNIVEESITATIS PEOFESSOEIBUS GENEVENSIS UNIVEESITATIS EECTOE ET SENATUS ACADEMICUS SALUTEM PLUEIMAM IMPEETIUNT. PEEGEATUM fuit nobis quod tarn longe distantes per epistolam humanitatis plenam ad dies festos ob elapsum clarissimae Edinburgensis Universitatis saeculum tertium concelebrandos liberaliter nos invitavistis. Cui voluntati vestrae obsequi et frequentes ad vos ire ant certe legatum aliquem istue mittere cupiebamus, ut coram significaremus nos ex animo laetitiae vestrae participes fieri neque immemores esse necessitudinis quae olim inter Edinensem Genevensemque Scholam exstitit ; sed cum propter alias causas, quas enumerare longum est, turn propter aestivas praelectiones Aprili mense ineundas, nemini nostrum continget ut praedictis sacris vestris interesse possit. Quare vobis nos excusatos esse velimus atque, si minus voce, at saltern litteris gratias agimus maximas. IUud quoque gratum nobis fecistis quod duo volumina in quibus praeclari vestrae inter ceteras eminentis Scholae annales conscripti sunt, dono dedistis. Nobis itaque visum est " Eectoris librum et Ordinem Collegii" ut mutuae signum benevolentiae vobis remittere, quod parvum munus ut acceptum habeatis optamus et omnia prospera Universitati vestrae atque hujus alumnis precamur. Floreat in multa etiam saecula Edinburgensis Universitas, semperque, sicut prae- terito tempore, viris de litteratorum doctorumque Eepublica bene merentibus inclar- escat. Valete. Data Genevae v. Idus April., anno mdccclxxxiv. Nomine Senatus academici Genevensis, Rectai; G. JULLIARD. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 215 UWIIVE05\\ Edinburgh, 17th April 1884. TO THE CHANCELLOB, EECTOE, AND VICE-CHANCELLOE OF THE UNIVEESITY OF EDINBUEGH. T ESTEEM it no ordinary privilege to be charged by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, ■*- and Senate of the University of London, with the honourable duty of presenting to the University of Edinburgh their cordial congratulations on the auspicious cele- bration of the Tercentenary of her birth. As one of the youngest of her sisters, the University of London recognises with respectful gratitude the long course of distinguished services which have been rendered by the University of Edinburgh, not merely to her own country, but to the world at large, by her unceasing efforts for the improvement and spread of education, the pro- motion of learning, and the advancement of science; and rejoices to know that in entering on the fourth century of her existence, she unites with the venerable dignity of age the freshness and vigour of a renewed youth, giving every sign that her future career will be yet more glorious than her past, in the untrammelled freedom of her pursuit of truth, in the breadth and thoroughness of her teaching, and in the extent of the influence which she will exert on human progress. To that rejuvenescence of her elder sister the University of London has the pleasure of believing that she has herself in some degree contributed by the trans- fusion of a measure of her own youthful blood, embodied in the persons of a Lister, a Turner, a Crum Brown, and a Greenfield. Though myself officially connected with the University of London from a very early period of her comparatively brief career, I have never ceased to entertain a deep and grateful attachment to my Alma Mater for the nurture I early received from her, or to feel the liveliest interest in her welfare ; and I beg, therefore, to be allowed to tender to you my own hearty felicitations, in conjunction with those of the University I have the honour to represent. WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D., LL.D., Edin. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. £39 UU^/VETiSITY OF LOUVAIC^. L'UNIVERSITE DE LOUVAIN A L'UNIVERSITE D'EDIMBOURG. T 'UNIVERSITE de Louvain s'associe de tout coeur aux fetes par lesquelles -U l'Universite' d'Edimbourg va cel illis non modo in scholis, sed etiam in scriptis traditur, philosophia acquieverint. Quid quod historiarum scriptores rossici Edinburgensium opera quasi exemplar ad imitandum 256 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. sibi proposuerunt nee chirurgi artis suae viam ac rationem aliunde petendam esse existimant ? Quae cum ita sint, professores Mosquenses his sollemnibus saecularibus viris doctissimis, qui eadem munera Edinburgi obeunt, ex animo gratulantes vota suscipiunt, ut ex illis commerciis, quae inter rossicas et Scoticarum principem Academiam plus centum annos privatim potius quam publice intercesserunt, artissima et utrisque pariter utilis litterarum communio societasque aliquando efflorescat. Datum Mosquae a. d. xv. Kal Apriles a. mdccclxxxiv. Rector Universitatis, NICOLAUS BOGOLEPOFF. Decanus Ordinis historico-pliilologici, NILUS POPOFF. Decanus Ordinis physico-matliernatici, BASILIUS ZINGER. Decanus Ordinis juridici, VICTOR LEGONIN. Decanus Ordinis medici, Pkop. Dr N. SKLIFOSSOWSKY. Senatui academico a secretis, DEMETRIUS IVAXOFF. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 257 UU^IVETiSITY OF mU7Y direction of the Corporation of Yale College, the undersigned would extend their J-* cordial congratulations to the University of Edinburgh, on occasion of its Ter- centenary Anniversary, and also their profound regret for their inability to send a representative who should present the same in person. It is with the warmest interest that we review your splendid history, and study the roll of your distinguished professors, many of whom have been our instructors as truly as they have been your own. Much as the Colleges of our country are indebted to the great Universities of England and the Continent, they are indebted most of all to the University of Edinburgh for inspiration and instruction, — especially in the Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Natural History, Medicine, Meta- physics, and Theology. In the spirit and method of their instructors also, and in the character and aims of the students, the American Colleges are closely allied to the Scottish Universities. Amid the new responsibilities which seem to be gathering around all the Universities which use the English tongue, we cherish the confident hope that Edinburgh and Yale, with all the rest, will stand fast in their loyalty to the three great interests of classical culture, solid science, and Christian theism. In behalf of the Trustees and the several Faculties of Yale College, I am, very respectfully, NOAH PORTER, President. FRANKLIN B. DEXTER, Secretary. 2 N 286 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. UWlIVEIiSITY OF ZURICH. DER AKADEMISCHE SENAT IN ZURICH AN SECTOR PRINCIPAL UND SENAT DER UNIVERSITAT EDINBURG. MAGNIFICENZ ! HOCHGEEHRTE HERREN ! A N dem Jubelfeste, das Sie in den Tagen des 16-18 April zu feiern im Begriffe sind, -*-•*- nimmt auch der akademische Senat der Hochschule Zurich lebhaften und freu- digen Antheil ; denn wie alle schweizerischen Hochschulen fiihlt sich im Besondern diejenige Ztirichs mit der Universitat Edinburg nahe verwandt und verbunden. 1st ja doch diese ein Kind desselben protestantischen Geistes, der die Akademie von Genf und die Schule Zwingli's in's Leben gerufen. Den Boden fur die freie Entfal- tung wissenschaftlichen Lebens hat hier wie dort erst die Reformation geschaffen. Klein und bescheiden waren die Anfange des von James Lawson, dem Nachfolger cles schottischen Reformators gegrtindeten und unter die Leitung R. Pollock's ge- stellten College of Edinburgh ; aber gesund und lebensfahig war die Pflanzung, und auf fruchtbarem Boden, sorgsam gepflegt von einem thatkraftigen. geistig regsamen Volke ist sie im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zu voller Entwicklung und Bliithe gediehen. Der anfanglich auf die Theologie und Philologie beschrankte Wirkungskreis jener Schule hat sich mehr und mehr zu dem einer Universitas literarum erweitert, und auf wenige Hochschulen des 18 ten Jahrhunderts hat der Geist der neuen, von Bacon und Newton erschlossenen Weltanschauung so machtig fordernd, belebend und umgestal- tend eingewirkt wie auf diejenige Edinburgh, die durch keine mittelalterlichen Traditionen gebunden ihre Einrichtungen und Unterrichtsweise so, wie es^das Bedlirf- niss der neuen Zeit verlangte, gestalten konnte, dabei mehr deutschem und holland- ischem als englischem Vorbilde folgend. In der neuern Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, der Mathematik und der Medicin ist der Name Edinburg's ein vielgenannter und vielgefeierter. Bahnbrechende CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 287 Forschungen und Entdeckungen verschiedenster Art sind von dort ausgegaxigen, und haben den Kuhm jener Schule in alle Lander verbreitet. Dass die geistige Arbeit im Dienste der Wissenschaft alle Volker zu einer grossen Gemeinschaft verbindet, davon hat die Einladung, mit der Sie auch die Hochschule von Zurich beehrt baben, auf's Neue Zeugniss abgelegt. Wenn es uns nicbt moglich war, ihr durcb eine personliche Abordnung Folge zu leisten, so sind wir doch auch in der Feme G-enossen Ihres Festes und bringen Ihnen unsern Jubilaumsgruss mit dem "Wunsche : Moge die Universitat Edinburg auch in den kommenden Jahrhunderten zur Ehre und Zierde Schottlands eine gesegnete Freistatte und stolze Burg der Wissenschaft bleiben, festbegriindet, hoch gebaut und weithin leuchtend iiber alle Welt ! Zurich im April 1884. Der Akademische Senat der Hochschule Zurich. De H. STEESTER, Rector. 288 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. B -ADDRESSES FROM OTHER LEARNED BODIES. oAMSTE%DAM ': T&YAL cACAT>EMY OF SCIENCES. ACADEMIA REGIA DISCIPLINARUM NEDERLANDICA S. D. UNIVERSITATI STUDIORUM EDINBURGENSI. aUUM Universitas vestra a Rege Jacobo VI. condita et multorum civium liberalitate stabilita et aucta trium seculorum memoriam repetitura sit eaque occasione viros egregios undique convocaverit Academia quae in hac regione disciplinis colendis pro- movendisque inservit non solum per suum Praesidem sed etiam litteris declarare cupit quanto opere hac re laetetur. Vestra schola per tria secula optime de litteris et disciplinis de patria de humanitate merita est. Itaque sive respicimus egregios professores Gregorios Cullenium Stewart- ium alios qui istic docuerunt sive reputamus ingentem numerum eorum qui apud vos gravioribus studiis operam dederunt bodieque dant non possumus non vos felices praedicare. Ideo Academia vota facit ut illustris schola quae Scotiae Athenas ornat sub faustis auspiciis quarti seculi initia ponat et egregiam famam fortiter tueri pergat. D. Amstelodami Nonis April, anni p. C. n. cioioccclxxxiiii. BUYS BALLOT, Academiae li. t. Praeses. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 289 qANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.oA. The SECEETAEY of the UNIVEESITY op EDINBUEGH. SIR, rPHE invitation to the Andover Theological Seminary to send a representative to •*- be the guest of the University of Edinburgh during the celebration of its Tercentenary was duly received, and a reply to the same has been delayed in the hope that the President of the Faculty, or some other delegate, would be able in person to express our congratulations and grateful acknowledgments. We regret that this is found to be impracticable, and I am accordingly instructed to express by letter our high appreciation of the importance and interest of the occasion, and the pleasure it would have given us to participate directly in its observance. We recall with you the many illustrious names on the long roll of Graduates and Professors of your University — names that are household words here, as in Scotland and England — and we recognise the greatness of our indebtedness to their Alma Mater. A theological seminary may be expected to be specially mindful of the great teachers of Philosophy and Divinity, and of the eminent ministers of the Gospel, whom your University has trained. In the last century, a movement in theology began in this country under the leadership of Jonathan Edwards which has affected the entire history of our Institution ; and it may not be inappropriate for us to allude to the fact, that nowhere did that eminent man find greater encouragement and more cordial support than in Scotland, and among distinguished sons of your University. As the writer pens these words, there lies open before him the autograph letter addressed by Mr Edwards to a graduate of your University, " the Rev. Mr John Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Kirkintilloch," in which the acceptance is asked of " one of my late books on Religious affections herewith sent, as a token of my esteem and gratitude ; " and the announcement is made of a purpose to write and publish on " the Freedom of the Will and moral agency," and the practical inquiry is made whether, " if a subscription should be set forward in Scotland to encourage such a design, there would be any probability of success in it." Mr Erskine's reply gave assurances of personal effort in the direction desired. 290 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH. As in Theology, so in all departments of letters and science, your prosperity is ours; and we trust that the approaching celebration, in promoting a just estimate of the benefits conferred by your University, will increase the appreciation which is entertained of the greatness and oneness of the commonwealth of science and literature, and intensify the bonds of international unity. And while we join with you in honouring your history, permit us to present our respectful salutations to the distinguished body of Professors who now perpetuate and extend the fame of your University in other lands as at home, and indulge us in the confident anticipation that the future renown of your University will add new lustre to what has already been achieved. In behalf of the Faculty of Andover Theological Seminary, EGBERT C. SMYTH, President of the Faculty. Andover, Mass., U.S., 1st April 1884. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 291 'BE'RJLIWi: %OYAL "PRUSSIA^ oACATtEMY OF SCIENCES. AN DIE UNIVEKSITAT ZU EDINBUEGH. WIE die Wissenschaft iiberhaupt das beste Gemeingut aller voll und gliicklich entwickelten Volker ist, so feiern bei jeder Anstalt, die ilir zu dienen bestimmt ist, jedes ihrer grossen hauslichen Feste die auswartigen mehr oder minder gleich- artigen Korper mit. Auf Ihrer schonen Insel, in der alten Heimath ta.pferer und geistesfreier Forschung und praktiscb angewandter Wissenschaftlichkeit, ist die Uni- versitat Edinburgh seit langen Jahrbunderten der dentschen Geistesarbeit eng ver- schwistert, Anregung gebend und wieder empfangend. Von dem edlen Samen, den Ihre Vorganger und Sie selbst drei Jahrhunderte hindurch ausgestreut haben, ist manches Korn, und nicht das schlechteste, aus der Heimath Luthers zu Ihnen hinubergefuhrt worden. Von den schonen Friichten, die also erwuchsen, sind manche, und nicht die schlechtesten, auf deutschen Boden verpfianzt worden und auf diesem weiter entwickelt und gediehen. Mit den Segenswiinschen, die aus der Nahe und aus der Feme heute die in alter Ehrwurdigkeit und jugendlicher Frische dastehende Universitat der Schottenhaupt- stadt begriissen, vereint auch die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin den ihrigen, und entnimmt aus der reichen Vergangenheit und der glanzenden Gegenwart die siehere Biirgschaft fiir deren gleich reiche und gleich glanzende Zukunft. Berlin im Marz mdccclxxxiv. Die Koniglich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. MOMMSEN. E. DU BOIS-REYMOND. E. CURTIUS. A. AUWERS. SCHOTT. LEPSIUS. KIEPERT. BEYRICH. EWALD. WEBER. A. KIRCHHOFF. A. W. HOFMANN. PRINGSHEIM. G. KIRCHHOFF. v. HELMHOLTZ. ZELLER. DUNCKER. SIEMENS. RUD. VIRCHOW. G. WAITZ. WEBSKY. v. SYBEL. DILLMANN. CONZE. SCHWENDENER. HERM. MUNK. EICHLER. TOBLER. WATTENBACH. DIELS. LANDOLT. WALDEYER. 292 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. EMY OF SCIENCES. A MAGYAE TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA AZ EDINBUEGI TUDOMANY EGYETEMNEK. A MAGYAE, Tudomanyos Akademia, mely Europa keleti szelein fejleszti es terjeszti a tudomanyt, azon szoros kapcsolatnal fogva, mely a tudomany munkasait osszekoti, reszt kivan venni azon nap oromeben, a mikor a tavol ejszakon az Edinburgi Egyetem haromszazados fennallasat unnepeli. Ezert az Akademia megbizta egyik titkarat es tagjat Dr Szab6 J6zsefet, bogy az Akademia bodolatanak, az Edinburgi Egyetem altal a tudomany es kftzmiivelMes ugyenek barom szazad lefolyasa alatt tett szolgalatokert, es szerencsekivanatainak a negyedik szazad kuszoben tolmacsa legyen. Budapest 1884 marezius 30 ikan. GR. LONYAY MENYHERT, Elnok. ACADEMIA SCIENTIAEUM HUNGAEICA UNIVEBSITATI SCIENTIAEUM EDINBUEGHENSI S. P. A CADEMIA Scientiarum Hungarica, in extremo fere Europae oriente constituta, -*--*- pro ea, quae inter litterarum cul tores animorum et studiorum intercedit coniunc- tione, partem sibi vindicat in festivi diei laetitia, qua lllustris Universitas Edinbur- ghensis in summo septemtrione posita institutionis trisaeculares ferias celebrat. Academia igitur Hungarica, erudito suo membro et (pro matbematicis et natura- libus) secretario Josepho Szabo honorificum concredidit munus, ut pro insigni opera, quam in augendis litteris et propaganda civilitate, Universitas Celebrans, trium saecu- lorum cursu, praestitit, obsequii sui interpretem agat, simulque fausta saeculi quarti auspicia precetur. Vivat, vigeat, floreat ! Datum Budapestini in Hungaria, pridie Kalendas Apriles, anno mdccclxxxiiii. CONGE ATTTLATORY ADDRESSES. 293 COTE^QHAGEN: "ROYAL VANISH cACA'DEMY OF SCIENCES. TO THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. rPHE Royal Danish Academy of Sciences has commissioned us to congratulate the J- University of Edinburgh on the completion of its three hundredth anniversary. Founded as it was in very troubled times, this University has for centuries spread enlightenment and culture on a people to whom our nation is united by olden ties. It has had a very great part in the important contributions of Scotland to the promotion of science. Therefore the Danish Academy participates in the grateful feelings of the Scottish people and of all friends of science. It appreciates also the fact of having counted, and still counting, renowned professors of the University of Edinburgh among its members. Fully confident that the labours of the University also in times to come will bring blessings on the country, progress to science, and fame to itself, we wish to express and convey the sincere congratulations of our Academy to- the noble University of Edinburgh. Copenhagen, the 9th of April 1884. J. K MADVIG, President. H. G. ZEUTHEN, Secretary. 2 294 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH. "BUBLIT^: R STEELE, %OME. ACADEMIC EDINENSI ALUMNUS EXTORPJS S. D. "TilLECTA musis Aula foventibus -■-' Artes renatas Te tria secula Ditata doctrinee tropseis Et spoliis decorant opimis Scientiarum, ex quo Genius loci Maestus necato rege per impium Examen eversisque divum Sedibus ac vidua immerenti Eheu Maria ! rite luit scelus Horrendum, et Urbis plus nimio ferae Poscentis ultorem daturum Inferias juveni perempto Pacator iram sic minuit : " Nova Non ultionem Eeligio sibi Permittit excusatve civem Invidise studiosiorem, Sed Cbristiano fisa piamiui Ponit secures inque reos gerit Se leniorem, mox futura Nobilior sine csede vindex. Sit cura Patrum, sit popularium Mollire cultu pectora et ingeni Augere dotes semper usu In melius sibi provehendas. Hac mente felix tu super sedibus, Edina, lapsis conde domum novam Natos recepturam per sevum Artibus ingenuis alendos, 2 S 326 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Per quos tuum olim nomen in ultimas Procurret oras, Pallade te suam Dicente post factas borea Ambiguas regione Athenas." Hsec dicta volvit corde sub intimo Ediua ; ritu conditur en ! novo Sublime tectum quod serena Fronte petat Superos faventes, Ex quo juventus prodeat artibus Instructa honestis, impigra tradere, Cursoris in morem, sequenti Lumina non peritura cultus : iEgris mederi civibus, ordinem Eectum evaganti frena licentise Imponere, arcesque in beatas Coelicolum revocare lapsos, Ducente Christo, tempus in ultimum Terrasque in omnes, hie labor, hie tuus Jam, Scote, prseclarus, patenti Ceu patria fruiture mundo.. Qui gurges aut quae militise tuse Ignara tellus ? qui populus rudis Cui Pacis inducens olivam Advena non venias benignus ? Quae non, Edinse munere doctior, Gens expbeatis viribus indolem Testatur integrosque mores Pube Caledonia probatos ? Damnosa nescit lsedere te dies cara nutrix ! Te tria secula Post heec salutabunt parentem Prolis adhuc generosioris. Divulsus alta sede prius ruet Arturus erransque unda Bodotrise Montes reviset quam sub umbras Nomen honosque tuus recedant. J. P. STEELE, B.A., M.D. Kom.e, iv Id. April. CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES. 327 1876 Theory, History, and Art of Education . 1879 Fine Art . 1882 Celtic Languages and Literature, . Professors. \Y. Y. Sellar, M.A., LL.D. George Chrystal, M.A. S. H. Butcher, M.A. A. Campbell Fraser, D.C.L., LL.D. Henry Calderwood, LL.D. P. G. Tait, M.A., D.Se. . John Kirkpatrick, LL.B. . David Masson, LL.D. C. Piswizi Smyth . John "Wilson Sir Herbert Oakeley, M.A., Mus.D., LL.D, Julius Eggeling, PhD. . Fleeming Jenkin, F.E.S. . James Geikie, F.R.S. Joseph Shield Nicholson, M.A. Simon S. Laurie, M.A. G. Baldwin Brown, M.A. . Donald Mackinnon, M.A. . 2 V Appointed. 1863 1879 1882 1856 1868 1860 1881 1865 1845 1854 1865 1875 1868 1882 1880 1876 1880 1882 342 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. FACULTY OF DIVINITY. Dean- — A. H. Charteris, D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism. Date of Institution Chairs. 1583 Divinity .... 1642 Hebrew and Oriental Languages . 1694 Divinity and Ecclesiastical History 1846 Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities Professors. Robert Flint, D.D. David L. Adams, M.A., B.D. M. C. Taylor, D.D. A. H. Charteris, D.D. Appointed. 1876 1880 1877 1868 FACULTY OF LAW. Dean — John Kirkpatrick, LL.B., &c, Professor of Constitutional Law and History. 1707 Public Law 1710 Civil Law 1719 Constitutional Law and History . 1722 Scots Law 1807 Medical Jurisprudence and Police 1825 Conveyancing 1871 Commercial and Political Economy and" . Mercantile Law James Lorimer, LL.D. 1 1862 James Muirhead . 1862 John Kirkpatrick, LL.B. . 1881 Norman Macpherson, LL.D. 1865 Douglas Maclagan, M.D. . 1862 J. S. Fraser Tytler, LL.D., W.S. . 1866 Joseph S. Nicholson, M.A. 1880 FACULTY OF MEDICINE. Dean — Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia Medica. 1676 Botany . 1685 Institutes of Medicine 1685 Practice of Physic 1705 Anatomy 1713 Chemistry and Chemical Pharmacy 1726 Midwifery and Diseases of Women and | Children j" 1741 Clinical Medicine 1767 Natural History . 1768 Materia Medica . 1803 Clinical Surgery . 1807 Medical Jurisprudence and Police 1831 Surgery . 1831 General Pathology Alexander Dickson, M.D. . William Rutherford, M.D;, F.R.S. T. Grainger Stewart, M.D. William Turner, M.B., F.R.S. A. Crum Brown, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. Alexander R. Simpson, M.D. 'Douglas Maclagan, M.D. . T. Grainger Stewart, M.D. Thomas R. Fraser, M.D. . Wm. S. Greenfield, M.D. . Diseases of Women — v Alexander R. Simpson, M.D. J. Cossar Ewart, M.D. Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., F.R.S. . Thomas Annandale, M.D. . Douglas Maclagan, M.D. . John Chiene, M.D. Wm. S. Greenfield, M.D. . ' 1879 1874 1876 1867 1869 1870 1862 1876 1877 1881 1870 1882 1877 1877 1862 1882 18.81 Secretary of the Senatus Academieus — Professor Wilson. 1 Professor Lorimer was elected an Honorary Member of the University of St Petersburg on 11th February 1884. APPENDIX. 343 UNIVERSITY LECTURERS. Balfour Lecturer in Philosophy On Mental Diseases On Diseases of the Eye Andrew Seth, M.A, &c. Thomas S. Clouston, M.D., F.EOP.E. Douglas Argyll Eobertson, M.D., F.EGS.E. ASSISTANTS TO PROFESSORS. 1. IN THE FACULTY OF AETS. Humanity Greek . Mathematics . Logic and Metaphysics Moral Philosophy Natural Philosophy Ehetoric and English Literature Engineering W. M. Lindsay, B.A Andrew H. Hutt, M.A E. E Allardice, MA. James Seth, MA. James Weir, MA. "William Peddie. W. L. Carrie, M.A James G. Fairweather, B.Sc., C.E. Civil Law Scots Law Conveyancing 2. IN THE FACULTY OF LAW. William Nicoll, LL.B. David Gillies. A G. Young, Wm. Chree, and P. Macnaughton. 3. IN THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. Clinical Medicine Tutor Clinical Medicine Clinical Surgery Tutor . Clinical Surgery Anatomy Chemistry Institutes of Medicine (Physiology) Materia Medica Medical Jurisprudence . Midwifery Botany Surgery Pathology Practice of Physic Natural History J. Murdoch Brown, M.B., CM. rS. W. Ballantyne, M.B., CM. ; T. S. Wilson, M.B., CM. ; W. H. Barrett, M.B., CM. ; George Mac- kay, M.B., CM. ; Walter Petter, M.B., CM., for Winter Session 1883-84. I Charles Brown, M.B., CM. ; William Hunter, M.B., J CM. ; H. A. Wilson, M.B., CM. ; Cecil Lane, V for Summer Session 1884. James Bennet, M.B., CM. f D. G. Bennet, M.B., CM. \ WiUiam Cotton, M.B, CM. Arthur Thomson, M.B., CM. j E. M. Morrison, D.Sc. I John Gibson, Ph.D. J, L. Gibson, M.B., CM. G. S. Atkinson, M.B., CM. James Allan Gray, M.D. A. H. Barbour, M.A, M.D., B.Sc. Patrick Geddes. F. M. Caird, M.D. G. S. Woodhead, M.D. ; Charles Kennedy, M.B., CM. Eobert W. Philip, M.A., M.B, CM. J. T. Cunningham, BA. 344 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. EXAMINERS FOR DEGREES. IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS. The Professors of Humanity, Mathematics, Greek, Logic and Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Rhetoric and English Literature. Appointed. Alexander Macfarlane, M.A., D.Sc. . . . Examiner in Mathematics . . . 1881 William Peterson, MA Examiner in Classical Literature . . 1882 W. R. Sorley, MA Examiner in Mental Philosophy . . 1883 IN THE FACULTY OF DIVINITY, The Professors of the Faculty of Theology. R. Davidson, B.D. James Kennedy, RD. Appointed. 1883 1883 IN THE FACULTY OF LAW. Fob Degrees op Bachelor op Laws and Bachelor op Law. The Professors of the Faculty of Law, with the Examiners in Arts, and Professor Eggeling for Preliminary Examinations. Appointed. David Lang, LL.B. ... . . 1884 William C. Smith, LL.B. . . .... 1884 IN THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE. The Professors of the Faculty of Medicine, with Preliminary the Examiners in Arts and Professor Eggeling for Examinations. Appointed. William M'Intosh, M.D., F.R.S. Natural History .... 1880 Hugh Cleghorn, M.D Botany ...... 1880 James Dunsmure, M.D. .... Clinical Surgery .... 1880 James D. Gillespie, M.D. Surgery ..... 1882 Byrom Bramwell, M.D. . Clinical Medicine .... 1882 Richard Caton, M.D Institutes of Medicine 1882 William Murrell, M.D Materia Medica 1882 Sidney Coupland, M.D Pathology .... 1882 Thomas Barlow, M.D. Practice of Physic .... 1883 J. Halliday Croom, M.D. Midwifery .... 1883 D. J. Cunningham, M.D. Anatomy ..... 1883 A P. Aitken, M.A., D.Sc Chemistry , . , . 1883 Henry D. Littlejohn, M.D Medical Jurisprudence 1884 APPENDIX. 345 FOE DEGEEES IN PUBLIC HEALTH. Chemistry .... Physics .... Sanitary Law and Vital Statistics Medicine .... Practical Sanitation Professors Maclagan, Crum Brown, and T. E. Fraser. Professors Tait and Fleeming Jenkin. Professors Tait and Maclagan. Professors Maclagan, Grainger Stewart, and T. E. Fraser. Professors Maclagan, Fleeming Jenkin, and T. E. Fraser. FOE DEGEEES IN ENGINEEEING. Professor Fleeming Jenkin. George Miller Cunningham, C.E. . . . . Appointed. 1883 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN. John Small, M.A. Assistants— Alex. Anderson, J. H. S. Gregory, C. Martin, D. Cuthbertson, John Hardy. KEEPERS OF MUSEUMS. Museum of Natural History— Professor Ewart, M.D. Anatomical Museum — Professor Turner, M.B., F.E.S. Assistant — James Simpson. Factor of the University — John Cook, W.S. Clerk of the University and Secretary and Registrar of General Coawcfl— Thomas Gilbert. Assistant Registrars— David Lister Shand, W.S. ; J. Small, M.A. Assistant Clerk— James 0. Sinclair. Janitor and Macebearer — John Chapman. Warder — Alexander Adair. APPENDIX C. TERCENTENARY COMMITTEES. TEECENTENAEY COMMITTEE. Appointed on 20th December 1879. The Principal, the Secretary, Deans of Faculties, and Professors Grainger Stewart (Convener), Eutherford, Geikie, and Simpson. 346 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE. Appointed on 23d October 1882. The Principal (Convener) ; Professors Crum Brown, Butcher, Charteris, Eggeling, Flint, Campbell Fraser, T. R Fraser, Kirkpatrick, Maclagan, Masson, Grainger Stewart, Turner, and Wilson : With Mr R. Bruce Johnston, Secretary to the Curators. Sub-Committee to Prepare Lists of Universities, Other Bodies, and Distinguished Persons. Appointed on 10th November 1883. Professors Crum Brown, Eggeling, Flint, Kirkpatrick (Convener) ; to whom were added, on 17th November, The Principal and Professor Turner. Deputation to Confer with Lord Provost's Committee. Appointed on 17 th November 1883. The Principal, and Professors Flint, Campbell Fraser, Turner, and Wilson. Banquet Committee. Appointed on 28th January 1884. The Principal (Convener) ; Professors Crum Brown, T. R Fraser, Kirkpatrick, and Maclagan ; — to act with the following Executive Sub-Committee of the General Council: Messrs Thomas M'Kie (Convener, who was also appointed Treasurer of the Banquet Fund) and John Rankine ; Professor Laidlaw, Dr H. D. Littlejohn, and Dr P. Heron Watson. Tercentenary Treasurer. Appointed on 28th January 1884. Professor Wilson. Committee to Confer with Lord Provost's Committee. Appointed on 28th January 1884. The Principal, and Professors Turner and Kirkpatrick. Sub-Committee for Tercentenary Ceremonial. Appointed on 18th March 1884. Professors Mnirhead and Butcher. APPENDIX. 347 Committee foe Beception of Guests. Appointed on \&th March 1884. The Four Deans of the Facilities (Professors Charteris, Campbell Fraser, Kirkpatriok, and T. E. Fraser), with Mr E. Bruce Johnston. Committee to Edit Tercentenary Eecords. Appointed on 2Qth April 1884. The Principal and Professor Kirkpatriok. (The Editors were ably assisted by Mr George Somerville, the Tercentenary Clerk.) APPENDIX D. STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL. Orme Masson. I Presidents. R. Fitzroy Bell. J. F. Sturrock. Joint-Secretaries and Treasurers. Anderson Steel, 17 Abercromby Place. | H. A. Thomson, 25 Douglas Crescent. G. B. Batten. A. E. Barlow. J. Biggam. W. Buclian. W. W. D. Campbell. W. H. Campbell. D. S. Capper. G. C. Cathcart. J. A. Clyde. F. W. Collinson. F. T. Cooper. T. B. Darling. H. M. Davidson. F. W. Deas. A. W. Donald. Alex. Edward. A. Elliot. George Eyre. R. H. Fisher. D. Fleming. T. Fraser. J. Garland. A. Geoghegan. T. L. Gilmore. Lothian Gray. G. L. Gulland. L. A. Hawkes. A. Henderson. W. E. Home, ft; E. Horsley. R. Howden. List of Members. G. Jack. R. P. Jack. F. R. Jamieson. J. H. A. Laing. John Lamond. J. C. Lamont. R. F. C. Leith. W. Macansh. W. B. T. Macaulay. D. R. M'Connel. N. Macdonald. J. M. M'Gill. W. M. M'Lachlan. E. M. Macphail. J. L. Macpherson. R. S. Marsden. D. G. Marshall. R. S. Morrison. G. W. Moseley. F. Muirhead. A. Murray. A. E. Nevins. W. Robson Notman. W. E. Oliver. H. B. Pickard. F. A. Pockley. A. C. Purchas. A. R. Rainy. Charles Reid. R. R. Richardson. W. J. Richardson. Charles J. Ritchie. E. Blackwell Roberts. A. Rowand. T. E. Sandeman. J. M. J. Scott. G. A. Scott. W. A. Scott. A. Sellers. Hay Shennan. F. H. Simmons. G. Granville Smith. G. Gregory Smith. Hunter Smith. P. Smith. A. A. Grainger Stewart. G. N. Stewart. R. Stirling. C. Sturrock. A. Taylor. T. Templeton. R. Thin. F. Wyville Thomson. J. C. Thomson. Joseph Tillie. J. C. Vaughan. A. B. Wann. R. H. Watson. A. R. Don "Wauchope. J. Weber. J. W. Wells. G. Sims Woodhead. 348 TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. APPENDIX E. PROGRAMME OF THE STUDENTS' DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION. Committee of Management. Lady Grant, Mrs Butcher, Mrs Fleeming Jenkin, Madame Kunz, Mrs Littlejohn, Mrs Masson, Mrs Sellar; and the Executive Committee of the Students' Representative Council. THEATRE ROYAL. Wednesday, 16th April, at 3 p.m., The late Andrew Halliday's Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, founded on ' The Fortunes of Nigel,' and entitled KING O' SCOTS. King James VI., Prince Charles, . The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Dalgarno, . Sir Mungo Malagrowther, George Heriot, Maxwell, Mansfield, . Nigel Olifaunt, . Richie Moniplies, Jenkin Vincent, . Frank Tunstal, . Duke Hildehrod, J. R. Burt. A. S. Dewar. F. C. Durant. A. B. Book. John Garland. W. M. M'Lachlan. J. Dunlop. H. H. Littlejohn. R. H. Horsley. A. Y. Ritchie. C. M. Ballard. H. Harvey. A. C. Wedderspoon. Captain Colepepper, Slicing Dick, Sergeant of the Guard, Trapbois, Margaret Ramsay, Martha, Lady Hermione, . Dame Ursula Suddlechop, 8. T. Vine. F. W. Weber. W. E. Home. E. M. Royle. Miss Nelly Petrie. Miss Mair. Miss Kunz. Miss Cameron. 'Prentices, Gentlemen, Lords, Ladies, City Watch- men, Beefeaters, Soldiers of the King's Guard, Pages, Chamberlains, Huntsmen, Alsatians, &c. Stage Manager — Mr G. P. M'Neill. The action takes place in London about the year 1620. Act I. — Scene 1. Fleet Street. — Scene 2. In Heriot's House. — Scene 3. Ante-Chamber and Throne-Room at Whitehall. Act II. — Scene 1. In Heriot's House. — Scene 2. Tavern in Whitefriars. — Scene 3. In the House of Trapbois, the Usurer. Act III. — Scene 1. London Bridge. — Scene 2. Street, near Paul's Wharf. — Scene 3. Green- wich Park. — Scene 4. In the Tower. The Overture, Entr'actes, and Incidental Music will be played by the Students' Club Orchestra. Conductor, Mr Dambmann. Doors open 2.30 — Performance begins at 3 p.m. ' ' Gaudeamus igitur Juvenea dum sumus." Overture, Valse, Overture, PROGRAMME OF MUSIC. " Guy Mannering," "Nigel," . " Le Chevalier Breton," Bishop. Theo. Hyslop. A. Hermann. INDEX. Academy, Eoyal Scottish, Eeception by Vote of thanks to Adams, Rev. Professor PAGE 169 . 335 110, 342 Address, Promoter's, at Ordinary Graduation Ceremonial Address, Tercentenary, by the Chancellor . Addresses, Congratulatory : — From Universities, Aberdeen Amsterdam Basle . Berlin . Berne . Bombay Bonn . Breslau Brussels Buda-Pesth Cambridge Charcov Christiania Coimbra Copenhagen Cornell Cracow Czernowitz Dorpat Dublin Durham Erlangen Freiburg Geneva Ghent . Giessen Qottingen Granada Gratz . Greifswald Groningen Halle . Heidelberg Helsingfors Innsbruck Jena 30 99 185 186 187 188 189 191 192 193 194 197 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 220 221 221 222 223 225 226 226 Addresses, Congratulatory : — From Universities- — continued. PAGE Kasan 227 Kief 228 Kiel 229 Kingston, Canada 231 Konigsberg 232 Leipzig 233 Lemberg 234 Leyden 236 Lima 237 London 238 Louvain 239 Lund 240 Madrid 241 Manchester 242 Marburg 244 Michigan 253 Montreal 254 Moscow 255 Munich 257 New Jersey 258 Oviedo 260 Oxford 261 Padua 262 Palermo 263 Paris 264 Pennsylvania . . ... 266 Pisa 268 Prague 269 Rome 271 Rostock 272 St Andrews 272 St Petersburg 273 Seville 274 Strassburg 275 Sydney 276 Tubingen 278 Turin 279 Upsala 280 Utrecht 281 Vienna 282 Virginia 284 Yale 285 Ziirich 286 2X 350 INDEX. Addresses, Congratulatory : — From other Learned Bodies. Amsterdam : Boyal Academy of Sciences . 288 Andover Theological Seminary, Mass., U.S.A. 289 Berlin: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences 291 Buda-Pesth : Hungarian Academy of Sciences 292 Copenhagen : Boyal Danish Acad, of Sciences 293 Dublin : Royal Coll. of Surgeons in Ireland 294 Edinburgh : Boyal College of Physicians . 295 Edinburgh : Boyal College of Surgeons . 296 Edinburgh : Boyal Society .... 297 Florence: Boyal Institute of Higher Prac- tical Studies 299 Leipzig : Boyal Saxon Academy of Sciences 299 London : Edinburgh University Club . 300 London : Boyal Coll. of Surgeons of England 301 Munich : Boyal Bavarian Acad, of Sciences 302 New York : Union Theological Seminary . 303 Paris : College de France .... 304 Paris : L'Institut de France . . 305 Philadelphia : Franklin Institute . . 306 Borne : Boyal Academy of Lincei . . 307 St Petersburg : Imperial Academy of Sciences 308 St Petersburg : Imperial Medical Academy . 309 Stockholm : Boyal Caroline Medico-Chirur- gical Academy 310 Stockholm : Boyal Swedish Acad, of Sciences 311 Upsala: Boyal Society of Sciences . . 313 Venice: Boyal Venetian Institute of Sci- ences, Letters, and Arts .... 314 Addresses, Congratulatory : — From Individuals. Delitzsch, Professor, Leipzig . . 315 Hyrtl, Professor, Vienna . . . .316 Kissner, Professor, Kdnigsberg . . . 317 Main, Mr George, Moscow .... 319 Martinez, His Excellency M. . . . 320 Scotchmen in Bombay .... 324 Steele, Dr, Bome 325 Vera, Professor, Naples . . . 327 Addresses, Congratulatory, presentation of 83, 84 Admission to Ceremonials, arrangements for 20, 24, 25 Advocates, Dean of Faculty of . 42, 105, 174 Advocates, Faculty of, Reception given by . . 105 Vote of thanks to 335 Albany, Duke of, references to the late . . 45, 62 Alexander, Bev. Dr Lindsay .... 90 Alison, Lieut.-General Sir Archibald, Bart. . 90 Speech by 72 Anderson, Mr B. Bowand, architect of New Buildings, 72, 90 Speech by 73 Annandale, Professor .... 59, 110, 342 Appendix : — A — Post-Tercentenary Documents, &c. . 333 B— Office-Bearers of the University in April 1884 ... ... 340 C — Tercentenary Committees . . . 345 D — Students' Bepresentative Council . . 347 E— Programme of the Students' Dramatic Bepresentation 348 Architect of New Buildings (see also Anderson, Mr E. Bowand) 72 Arrangements by Senatus Academicus . . 3 Ask, Professor 84, 109 Balfour, Dr G. "W 90 Ball, Students' 21, 81 Ballot, Professor 90 . 75, 81, 83, 106 40 40, 80, 106, 169, 176 41 . 169, 176 19, 346 19, 108 . 108 90 Band, Mr Dambmann's Band of Edinburgh Police . Band of Gordon Highlanders Band of Q.E.E.V.B. . Band of Boyal Scots Greys . Banquet Committee Banquet, Tercentenary Ladies' galleries at Barker, Dr Fordyce Beets, Bev. Professor 89 Speech by 153 Bell, Mr R. Fitzroy .... 81, 150, 347 Benefactors and others invited to Festival . . 6 Billings, Dr J. S 90 Speech by 72 Blackie, Emeritus Professor . . . 54, 110 Boussingault, Monsieur J. B. J. D. . . . 91 Bowman, Sir William, Bart 91 Boyd, Mr John, Treasurer of City of Edinburgh 1 10, 341 Boyd, Sir Thomas J 110, 341 Breakfast given by Royal College of Surgeons . 146 Briggs, Rev. Professor 89 Bristowe, Dr J. S 91 Brodie, Dr John C, D.K.S 91 D.K.S. Brown, Professor Baldwin Brown, Professor Cruni Browning, Dr Robert . Speech by Bryce, Professor ..... Bryennios, Philotheos .... Buccleuch, Duke of, references to the late Bunsen, Professor .... Burnett, Dr George, Lyon King-of- Arras . . 79, 110, 341 30, 60, 78, 110, 342, 346 91 166 91 89 63,83 91 91 Butcher, Professor 110, 339, 341, 346 91 Caird, Sir James ...... Caird, Very Rev. Principal .... 89 Cairns, Rev. Principal . ... 91 Calderwood, Professor ... 30, 110, 339 Cap and Gown Club, Supper of . . . . 42 Caro, Monsieur E. M 91 Cathedral of St Giles, see St Giles. Cay ley, Professor 91 Ceremonial, Ordinary Graduation ... 29 Ceremonial, Tercentenary 82 Chairmen at Luncheon in University New Buildings 56 Chairmen at Tercentenary Banquet . . 109, 110 Chancellor of the University 29, 44, 82, 83, 99, 109, 340 Address by, at Tercentenary Ceremonial . 99 Speeches by m, 145 Vote of thanks to 337 Chancellor, Vice-, see Vice-Chancellor. Charterie, Bev. Professor, see Dean of Faculty of Divinity. INDEX. 351 Chauveau, Professor 91 Chemistry, Professor of (see also Brown, Prof. Crum) 30 Chevreul, Monsieur M. E 92 Cheyne, Rev. T. K 89 Chiene, Professor ... 58, 110, 339, 342 Choir, Students' 80 Christison, Mr John 110, 340 Christison, Sir R., Bart., reference to the late . 3 Chrystal, Professor .... 78, 110, 341 City Clerk (see also Skinner, Mr W.) ... 39 Clark, Bailie . . . . . 110, 340 Clark, Sir Andrew, Bart 92 Clouston, Dr 110, 343 College of Physicians, Royal, Luncheon given by 105 College of Surgeons, Royal, Breakfast given by . Commemoration Service in St Giles's . Arrangements for admission to Committees, Tercentenary Concert in Waverley Market .... Concert of University Musical Society . 20, Congratulatory Addresses, see Addresses, Con- gratulatory. Congratulatory Letters Conversazione in University Library Cook, Mr John .... Corporation of Edinburgh, see Council, Town. Cotterill, Right Rev. Bishop Council, General, of the University Preparations by . Vote of thanks to Council, Students' Representative . 21, 41 Members of . Council, Town, of Edinburgh Preparations by Receptions by 146 44 24 345 176 167 84 78 110, 345 Vote of thanks to Court, University Cox, Mr R. Crawford, Dr Thomas Cremona, Professor Dawson, Principal Dean of the Faculty of Advocates . 42, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Professor Camp- bell Fraser) ... 30, 109, 341, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity (Rev. Prof. Charteris) ... 29, 39, 83, 88, 167, 342, 345, Dean of the Faculty of Law (Professor Kirk- patrick) 30, 90, 342, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (Professor T. R. Fraser) . . . .30, 56, 342, Deas, Lord Degrees, Honorary, offers of Degrees in-absentia, rule regarding Delegates, Alphabetical List of Angellier, Professor Ask, Professor Atherton, Dr A. B. Balfour, Dr G. W. Ball, Professor Ballot, Professor . Beets, Rev. Professor 92 39,44 20 336 75, 81 347 44 22 39 335 340 110 92 92 92 105, 174 345, 347 104, 109, 346, 347 345, 347 345, 347 92 11 14 85 85 85 87 86 86 86 Delegates, Alphabetical List of Beneden, Professor van Bennett, Sir J. Risdon Billings, Dr J. S. . Boddaert, Professor Bourcart, Professor Briggs, Rev. Professor Bristowe, Dr J. S. Caird, Very Rev. Principal Carleton, Mr H. . Caro, Monsieur E. M. Carpenter, Dr W. B. Chiari, Professor . Cleve, Professor . Cremona, Professor DAbbadie, Monsieur A Dawson, Principal Doijer, Professor . Donner, Professor Douglas, Sir W. F. Dowden, Canon . Dowell, Mr A. Duckworth, Dr D. Elze, Professor Erichsen, Emeritus Professor Fergus, Dr A. Ferguson, Sir S. . Fleming, Mr Sandford Fredet, Professor . Geddes, Professor Gill, Dr David . Greard, Monsieur 0. Green, Professor . Greenwood, Principal Guizot, Professor . Gurney, Professor Giiterbock, Professor Halkett, Sir A., Bart. Hamel, Professor van Haughton, Rev. Dr Heinrich, Professor Herschel, Professor Hoffmann, Professor F Hoffmann, Professor G Jowett, Rev. Professor Kielhorn, Professor Kovalewsky, Professor Kuri, Mr R. Laveleye, Professor de Leighton, Sir F. . Leitner, Dr G. W. Lowell, His Excellency J. R Lubbock, Sir John, Bart Markby, Mr "W. . Marshall, Mr John Marshall, Professor Martens, Professor de . Martinez, His Excellency M Mendeleieff, Professor . Mezieres, Professor Michaelis, Professor Minaieff, Professor Mitchell, Dr Arthur -continued. 85 87 86 85 85 88 87 85 85 86 86, 88 86,88 88 85 85 85 87 87 87 87 85 88 87 87 85 84 84 84 88 86 85 88 86 85 87 84 85 85 86 85 85 86 85 85 86 85 87 86 85,88 87 84 87 87 86 84 86 86 86 86 87 352 INDEX. Delegates, Alphabetical List of — continued. Moffett, President 87 Moore, Dr W 87 Mussy, Dr H. Gueneau de . . . . 88 Nigra, His Excellency Count . . .86, 88 Oncken, Professor 84 Pasteur, Monsieur Louis .... 88 Paterson, Professor 87 Pearce, Professor 85 Penedo, His Excellency Baron de 86 Perrot, Monsieur G 88 Perry, Bishop 85 Peterson, Principal 87 Pettenkofer, Professor von . . . . 85, 88 Porter, President 86 Priestley, Dr W. 87 Rachmaninoff, Professor .... 85 Eainy, Rev. Principal 87 Rayleigh, Lord 87 Reis, Professor 84 Renard, The Abbe 86 Rivier, Professor 84 Rosenbusch, Professor 85 Saffi, Count 84 Sang, Dr E 88 Saxtorph, Professor .... 84 Schipper, Professor 86 Sellers, Professor .... .88 Sieveking, Dr E. H 87 Smith, Dr John 87 Stengel, Professor 85 Stevenson, Rev. W 85 Stokes, Professor 84 Storm, Professor 84 Straszewski, Professor .... 85 Strode, Mr A. C 86 Sullivan, President ... 87 Sylvester, Professor ... 85 Szabo, Professor 84, 86 Tait, Professor 87 Thierfelder, Professor 86 Thomson, Sir "W. .... 86, 88 Thorburn, Professor 88 Tulloch, Principal .... 86 Ussing, Professor ... . . 87 Venable, Professor 86 Vera, Professor .... 85 Villari, Professor ... .86, 87, 88 Virchow, Professor 86 "West, Mr Justice Raymond . . .84 Wheeler, Dr W. 1 87 Whitelaw, Mr A. . ... 87 Wilks, DrS 87 Wyck, Professor van der .... 85 Zupitza, Professor 84 Delegates, list of Universities which sent . . 84 List of other learned bodies which sent . 86 Letters addressed to 334 Reception of ... . .83 Delitzsch, Professor 31 5 Dickson, Professor . . . .62, 79, 110, 342 Diploma of Doctors of Divinity and Laws . . 333 Distinguished persons and others, invited to Festival 6 Divinity, Professor of (see also Flint, Rev. Pro- fessor) . 19, 48 Doctors of Divinity, Tercentenary Doctors of Laws, Tercentenary . Donner, Professor 0., work by . Donors, and others invited to Festival " Donors of the New Buildings," toast of, by the Principal .... Reply by the Lord Provost . Dorner, Professor Douglas, Sir W. Fettes, President of tish Academy .... Dramatic Entertainment, Students' Programme of Dunsmure, Dr, speech by . Durham, Lord Bishop of, . Speech by . Royal Editors of Tercentenary Records Eggeling, Professor Elze, Professor Speech by . Erdmann, Professor . Erichsen, Emeritus Professor Ewart, Professor Cossar 62, 89 90 176 6 62 64 89 Scot- 92, 169 . 21, 75 . 348 . 148 89, 109 . 116 . 347 110, 341, 346 92, 109 . 128 92 92 78, 80, 110, 342 . 105 . 341 . 342 . 342 . 342 92 4 22, 169 92 55, 110, 339, 342, 346 92 . 110 92 347 Faculty of Advocates . Dean of, see Dean. Faculty of Arts, Professors in Faculty of Divinity, Professors in Faculty of Law, Professors in Faculty of Medicine, Professors in Ferguson, Sir Samuel Festival, date of, fixed Fireworks and Illuminations Fleischer, Professor Flint, Rev. Professor . . 48. Flower, Dr W. H. Forlong, General Frankland, Dr E. Fraser, Professor Campbell (see also Dean of Faculty of Arts) 346, Fraser, Professor T. R. (see also Dean of Faculty of Medicine) . . 56, 61, 110, 339, 342, 346, 347 Speech by 69 Freeman, Dr E. A 93 Frere, Right Hon. Sir H. Bartle E., Bart. . . 93 Galloway, Earl of 83, 109 Ganneau, Monsieur C. Clermont ... 93 Geikie, Dr A 93 Geikie, Professor 110, 341 General Council of University, see Council. Gill, Dr David 93 Glasgow, Earl of 93 Goldsehmidt, Professor 93 Gordon Highlanders, Band of . 40, 80, 106, 169, 176 Graduates, Honorary, of the Tercentenary . . 89 Form of Diplomas for, in absentia . . 333 Graduates, Honorary, and others, invited to Festival 6 Graduation Ceremonial, Tercentenary . . 82 Ordinary 29 INDEX. 353 Grant, Sir Alexander, Bart, (see also Principal and Vice-Chancellor) .... 74,340 Greard, Monsieur 93 Green, Rev. Professor 89 Greenfield, Professor . . . .58, 79, 110, 342 Greenwood, Principal 93 Gross, Professor 93 Guests at Luncheon in University New Build- ings 65 At Supper of Cap and Gown Club . . 42 Departure of 176 List of, received by Hosts . . 15 Reception of 15 Haan, Professor de Haldane, Br Hall, Bailie . Halle, Dr Charles Harrison, the Right Hon. George (see vost, Lord) Haughton, Rev. Dr Helmholtz, Professor von Speeches by . Henle, Professor . Hermite, Professor High Church of St Giles . Highlanders, Gordon, see Band. History of the University, see " Story Hole, Mr William, A.R.S.A. Honorary Degrees, offers of Hosts of Tercentenary Guests, list of Vote of thanks to . Hyrtl, Professor .... 93 93, 110, 340 169 93 also Pro- 94, 340, 341 94 94, 109 138, 160 94 94 44, 177, 335 79 11 15 . 337 94, 316 Illuminations and Fireworks ... 22, Inglis, Right Hon. John (see also Chancellor of the University) ... - " International Commerce," toast of, by Sir John Lubbock Reply by Comte de Lesseps .... Reply by Sir Robert B. D. Morier 169 340 141 141 141 Invitations to Festival 4, 10, 11, 14 94 Jenner, Sir William, Bart Johnston, Mr R. Bruce, see University Curators, Secretary to. Jowett, Rev. Professor .... 94, 109 Speech by 12 ^ Justice-General, Right Hon. Lord, of Scotland, see Chancellor of the University. Keith, Dr Thomas 94 " King o' Scots," see Dramatic Entertainment. Kinnear, Lord HO) 341 Kirkpatrick, Professor (see also Dean of Faculty of Law) .... HO, 339, 342, 346, 347 Kissner, Professor 317 Ladies' galleries at Banquet Laidlaw, Rev. Professor Laurie, Professor Laveleye, Professor de Speech by . . 108 . 346 110, 341 94, 109 . 163 to the late 5 86 19, 45, 46, 177 of thanks to 335 94 94, 109 . 139 . 45, 62 94, 109 141, 154 95 . 175 74 Learned Bodies, Addresses from, see Addresses. Delegates' from Invited to send Delegates . Represented by Delegates . Lees, Rev. Dr Cameron And Managers of St Giles's, vote Legge, Professor . Leighton, Sir Frederick Speech by . Leopold, Prince, references Lesseps, Comte F. de . Speeches by . Liddell, Very Rev. Dean Lister, Sir Joseph, Bart. Speech by . Lists :— Addresses, Universities, &c, which sent, see Addresses. Assistants to Professors Chairmen at Tercentenary Banquet Curators of the University . Delegates from Learned Bodies (see also Delegates, list of) . Delegates from Universities (see also Dele- gates, list of) Distinguished persons, benefactors, and hon orary graduates invited to Festival . Examiners for Degrees Faculty of Arts, Professors in Faculty of Divinity, do. Faculty of Law, do. Faculty of Medicine, do. Guests at Luncheon in New Buildings Guests on Platform at Tercentenary Banquet Keepers of Museums .... Learned Bodies invited to send Delegates Oflice-Bearers of the University in April 1884 Persons to whom Degree of D.D. was offered Persons to whom Degree of LL.D. was offered Persons who received University guests Senatus Academicus Students' Representative Council Tercentenary Banquet, persons on platform at Tercentenary Committees .... Tercentenary Graduates in Divinity . Tercentenary Graduates in Laws Toasts at Tercentenary Banquet . Universities and Learned Bodies which sent Addresses, see Addresses. Universities invited to send Delegates . University Court, members of . University Lecturers "Literature, Science, and Art," toast of, by the Earl of Wemyss Reply by Mr J. Russell Lowell . Reply by Professor von Helmholtz Reply by Sir Frederick Leighton 343 110 341 86 84 6 344 341 342 342 342 56 109 345 5 340 11 12 15 341 347 109 345 89 90 110 4 340 343 134 136 138 139 110, 146, 344, 346 Littlejohn, Dr H. D. Lord Provost, see Provost, Lord. " Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh," toast of, by the Earl of Rosebery Reply by the Lord Provost .... 114 115 354 INDEX. Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, vote of thanks to (see also Coun- cil, Town) 335 Lord Rector, see Rector, Lord. Lorimer, Professor 110, 342 Lowell, His Excellency J. Russell . . 95, 109 Speeches by 136, 152 Lubbock, Sir John, Bart. ... 95, 109 Speech by 141 Ludwig, Professor 95 Luncheon given by Royal College of Physi- cians 105 Luncheon in University New Buildings . . 20, 56 also Dean of Faculty M'Candlish, Mr J. M 110 Macdonald, Dr J. H. A. (see of Advocates) . Mackay, Emeritus Professor M'Kie, Mr Thomas . Mackinnon, Professor . Maclagan, Professor Douglas . 60, 72, " Alma Mater," by Speech by . M'Laren, Mr D. . M'Neill, Mr G. P. Macpherson, Professor Magistrates of Edinburgh Vote of thanks to Main, Mr George, Moscow Maine, Sir Henry J. S. Speech by . Mamiani della Rovere, Count Mancini, His Excellency Professor Marshall, Professor Speech by . Martens, Professor de . Martineau, Principal . Martinez, His Excellency M. Masson, Dr Orme Masson, Professor Maudsley, Dr Medal, Tercentenary . "Medical School of Edinburgh University," toast of, by Sir James Paget . Reply by Professor T. R. Fraser Medical Society, Royal, Reception by Vote of thanks to Medicine, Faculty of . Professors in the . Member of Parliament for the University Memorials of the Festival . Mendeleieff, Professor Menu of Tercentenary Banquet . Merivale, Very Rev. Dean . Mezieres, Professor Moore, Dr, speech by . Moral Philosophy, Professor of . Morham, Mr, City Superintendent Morier, His Excellency Sir Robert B. D. Speech by 141 Muir, Sir William 96 Muirhead, Professor . . . HO, 339, 342, 346 Murray, Mr T. G HO, 340 95 110 110, 346 110, 341 110, 342, 346 . 168 71 110, 341 75, 348 110, 342 22, 39, 44 335 319 95, 109 131 95 95 95 149 95 89 95, 320 347 10, 341, 346 95 3, 333 67 69 106 336 56, 342 58, 342 42, 340 176 95 110 96 96 149 30 169 96, 109 Museixm of Science and Art, Reception in . . 39 Music, Professor of 167, 168 Organ Recital by 77 Mussy, Dr H. Gueneau de 96 Napier and Ettrick, Lord .... 96, 109 Speech by 129 Newspaper Reports, see ' Scotsman.' Newton, Professor 96 Nicholson, Professor . . . . 110, 341, 342 Nicolson, Sheriff 174 Nigra, Count 96 "Non-Medical Guests," toast of, by Professor Douglas Maclagan 71 Reply by Lieut-General Sir A. Alison, Bart. 72 Northcote, Right Hon. Sir Stafford H., Bart, (see also Rector, Lord, of the University) . . 340 Nys, Judge Ernest 96 Oakeley, Professor Sir Herbert (see also Music, Professor of) 47, 110, Office-bearers of the University of Edinburgh . Oilier, Professor ....... Orchestra, Mr Dambmann's Organ Recital Ouseley, Rev. Professor Sir F. A. G., Bart. Paget, Sir James, Bart 96 Speech by 67 Parliament, Member of, for the University 42, 340 Parliament House, Hall of . 44, 105, 106 Pasteur, Monsieur Louis .... 96, 109 Speeches by 113, 161 Penedo, His Excellency Baron de . . 97, 109 Speech by 112 Perowne, Very Rev. Dean 89 Perrot, Monsieur G 97 Pettenkofer, Professor von 97 Physicians, Royal College of ... 105 Vote of thanks to 336 Pipers, Edinburgh Police 40 Pipers of Gordon Highlanders . . . 80, 169 Playfair, Sir Lyon .... 42, 109, 340 Speeches by .... 121, 147, 173 Police Band, Edinburgh 40 Police Pipers, Edinburgh 40 Post-Tercentenary Documents .... 333 Preparations for the Festival by — Corporation of Edinburgh, &c. . . . 22 General Council ... 20 Senatus Academicus 3 Students 21 Pressense, Rev. Dr 89 Priestley, Dr W. 97 Prince of Wales, H.R.H., telegram from . . 99 Principal of the University (Sir Alexander Grant, Bart.) 3, 44, 56, 80, 82, 83, 109, 340, 345, 346, 347 Speeches by 62, 74, 174 341 340 96 110 77 168 Vote of thanks to Procession, Torchlight Professors in University of Edinburgh Votes of thanks to Programme of Festival 338 21,41 341 339 22 INDEX. 355 Programme of Students' Dramatic Representation 348 Programme, Tercentenary (see also Ornamental Programme opposite page 1) . . . . 22 Programmes of Music . . .40, 77, 83, 110, 167 Promoter's Address 30 Provost, Lord (Right Hon. Geo. Harrison) 22, 29, 39, 44, 82, 83, 109, 340, 341 Speeches by 64, 115, 150 Provost, Lord, Magistrates, and Town Council, vote of thanks to 335 Queen, H.M. the, telegram from . Ill Rainy, Rev. Principal 89 Ranke, Professor von 97 Rankine, Mr John 110,346 Rawlinson, Major-General Sir Henry O. . . 97 Rayleigh, Lord 97 Reay, Lord 83, 109 Speech by 164 Reception by Corporation of Edinburgh . . 22, 39 Reception by Faculty of Advocates . . . 105 Reception by Royal Medical Society . . 106 Reception by Royal Scottish Academy . . 169 Reception of Delegates at Tercentenary Cere- monial 83 Reception of Delegates by Lord Rector and Students 21, 150 Reception of Quests, arrangements for . . 15 Records, Tercentenary, Editors of 347 Rector, Lord, of the University (The Right Hon. Sir Stafford H. Northcote, Bart.) 42, 44, 75, 82, 83, 109, 150, 175, 340 Speeches by . . 43, 104, 118, 151, 154, 166, 171 Vote of thanks to 338 Reid, Sir John Watt . . 97 Renard, The Abbe 97 Representative Council, Members of Students' . 347 Reuss, Professor ... 89 Rivier, Professor 97 Robertson, Dr Argyll . . . 110,343 Rosebery, Earl of .83, 109 Speech by 114 Royal Scottish Academy, see Academy. Rutherford, Professor - . .60, 78, 110, 174, 342 St Giles, High Church of, Commemoration Ser- vice in 19, 44 Sermon by Rev. Dr Cameron Lees in . . 177 Vote of thanks to Managers of 335 Saffi, Count 97, 109 Speeches by 123, 162 Salmon, Rev. Professor 89 Saxtorph, Professor 97 Schmiedeberg, Professor 97 Scots Greys, Royal, see Band. 1 Scotsman ' Newspaper 39, 75 Seal of University of Edinburgh (see also title- page) 4 Secretary of Senatus Academicus (see also Wil- son, Professor) . . . .19, 78, 84, 342 Seeley, Professor 97 Sellar, Professor ... .. 110, 341 . 341 . 339 . 334 48 . 177 . 19, 44 110, 343 97 98 61, 110, 342, 345 Senatus Academicus, members of Vote of thanks to members of Votes of thanks by Sermons in St Giles's Church :— Rev. Professor Flint . Rev. Dr Cameron Lees Service, Commemoration, in St Giles's Seth, Mr A Shairp, Principal Sidgwick, Professor . Sieveking, Dr E. H. . Simpson, Professor " Sister Medical Schools," toast of, by Professor Turner Reply by Professor Stokvis "Sister Universities," toast of, by Sir Lyon Play fair Reply by Count Saffi . Reply by Professor Jowett . Reply by Professor Elze Skeat, Professor .... Skinner, Mr W Small, Mr John .... Smith, Dr John, President of Royal Surgeons Speeches by ... Societies, Learned, see Learned Bodies. Somerville, Mr George, see Tercentenary Clerk. 65 66 . 121 . 123 . 127 . 128 98 39, 110 110, 345 College of 98 146, 150 Speeches :- Alison, Lieut.-General Sir A., Bart Anderson, Mr R. Rowand . Beets, Rev. Professor . Billings, Dr . Browning, Dr Robert . Chancellor of the University Dunsmure, Dr Durham, Lord Bishop of Elze, Professor Fraser, Professor Thomas R. Helmholtz, Professor von . Jowett, Rev. Professor . Laveleye, Professor de Leighton, Sir Frederick Lesseps, Comte F. de . Lister, Sir Joseph, Bart. Lowell, His Excellency J. Russell Lubbock, Sir John, Bart. . Maclagan, Professor Douglas Maine, Sir Henry J. S. Marshall, Professor Moore, Dr . Morier, His Excellency Sir Robert B Napier and Ettrick, Lord . Paget, Sir James, Bart. Pasteur, Monsieur Penedo, His Excellency Baron de Playfair, Sir Lyon Principal of the University . Provost, Lord Reay, Lord . . . Rector, Lord 43, 104, 118, 151, Roseberv, Earl of 72 73 153 72 166 11, 145 148 116 128 69 138, 160 127 163 139 141, 154 74 136, 152 141 71 131 149 149 141 129 67 113, 161 . 112 121, 147, 173 62, 74, 174 64, 115, 150 . 164 154, 166, 171 114 D. 356 INDEX. 59, 110, Speeches — continued. Saffi, Count Smith., Dr John . Stengel, Professor Stephen, Sir James F. . Stokvis, Professor Turner, Professor Virchow, Professor Watson, Dr P. Heron . "Wemyss, Earl of . Westcott, Rev. Canon . Steele, Dr, Rome Stengel, Professor Speech by . Stephen, Sir James F. Speech by . Stewart, Professor Grainger, Stokvis, Professor, Speeches by . Storm, Professor . ' Story of the University of Edinburg! Story, Rev. Dr R. H. . . . Straszewski, Professor . Work by ... . Students' Ball .... Students' Choir .... Students' Dramatic Representation Programme of Students, preparations by . Students' Representative Council Members of Students' Symposium Students' Torchlight Procession . Students, vote of thanks to . Sturrock, Mr J. F Surgeons, Royal College of, Breakfast given by Vote of thanks to .... Symposium, Students' .... Szabo, Professor ... . . 123, 162 146, 150 175 144 66, 174 65 133, 148, 157 147 134 130 325 84 175 98, 109 144 342, 345, 346 98 66, 174 98 ?h,' 21,41 33,34 47 109 176 21,81 80 21, 75 348 21 75,81 347 21, 171 21,41 337 347 146 336 21, 171 98 Tait, Professor 78, 110, 341 Taylor, Rev. Professor . . . . 46,110,342 Telegram from H.M. the Queen . . . . Ill Telegram from H:R.H. the Prince of Wales . 99 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 98 Tercentenary Address by the Chancellor . . 99 Tercentenary Banquet .... 108 Arrangements for admission to . . . 25 Tercentenary Ceremonial ..... 82 Regulations for admission to . . . . 24 Tercentenary Clerk (Mr George Somerville) 20, 347 Tercentenary Committees . . . 3, 4, 19, 345 Tercentenary Festival, notices of . . .176 Tercentenary Graduates in Divinity ... 89 In Law 90 " Tercentenary Guests," toast of, by Chancellor . Ill Reply by Baron de Penedo . . . .112 Reply by M. Pasteur 113 Tercentenary medal 3, 333 Tercentenary memorials 176 Tercentenary, preparations for the ... 3 Tercentenary Programme (see also Ornamental Programme, opposite page 1) . . . . 22 -the Tercentenary Records, editors of Tercentenary Treasurer (see also Wilson, Pro- fessor) Thanks, votes of, by the Senatus Academicus " Theology, Law, and Medicine," toast of, by Lord Napier and Ettrick . Reply by Rev. Canon Westcott Reply by Sir Henry S. Maine Reply by Professor Virchow Toast List of Tercentenary Banquet Toasts at Luncheon in Univebsity New Buildings : — "The Queen"— the Principal " The Donors of the New Buildings "■ Principal Reply by the Lord Provost . " Sister Medical Schools " — Professor Turner Reply by Professor Stokvis . " Medical School of Edinburgh University — Sir James Paget .... Reply by Professor T. R. Fraser . " Non-Medical Guests " — Professor Maclagan Reply by General Sir A. Alison . "The Architect"— Dr Billings . Reply by Mr R. Rowand Anderson " The Chairman " — Sir Joseph Lister . Reply by the Principal . Toasts at the Tercentenary Banquet : — " The Queen"— the Chancellor . " The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family " — the Chancellor " Our Tercentenary Guests " — the Chancellor Reply — (1) Baron de Penedo (2) M. Pasteur .... "Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh " — Earl of Rosebery Reply by the Lord Provost . " University of Edinburgh" — Lord Bishop of Durham Reply by the Lord Rector " Sister Universities " — Sir Lyon Playfair Reply— (1) Count Saffi . (2) Professor Jowett . (3) Professor Elze . " Theology, Law, and Medicine " — Lord Napier and Ettrick . Reply — (I) Rev. Canon Westcott (2) Sir Henry S. Maine (3) Professor Virchow "Literature, Science, and Art" — Earl of Wemyss ...... Reply — (1) Mr J. Russell Lowell . (2) Professor von Helmholtz (3) Sir Frederick Leighton " International Commerce " — Sir John Lub- bock Reply — (1) Comte de Lesseps (2) Sir Robert B. D. Morier " The Chancellor"— Sir James F. Stephen Reply by the Chancellor 347 346 334 129 130 131 133 110 62 62 64 65 66 67 69 71 72 72 73 74 74 111 111 111 112 113 114 115 116 118 121 123 127 128 129 130 131 133 134 136 138 139 141 141 141 144 145 INDEX. 357 Toasts at Breakfast of Royal College of Surgeons :— "The University"— the President Reply by Sir Lyon Playfair . " The Strangers"— Dr P. Heron Watson Reply by Professor Virchow . "Presidents of English and Irish Medical Colleges " — Dr Dunsmure Reply — (l) Professor Marshall (2) Dr Moore . "The Chairman" — the Lord Provost . Reply by Dr John Smith, President Torchlight Procession Tulloch, Very Rev. Principal 44, 58, 78, 110, 339, 342, 346 65 146 147 147 148 148 149 149 150 150 21,41 89 98 110, 342 Turner, Professor Speech by . Tyrrell, Professor Tytler, Professor . Universities, Addresses from, see Addresses. Universities invited to send Delegates to Festival 4 Represented by Delegates .... 84 University Conversazione 19, 78 University Court 34 University Curators 341 Secretary to (Mr R. Bruce Johnston) 341, 346, 347 University Musical Society, Concert of . . 167 University New Buildings . . . 3, 20, 56 340 341 116 118 4 98 University of Edinburgh, office-bearers of the Professors in the Toast of, by Lord Bishop of Durham . Reply to toast of, by Lord Rector University Seal (see also title-page) . Ussing, Professor . • ■ ■ Vera, Professor 98,327 Vice-Chancellor of the University (see also Grant, Sir Alexander, and Principal) . Villari, Professor Virchow, Professor Speeches by . Volunteers, University Company of 29, 42, 174, 340 98 98, 109 133, 148, 157 44 Votes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. of Thanks bt Senatus Academicds : — To the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh . . 335 To the Rev. Dr Cameron Lees, and the Managers of St Giles's Cathedral . . 335 To the Faculty of Advocates . . . 335 To the Royal Scottish Academy . . 335 To the Royal College of Physicians . 336 To the Royal College of Surgeons . . 336 To the Royal Medical Society . . . 336 To the General Council of the University of Edinburgh 336 To Students of the University of Edin- burgh 337 To the Hosts of the Tercentenary Guests 337 To the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh 337 To the Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh 338 To the Principal of the University of Edinburgh 338 To Members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh . . 339 90, Watson, Dr P. Heron 99. 346 Speech by ^ Wemyss, Earl of . Speech by West, Mr Justice Raymond Westcott, Rev. Canon . Speech by . • ■ • Wilkins, Mr, Fireinaster .... Wilks, DrS Wilson, Professor (see also Secretary of Senatus Academicus) . . . 110,339,341,342,346 Wordsworth, Right Rev. 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