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E B C E D S
OF THE
TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL
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TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
CELEBRATED IN APRIL 1884
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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, ....
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348
349
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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" 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-
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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
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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,
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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
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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[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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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*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.
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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" 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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. Bishop ... 90
Wyck, Professor van der 99
109
134
99
109
130
169
99
Yule, Col. H.
99
Zeller, Professor .
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