Representative in Med. Council, Principal, Senatus. 33 REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL MEDICAL In accordance with Clause 4 of the Medical Act of 1858, the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen are entitled to elect a Member of the "General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom." The first election took place in 1858, when Professor James Syme was elected for five years. He was re-elected for a like period in 1863; and in 1868, Dr Macrobin, Professor of the Practice of Medicine in Aberdeen, was elected for five years. JAMES SYME, 1858, re-elected 1863. JOHN MACROBIN, M.D., 1868. PRINCIPAL. The Principal is appointed by the Curators. The office is held for life. The Principal is the resident Head of the College, and President of the Senatus Academicus. His official residence is No. 21 Lansdowne Crescent. PRINCIPALS ELECTED SINCE 1582. 1585. Robert Rollock, First Regent | 1703. William Carstares 1599. Henry Charteris 1620. Patrick Sands 1622. Robert Boyd 1623. John Adamson 1652. William Colvill 1653. Robert Leighton 1662. William Colvill 1675. Andrew Cant 1685. Alexander Monro 1690. Gilbert Rule 1716. William Wishart 1736. William Wishart, secundus 1762. William Robertson 1859. Sir David Brewster 1868. Sir ALEX. GRANT, Bart. SENATUS ACADEMICUS OR SENATE. The Principal and whole Professors constitute the Senatus Academicus or Senate. This body is entrusted with the superintendence and regulation of the teaching and discipline of the University, and with the administration of its revenues and property, including the Library, Museums, and University Buildings. Degrees in Arts, Medicine, Law, and Theology are conferred, on the recommendation of the Senatus, by the Chancellor or ViceChancellor. The Principal is President, with a deliberative and also a casting vote. In the absence of the Principal, the Senior Professor present acts as Chairman, also with a double vote. The Ordinary Meetings of Senatus are held on the last Monday of October, the last Saturday of November, January, February, and March; on the Saturday immediately preceding Christmasday; on the last Friday of May, June, and July; on the 1st August, not being a Sunday (for conferring Degrees in Medicine); and in April (for conferring Degrees in Arts, Law, and Theology), on a day fixed at the meeting in March. Extraordinary Meetings may be summoned by the Principal or by three Professors. Onethird of the Senatus constitutes a quorum. The business of the Senatus is conducted by the Secretary, who prepares the Minutes, summons the Meetings, intimates business assigned to the Principal, to the Dean of any Faculty, or to the Convener of any Committee, and draws up the return for the Widows' Fund. The Secretary also administers the Sponsio Academica to Graduates. FACULTIES AND DEANS. The Chairs of the University are comprehended in the four Faculties. The affairs of each Faculty are presided over by a Dean, who is elected from among Professors of the Faculty. Persons recommended for Degrees, in the different Faculties, are presented to the Senatus by the Dean, to whom all communications regarding the Classes in the Curriculum or Graduation should be addressed. The Deans of each Faculty are mentioned at p. 26, 27.* FACULTY OF ARTS. The Faculty of Arts, the most ancient in the University, comprehends the seven Chairs of Humanity (Latin), Mathematics, Greek, Logic and Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Rhetoric and English Literature. Attendance on these Classes is required for the Degree of Master of Arts. The Faculty of Arts also embraces the six Professorships of *The relative precedence of each Faculty is as follows:-1. Divinity; 2. Law; 3. Medicine; 4. Arts. The Deans take precedence in their respective Faculties, followed by the Members of their faculties in the order of dates of their Commissions. History (in conjunction with the Faculty of Law), Practical Astronomy, Agriculture, Music, Sanskrit, and Civil Engineering. PROFESSORS AND REGENTS IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS SINCE 1582. Professors of Humanity since 1597. 1597. John Ray 1606. Blase Colt 1611. Oliver Colt Andrew Stevenson 1676. Gilbert MacMurdo 1679. Alexander Cunningham 1728. Adam Watt 1734. John Kerr 1741. George Stuart 1675. John Hill 1806. Alexander Christison 1820. James Pillans Profes. of Mathematics since 1674. 1674. James Gregory 1805. John Leslie 1819. William Wallace Regents since 1583. [The Chairs of Greek, Logic, and Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, and Natural Philosophy were occupied by the Regents, in rotation, from 1583 until 1708.] 1583. Robt. Rollock, first Regent 1586. Alexander Scrimgeour 1588. Charles Ferme or Fairholm 1631. Alexander Hepburn 1633. Alexander Gibson 1636. James Wyseman 1638. James Wright 1638. Robert Young 1639. Duncan Forrester 1644, William Tweedie 1663. William Cumming 1689. Alexander Cunningham 1703. Robert Stewart 1707. Colin Drummond Professors of Greek since 1708. 1708. William Scott, one of the Regents 1729. William Scott, secundus 1741. Robert Hunter 1772. Andrew Dalzel 1805. George Dunbar 1852. JOHN STUART BLACKIE Professors of Logic and Metaphysics since 1708. 1708. Colin Drummond, one of the Regents. 1730. John Stevenson 1774. John Bruce 1786. James Finlayson 1808. David Ritchie 1836. Sir Wm. Hamilton, Bart. 1856. A. C. Fraser. Professors of Moral Philosophy since 1708. 1708. William Law, one of the Regents 1729. William Scott 1868. HENRY CALDERWOOD Professors of Natural Philosophy since 1708. 1708. Robert Stewart, one of the Regents 1742. John Stewart 1759. Adam Ferguson 1764. James Russell 1774. John Robison 1805. John Playfair 1819. Sir John Leslie Professors of Rhetoric and English 1762. Hugh Blair Professors of History since 1719. (See Faculty of Law.) Professors of Practical Astronomy since 1786. 1786. Robert Blair 1834. Thomas Henderson Professors of Agriculture since 1790. Professors of the Theory of Music 1839. John Thomson 1842. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop 1844. Henry Hugh Pearson 1845. John Donaldson 1865. HERBERT S. OAKELEY Professor of Sanskrit since 1862. 1862. THEODOR AUFRECHT Professor of Engineering. 1868. FLEEMING JENKIN Professor of Geology. 1871. ARCHIBALD GEIKIE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY. This Faculty, the second in chronological order, comprehends the four Chairs of Divinity, Hebrew and Oriental Languages, Divinity and Ecclesiastical History, and Biblical Criticism and Antiquities. PROFESSORS IN THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY SINCE 1620. Professors of Divinity since 1620. 1620. Andrew Ramsay 1664. William Keith Professors of Hebrew since 1642. |