matter remitted to them or to carry out instructions given to them by the Council. The quorum of the General Council is twenty, being ten for every complete thousand or fraction of a thousand of members on the register; but no quorum is required at the statutory half-yearly meetings.

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

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

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

STUDENTS.

REGULATIONS AS TO MATRICULATION.

Each Student shall pay a Matriculation Fee of one guinea at the commencement of each Winter Session for the whole academical year then next ensuing; but any Student attending a class or classes during a Summer Session without having matriculated at the commencement of the immediately preceding Winter Session shall, in respect of such Summer Session, pay a Matriculation Fee of half a guinea only. (Ord. No. 50, sect. I.)

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

In accordance with a resolution of the Senatus Academicus, approved of by the University Court, Matriculation and Class Fees will be received next Winter Session from the commencement of the session to Monday, 31st October. The fees will be received at the United College on days and at hours of which due intimation will be made.

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

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

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

"Nos ingenui adolescentes, nomina subscribentes, sancte pollicemur, nos preceptoribus obsequium debitum exhibituros, et hujus Academiae Andreanae emolumentum et commodum, quantum in nobis sit, procuraturos, ad quemcunque vitae statum pervenerimus."

COMMON DINING-TABLE FOR STUDENTS.

In Session 1887-88 there was instituted a Common Dining-Table for Students, similar to what exists at the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. A dinner abundant in quantity, of the best quality, and well cooked, is provided 5 days a week at 1 o'clock. The ticket for the Winter Session is £3, 15s. Application for tickets should be made to Professor Lang, the University, St Andrews, before the beginning of the Winter Session.

STUDENTS' LODGINGS.

The Senatus and Students' Representative Council have prepared a list of the lodgings in town suitable for students. The Janitor at the United College will show it to those who apply.

University Library.

Ar a meeting of the Faculty of Arts, held in the Pedagogy on 13th August 1456, it was agreed to make provision for instituting a Library in the University, and various donations of books are recorded in the Faculty Register. Each College at its foundation is believed to have been provided with the nucleus of a Library of its own, and in course of time these College Libraries became extensive and valuable. The general University Library was founded by James VI. in 1610, from whom, and from each of the members of his family, it received a valuable donation of books. At the same time a number of volumes were presented to it by Dr George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. The different Libraries were gradually augmented by many liberal benefactors, among whom may be mentioned the Earl of Buccleuch; Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit; Sir John Wedderburn, physician to Charles I., who was a regent in St Leonard's College from 1620 to 1630; the famous Alexander Henderson; and especially the Rev. Dr Mungo Murray, sometime rector of Wells, and Professor of Astronomy in Gresham College, London. Dr Murray had been previously a regent in St Leonard's College, to which, at his death in 1670, he bequeathed several thousand volumes.

The principal contributors in more recent times have been the King of Naples, the Earl of Kinnoull, Lord Melville, the Earl of Leven, Lord Francis Egerton, the Duke of Northumberland, Dr Carstairs of Stratford Green, London, the King of Oude, the King of Prussia, H.H. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, H.R.H. Prince Albert, the Czar Alexander of Russia, Miss Crombie, Dollar, Mrs Fischer, St Andrews, Mr C. Hean, Exeter, Mr Stephen Williamson, formerly M.P. for the St Andrews Burghs, Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., the King of Siam, Major Sprot, Stravithie, Miss E. M. Hill, Hampstead, the Rev. Oswald M. Holden, Rector of Steeple Langford, and Mrs Veitch, The Loaning, Peebles. Contributions of interesting and valuable works are received from British and Foreign Societies, and other learned bodies; and donations of single books are also frequently presented by their respective authors or publishers.

The University Library, about the middle of the eighteenth century, when those of the three Colleges were transferred to it, became the common one. It has since been considerably increased, and at present contains nearly 115,000 printed volumes. Among other interesting works may be mentioned, a copy of Quintilian,

printed about 1470; a copy of Homer's Iliad in Latin, printed in 1497, and the Hebrew Phrases of Stephanus, printed in 1558, both of which belonged to the celebrated George Buchanan, Principal of St Leonard's College, and contain copious notes in his handwriting; the Canons of the Council of Trent in Latin, printed at Antwerp in 1577, which belonged to James Melville, and contains his autograph; and Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism, printed at St Andrews in 1552.

The Library contains a number of Manuscripts, some of which are of great interest and value. There are several very fine Persian Manuscripts, a copy of the Koran which belonged to Tippoo Saib; part of a beautiful copy of the works of Augustine on vellum; a volume of Ecclesiastical Styles written in the early part of the sixteenth century; an old MS. of Wintoun's Chronicle; the original copy of the Solemn League and Covenant, which was subscribed at St Andrews in 1643; an early Hebrew roll containing some of the historical Books of the Old Testament; and a large folio Antiphonarium.

As regards books and periodicals, the Library is maintained by an annual payment of £630 from the Parliamentary Grant to the University, in lieu of the privilege enjoyed under the Copyright Act, and by occasional special grants from the General Fund of the University. An annual grant is also received from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

The books in the Library are divided into three sections: (1) the Lending Library, (2) the General Reference Library, (3) the Special Reference Library. Books in the Lending Library are available for all classes of readers, and may either be consulted in the Library or taken out for home reading. The General Reference Library includes manuscripts, scarce and valuable books, encyclopædias, dictionaries, transactions of learned societies, atlases, library editions of standard authors, maps, portfolios, unbound books and periodicals, literal translations of the classics, text-books temporarily transferred from the Lending Library at the request of Professors or Lecturers, &c. These are for the most part available for reference only, but some of them may, at the discretion of the Librarian, be lent out for short periods to members of the teaching staff. Certain rare books and manuscripts can only be consulted in presence of the Librarian or an Assistant. The Special Reference Library contains a selection of the best books bearing directly upon the different subjects taught in the University, and is mainly intended for the use of students, who have direct access to the shelves. It is strictly a Reference collection, and no volume belonging to it may be taken out of the Library under any pretext whatever.

REGULATIONS REGARDING THE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE LIBRARY AS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES NOS. 8 AND 64 OF THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONERS.

I. A Committee, to be called the Library Committee, shall be constituted, consisting of three members of the University or others, not being members of the Senatus Academicus, appointed by the University Court, and of six members appointed by the Senatus Academicus. The said Committee shall be charged with the immediate superintendence of the University Library, and of the contents thereof, and of any libraries acquired, or to be acquired, for the use of the University or of any class therein. The members of the said Committee, in the proportions aforesaid, shall be appointed by the University Court and Senatus Academicus respectively at their first meeting after the commencement of the Winter Session in each year.

II. The Librarian shall have the ordinary management of the Library of the University, subject to the superintendence of the Library Committee.

III. The Librarian and such Assistant-Librarians as the University Court, on the report of the Library Committee, may think necessary, shall be appointed by the University Court. The University Court shall also have the power of suspending or dismissing such Librarian and Assistant-Librarians.

IV. All books ordered for the Library by the Library Committee shall be sent direct to the Librarian, and all books received by him shall be forthwith catalogued by him in such manner as the Library Committee may direct, and stamped with the Library stamp; and no person shall be allowed to use or borrow any book until it has been entered in the catalogue and stamped. V. The Librarian shall, with the approval of the Library Committee, from time to time prepare a list of such books, manuscripts, and other works as cannot, in consequence of any deed of gift or otherwise, be lent out of the Library; and the Library Committee shall from time to time make such regulations as they shall think expedient for allowing access to such works for consultation.

VI. Manuscripts, rare books, works of reference, and such other works as the Library Committee shall determine, shall not be lent out of the Library, except under regulations to be made by the Library Committee and approved by the Senatus Academicus and the University Court; and, in addition to such general regulations, the Library Committee may, in each individual case of borrowing such works, impose such special conditions as they may think necessary or expedient: Provided

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