6. Extension of the GENERAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. 



7. Renovation of the exterior of present Building; with 



8. Alteration of its interior to adapt it to new and increasing 

 needs. 



GROUNDS OP APPEAL. 



1. That the University of Edinburgh is a National Institution, 

 aad the present scheme, therefore, one of National importance. 

 Not only does the University of Edinburgh attract the largest number 

 of students (about 2000 annually) of any Scottish University — 

 these students coming from all parts of Scotland; but its 

 Medical School is still by far the most important in the three king- 

 doms, drawing its pupils not from Scotland merely, but from England, 

 Ireland, all the British Colonies, the United States, India, Japan, 

 China, and many other foreign countries. 



2. That it is eminently a popular University — a College for the 

 People, in a sense which does not apply to the aristocratic Univer- 

 sities of Oxford and Cambridge. 



3. That the University of Edinburgh is far behind other Univer- 

 sities of more modern construction, at home and abroad, as regards 

 the completeness of its arrangements for tuition, in the depart- 

 ments especially of the Natural and Experimental Sciences — 

 in other words, for Practical Science Teaching. 



4. That of late years several new Chairs have been created, and 

 others are likely to be added in the course of years; while even for 

 old established Professorships there is at present Inadequate ac- 

 commodation. 



5. That the University of Edinburgh has long suffered from 

 pecuniary difficulties. It has not, and never had, any of the rich 

 Endowments possessed by the sister Universities of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge.. Its whole history, on the contrary, has been one of struggle 

 against want of funds. Even the present Building has never for this 

 reason — want of funds — been completed. 



6. Other Universities are making, or have made, munificent 

 expenditure on the extension or improvement of their Buildings : other 

 cities have erected, or contemplate the erection of, costly new College 

 Edifices. By the time it is finished, Glasgow will have spent at 

 least ^"450,000 on its new University. At present a single London 

 merchant (Mr. Holloway, who has already, moreover, expended 

 ;£i 00,000 on another equally useful public institution,) is arranging to 

 build, near that city, and at his own expense, a College for Ladies, 

 the estimated cost of which is ^£150,000. Oxford lately spent 

 ;£i 20,000 on a Museum and attached Laboratories: while the Uni- 



