versities of Berlin and Bonn have devoted, in each case, a sum of 

 about .£30,000 to the construction of Chemical Laboratories alone. 

 Dundee contemplates building, at a cost of £"150,000, a College to 

 be affiliated to the ancient University of St. Andrews. Yorkshire 

 has just established a College of Science at Leeds; and the Northern 

 Counties of England have recently opened another at Newcastle. 



ADVOCACY OF THE SCHEME 



Includes — 



1. Speeches at a Public Meeting in Edinburgh in April, 1874, 

 by 



The Duke of Buccleuch. 



The Lord Justice-General, Chancellor of the University. 



Dr. Lyon Playfair, M.P. for the University. 



Duncan M 'Laren, Esq. , senior M. P. for the City. 



James Cowan, Esq. , junior M. P. for the City, and lately Lord Provost thereof. 



Charles Cowan, Esq. of Loganhouse, formerly M. P. for the City. 



Lord Curriehill, one of the Judges of the Court of Session. 



The Right Rev. Dr. Cotterill, Bishop of Edinburgh. 



Mr. Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame. 



Rev. Dr. Taylor, Secretary of the Education Board for Scotland. 



Rev. Dr. Macgregor of Edinburgh. 



2. The support, by handsome Subscriptions, of 



Many of the Nobility of Scotland, including two Dukes, two Marquises, 



five Earls, ten Baronets, and six Knights. 

 Most, or all, of the Judges of the Court of Session. 

 The Rector of the University, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, of Keir and 



Pollok. 

 The Principal of the University, Sir Alexander Grant. 

 The Professors of the University. 



Many of the leading non-titled landowners of the east of Scotland. 

 Many of the leading representatives of the professions of Medicine, Law, and 



Divinity in Edinburgh, and throughout Scotland. 

 Several present or former Scottish Members of Parliament. 

 Many of the Sheriffs of Counties in Scotland. 

 The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and the Provosts of several other towns in 



Scotland. 

 Certain Public Bodies in Edinburgh, such as the Royal College of Physicians, 



Royal Medical Society, and the Merchant Company. 

 Many of the leading Merchants of Edinburgh, such as those representing the 



Publishing, Printing, and Bookselling Trades. , 



3. Leading and other articles in the Press, not only of. Edin- 

 burgh, but of the Provinces: such as an article on "University 

 Development in Scotland," in the Perthshire Constitutional m No- 

 vember, 1874. 



