

A EoYAL Commission which was appointed in April, 1876, to 

 inquire into the constitution, management, &c., of the Scottish 

 Universities, has just issued a detailed and comprehensive report 

 of its proceedings and investigations, in which it submits for the 

 consideration of the Crown many liberal recommendations for the 

 extension and improvement of the teaching at the four universities in 

 Scotland, especially in reference to the Natural Science Chairs "with 

 which we are more immediately concerned. Excellent provision is 

 made for the efficient teaching of the Science of Agriculture, "Botany, 

 Geology and Mineralogy, Chemistry, Natural History, Engineering, 

 Natural Philosophy, &c. ; a well-endowed professorial Chair, with one 

 or more assistants as the case may require, being appointed for 

 educating Students in each of them. We take the following 

 extracts from the thirty-sixth article of the report, to show the pro- 

 vision recommended to be made for the teaching of some of these 

 sciences; premising that proper provision is to be made whereby the 

 emoluments of a professor will be not less than £600 a year, including 

 fees paid by the students attending his class. 



" The following provisions for assistance and apparatus shall be 

 attached to different Chairs in the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, 

 and Aberdeen, viz. : — 



(1) To the Chair of Natural Philosophy a first assistant with a 

 salary of £250 a year, in addition to the present mechanical assistant 

 at £100. 



(2) To the Chair of Institutes of Medicine or Physiology two 

 assistants, one at £150, and the other at £100 a year ; also a sum of 

 £1,000 for the purchase of apparatus and material of a permanent 

 kind, with an annual sum of £100 for maintenance and provision of 

 new material. 



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