IlOTAW IM (UvASGOW UNIVKIISITY IN 1 StH CENTURV. \'2'o 



allocated £30 yearly of this sum to the ' Professor of Bottany ' (sic). 

 There seems to have been an actual professor or teacher to 

 to wliom the £30 was assigned. It does not look like a grant to 

 a prospective or liypothetical professor. 



" :39 Sept., 1720. — Degree of M.D. granted to Andrew Graham, 

 1 iitor to the Marquis of Graham, wlio had studied medicine, 

 especially botany, a long time in this university." 



" IS Feb., 1721. — Students who are sons of noblemen allowed 

 to have a key to the great garden, and to the physic garden, on 

 jiromising not to allow the use of it to others, and to redeliver it 

 at the end of session." 



" iP Sept., 1727. — Commission of visitation ordain that the 

 Professor of Botany and Anatomy teach botany yearly, from 

 the l.Jtli of May to the first day of July, if five students offer, 

 and that Dr. Brisbane, present Professor of Botany and Anatomy, 

 is obliged to teach anatomy as well as botany. He is to begin to 

 teach anatomy as soon as ten students offer, and if no such 

 number offer before 1st November, to prelect publicly on anatomy 

 once weekly till 15th May, when he begins to teach botany." 

 [Note. — The time here specified for teaching botany is the earliest 

 instance of a sepai'ate summer session.] 



'• 15 April, 17Jf.l. — Proposal raised, but not settled, to turn the 

 pre.sent physic garden into a bowling green, and to allow a suitable 

 part of the great garden for a physic garden." \Note. — There is 

 no conclusive statement that the bowling green was formed or 

 tlie site of the physic garden changed.] 



" ol May, 175.'+. — Committee appointed to consider proposal 

 by Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Cullen regarding the great garden, to 

 make it more useful for the study of botany, and about getting a 

 good gardener." \J^ote. — This suggests that the physic garden 

 had been moved to the great garden ; on the other hand, the entry 

 is consistent with a mere extension of the physic garden, which 

 liad been found to be insufficient for its purpose.] 



"J April, 1762. — Application from Professor Wilson (wlio 

 more than twelve years before had been appointed type-founder 

 to the university) that the college erect a type-founding house 

 for him in the college grounds, for which he is to pay rent. The 

 application was agreed to, and it was resolved to build the type- 

 founding liouse in the little garden adjoining the physic garden." 



