128 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



to nominate annually three directors, of whom the professor of 

 botany to be always one. The professor of botany, or college 

 lecturer, to give at least one course of lectures each season in the 

 public room to be erected in the garden, and to have exclusive 

 light of lecturing there, though other public bodies or individuals 

 might receive such specimens as could be spared from the garden 

 for the purpose of lecturing elsewhere. The Faculty unanimously 

 agree that on the death of Mary Hamilton (Mrs. Cochrane) 

 £2,000 should be appropriated from the legacy of the late 

 Mr. Hamilton to replace the money advanced for the proposed 

 botanic garden. [JVote. — The college had the reversion to a 

 considerable sum left by Mr. Robert Hamilton, a foreign 

 merchant, but subject to the life-i'ent of his sister, Mrs. Cochrane. 

 It is thought probable, though not entirely verified, that this 

 Mr. Hamilton was a relative of Dr. Hamilton, professor of 

 anatomy and botany before Dr. Jeffray.] 



In 1818 Dr. Robert Graham was appointed Professor of Botany 

 in Glasgow University, the separate chair having been founded 

 by the Crown in that year. Dr. Graham held the chair only for 

 some two years, when he was transferred to the chair of Botany 

 in Edinburgh. He was succeeded by Sir William Hooker. 



From the information contained in these notes the following 

 brief story may be constructed of the botanical activity in the 

 old college during the 18th century. 



In 1704 space in the old college garden was allotted for 

 botanical purposes, and a gardener provided. In the same year 

 an instructor was appointed, probably for the first time. In 

 1708 the salary of this official was increased from Crown endow- 

 ment. But in 1718 the instructorship in botany was merged 

 in the pi'ofessorship of anatomy, founded in that year by the 

 Crown, and the two subjects remained officially conjoined for 

 exactly one century, till the separate professorship of botany was 

 founded by the Crown in 1818. 



The teaching of the science as it was in the ISth century 

 naturally took place in the summer ; the course opened about the 

 middle of May, an arrangement which seems to have led to the 

 first establishment of a summer session in the university. 



