BOTANY IN GLASGOW UNIVERSITY IN 18th CENTURY. 135 



Notwifcl.standing tliat it is not possible to sav to which of the 

 professors of the na.ne of Hamilton this syllabus of lectures is 

 due, nor to state the date at which they were given, there are 

 points of interest in them which well justify their being put into 

 print. Wiiat is chiefly notable is that so large a proportion of 

 the lectures was devoted to anatomy and to physiolo-y When 

 we reflect that the lectures cannot have been long subsequent to 

 and possibly even before, the discovery of oxygen, the interest of 

 the physiological part is increased. Anatomy, a part of the 

 science which in the early days was peculiarly a British branch 

 IS naturally well represented. It is no matter for surprise that a 

 large part of the course was devoted to descriptive work, while 

 the small proportion given to the Cryptogams was only what 

 might have been expected at a time when the knowledge of them 

 was still in its infancy. The whole balance of the course, of 

 which these notes form only the slightest sketch, may be consi- 

 dered eminently satisfactory. Probably the teaching of Botany 

 m our University was well abreast of the period at which these 

 lectures were given. 



Description of Plate III. 

 Part of a plan of the "City of Glasgow, Gorbells, and Caltoun 

 from an actual survey by John M'Arthur, surveyor in Glasgow 

 17.8. A copy of this plan is in the Corporation Museum in 

 Ivelvingrove, and the figure has been taken from it by permission 

 ot the Authorities of the Museum. 



Description of Plate IV. 

 Plan of the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow, at Sandyford 

 taken from the Catalogue of Plants, published in 1825— Sir W j' 

 Hooker, LL.D , being then Professor of Botany and Mr. Stewart 

 Murray the Superintendent of the Garden. The following is the 

 key to the numbers on the plan :— ° 



1. General Collection of Herbaceous Plants. 

 2 Grasses. 



3. Collection to illustrate the Linniean System. 



4. Collection to illustrate the Natural Method of Jussieu. 



5. British Collection. 



