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Robert Burns, David Livingstone, Sir John Moore, 

 Thomas Campbell , Lord Clyde ( the last three natives 

 of the city), and others. 



The Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 

 College was formed in 1886 by the amalgamation 

 of several institutions (including the arts depart- 

 ment of Anderson's College, q.v. ) under a scheme 

 formulated by the Educational Endowments Com- 

 mission. It has over 2000 students attending its 

 day and evening classes. It provides suitable 

 education for those who wish to qualify themselves 

 for following any industrial pursuit, and trains 

 teachers for technical schools. St Mungo's College, 

 dating from 1889, has faculties in medicine and 

 law ; and the medical department of Anderson's 

 College is a separate school. St Margaret's College 

 is for women. The Free Church College possesses 

 conspicuous buildings ; and mention should also be 

 made of the Normal Schools, and of the School of 

 Arts and Haldane's Academy. Of the secondary 

 schools in Glasgow the principal is the High 

 School a survival of the ancient grammar- 

 school of the city which is under the manage- 



ment of the school-board. Other schools of a like 

 standing are the Glasgow arid the Kelvinside 

 academies, both large and efficiently managed ; 

 while, richly endowed from the Hutcheson Trust, 

 two schools for boys and girls provide at a very 

 low rate a thoroughly good secondary education. 

 Scattered throughout all the districts of the town 

 are the seventy elementary schools of the Board. 

 Amongst educative agencies may be reckoned the 

 Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum in the Kelvin- 

 side Park, being built in 1900 beside the more tem- 

 porary buildings for the Exhibition in 1901. 



Unfortunately, the city is entirely destitute of 

 fine buildings wholly devoted to library purposes. 

 There is no free lending library in the town, but 

 there are several great collections which may be 

 used free of charge as consulting libraries. Of 

 these the Mitchell Library, which is under corpora- 

 tion management, contains over 75,000 volumes ; 

 and the Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library 

 contains about 45,000 volumes. Baillie's Library 

 is under the same roof. The university has a 

 library of 175,000 volumes, among which number 



Glasgow, from the Brooinielaw. 



are many notable examples of Caxton's and 

 Pynson's and other loth-century printing ; but 

 the library is only available to alumni of the 

 university. The Athemeum includes a newsroom, 

 magazine-room, and a library of 12,000 volumes. 

 Of subscription lending libraries there is an abund- 

 ance in the city, and private libraries are to be 

 found in such large numbers as to form a distinc- 

 tive feature. The publishing of books and news- 

 papers has of late been more largely developed. 

 Glasgo.w has two daily morning newspapers, three 

 evening, and about a dozen weekly newspapers 

 and peiiodicals, and one or two monthlies. An 

 industrial museum has been instituted in the city 

 in which a considerable collection, especially in 

 the natural history department, is now displayed. 

 It is supported under the Parks and Galleries 

 Trust, as are also the Corporation Galleries of Art, 

 a collection of pictures and statuary acquired 

 partly by purchase, but more largely by donation 

 and bequest. The galleries contain a very valuable 

 series of old Dutch masters, and there is a noble 

 statue of Pitt by Flaxman. 



With benevolent and charitable institutions the 



city is richly endowed. In addition to numerous 

 hospitals and dispensaries for special diseases, there 

 are three general infirmaries, which among them 

 accommodate upwards of one thousand patients. 

 These are the Royal Infirmary in the north-east 

 district, the Western Infirmary adjoining the 

 University, and the Victoria Infirmary in the 

 Queen's Park, South Side. They are all main- 

 tained by voluntary contributions and bequests. 



Three magnificent terminal railway stations bring 

 traffic to the heart of the town, respectively form- 

 ing the headquarters of the three great Scotch lines 

 the Caledonian, the Glasgow and South-Western, 

 and the North British. St Enoch's Station, the 

 terminus of the Glasgow and South-Western, is 

 modelled on the plan of St Pancras ; the Central 

 Station is the headquarters of the Caledonian, 

 The Underground Railway (1886), in connection 

 with the North British system, and the City 

 Union line afford every facility for rapid travel- 

 ling into nearly every quarter of the town ; 

 and in 1889-95 there was constructed an under- 

 ground system connected with the Caledonian 

 Railway, passing through the luisiest and most 



