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fibres and other specimens. Most of the botanical specimens 

 are now in the botanical department at the Bute Medical 

 Buildings. Further, a large series of geological, palaeonto- 

 logical, and mineralogical specimens have been handed over 

 for the equipment of the geological department. 



Through the munificent gift of Mrs Bell Pettigrew, the 

 University has now a spacious new museum with practical 

 rooms for zoology and a curator's room at the Bute Medical 

 Building, and she has also largely contributed to the 

 furnishing of the museum with the most modern cases of 

 iron. These have large plate-glass faces unbroken by bars, 

 so that the maximum field is afforded for exhibition. To 

 this fine museum the extensive and valuable and in some 

 cases unique collections will be removed after the celebration 

 of the five hundredth anniversary of the University. And thus 

 the labour of many years and of nearly three generations will 

 at last be adequately shown in a building which will ever be 

 associated with the name of a valued colleague, whose skill in 

 unravelling the fibres and nerves of the mammalian heart and 

 other hollow organs, and whose pioneer researches on flight 

 will also perpetuate his reputation. 



AN INTERESTING COMPARISON 



A comparison of the state of science in the United College 

 fifty-eight years ago with its condition to-day, and from 

 personal experience, may be both interesting and instructive. 

 In the early fifties of last century the University had as 

 Chancellor the talented and versatile Duke of Argyll, who 

 shone equally in the House of Lords and as President of the 

 Geological Society of London, and whose scientific tastes 

 and genial yet noble bearing made him a general favourite, 

 while as Vice-Chancellor and Principal it had the distinguished 

 discoverer in optics and cognate subjects, and the equally 



