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and three thousand coloured lecture drawings, thousands of 

 microscopic preparations, and every kind of apparatus neces- 

 sary for the thorough knowledge of the subject. Its spirit- 

 preparations and skeletons form an extensive and bulky series, 

 not to allude to the type-series connected with the scientific 

 investigations on trawling and on the salmon. Up to this 

 moment, however, the accommodation has remained the same 

 as in 1882. Attached to the new Pettigrew Museum, however, 

 a new and more spacious practical class-room has been formed, 

 but no lecture-room has been provided. 



While as yet there has been no expansion of the class- 

 room accommodation for the natural history department, 

 the institution by the Government of a marine laboratory 

 in 1884 has led to further developments in marine work, for 

 in 1896 the Gatty Marine Laboratory was opened under the 

 auspices of the University, the munificent gift of Dr Charles 

 Henry Gatty of Felbridge Place, Sussex. This affords the 

 students, and still more the graduates, facilities for marine 

 researches both zoological and botanical unknown under 

 the old regime. The list of works and researches connected 

 with the department will be found in the brochure on the 

 Marine Laboratory. 



In the class of physiology many advances have likewise 

 occurred. Instead of the two short courses of physiology and 

 comparative anatomy, a complete course of physiology, with 

 practical work of the most modern type, is now the rule, and 

 the apparatus has been largely increased. Moreover, a com- 

 plete suite of practical rooms has been provided in the Bute 

 Medical Buildings with adjoining lecture-room. Thus the 

 views of the late Universities Commission, that the Chandos 

 Chair should cease, have not been carried out, and the Chair 

 of John Reid, George Edward Day, and James Bell Pettigrew 

 is now more firmly rooted in St Andrews than ever. 



In the course of half a century great improvements have 

 been made in the department of chemistry, and the whole 



