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Ward Richardson, and by the unswerving aid of the 

 Rector, Lord Bute, who in the most generous spirit at once 

 provided the spacious medical buildings for anatomy, physi- 

 ology, botany, and materia medica with their practical and 

 experimental rooms and museums, and still further added to 

 his already munificent gifts by endowing the Chair of Anatomy. 

 The gain is not alone to medicine : science is no less benefited, 

 for anatomy and physiology, like zoology and botany, may 

 with advantage be studied by students of other Faculties. 



Again, while no reward other than a class prize fell to the 

 lot of a science or medical student half a century ago, special 

 and valuable prizes now exist in chemistry and zoology, and 

 additional prizes in the class of mathematics. Further, in 

 1890 the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarships were 

 made available for this and other British universities, and 

 since that period the University has been represented by 

 numerous excellent original workers. The Berry Scholarships 

 have also been instituted, and are held by distinguished 

 graduates who carry on original researches subsequent to 

 graduation. The science students of the University also 

 share in the benefits of the post-graduate scheme of the 

 Carnegie Trust, and, in recent years, a creditable number of 

 Research Fellowships and Scholarships have been gained by 

 St Andrews' students. 



The last two or three decades thus mark an era in the life 

 of the University an era characterised by ceaseless endeavours 

 to place science, so long ' fed on the crumbs which fell from 

 the arts' table,' l on a proper footing both in the curriculum 

 and in general culture. The substantial progress made dur- 

 ing the period embraced by the foregoing recollections must 

 afford profound gratification to all who desire to see scientific 

 study attain an honourable position in the intellectual life of 

 the University. 



1 The remark of a Classical Professor in former days. 



WILLIAM CAEMICHAEL M'!NTOSH 



