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English serial (Macmillan's English Illustrated Magazine, 1889), 

 ' In the annals of science St Andrews has no mean fame, and 

 the names, either as students or teachers, of Edward Forbes, 

 John Goodsir, David Brewster, John Reid, David Page, 

 George Day, and James David Forbes, are associated with 

 this venerable seat of Scottish culture. In the laboratories 

 of the University, or on the beach of the far-reaching bay, 

 these eminent men pursued their famed researches.' 



IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENTS 



ORIGINATED AT ST ANDREWS 



It will surprise many persons to learn that in this retired 

 academic centre, the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science had its birth, for Sir David Brewster, afterwards 

 Principal of the United College, proposed its formation in 

 1831. The medical training of women began when Mrs 

 Garrett Anderson received instruction in Anatomy from Pro- 

 fessor Day at St Andrews in 1862, while the higher academic 

 education of women at Girton, followed by Newnham at 

 Cambridge, and by Somerville Hall at Oxford, received its 

 first impetus at St Andrews. Indeed, St Andrews may be 

 said to have originated female University education in Britain, 

 and as long ago as 1877 the special University title of L.L.A. 

 was granted to women by St Andrews. 



Further, University Extension in Scotland was com- 

 menced by St Andrews in 1876, when Principals and Pro- 

 fessors from the ancient Scottish University gave courses of 

 Academic Lectures in Dundee. University College in Dundee 

 may be said to have really originated with these first efforts 

 on the part of the St Andrews Professoriate. 



When Mr Alexander Robertson, now University Lecturer 

 on Botany, opened a course of botanical lectures in the United 

 College in 1892, the occasion was notable as being the first 

 recorded admission of women to courses of regular study, on 



