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parentes nostras in generatione sua. Et nobis profuerunt homines divites 

 vn virtute, pulcTiritudinis studium habentes. Quippe anno post Chr. nat. 

 millesimo quadringentesimo qninqnagesimo primo Kicolaus Y., Ponti- 

 fex Maximus, non huniilis ipse hnmanitatis fautor, refloreseentium id 

 temporis artium scientiariumque pro nostratibus oratorem Jacobumll. 

 ex audivit. Ergo a magna Eoma matre lectae studiornm stirpes mox 

 in terram novam digestae necnon multorum beneficiis atque liberali- 

 tate excultae in banc tarn nobilem Academiae molem crevenint. 

 Longa deinde regum Scotorum series, inter quos bonoris causa nomi- 

 nandns fundator ille alter Jacobus YI.,Tiri doctissimi consiliis Andreae- 

 Melvini obsecutns, perpetuusque Maecenatium atque bujusce merca- 

 tura artibusque florentissimae Urbis favor Studiurn illud Generah 

 auxit ditavitque. 



Cum autem ad Bononiensis maximae Universitatis normam atque 

 regulam ab initiis placuerit doctrinae regimen accommodare, arctissuna 

 usque adhuc disciplinae rationisque scbolasticae similitude cum ceteris 

 ubicumque Academiis communem affinitatem testatur. Quamobrem 

 quasi nostro jure, bumanissimi Collegae, Societatem vestram precamur 

 ut legates mittat quos gaudiis caerimoniisque nostris interfuturos 

 mensis Junii die XII. laeti laetos excipiamus. 



R. Hekbeet Stoey, 

 Fraefectus et Viee-Caneellarius. 



Bahamus a.d. vn. Id. Januar. Mc^n. Glasgiiae. 



Tbe Secretary of Council proposed, and tbe Secretary of tbe 

 Academy seconded, and it was resolved : — 



" Tbat tbe invitation of tbe University of Glasgow to tbe Academy 

 to send Representatives to tbe Celebrations on 12tb, 13tb, and 14tb 

 of June next of tbe ISTintb Jubilee of tbe University be accepted, tbat 

 tbe Delegates be appointed at tbe next meeting of tbe Academy, and 

 tbat tbe Council be instructed to prepare and forward to tbe Univer- 

 sity an Address of Congratulation. 



Tbe Recommendation of tbe Council in reference to By-Laws, 

 Cbapter IV., tbat paragraph 4 sbould, in future, read thus — " 4. Tbe 

 same person sball not be elected President more tban five times in 



