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as to the general assiduity and talent which had 
been shown by the Conservator in the very arduous 
task of removing and arranging the Museum, which 
he had performed so much to the satisfaction of 
the College. He therefore begged to move that 
the sum of £50, together with the thanks of the 
College, be presented to the Conservator for the 
extra labour he has had in the matter.” 
At the next meeting of the College (13th August 
1832), 
“ Dr Gairdner, President, in absence of Mr 
Wood, proposed that his motion of 2nd August, 
regarding a grant of money and vote of thanks to 
the Conservator, be approved, as he believed it was 
admitted on all hands that Mr MacGillivray was 
most deserving of this mark of approbation from 
the College, especially as the motion proceeded 
from the Curators of the Museum, who were best 
acquainted with the nature and extent of his 
labours and with the manner in which he had 
performed his duties. The motion was unanimously 
carried.” 
The subsequent minutes of the College 
afford abundant evidence of the extremely satis¬ 
factory manner in which MacGillivray continued to 
discharge his duties as Conservator during the 
remaining eight years of his tenure of that office, 
never grudging time or trouble in the discharge of 
these duties in the manner most conducive to the 
interests of the College and to the entire satisfaction 
of that body. 
His knowledge of comparative anatomy and of 
natural history the College recognised as being of 
