CHAPTER V 
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN MARISCHAL 
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY, ABERDEEN, 1841 TO 
1852 — u HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS ” COM¬ 
PLETED — u NATURAL HISTORY OF DEESIDE AND 
BRAEMAR DEATH. 
As already mentioned, MacGillivray in 1841 
entered on a new and extended sphere of eminent 
usefulness, as Professor of Natural History in 
Marischal College, Aberdeen, a sphere for which 
he was specially qualified, and which was altogether 
congenial to him. Then began, as I have said, the 
fifth period of his life. His chair included zoology, 
geology, and botany, this latter being a separate 
lectureship. All of these branches he had made 
subjects of special study, and had published, as 
before mentioned, a manual on each of them while 
he was in Edinburgh. His scientific many-sided¬ 
ness specially fitted him for the varied character of 
his work in his new position, while that position 
at the same- time afforded him opportunities for 
still further self-development, in accordance with 
the main bent of his mind and in the lines of his 
previous extensive acquirements. 
