to subjects connected with the latter, and especially with the history, constitution, and usages of the Reformed Church of Scotland.

Subjects prescribed for Summer Study.-Neander's Church. History, vols. i. and ii.; M'Crie's Life of Knox; Epistles of Clement, Polycarp, or of Ignatius, in Hefele's or Harnack's edition of the Apostolic Fathers; and the Confessions of St Augustine.

HEBREW AND ORIENTAL LANGUAGES.

This Professorship, also sometime suppressed for want of funds, was restored in the year 1668, and further endowed by King William in 1693. The Professor is appointed by the Crown.

Junior Class.-Elements of Hebrew grammar; translation of Hebrew prose; written exercises; and occasional lectures.

So long as present arrangements continue, this class will be conducted in such a manner as to admit of Arts Students of the fourth year obtaining an elementary knowledge of Hebrew by attending on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The fee for this introductory class is one guinea, which is payable to the Secretary at the opening of the Session.

Senior Class.-Translation from Hebrew by the students; lectures and expositions by the Professor; written exercises on Hebrew idioms; elements of Chaldee. The books read and translated are chiefly the Prophetical and Poetical books of the Old Testament; but some portions of the Pentateuch are also read, and a few extracts in Chaldee.

Private Class for Students of the Third Year.-Selected portions of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures translated and explained by the Professor; Syriac language and literature; history and comparative philology of the Shemitic languages.

Text-Books.-The Student's Hebrew Grammar; The Student's Hebrew Dictionary, or the larger Dictionaries of Fürst or Gesenius; Syriac New Testament; Roediger's Chrestomathia Syriaca; Tennant's Synopsis; Petermann's Grammatica Arabica.

BURSARIES.

The number of Bursaries belonging to St Mary's College is nineteen, in value from £6 to £30 per annum. There are also twenty Bursaries of the same value transferable from the United College when the Bursars proceed to the study of Divinity.

Bursaries Open to Competition.

FOUNDATION BURSARIES.

Founded in 1537, by Archbishop Beaton. The number of Bursaries is six, each of the annual value of £11, or thereby, tenable for three years.

A. YEAMAN.

One Bursary, founded in 1669, by Dr Alexander Yeaman of Dundee. The annual value is £7, tenable for four years.

ALEXANDER.

Founded in 1695, by James Alexander (son of the Minister of Hoddam). The number of Bursaries is two, of the annual value of £15 each, tenable for four years. Preference to the relations of the Founder, and to the name of Alexander.

STUART.

Founded in 1809, by the Rev. James Stuart, Rector of George Town and All Saints, South Carolina. One Bursary of the annual value of £6, or thereby, tenable for four years. Preference first to the name of Stuart, and then to that of Simpson.

WEMYSS.

This Bursary was founded in 1861, by Mrs Amy Wemyss of Edinburgh, late of Calcutta. The annual value is £25, tenable for four years.

BUIST.

Founded in 1876, by James Buist, Esq., Lawpark, St Andrews, in remembrance of his brother, who was long a Professor in the College. Annual value £20, or thereby, tenable for three years.

BEATH.

Founded in 1881 by Miss Margaret Beath, New Park, St Andrews. The number of Bursaries is two, of the annual value of £18, or thereby, tenable for three years, subject to regulations and conditions prescribed by the Faculty of Theology.

EXCHEQUER.

Three Bursaries, founded in 1693, by King William III., and conjoined into one Bursary by Ordinance No. 88, St Andrews, No. 13. The annual value is £30, tenable for four years. This Bursary is open to the competition of all Masters of Arts of any Scottish

University, entering on their first or second Session of attendance in St Mary's College.

Presentation Bursaries.

BELL OR DRON.

Founded in 1663, by the Rev. William Bell, Minister of Errol. One Bursary of the annual value of £20, or thereby. It is tenable for one year, but the Bursar is generally reappointed till the conclusion of his theological course. Preference first to the son of a minister of the Presbytery of Perth, and then to the son of a merchant of the burgh of Perth. The Presbytery of Perth are the Patrons.

P. YEAMAN.

Founded in 1675, by Patrick Yeaman of Dundee. One Bursary of the annual value of about £11, tenable for four years. Preference to the name of Yeaman or Kinnaird, and the Bursar is required to be M.A. Patron-Colonel James Rait of Anniston.

MONCREIFFE.

Founded in 1701, by Sir Thomas Moncreiffe. One Bursary of the annual value of about £10, tenable for four years. Patron Sir Robert D. Moncreiffe, Bart.

GARVIE.

Founded in 1831, by the Rev. William Garvie, Minister of Aberdalgie. The number of Bursaries is two, of the annual value of £26 each, or thereby, tenable for four years. There is occasionally a third Bursary arising from accumulations on the capital fund. These, by the deed of foundation, when they amount to four times the annual value of one of the original Bursaries, may be given to one Student entering the Divinity Hall for his first Session, for four years, or may be divided between two Students, each entering on the third year of his theological course. Preference first to candidates of the name of Garvie; next to sons of ministers and members of the Presbytery of Perth; and then to persons born in or belonging to the city of Perth, or the parish of Aberdalgie. Patrons The Presbytery of Perth.

CRAIG BUCHANAN.

Founded in 1846, by the Rev. Dr George Craig Buchanan, Minister of Kinross. One Bursary of the annual value of about £12, tenable for four years. It is restricted to natives of the parish

of Kinross; whom failing, of the parish of Cleish; whom failing, of the parish of Orwell; whom failing, of the parish of Dunfermline. Preference to the names of Dalziel, Buchanan, or Craig. Patrons-The Kirk-Session of Kinross.

PRIZES.

Prizes are awarded for general proficiency in the different Classes at the close of the Session. The following special prizes are annually competed for :

GRAY.

Founded in 1808, by Dr John Gray of Paddington, London. One Prize of the value of £8, for the best Essay on a prescribed subject. The competition is open to all Students in regular attendance on the Classes in the College in the Session at the close of which the Essay is prescribed. Patrons-The Senatus Academicus.

COOK AND MACFARLAN TESTIMONIAL.

Instituted in 1847, along with a similar prize in the University of Glasgow, as a memorial of the valuable services rendered to the Church of Scotland by the late Professor George Cook, D.D., of this University, and the late Principal Macfarlan, D.D., of the University of Glasgow. The value of the Testimonial is £21. The competition is open to Students of Divinity belonging to the Church of Scotland, who shall have attended regularly during three Sessions at the Hall, in one or other of the Scottish Universities, and who shall enrol at St Mary's College for a fourth or additional Session. Candidates are examined in Greek, Hebrew, Ecclesiastical History, Moral Philosophy, and Divinity, in accordance with the following scheme :—

Greek.-Phædo of Plato. The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle of James.

Moral Philosophy.-Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Hebrew.-Isaiah, chapters i. to xii. inclusive. Syriac Testament, St Matthew's Gospel, chapters ii. to iv., with Grammatical and Exegetical questions.

Ecclesiastical History.-Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Biblical Criticism and Theology.-Westcott's History of the Canon of the New Testament, to the end of period first. Bleek's Introduction to the New Testament, vol. i., to the end of the four Gospels.

Evidences of Christianity and Systematic Theology.-Butler's Analogy. Doctrine of the Trinity. History of the Formation of the Apostles' and of the Nicene Creed. (Handbooks--Neander and Hagenbach's Histories of Dogma, Vols. II.)

Trustees-The Principal and Professors of St Mary's College, and the Professors of Greek and Moral Philosophy of the United College, with the Moderator and a senior member of the Presbytery of St Andrews.

CHANCELLOR'S PRIZE.

A Prize has also for some years been regularly given in St Mary's College by the present Chancellor, His Grace the Duke of Argyll, of the value of £10, in books. The Prize is awarded to senior Students for proficiency in all the departments of study, after a written competition on the following subjects:

1. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, I. II. III. IV. 2. Duke of Argyll's Reign of Law. 3. M'Crie's Life of John Knox. 4. The Book of Psalms in Greek (LXX version). phet Micah in Hebrew.

5. Book of the Pro

BURSARS.

SESSION 1890-91.

The names of those Students whose tenure of their respective Bursaries

has expired are printed in italics.