or Professor of any Scottish University can be elected Rector or be nominated or elected Assessor to any other person or body than the Senatus Academicus.

The University Court is a body corporate, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and in it is vested all the property, heritable and moveable, formerly belonging to the University and Colleges of St Andrews.

The Rector, and in his absence the Principal of the University, presides at the meetings of the University Court, and in the absence of both of them, a chairman for the time being is elected by the meeting. The person presiding at any meeting of the University Court has a deliberative vote, and also a casting vote in case of equality.

B. POWERS.

1. The University Court had the following powers conferred upon it by the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858:

"1. To review all decisions of the Senatus Academicus, and to be a Court of Appeal from the Senatus in every case, except as otherwise provided in the Universities Act of 1858.

2. To effect improvements in the internal arrangements of the University, after due communication with the Senatus Academicus, and with the sanction of the Chancellor, provided that all such proposed improvements shall be submitted to the University Council for their consideration.

3. To require due attention on the part of the Professors to Regulations as to the Mode of Teaching, and other duties imposed on the Professors.

4. To fix and regulate, from time to time, the Fees in the several Classes.

5. Upon sufficient cause shown, and after due investigation, to censure a Principal or Professor, or to suspend him from his office and from the emoluments thereof, in whole or in part, for any period not exceeding one year, or to require him to retire from his office on a retiring allowance, or to deprive him of his office; and during the suspension of any Professor, to make due provision for the teaching of his class: Provided always, that no such sentence of censure, suspension, or deprivation, or requisition on a Professor to retire from office, shall have any effect until it has been approved by her Majesty in Council.

6. To inquire into and control the administration by the Senatus Academicus, or Principal and Professors of any College, of the revenue, expenditure, and all the pecuniary concerns of the University and of any College therein, including funds mortified for Bursaries and other purposes.'

2. In addition to the powers conferred upon it by the Act of 1858, the University Court, under the Act of 1889, has (subject to any Ordinances made by the Universities Commissioners)

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"1. To administer and manage the whole revenue and property of the University, and the college or colleges thereof existing at the passing of this Act, including the share appropriated to such University out of the annual grant herein-after mentioned, and also including funds mortified for bursaries and other purposes, and to appoint factors or collectors, to. grant leases, to draw rents, and generally to have all the powers necessary for the management and administration of the said revenue and property:

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2. To review any decision of the Senatus Academicus on a matter within its competency which may be appealed against by a member of the Senatus, or other member of the University having an interest in the decision, within such time as may be fixed by the Commissioners, and to take into consideration all representations and reports made to it by the Senatus Academicus and by the General Council:

3. To review, on representation made by any of its members, or by any member of the Senatus Academicus, within such time as may be fixed by the Commissioners, any decision which the Senatus Academicus may come to in the exercise of its powers [in regulating and superintending the teaching and discipline of the University]: Provided always, that the University Court shall not review any decision of the Senatus Academicus in a matter of discipline, except upon appeal taken either by a member of the Senatus or by a member of the University directly affected by such decision: 4. To appoint professors whose chairs are, or may come to be, in the patronage of the University; to appoint examiners and lecturers; and to grant recognition to the teaching of any college or individual teacher for the purposes of graduation, under any regulations on the subject laid down by the Commissioners, which regulations after the expiration of their powers may from time to time be modified or altered by the Universities Committee:

5. To define on application by any member of the Senatus Academicus the nature and limits of a Professor's duties under his commission, subject to appeal to the Universities Committee:

6. To take proceedings against a Principal or Professor, University lecturer, assistant, recognised teacher or examiner, or any other person employed in teaching or examining under section twelve, sub-section five, of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, without the necessity of any one not a member of

the Court appearing as prosecutor, and for the purposes of such proceedings to call before it any member of the University to give evidence, and to require the production of documents, and also to institute and conduct any such inquiries as it may deem necessary:

7. To appoint from among members of the University or others, not being members of the Senatus Academicus, one-third of the members of any standing committee or committees charged, by ordinance of the Commissioners under this Act, with the immediate superintendence of any libraries or museums, or the contents thereof, belonging to the University and college or colleges thereof existing at the passing of this Act, and on representation made by any of its members, or by any member of the Senatus Academicus, to review any decision which the Senatus Academicus, in the exercise of its powers, may come to in respect of the recommendations of such committee or committees:

8. To appoint committees of its own number consisting of not less than five members, with powers to report on any business that may be entrusted to them by the University Court, or to carry out special instructions ordered by the University Court:

9. To elect the representative of the University on the General Medical Council, under the Medical Act, 1886:

10. After the expiration of the powers of the Commission to found new professorships with the approval of the Universities Committee, and after such expiration no new professorship shall be founded except as herein provided."

To the University Court belongs the patronage of the Chairs of Greek, Humanity, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Medicine, Civil and Natural History, and Chemistry.

SENATUS ACADEMICUS.

The Senatus Academicus consists of the Principals and Professors of the University. It regulates and superintends the teaching and discipline of the University; and appoints two-thirds of the members of any committee or committees charged by the Universities Commissioners with the immediate superintendence of the libraries and museums of the University, or the contents thereof. The Senatus receives in the first instance all reports by such committee or committees, and, subject to the review of the University Court, confirms, modifies, or rejects the recommendations in such reports.

The Principal of the University is President, and has both a deliberative and a casting vote. In his absence, the Principal of

St Mary's College presides; in his absence, the Principal of University College, Dundee ; failing whom, the senior Professor present. One-third of the members of Senatus constitute a quorum.

The Senatus elects three Assessors to the University Court; and also a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

GENERAL COUNCIL.

The General Council was instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, but its constitution and organisation have been considerably altered by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868; the Universities Elections Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1881; and the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889.

The General Council consists of the Chancellor; the Members of the University Court, from and after their first election; the Professors; all Masters of Arts of the University; all persons on whom the University has, after examination, conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or Doctor of Science, or Bachelor of Divinity, or Bachelor of Laws, or Bachelor of Medicine, or Bachelor of Science, or any other degree that may hereafter be instituted; all who have furnished evidence that, as Matriculated Students, they had, previous to August 1861, attended the University for four complete Sessions, or for three complete Sessions in this University, and a fourth at another Scottish University-the attendance for at least two of these Sessions having been in the course of study in the Faculty of Arts; and every person who has hitherto been or who shall in the future become ex officio a member of the General Council, owing either to his having been a Professor in or having held office as Member of the University Court in the University, and who shall have paid the registration fee.

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All Members of Council must have their names enrolled in the Register of the University. Each Member on being registered must pay a fee of £1, which constitutes life-membership. future, no person shall be allowed, after examination, to graduate, until he has paid the registration fee, with a view to his enrolment, at graduation, as a Member of the General Council.

The General Council is appointed to hold two statutory meetings every year, one on the last Thursday of March and another on the last Friday of November. In addition to these meetings the General Council may hold special meetings at the instance of the Chancellor, who shall convene such meetings on a requisi

tion from a quorum of members, and the Council may adjourn any meeting, and may appoint committees to investigate into and report upon any matter remitted to them or to carry out instructions given to them by the Council. The quorum of the General Council is twenty, being ten for every complete thousand or fraction of a thousand of Members on the register; but no quorum is required at the statutory half-yearly meetings.

The business of the Council is "to take into consideration all questions affecting the wellbeing and prosperity of the University, and to make representations from time to time on such questions to the University Court, who shall consider the same, and return to the Council their deliverance thereon."

The Council elects the Chancellor of the University, four Assessors to the University Court, and, jointly with the General Council of the University of Edinburgh, a Member of Parliament. No member of the Senatus Academicus is entitled to vote or take part in the election of any Assessor of the General Council.

The Chancellor is President of the General Council. At the meetings of the Council, in the absence of the Chancellor, Rector, and Principal, the Chancellor's Assessor, and in his absence the Rector's Assessor, shall preside; and in the absence of all of the said officials, a Chairman shall be elected by the meeting, provided that no member of the Senatus Academicus shall preside at any meeting of Council held for the purpose of electing an Assessor or Assessors. In every case the Chairman has a deliberative and also a casting vote.

The names and addresses of the Members of the General Council are printed in the Appendix.

STUDENTS.

Every Student is required to matriculate at the commencement of the Session before he can be enrolled in any Class of the University. The Fee for the Academical year is £1. Matriculated Students have the right of admission to the University Library, and, on certain conditions, to the Museum of Natural History. They also have the privilege of electing, by a general poll, the Rector of the University.

The attention of students who are Bursars is called to the following resolutions of the United College :

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1. The College in every ordinary case exacts from Bursars regular attendance in each Session on two full classes, or on one