UNIVERSITY EXAMINERS.

I. FOR DEGREES.

I. Faculty of Arts.-The Examiners for the Degree in Arts are the seven Professors whose classes are embraced in the Curriculum; and, in addition, three persons (Members of a Scottish University Council, but not Professors or Assistant Professors in any Scottish University) appointed (each for three years) by the University Court, in whose appointment regard must be had to their eminence respectively in Classical Literature, Mental Philosophy, and Mathematical Science. No Examiner can be re-appointed till he has ceased to hold office for a year. The annual salary of each of the three additional Examiners is £80, voted by Parliament. Candidates for Honours in Natural Science are examined by the Professors of Natural History, Chemistry, and Botany. The appointments of additional Examiners in the Faculty of Arts have been as follow:

II. Faculty of Medicine.-The Examiners of Candidates for Degrees in Medicine are the Professors in the Faculty of Medicine, and, in addition, three persons appointed annually by the University Court, who receive £100 each, voted by Parliament. The Preliminary Examination of Candidates for Medical Degrees is conducted by the Examiners in Arts, together with

some of the Medical Examiners. The appointments of additional Examiners in the Faculty of Medicine have been as

III. Faculty of Law.-The Examiners for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws are the six Professors of the Faculty.

IV. Faculty of Theology.-The Examiners for the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity are the four Professors of the Faculty, together with two Professors from other Faculties appointed by the University Court.

II. EXAMINERS OF SCHOOLMASTERS.

Under the "Parochial and Burgh Schoolmasters' (Scotland) Act, 1861," six Professors of the University-three of whom must be Professors in the Faculty of Arts, and three Professors in the Faculty of Divinity-are appointed by the University Court as Examiners of Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters. These Examiners continue in office for two years from the date of their respective appointments, or until their successors are appointed; and they may be re-appointed. They choose one of their own number to act as Secretary. The School District of the University of Edinburgh, for the purposes of the above Act, comprehends the Schools within any of the counties of Berwick, Edinburgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Stirling. (See Appendix for the Programme, &c., of the Examination.)*

*These regulations will be modified in the event of legislation with regard to the Parochial Schools of Scotland.

THE

University Library.

`HE Library originated in a bequest, in 1580, by Mr Clement Little, Commissary, Edinburgh, a learned citizen, and brother of the Lord Provost, who left his library to "Edinburgh and the Kirk of God." This library, consisting of about 300 volumes, chiefly theological, was transferred by the Town Council, a few years afterwards, to the University. The University Library was afterwards largely augmented, by donations from the Citizens of Edinburgh and from the alumni of the University, and by the annual contributions of Students when they took the Degree of Master of Arts. Among the donors may be specified, for the extent and value of their benefactions, Principal Adamson, Dr Robert Johnston, a physician in London; the Rev. James Nairne of Wemyss, in Fyfe: Dr John Stevenson, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University; and Dr William Thomson, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford. The celebrated Drummond of Hawthornden bequeathed his library to the University; and the gift is valuable, both from the eminence of the donor's name, and from the rare specimens of our early literature with which the collection is enriched.

The University Library contains about 136,000 printed volumes, and about 700 volumes of MSS., many of which are of great interest and value.

The University possesses some valuable pictures and busts, which are kept in the Library and Senate Hall.

The Library Hall, and the suite of rooms connected with it, occupy the south side of the College quadrangle.

The Library is open every lawful day, during the Winter Session, from 10 to 4 o'clock, except on Saturdays, when it is shut at I o'clock. During the Summer Session the hours for

public business are from 10 to 3; on Saturdays, from 10 to 12 o'clock.

There is a READING ROOM in connexion with the Library, open to all Matriculated Students, for purposes of study, and for the consultation of books.

The following Regulations, enacted in 1862, relate to the general management of the Library :

I. The Librarian has the ordinary management of the Library, subject to the superintendence of the Library Committee of the Senatus Academicus.

II. The Senatus Academicus annually appoints a Committee of their own number, called the Library Committee, whose duty it is, under the authority and subject to the directions of the Senatus, to take special charge of the affairs and business of the Library. This Committee consists of not less than five members, of whom three are a quorum; and one member at least of the Finance Committee is also a member of the Library Committee.

III. The Librarian and the Assistant Librarians are appointed by the Senatus Academicus, who have the power of suspending or dismissing them, subject to an appeal to the University Court.

IV. All books ordered for the Library are sent direct to the Librarian, and forthwith entered by him in the Catalogue, and noted with distinguishing marks; and no person is allowed to use or borrow any book until it has been entered in the Catalogue, and noted.

V. The Senatus Academicus, or their Library Committee, have power, from time to time, to make provision for the manner in which the ordinary business of the Library, in regard to borrowing and consulting books, is conducted, by establishing a regular and authentic record of borrowing and returning books on such a system as secures their due return and preservation.

VI. The Librarian is required from time to time to prepare a list, to be submitted to, and adjusted and approved by the Senatus, and when so adjusted and approved, to be kept by the

Librarian, of such books, manuscripts, and other works, as ought not to be lent out of the Library, and which shall not be lent out on any terms; and the Senatus make regulations for allowing access to such works for consultation.

VII. The Librarian is required from time to time to prepare a list, to be submitted to, and adjusted and approved by the Senatus, and when so adjusted and approved, to be kept by the Librarian, of such works as ought not to be lent out of the Library, except upon special application, and by special permission of the Library Committee; and the Senatus, from time to time, make general regulations as to the conditions under which such works may be borrowed; and in addition to such general regulations, the Library Committee may, in each individual case of borrowing such works, impose such special conditions as they may think necessary or expedient: Provided always, that every such special permission, and all such additional conditions imposed by the Library Committee, are entered in the Minute-book of the Committee.

VIII. A general inspection of the Library of the University, and of the record kept, as above provided by Section V., of the borrowing and returning of books, takes place annually, in the first week of October.

IX. During the period of the annual inspection the Library is closed, and all works whatever, and by whomsoever borrowed, must be returned to the Library before the commencement of such period, under a penalty, previously fixed and publicly notified by the Senatus, of not less than one shilling a volume; and in the event of any volume not being returned before the expiration of one week after the last day of the inspection, the fine is repeated weekly until such volume is returned, or until a copy of the work of the same edition, and of equal value, is, at the expense of the borrower, placed in the Library in its stead: Provided always, that the amount of the fine in the case of works borrowed by special permission as aforesaid, may be fixed either by general regulation of the Senatus, or by special condition imposed by the Library Committee in any individual case.