always more or less exegetical. Occasional Essays on questions suggested by the reading are also prescribed.

EVANGELISTIC THEOLOGY.

Rev. Dr DUFF, Professor.

Hitherto, the arrangements for this Course have been temporary and experimental. Hereafter, it will consist of two distinct sets of Lectures-one for Students of the First Year, the other for Students of the Fourth Year. These lectures will embrace some at least of the leading topics which range themselves under the following heads :

1. The Supreme Importance of Missions as variously shown from the revealed Word of God. 2. The obligations which arise out of the preceding and other collateral views to seek the evangelisation of the world, and the discharge of which is absolutely imperative on the Church of Christ. 3. The obstacles and hindrances to the faithful discharge of these obligations within the Church. 4. The work to be done among the heathen, and the various ways and modes of doing it. 5. Missionariestheir call; their qualifications, natural and acquired; their training and employment; with counsels and exhortations relative to their varied proceedings in the mission field. 6. The special duties which the Church at home owes to the missionaries as her representatives and deputies, as well as towards their families; with a review of the whole subject of the principles and practice of Church and Missionary finance. 7. Sketches of the History of Missions-primitive missions, mediæval missions, and modern missions; their differences and agreements, failures and successes; with notices of the lives of eminent missionaries. 8. The present aspects and prospects of the missionary enterprise throughout the world, together with the additional motives and encouragements suggested thereby, for engaging more heartily and extensively than ever in promoting it. 9. Misrepresentations and objections considered and removed.

NATURAL SCIENCE.

Rev. Dr DUNS, Professor.

I. ZOOLOGY.-I. Special-Systematic Outline of the great subdivisions of the Animal Kingdom, with an examination of the structure and habits of leading species. 2. General-In the course of the Systematic Outline, the following and other general topics are discussed :-Natural Science and Theology-Natural Science as Mental Discipline and Power-New Aspects of Natural Theology-Principles of Zoological Classification-Phenomena of Form, Structure, and Growth-Origin, Variation,

and Distribution of Species-Nature-Theory of the Physical Basis of Life-Evolution-Creative Plan-Teleology-Law of Correlation-Unity of the Human Race.

II. GEOLOGY.-i. Physical Geology-Descriptive and Dynamical-Phenomena of the surface, and of Aqueous, Igneous, and Atmospheric actions: Stratification of Rocks. 2. Mineralogy -Classification, Composition, and Properties of Minerals. 3. Paleontology-Superposition of Rocks and Succession of Life on the Earth-Genesis and Science-Antiquity of Man.

BOTANY.-In March, a short course of Lectures is occasionally given on the Classification of Plants, and on structural and Physiological Botany.

The Lectures are illustrated by specimens from the Museum, Drawings and Diagrams. Microscopes are used daily.

FULTON CLASS OF ELOCUTION.

D. ANDERSON MOXEY, M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., Lecturer. During the Session 1877-78, instruction will be given, as far as possible, in accordance with the subjoined classification :—

I. MECHANICAL READING, (1) with the special view of correcting pronunciation, and cultivating the speaking voice. This will embrace a consideration of the mechanism of the human voice, the difference between speech and song, the vocal elements, etc. (2) With special reference to distinct articulation, exercises being given on the consonants and vowels, and attention paid to Synepy. This will embrace a consideration of the mechanism and management of respiration, pausing, poise, stammering and stuttering, accent, audibility, dropping the voice, etc.

II. SIGNIFICANT READING, with special reference to modulation. This will embrace practical exercises on the use of inflexions and emphasis, the grouping of sentences, pitch, a second phase of pausing, time or movement, etc.

III. IMPASSIONED READING, Speaking,-with special reference to expression, or tone. This will include gesture, manner and general deportment, extempore speaking, exercises in speaking and reciting memoriter, silent practice, imitation, and a study of action and emphasis.

IV. PULPIT ORATORY AND PRACTICE.

IV.-LIBRARY.

The Library originated with Dr Welsh, who, in 1843, brought the subject before the Assembly. He obtained large donations in money and books from friends, and from publishers in

this country and in America. Among these benefactors were Lord Dalhousie; Lord Effingham; Lord Rutherfurd; General M'Dowall of Stranraer; George Buchan, Esq., of Kelloe; R. Paul, Esq.; Mr Sargent of London; Mr Sanderson; the Rev. Mr Murray of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey; Dr Smyttan; Professor Johnston, Durham ; J. M. Hog, Esq.; John Maitland, Esq.; W. D. Webster, Esq.; Dr Duncan; Mr Elder; Mr Craig of Tor. The endowment now amounts to about £139 per annum.

The Library is extensive and valuable.* It numbers about 35,000 volumes. It is rich in the departments of Patristic Theology, Ecclesiastical History, and Systematic Theology, and of works belonging to the time of the Reformation.

REGULATIONS.

I. The Library shall be open during the Winter Session every lawful day, from Ten to Two, except on Saturday, when it shall be open only from Ten to Twelve. During the Summer Vacation, it shall be open twice a week, viz., on Tuesdays and Fridays, from Ten to Twelve, except during the months of August and September, when it shall be shut, and the ordinary Regulations in regard to time shall not be enforced.

II. In the event of two or more applications being made for the same book, the first application shall, as far as practicable, be preferred.

III. No Reader, on penalty of forfeiting his right to the use of the Library for the rest of the year, shall carry a book out of the Library until his name has been entered for it, and it has been delivered to him by the Librarian.

IV. Not more than three volumes at a time shall be given out to a Student during the Session, and not more than four during the Vacation. The members of the Senatus shall be entitled to take out volumes to the number of twenty-five.

V. Books in octavo or infra shall be returned in two weeks, quartos in three weeks, and folios in four weeks; except during the Vacation, when readers at a distance of less than twenty miles from Edinburgh are allowed to keep books of any sort for four weeks;-beyond twenty, and within forty, miles of Edinburgh for six weeks:-and beyond forty miles for two months; -unless there be very special reasons for an exception, which shall be judged of by the Senatus. The reader shall pay all expenses connected with the transmission of the books he may

procure.

* A complete Catalogue has been drawn up recently.

VI. Commentaries and Dictionaries shall be returned at the third opening of the Library after that at which they were given out, and works which are much in request, within a week of their being given out, under the penalty of forfeiting Twopence for each night that any volume has been kept beyond the time prescribed.

VII. On the expiry of the time specified in the preceding Regulations for returning a book, any Reader may apply for a renewal of the time, and his application may be complied with, provided no previous demand has been made for it by any other person.

VIII. If any Reader keep a book a month beyond the time prescribed, he shall incur a fine of 2s. 6d. in addition to the ordinary fine of 2d. per night; and the Librarian shall immediately take steps for procuring the restoration of the book.

IX. In the event of any book being lost, the Reader who has borrowed it shall replace the book, or pay the full value of it; and when unnecessary delay takes place, he shall besides be subject to the same fine as if the book had been so long in his possession beyond the time prescribed.

X. It is earnestly recommended to the Readers that they take the utmost care of every volume they receive; but if any Reader shall mark, write upon, or tear a volume, or injure it in any other way, he shall replace the book, or be liable to a fine proportioned to the degree of the offence, as may be determined by the Senatus.

XI. When there are more copies of a book than one, a single copy of it shall always be kept in the Library for consultation.

V.-MUSEUM.

The Museum was begun by Dr Fleming, but was mainly indebted to the late Mrs Macfie of Langhouse. At its commencement, Mrs Macfie enriched it with a large number of valuable specimens, and led many of her friends to take a lively interest in its formation. The Geological Department, on the same floor with the class-room, contains a large number of fossils. Many of these are valuable. In the upper Museum is a valuable and varied collection of Minerals, the gift of the late Dr Johnston of Durham. In the same room are numerous specimens in zoology and comparative anatomy. There is also a good Herbarium, chiefly of British plants. Many additions have recently been made to the Museum by Professor Duns, and by friends of different denominations who take a great interest in the relations between science and Christian thought.

Connected with the Natural Science Chair, and for the use of the Students, there is a separate valuable collection of books.

? VI.-ENDOWMENTS.

The following are the names of the principal benefactors of the New College, arranged in alphabetical order :—

The Endowment Fund now amounts to above £44,000 exclusive of £10,000 bequeathed for the endowment of the Natural Science Chair, but not yet available.