A reply to the report of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, upon Dr. Reid's Memorial to ... the patrons of the University / [D.B. Reid].

  • Reid, D. B. (David Boswell), 1805-1863
Date:
1833]
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Credit: A reply to the report of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, upon Dr. Reid's Memorial to ... the patrons of the University / [D.B. Reid]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    do with the direction, the management, or the discipline of the Class. When the Report of the College of Surgeons appeared, Dr Hope was bound, had Dr Reid insisted on it, to have withdrawn his name, as it did not effect the object for which it was put on; but Dr Reid did not call on Dr Hope to do so, as his name had been publicly committed with the Class, and the various arrangements previously agreed to were entered into as if nothing unexpected had taken place. Sixteen months ago, however, Dr Reid was informed, from many different sources, that Dr Hope had taken advantage of Dr Reid’s forbearance, in allowing his name to remain on the ticket, to call the Practical Chemistry Class his Class; and having found, after re¬ monstrating with him on the subject, that he still continued to speak of the Class in a manner that he was not entitled to, this became one of the principal causes of Dr Reid’s resignation in November last; and, accordingly, he then gave the year’s notice, agreed on by both parties, in the event of either party being dissatisfied. The Honourable the Patrons will have observed, that the Senatus have adopted the language of Dr Hope, as to his directing and sup¬ porting the Class, and being so liberal to his assistant, &c. &c. Dr Reid has already disproved some of these statements; and, in the following pages, the rest will also be seen to be incorrect. So far from directing any of the operations or discipline of the Practical Class, Dr Hope expressed his surprise that the Students could be made to go through so much business by Dr Reid’s ar¬ rangements, the first time he saw these plans, about the end of the first year after Dr Reid had been in the College. He has never even been in the Practical Class for a single hour, during the last three years, to see the Students operate; nor did he ever make a practice of going in to see how the business of the Class was carried on at any time, except in the Winter Course, which began in No¬ vember 1829. Having detailed these circumstances, Dr Reid must leave it to the Honourable the Council to say how far the Medical and Surgical Pro¬ fessors are entitled to state that Dr Hope either established or directed that course which Dr Reid has given in the University, and thus to en¬ courage; an impression that Dr Reid is merely Assistant in his own Class. The arrangements which Dr Reid has introduced in teaching Practical Chemistry have been every thing to him ; they have consti¬ tuted his business, his profession, and his support for many years ; and he cannot afford to see transferred to another, the fruits of