Second report of the commissioners appointed by his Majesty William IV November 23rd 1836 and re-appointed by her Majesty Victoria I October 2d 1837 for visiting the Universities of King's College and Marischall College, Aberdeen / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. Commission for Visiting the Universities of King's College and Marischal.
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1839
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Credit: Second report of the commissioners appointed by his Majesty William IV November 23rd 1836 and re-appointed by her Majesty Victoria I October 2d 1837 for visiting the Universities of King's College and Marischall College, Aberdeen / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course of study which shall be required for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, as well as for a licence to practise any department of Medicine. From information laid before us the subject appears to be one of great national importance, and requiring the immediate attention of Your Majesty's Government. New Professor- Your Majesty has next directed us to inquire into the propriety and expediency ships. cc Qf instituting new Professorships in any of the said Faculties, and of abolishing any Professorship which may be useless and unnecessary, and of substituting other Professorships in their room, and as to the necessity of granting endowments to any new Professorships to be instituted, and as to the best mode of providing for such endowments from the existing funds and properties of the said Universities, or otherwise. On these subjects we beg humbly to refer Your Majesty to our First Report, to which we have nothing to add on these points. It no doubt proceeds on the assumption of the Universities being united, and does not anticipate the contingency of their remaining separate. The deficiencies under the existing state of things are so numerous and important, that it appears to us to be altogether impracticable to render each of the Universities efficient as a separate establishment for education, excepting at an expense to the country which we cannot recommend to Your Majesty should be incurred, considering, as we do, that the interests of education in the North of Scotland can be better promoted at a smaller expense by a union of the Universities, than by any expenditure that could be made in maintaining these Universities as separate establishments. Besides these subjects on which Your Majesty has specially instructed us to report, there are various other matters connected with the Universities of Aberdeen which we consider it proper to submit to Your Majesty's notice by bringing down the statistical details in regard to them from the date of the Returns made to our predecessors. In reference to them we shall, for the sake of perspicuity and facility of reference, adopt the order of that Report, premising that we shall confine our remarks to those subjects on which some change has taken place since 1826. I.—King's College. § 1. Pi-qfessors' Emoluments. Returns of the amount of the income of each of the Principal, Professors, and Lecturers for each of the five years preceding Whit Sunday 1836 will be found in Appendix, p. us. the Appendix. These returns comprehend the whole emoluments received by them, distinguishing the sources whence derived, and including the emoluments from Class fees. From these Returns it appears that the following are the emoluments of the Principal and Professors derived from their University offices on an average of the above-mentioned five years:— £. s. d. The Principal . . . . 293 10 11 Professor of Divinity . .. . 424 9 2 „ of Greek . . . 489 16 4 of Mathematics . . 361 14 1 ,, of Natural Philosophy . 338 6 11 „ of Moral Philosophy . 37118 3 „ of Humanity . . .429 13 10 „ of Civil Law . . . 204 16 4 „ of Medicine . . 208 5 2 „ of Oriental Languages . 228 11 7 It appears from the Returns that there has been scarcely any increase or diminution of the fixed salaries since the period embraced by the Report of the former Commissioners, excepting such as may have been occasioned by the dif- ferences in the price of grain, or the interest of money, in so far as their revenues are derived from these sources. The Returns made to the former Commissioners did not include the emoluments derived from Class fees.