A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . e Reformation. The original endowment was aug-mented by a grant of £300 per annum, by William III.,payable out of the bishops rents of Aberdeen andMoray, and by a grant of £105 per annum by QueenAnne ; and the funds have since been increased byroyal grants, for the foundation of additional professor-ships, and b
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . e Reformation. The original endowment was aug-mented by a grant of £300 per annum, by William III.,payable out of the bishops rents of Aberdeen andMoray, and by a grant of £105 per annum by QueenAnne ; and the funds have since been increased byroyal grants, for the foundation of additional professor-ships, and by donations and bequests from various in-dividuals, for the foundation of bursaries and lecture-ships. The primary establishment consisted of aprincipal, three regents in philosophy and languages,six bursars, an ceconomus and other officers. As atpresent constituted, the university consists of a chan-cellor, generally a nobleman of high rank, who is electedby the senatus academicus, and holds his office for life ;a rector elected periodically by the siippositi of theuniversity ; a dean of faculty, elected by the senatusacademicus and the senior minister of Aberdeen ; and aprincipal, who is appointed by the crown. There arethirteen professorships, of which the Greek, civil and. Seal and Arms. A B E R A B E R natural history, natural philosophy, and moral phi-losophy and logic, were founded in 1593, at the ori-ginal institution of the university ; and those of mathe-matics, divinity, oriental languages, church history,humanity, medicine, chemistry, anatomy, and surgery,at subsequent periods. Of these professorships, that ofdivinity, founded in I6l5 by Mr. Patrick Copland, adissenting minister at Norton in the county of North-ampton, and that of mathematics, founded in 1613 byDr. Duncan Liddell, are in the patronage of the towncouncil; that of oriental languages, founded in 1723 bythe Rev. Gilbert Ramsay, rector of Christ Church,Barbadoes, is in the patronage of his descendant.
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