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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

The Honble Alexander Campbell, and Messrs. J. J. Burrowes, and
G. W. Draper, the Honble Mr. Campbell being Dean of the Fac-
ulty. Two of the Lecturers, Messrs. Burrowes and Draper, delivered
courses of Lectures in the College, which the Dean presided over a
Moot Class in the Court House, at which legal questions were
argues as before a Judge, and decisions given. In the Law Fac-
ulty Undergraduates were to proceed to the degree of D.D. B.,
which qualified the possessors to a certain extent for the Bar.

During the Session a Botanical Society was formed in
connection with the College. Its institution, and successful
results were due mainly to zeal, and scientific attain-
ments of its Secretary Professor Lawson. The most distinguished
Botanists of Great Britain, British America, and the States, contri-
buted papers, and sought the aid of the society in scientific investi-
gations, and part of the first years Volume of Transactions was pub-
lished. An application, also, having been made by Dr. Lawson, on
behalf of the Association, to lay out and use, the College grounds
as a Botanical Garden under its superintendence, and its expenses,
was unanimously agreed to by the Board.

An important addition was this year made to the Equip-
ment of the College by the transfer of the Observatory, with
the Instruments, in the Park, to the University. It had previous-

1860-1861