11

1863-4

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Resolution relative
to Dr Lawson's
resignation
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Lawson's retirement from the University.

The Senate took the earliest opportunity in their power of expressing
their deep regret for this loss which they have sustained by the resignation
of Dr. Lawson, lately Professor of Chemistry & Natural History in this University.
The high position which he occupied as a man of Service, his skill
as a Teacher & his unwavering efforts for the advancement of the interests
of the College together with his knowledge of business & his amiable
& gentlemanly manners rendered him an object of general respect & esteem
on the part of his Colleagues with whom he so long & harmoniously acted
& they cannot omit to pay this deserved [illegible] to his worth.

The Secretary was instructed to transmit a copy of the
above to Dr. Lawson.

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Report of the Library
Curators
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The Curators of the Library appointed last year reported
that they had held no meetings during the period of the Trust empowered
on them.

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Discipline of
Students in the
Chemistry Class
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Mr Robert Bell, C.E. the Lecturer on Chemistry & Natural
History, having given in a complaint regarding Impropriety
of Conduct on the part of certain students in the Chemistry class, it
was moved by Professor Horatio Yates, seconded by Professor Dickson that,

Whereas the names of several Students in the Chemistry
Class have been given in to the Senate by complaint of the Lecturer
on Chemistry, as having been guilty of various acts of insubordination
on various occasions during the hour of the Chemistry Lectures
& whereas the Senate are led to hope that these acts have resulted from
thoughtlessness or from a misapprehension of the consequences that
might follow from such conduct, it be resolved

That the complaints aforementioned be kept for the present
in retentue & that the action of the Senate shall hereafter be governed
by the future conduct of the said Students complained of, while at
the same time the Senate unanimously express their strong disapproval
of such conduct & their determination to administer exemplary
punishment if it shall come before them again.

The Secretary was instructed to put the above resolution
in some public place in the College Buildings.

The Senate thus adjourned [illegible] & the meeting then
closed with the benediction.

W. Snodgrass, Principal.
31 December 1864.