Glasgow University

a corporate body founded by a_ buil of Pope Nicholas V., dated Jan. 7, 1450-1451 with the power of creating masters and doctors, who, together with the readers and students, were to enjoy the fame privileges and immunities with the University of Bologna.. The University of Glasgow comprises five faculties, namely, arts, science, medicine, law, and theology, the faculty of science having been recently added. The oldest chairs are those of moral philosophy, 1577; natural pile nliy, 1577; logic and rhetor ice, 1577; reek, 1581; divinity, 1630; Latin, previous to 1637; mathematics, revived 1691. In the first 20 years of the 18th century six profe orships were either originally founded or revived, namely, Latin, Oriental languages, civil law, medicine, Church history, anatomy; astronomy was added in 1760. The remaining 18 profe orships were founded in the 19th century. The university was reconstituted by the Scottish University Act, 1858, and a similar revolution was effected under the act of 1889.