Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II PRESENTATION Of The MEMORIAL MURAL TABLET To The UNIVERSITY Of ABERDEEN. An interesting ceremony took place on Tuesday 20th November 1900, in the Natural History Class-room at Marischal College, when Mr. John F. White, LL.D., on behalf of the subscribers, presented to the Principal, as representing the University, a mural tablet to the memory of William MacGillivray, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Natural History and Lecturer on Botany in Marischal College from 1841 to 1852. Amongst those present were Principal Marshall Lang, Mr. John F. White, LL.D., Dundee; Lord Provost Fleming, Professors Cowan, Pirie, Trail, Cash, Dove Wilson, Reid, M'William, Hamilton, Nicol, and Arthur Thomson; Mr. A. W. Gibb, Lecturer on Geology; Mr. P. J. Anderson, Mr. D. R. Thorn, Dr. Tait, Inverurie; Rev. Mr. Johnstone, Belhelvie; Dr. Poison, Mr. John Lyall Grant, Mr. James Duguid, advocate; Mr. A. M. M'Donald, advocate; Mr. T. A. W. A. Youngson, advocate; Mr. Alexander Macfarlane, late Collector of Customs; etc. Principal Lang said—Ladies and Gentlemen,—You know the object of our present assembly, and I shall at once ask Dr. Forbes White, whom we are glad to see amongst us to-day, to state the object of the meeting, and address us in regard to that object and to perform the duty that he shall, in his graceful way, perform. Dr. John F. White, who was received with applause, said — It is with some reluctance that I appear before you to-day to perform an important duty. The position I occupy should have been filled by the Rev. Dr. Mair of Earlston, Chairman of the MacGillivray Committee, and a distinguished graduate of our University, whom failing, by the Rev. Dr. Farquharson, late of Selkirk, the secretary and moving spirit of the movement, and the favourite pupil of Professor MacGillivray. But ...