ABSTRACT OF ACCOUNTS OF THE TREASURER OF THE NEW COLLEGE COMMITTEE, FROM 30TH APRIL 1846 to 30TH APRIL 1847. RECEIPTS. To Amount of Congregational Collections received, Amount of Fees received from Students during Session 1846-47, viz.: L.3357 14 6 1200 0 0 Dr Chalmers, Dr Cunningham, Dr Fleming, Dr Buchanan, Dr Duncan, I. THE GENERAL COLLEGE FUND. PAYMENTS. and Repairs, L.1366 6 10 L.83 18 9 By Balance due at 30th April 1846, Interest paid on Bond for L.2500, on Premises, 80 George St. 139 5 4 Do. for Deficiency on Publications, Salaries, viz. Professors: Rev. S. C. Fraser, P. C. MacDougall, Esq. 279 4 0 Dr Chalmers, 160 13 Dr Cunningham, 1356 2 0 Dr Buchanan, 72 18 0 Dr Duncan, Amount received from Sustentation Fund, per Dr Black, 122 00 Dr Fleming, 35 6 7 Dr Black, 120 2 10 Rev. S. C. Fraser, Rev. Jas. M'Lagan, Aberdeen, P. C. MacDougall, Esq. Rev. J. Millar, Edinburgh, Dr Hetherington, St Andrews,* Rev. Mr Bryce, Aberdeen, for two Sessions, Rev. A. Davidson, do., for one Session, Mr Marcus Sachs, do. Expenses attending Teaching the Students at Aberdeen, Proportion of Salary allowed by the Committee to the Li 400 0 0 3450 0 0 L.160 0 0 438 0 0 000 Amount of Sums charged to the Library in a former Account, 149 15 1 Expense of Printing Catalogue, Furniture, &c. paid this year, Of this sum, there was for expenses £15, and for the two Sessions of 1844-45 and 1845-46, £60. Paid for Binding Books, Paid for Advertising Contributions and Books, L.33 9 6 10 60003 13 6 8 14 4 3 Paid Treasurer to the Curators for the purchase of Books, 122 10 0 Balance due by the Commercial Bank carried to New 40 0 0 RECEIPTS. To Balance due by the Commercial Bank at 30th April 1846, Donations from Societies and Individuals, Furnishings and Fittings up of Library, charged to the L. 50 10 6 169 0 0 0 19 0 RECEIPTS. 149 15 1 371 12 3 III. THE NEW COLLEGE BUILDING FUND. To Balance due by the Commercial Bank at 30th April 1846, John Blackie senior, Esq. Glasgow, PAYMENTS. L.420 11 10 L.2091 18 10 By Paid Contractor for taking out Foundation, L.412 12 0 Paid Superintendent of Works his Salary, Three Quarters, 1350 00 1406 16 8 97 0 6 L.4945 16 0 Paid for Law Expenses, Balance due by the Commercial Bank carried to New Account, Amount received from School-Building Fund, being one-sixth part of Interest from the Bank, APPENDIX. EXTRACT from the REPORT of the COMMITTEE on the CURRICULUM in 1846. There is one regulation which we think should be instantly adopted, and laid in the form of a specific and peremptory injunction upon all those students who are attending the University of Edinburgh, and intending for the ministry of the Free Church. We have now our own Moral Philosophy, and that is the Moral Philosophy which our Edinburgh students at least ought to acquire previous to their admission into the Hall. It would be too much to exact this from the students of the other Scottish Universities, and thus subject them to an additional session of study and residence in Edinburgh. But it is not too much (otherwise we should be giving up the use and importance of having an Ethical class of our own at all), to expect and require of our Edinburgh University students that they should attend the ethical lessons which we have provided for them. Before entering on the theological part of our curriculum, in our proposals for which we shall be greatly more definite, it is necessary that we should advert to another class which has been more recently instituted in our New College, having been only taught for one session, but with the most encouraging success and a very large attendance, -the class of Natural Science. To estimate aright the theological importance of this class, let it be considered that it includes more especially that department of natural science in which the evidences of an intelligent and designing Cause are both by far the most abundant and the most palpable; insomuch that though they be the mental phenomena, and more especially those of conscience, which afford to the eye of reason the most satisfactory demonstration of a God, it is from the one department of Natural History that Natural Theology draws her largest resources in building up her argument for a Deity from the constitution of the material world. But over and above this |