SCOTLAND.
The Association for the Improvement and Extension of Scottish Universities have presented a memorial to Lord Derby setting forth the measures they think called for. They ask for more and better paid professors ; assistant professors; and retiring allowances for aged and infirm professors. In the University of Edinburgh there should be a complete school of National and International Jurisprudence. In al! Scottish Universities there should be an independent examining de- partment. The graduates should have some share in the government of each University. One or two electoral bodies should be formed out of the whole body of the Scottish graduates.
The Presbytery of Edinburgh, moved thereto by Dr. Macfarlane, have adopted unanimously a petition to Parliament against Mr. Black's An- nuity-tax Bill.
rg William Gregory, the favourite pupil of Liebig, an accomplished chemist, and professor of that science in the University of Edinburgh, died on Saturday, after a protracted illness. His father, James Gregory, had been professor of medicine in the same University.
The attempt to raise 600/. to be added to a Government grant of 600/. for the purchase of the late Hugh Miller's museum is making good progress. If bought, the collection is to form part of a National Museum projected at Edinburgh.
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