356 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lauriston.
the most prominent edifice to the westward, and
nearly opposite the head of Lady Lawson?s Wynd
and the present cattle market, is Lauriston House,
a large mansion, with a lodge and circular camage
approach. Here, at Lauriston, in 17G3, died Sir
erect thereon in immediate vicinity of the new
infirmary, a vast edifice, with complete class-rooms,
theatres, and museums, with all the latest scientific
improvements, for the medical fxulty of the
metropolitan university ; to re-organise the existing
THOMAS SELSON. (From n sketch inpossession of the Rami@.)
John Rutherford, baronet of that ilk, and the whole
space between that house and Leven Lodge was
covered by open fields and gardens, till after the
beginning of the present century.
Owing to the increasing necessity for the further
accommodation at the old college, the Edinburgh
University Buildings scheme was developed to
purchase the sites of Park Place and Teviot
Row, at the cost of abmt A33,ooo, and to
class-rooms of the latter, and to improve them in
direct adaptation to the wants of the several professors
of arts, law, and theology; to provide increased
and more convenient accommodation for
the University Library ; and to erect a University
Hall for the conferring of degrees, the holding
of examinations, and for all public academical
ceremonials.
Trustees for this purpose were appointed, among
