Univmity,] THE MUSEUMS. 27
brated cavalier-poet, bequeathed his entire library
to the University, and the gift is deemed a valuable
one, from the rare specimens of our early literature
which enriches the collection. Among the chief
donors whose gifts are extensive and valuable
may be named Principal Adamson, Dr. Robert
Johnston, the Rev. James Nairne of Wemyss, Dr.
John Stevenson, who held the chair of Logic and
Metaphysics from 1730 till 1774, Dr. William
Thomson, Professor of Anatomy at Oxford ; and
in 1872 the library received a very valuable
donation from J. 0. Halliwell, the eminent Shaksperian
critic, a collection of works relating to
Shakspere, and formed by him at great cost.
The average collection of the university extends
to about 150,000 volumes, and 700 volumes of
MSS. The university possesses above seventy
valuable portraits and busts of ancient and modern
alumni, most of which are kept in the Senate Hall
and librar).. The latter possesses a fine copy of
Fordun?s Sotichronicon (on vellum) in folio, from
which Goodall?s edition of 1775 was printed.
The Museum of Natural History was established
in 1812, in connection Kith the university, and
contains a most valuable zoological, geological,
and mineralogical collection, the greater portion of
which was formed by the exertions of Professor
Robert Jamieson, who was fifty years Professor of
Natural History (from 1804 to 1854) and Regius
keeper of the museum. In 1854 it was transferred
by the Town Council (at that time patrons of the
university) to Government, under whose control it
has since remained. The whole of the collections
have been now removed to the Natural History
department of the adjoining museum of Science
and Art ; but are available for the educational purposes
of the university, and are freely accessible to
the students of the natural history class.
The Anatomical Museum was founded in 1800
by Dr. Alexander Monro secz~~zdus, who presented
his own anatomical collection and that of his
father to the University, ? to be used by his future
successors in office, for the purpose of demonstrating
and explaining the structure, physiology,
and diseases of the human body.?
In 1859 Sir David Monro, M.D., presented a
considerable collection of anatomical preparations,
formed by his talented father, Dr. Alexander
Monro teyfiw. Many valuable additions have been
made since then ; among them, some by the late
John Goodsir, Professor of Anatomy, 1846-1867,
more especially iii the comparative department ;
and since his death the Senatus purchased from his
representatives his private museum and added it
to the collection, which now contains many thousand
specimens illustrative of human anatomy,
both normal and pathological, and of comparative
anatomy.
There are minor museums in connection with
the classes of natural philosophy, midwifery, materia
medica and botany, and one was recently constructed
by Professor Geikie for the use of the
geological class.
In October, 1881, nearly the whole of the great
anatomical collection referred to here, including
the skeletons of the infamous Burke and one of
his victims known as ?? Daft Jamie,? was removed
from the old to the new University buildings at
huriston.
REFERENCES TO THE PLAN ON PAGE 21.
A, Entrance ; B E, Passages ; c c, Stairs to Divinity Class and Janitors?
Houses ; D D, Porters? Lodges ; E, Faculty Room or Senatus Academicus
; F, Professor?s House ; c, Principal?s House ; H, Professo<s How :
J, Professor?s House : K, Chemistry Class: L, Preparation Room:
H, Professor of Chemistry?s House; N, Stairs to Gallery and Upper
Preparation Room of Chemistry Class ; 0, Royal Society ; P, Lobby to
Royal Society : Q, Camage-way to Great Court : R, Arcades for footpassengers
: s s s s, Corridors of Communication : T T, Lobby and
Class for Practice of Physick : U, Civil Law Class Room ; w, Preparation
Room or Anatomical Museum; xx, Anatomical Theatre and
Lobby ; Y Y U, Painting Rooms and private m m : z, Great Hall for
Graduations, Lc., with Loggia and two staircases to the Galleries above;
a, Class for the Theory of Physick ; b, Mathematical Class, Professor?s
Room, Instrument Room, Lobby, &c. ; c, Universal History and Antiquity
Class, with the Professor?s Room: d, Class and Lobby for the
Professor of Humanity ; e, Museum for Natural History ; f, Class for
Natural History ; g, Guard Hall and Lobby : h, Librarian?s House ;
i, Professor?s How; k, Profe.swr df Divinity?s House. The Houses
marked F, H, J, and i arc to be possessed by the Professors of Humanity,
Greek, Hebrew, and Mathematics
CHAPTER 111.
THE DISTRICT OF THE BURGHMUIR.
The Muster by James 111.-Burghmuir feued by James lV.-Muster before Flodden-Relics thereof-The Pest-The Skirmish of Lowsie Low-
A Duel in 17zz-Valleyfield House and Leven Lodge-Barclay Free Church-Bruntsfield Links and the Golf Clubs.
THE tract of the Burghmuir, of which the name
alone remains, and which extended from the water
of the South loch on the north, to the foot of the
almost unchanged Braid Hills on the south ; from
Dalry on the west, to St. Leonard?s Craigs on the
east, formed no inconsiderable portion of the
28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Burghmuir.
great forest of Drumsheugh, wherein the white.
bull, the Caledonian boar, the elk and red deer
roamed, and where broken and lawless men had
their haunt in later times.
Yet some clearances of timber must have been
made there before 1482, when James Iii. mustered
on it, in July, 50,000 men under the royal standad
for an invasion of England, which brought about
the rebellious raid of Lauder. On the 6th
October, 1508, his son James IV., by a charter
Among those who then got lands here were Sir
Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost of the City,
and George Towers of the line of Inverleith, whose
name was long connected with the annals of the
city.
It was on this ground-the Campus Martius of
the Scottish hosts-that James IV. mustered, in the
summer of 1513, an army of IOO,OOO men, the
most formidable that ever marched against England;
and a fragment of the hare-stane, or bore-
THE LIBRARY AAI.I., EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.
under the Great Seal, leased the Burghmuir to
the council and community of Edinburgh (City
Charters, I 143-1540) empowering them to farm and
cIear it of wood, which led to the erection within
the city of those quaint timber-fronted houses,
many of which still remain in the closes and wynds,
and even in the High Street. In 1510 we find,
from the Burgh Records, that the persons to whom
certain acres were let there, were bound to build
thereon ?dwelling-houses, malt-barns, and cow-bills,
and to have servants for the making of malt betwixt
(30th April) and Michaelmas, I 5 I 2 ; and failing to
do so, to pay to the common works of the
town; and also to pay 6 5 for every acre of the
three acres set to them.?
stane, in which the royal standard was planted,
on this and many similar occasions, is still preserved,
and may be seen built into a wall, at
Banner Place, near Morningside Church. As
Drummond records, the place was then ? spacious
and made delightful by the shade of many stately
and aged oaks.?
?? There were assembled,? says Pitscottie, ? all his
earls, lords, barons, and burgesses ; and all manner
of men between sixty and sixteen, spiritual and
temporal, burgh and land, islesmen and others, to
the number of a hundred thousand, not reckoning
carriagemen and artillerymen, who had charge of
fifty shot-cannons.? When some houses were
built in the adjacent School Lane in 1825, hundreds
