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AT their Statutory Quarterly Meeting on Monday, the Trustees of Anderson's University, Glasgow, elected Mr. George Forbes, B.A., F.R.S.E., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, to the vacant professorship of Natural Philosophy. There were originally eleven candidates for the appointment, but one of them died before the day of election arrived. Prof. Forbes is by inheritance, as well as by inclination and education, a man of science. The son of the late Principal, James D. Forbes, F.R.S, of St. Andrews, he received his university training at St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Cambridge, and has since had the benefit of practical training in physical science at the Royal Observatory under the Astronomer Royal, and on the Continent. In making the appointment, the Andersonian trustees acted on the advice of Sir Wm. Thomson, Sir G. Biddell Airy, K.C.B.; Prof. P. G. Tait, Edinburgh; Prof. Balfour Stewart, Prof. A. S. Herschel, Profs. W. H. Miller and J. C. Adams, Cambridge; Prof. Grant, Glasgow Observatory, and other eminent physicists. It is understood that this professorship is to be established on a more extensive basis than formerly. This would offer to the professor a wider field of useful employment by developing the resources of the professorship, not only through the extension of the system of lecturing, but also by the establishment of a physical laboratory for students, which, it is understood, is in contemplation. Mr. Alexander Lindsay, of Glasgow, has also been elected Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. It was intimated to the meeting that Mr. J. Tennant, of Rollox, has given a donation of 1,000l. to the University.