§ DR. CLARK (Caithness)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that the abstract of accounts and annual statistical reports of the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews made to the Secretary for Scotland, in accordance with the provisions of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, contains a statement of the emoluments of the professors in the various faculties from endowments, fees, and other sources; whether the reports sent in by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, on behalf of the University of Edinburgh, do not contain this information; and, whether the Secretary for Scotland will communicate with the Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, with the view of having the returns from the University as full and complete as those of the other Universities?
§ *THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY, Buteshire)I am informed by the Lord Rector of Edinburgh University that the annual statistical reports of that University from 1889 to 1893 comprised similar details in respect of the emoluments of professors to those contained in the reports of the other Universities, but when the University Commissioners' Financial Ordinance No. 27 came into operation fixing normal salaries for all the Chairs with the exception practically of the three Divinity Chairs, the University authorities considered that there was no longer the same necessity for reporting these details from year to year. But they have no objection to furnish them in future, and that will be done.