| Description | Chancellor and Senatus Academicus, 1906. Black and white mounted montage of the Academic Senate. Title: 'Chancellor and Senatus Academicus, University of Aberdeen Quarter-Centenary. Opening of the New Buildings by His Majesty King Edward VII, 27th September 1906'. The Chancellor, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, is positioned in the centre of the picture. Other individuals include, from left to right:
Professor Finlay (Medicine), Professor Hamilton (Pathology), Professor MacWilliam (Physiology), J. A. Campbell (ex M.P.), Professor Niven (Natural Philosophy), Professor Reid (Anatomy), Professor Thomson (Natural History), Professor Cowan (Church History), Professor Japp (Chemistry), Professor Stephenson (Midwifery), Sir Fred. Treves Bart. (Rector), Rt. Rev. J. Marshall Lang (Principal), Professor MacDonald (Mathematics), Professor Terry (History and Archaeology), Professor Ramsay (Humanity), Professor Nicol (Biblical Criticism), Prof. Baillie (Moral Philosophy), Prof. Cash (Materia Medica), Sir Henry Craik (M.P.), Professor Trail (Botany), Prof. Harrower (Greek), Prof. Davidson (Logic), Prof. Hay (Forensic Medicine), Professor Grierson (English Literature), Prof. Curtis (Systematic Theology), D. R. Thom (Secretary), Prof. Kennedy (Law), Professor Ogston (Surgery), and Prof. Gilroy (Hebrew).
Also letter attached to back of frame, dated 24 August 1911, from Mary J. Mackie, Mackie's Hotel, Aberdeen, to D. R. Thom (Secretary) offering to sell two copies of the photograph, one of which was much larger than the other. She had acquired them from a Mr. Reid who had taken the photographs and left them with her as payment for his hotel bill. |