other side of the channel, and, I think, deserves to be rescued from
oblivion by a place in the columns of "N. & Q.:"

"LIBERTY! FRATERNITY! EQUALITY!

"Citizen Academicians,

"The cry of Reform has been too long unheard. Our infatuated rulers
refused to listen to it. The term of their tyranny is at length
accomplished. The Vice-Chancellor has fled on horseback. The Proctors
have resigned their usurped authority. The Scouts have fraternised with
the friends of liberty. The University is no more. A Republican Lyceum
will henceforth diffuse light and civilisation. The hebdomadal board is
abolished. The Legislative Powers will be entrusted to a General
Convention of the whole Lyceum. A Provisional Government has been
established. The undersigned citizens have nobly devoted themselves to
the task of administration.

(Signed) "Citizen CLOUGH (_President of the Executive Council_).
SEWELL.
BOSSOM (_Operative_).
JOHN CONINGTON.
WRIGHTSON."

Your academical readers will appreciate the signatures.

TEWARS.

_Professor Macgillivray._--The mention by W. (Vol. viii., p. 467.) of this
lamented naturalist's posthumous work, descriptive of the _Natural History
of Balmoral_, and of its intended publication by Prince Albert, induces me
to hope that you will give insertion to the following extract from
Professor Macgillivray's _History of the Molluscous Animals of
Aberdeenshire_, &c., as showing the character of the man, and the spirit in
which he prosecuted his researches.

"The labour required for such an investigation cannot be at all
appreciated by those who have not directed their energies towards such
an object. The rocky coasts and sandy beaches of the sea, the valleys
and hills of the interior, the pastures, mossy banks, thickets, woods,
rocks, ruins, walls, ditches, pools, canals, rills, and rivers, were
all to be assiduously searched. No collections of mollusca made in the
district were known to me, nor do any of our libraries contain the
works necessary to be consulted, although that of King's College
supplies some of great value. In a situation so remote from the great
centres of civilisation, the solution of doubts is often difficult of
attainment, and there is always a risk of describing as new what may
already have been entered into the lon