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Excerpt from The Origin and Development of the Glasgow School of Medicine, From Maister Peter Lowe to Sir William T. Gairdner: Presidential Address Delivered to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, 6th October, 1911
If further evidence of the status which the Fine Arts have obtained in the city of Glasgow were wanted we have only to mention the recent developments of the exquisite school of painting which is known all the world over as the Glasgow School, and of its annual Fine Art Exhibition and its large art academy.
In other lines of intellectual progress Glasgow is well to the front. There is scarcely a department of manufacture or of the application of science to commercial pursuit in which her citizens have not borne an important share. Whatever may be the future of her University, and we cannot help doubting that ripe scholarship will be the result of modern tendencies, her past is little else than glorious. At all times she has possessed men of great eminence in the varied depart ments of her activities. To recall only a few of the names which have made her famous, we have William Ramsay, Daniel Sandford, Edmund Law Lushington, and R. C. Jebb in the department of classical literature; in the philosophic sciences, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid (the founder of the Scottish School Of Philosophy), and Edward Caird were all men of the first rank; in the mathematical and physical sciences there must be mentioned Simpson the geometrician, Thomas Thomson (who is said to have been the introducer of modern chemical notation and equations), m'quhorn Rankin, and Lord Kelvin. In the schools outside of the University there have been a host of men who have duly contributed their quota to the world's progress, such as James Watt, Fredrick Penney, William Dittmar, Robert Napier, and many others who perhaps ought to be named.
In the foregoing summary I have purposely left out the profession of medicine, for I intend to make it the subject of this short communication.
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