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ON Friday, the 9th inst., the St. Andrew's University Court agreed to report to the Queen in Council in favour of an application by Prof. Swan to be permitted to retire, on the usual retiring allowance, from his Chair of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University, on the ground of failing health.

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