MONTREAL IN THE DAYS OF JAMES MCGILL 32 _From a print in the collection of Sir Frederick Williams Taylor_ THE BURNSIDE ESTATE, JAMES MCGILL'S HOME 42 THE REV. DR. G. J. MOUNTAIN, PRINCIPAL 1823-1835 74 DR. A. F. HOLMES, THE FIRST DEAN OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 86 _Copy by R. Harris of painting destroyed in fire at Medical Building. Artist unknown._ THE REV. JOHN BETHUNE, ACTING PRINCIPAL 1835-1846 102 PLAN OF MCGILL GROUNDS 118 PROPOSED ORIGINAL BUILDING 134 _H. B. Parry, Architect_ THE REV. ARCHDEACON W. J. LEACH, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1846-1886 180 _From a painting by Wyatt Eaton_ E. A. MEREDITH, PRINCIPAL 1846-1851 184 MCGILL IN 1855 212 SIR WILLIAM DAWSON, PRINCIPAL 1855-1893 222 _From a painting by Wyatt Eaton_ WILLIAM MOLSON 232 _From a painting by John Phillips_, 1861 PETER REDPATH 236 _From a painting by Robert Harris_ SIR WILLIAM MACDONALD 238 SIR WILLIAM PETERSON, PRINCIPAL 1895-1919 240 JOHN H. R. MOLSON 244 DEAN ALEXANDER JOHNSON, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1885-1903 248 PERCIVAL MOLSON 252 LORD STRATHCONA 254 DR. CHARLES E. MOYSE, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1903-1920 258 SIR ARTHUR CURRIE, PRINCIPAL 1920- 266 DR. FRANK D. ADAMS, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1920- 268 MCGILL IN 1921 272 _The photographs from which the prints were made are the work of Norman and of the Rice Studios._ THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING CHAPTER I THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING