John Anderson, a Scottish professor, founder of the Andersonian university at Glasgow, born in the parish of Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, in 1720, died Jan. 13, 1796. In 1756 he was appointed professor of oriental languages in the university of Glasgow, and in 1760 professor of natural philosophy. He established a gratuitous course of popular scientific lectures. By his will he directed all his property to be applied to found an institution for the education of the poorer classes. Though this institution was conducted first on a small scale, it has since increased its means of usefulness, and now has 14 professors and lecturers, with courses of instruction in surgery, chemistry, institutes of medicine, materia medica, anatomy and physiology, medical jurisprudence, natural philosophy, botany, the classics, and Hebrew, French, and music. In 1786 Dr. Anderson published "Institutes of Physic" for popular use, which passed through five editions in ten years.