| 1st. | Apartments for 100 students: to consist of 50 sitting rooms and 100 sleeping rooms. |
| 2nd. | Apartments for a Vice-Principal and family, and for 4 Professors. |
| 3rd. | College Hall. |
| 4th. | Library. |
| 5th. | Chapel. |
| 6th. | Steward's Apartments. |
With a connected plan for the distribution of the ground on the northwest side of the continuation of Sherbrooke Street in avenues—with ornamental and kitchen gardens.
The said plans to provide for the erection in the first instance of such portions of the building as are specified below to be hereafter incorporated with the general design when completed; the sum at present disposable being limited to about £5000.
| 1st. | Two large rooms, each calculated for separate classes of 50 non-resident students. |
| 2nd. | Two rooms available for medical students, chemical apparatus, etc. |
| 3rd. | College Hall. |
| 4th. | Library. |
| 5th. | Steward's Apartments. |
Information respecting the proposed site and grounds, with other particulars, can be obtained on application to the Rev. Dr. Bethune, Principal of McGill College, Montreal, to whom the plans are to be delivered on or before the 1st of October next.
William S. Burrage,
For the Rev. R. R. Burrage,
(Sec'y to the Board of R. I.)
Plans were accordingly submitted by several architects, and were forwarded by the Board to the Governors of McGill for their comments. The Governors pointed out that even in the best and most suitable plan submitted “no provision was made for retiring rooms for Professors!” The plans provided for a Post Office at the entrance to the grounds, a Botanical Lecture-house and “ornamental bridges” over the stream that ran through the grounds near the present University Street. The Board of the Royal Institution declined to accept any of the plans submitted on the ground that they involved too great an expenditure, and building operations were again indefinitely delayed.
