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Voted, to reappoint the following Assistants for the ensuing academic year, PARKER KINNICUTT, S.B., in Chemistry; CHARLES FREDERIC MABERY, S. B., in Chemistry; HAROLD WHITING, A.M., in Physics; HENRY CHAMPION JONES, A.M, in Botany.

Voted, to appoint as Assistants for the ensuing academic year GEOrge William PERKINS in Biology; EDWArd Knights StEVENS in Organic Chemistry.

The resignation of HENRY H. A. BEACH, M.D., as Demonstrator of Anatomy was accepted, and the President was requested on behalf of the Corporation to thank him for his valuable services to the Medical School during the past thirteen years.

The resignation of THOMAS WATERMAN, M.D., as Assistant in Anatomy was accepted. Voted, to appoint JOSEPH WEATHERHEAD Warren, M.D., Instructor in Oral Pathology and Anatomy for the ensuing academic year.

Voted, to proceed to the election of a Hollis Professor of Divinity.

Whereupon, ballots being given in, it appeared that DAVID GORDON LYON, Ph.D., was elected. Voted, to proceed to the election of a Professor of Surgery.

Whereupon, ballots being given in, it appeared that DAVID WILLIAMS CHEEVER, M.D., was

elected.

Voted, to appoint WILLIAM AUGustus Rogers, A.M., Assistant Professor of Astronomy for five years from April 1, 1882.

Voted, to appoint ABNER POST, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Syphilis for the ensuing academic year.

Voted, to appoint WARREN A. LOCKE Organist and Choir Master from September 1, 1882.

MEETING OF JUNE 28, 1882. — Reappointed for the ensuing academic year, HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B, to the Harris Fellowship; ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, A.B., to the Rogers Scholarship.

Voted, to proceed to the election of a Professor of Veterinary Medicine; whereupon, ballots being given in, it appeared that CHARLES PARKER LYMAN was elected.

MEETING OF September 26, 1882. - The Treasurer stated that he had received in July, 1882, from GEORGE W. Wales, Esq., $200 for the College Library; the same was gratefully accepted, and the Treasurer was requested to make suitable acknowledgment of this annual gift.

Voted, that the gift of one hundred and fifty dollars from ROBERT N. TOPPAN, Esq., for a prize for Political Science, to be awarded in 1882-83, be gratefully accepted, and that the Treasurer be requested to make acknowledgment therefor.

A request from the Class of 1863 for permission to place a window in Memorial Hall was referred to Mr. VAN BRUNT, the Architect of the building.

Voted, to appoint EDWARD SOUTHWORTH HAWES Instructor in Greek and Latin for the ensuing academic year.

Voted, to reappoint the following gentlemen Clinical Instructors in the Dental School for 1882-83 - TIMOTHY OTIS LOVELAND, D.M.D., CHARLES WILSON, D.M.D., ALBERT BENTON JEWELL, D.M.D., EDWIN PERLEY BRADBURY, D.M.D., EUGENE HANES SMITH, D.M.D., EDWARD CORNELIUS BRIGGS, M.D., D.M.D.

Voted, to reappoint GEORGE Franklin Grant, D.M.D., Demonstrator in Operative Dentistry for the ensuing academic year.

Voted, to reappoint VERGIL CLARENCE POND, D.M.D., Demonstrator in Operative Dentistry for the ensuing academic year.

Resignations were received from H. N. WHEELER as Instructor in Mathematics from September 1; W. H. MELVILLE as Proctor from September 18; GEORGE F. ARNOLD as Assistant in the Library from September 1.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE OVERSEERS.

STATED MEETING, April 12, 1882. - The Hon. Charles R. CodMAN presided, in the absence of the President.

Voted, to concur with the President and Fellows,

In appointing for the ensuing academic year FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE FESSENDEN, LL.B., Instructor in Criminal Law, and Lewis Dembitz Brandeis, LL.B., Instructor in Evidence. A Report was received from the Committee on the Winn Professorship.

Col. THEODORE LYMAN, for the Committee on the Medical Education of Women, presented a report without comment, which contained the expression of an adverse opinion on the question of such education on the part of the Medical Faculty, eighteen of that Faculty agreeing in such opinion, and two objecting. The report was accepted. Col. LYMAN also read a letter from the Medical Faculty presenting their right to be consulted by the Corporation in all medical matters. The letter was laid on the table.

Mr. FRANCIS E. PARKER offered the following vote:

Voted, that in the opinion of this Board, it is not advisable for the University to give any assurance, or hold out any encouragement, that it will undertake the medical education of women in the Medical School of Harvard College.

It was passed by the following vote :

Yea-William Amory, William C. Endicott, Richard M. Hodges, Edward W. Hooper, Theodore Lyman, Robert M. Morse, Jr., Henry W. Paine, Francis E. Parker, Le Baron Russell, Stephen Salisbury, Leverett Salstonstall, Robert D. Smith

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Nay Phillips Brooks, James Freeman Clarke, Charles W. Eliot, Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John O. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorfield Story, Morrill Wyman II.

The Rev. EDWARD E. HALE, D.D. (present, nay) and Amos A. LAWRENCE (absent, yea) were paired.

ADJOURNED MEETING, April 27, 1882. — The Hon. E. R. HOAR, President, in the chair.

The resignations of OLIVER W. HOLMES, Jr., and FRANCIS G. PEABODY, members of the Board, were presented.

Votes of the President and Fellows regarding the assignment of unrestricted Scholarships to Special Students and Graduate Scholars, were referred to Messrs. ENDICOTT, PARKER, and CODMAN.

Messrs. FREDERIC CUNNINGHAM, ABBOTT L. LOWELL, and WILLIAM E. RUSSELL were appointed inspectors of polls at the election of Overseers.

SPECIAL MEETING, May 20, 1882. The Board agreed to the changes in the Standing Rules, presented by the President and Fellows at the meeting, March 4.

ADJOURNED MEETING, June 8, 1882.- The Hon. E. R. HOAR, the President, in the chair. Voted, to concur with the President and Fellows — In appointing JOSIAH ROYCE, Instructor in Philosophy for the current year.

Voted, to lay on the table the vote of the President and Fellows, establishing a Professorship of Veterinary Medicine.

Voted, to refer the appointment of HENRY JACOB BIGELOW, M.D., as Emeritus Professor of Surgery, to Messrs. HODGES, PARKER, and R. M. MORSE.

Voted (in concurrence), to confer several honorary degrees.

SPECIAL MEETING, June 22, 1882. — The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

Voted, to consent to the votes of the President and Fellows in appointing for the ensuing academic year, · HENRY JOHN Dixon Jones, Instructor in Elocution; FRANcis Barton Gummere, Ph.D., Instructor in English; FREEMAN SNOW, Instructor in Forensics and History; JOHN HOMANS, M.D., Clinical Instructor in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ovarian Tumors; FRANCIS BOOTT GREENOUGH, M.D., Clinical Instructor; OLIVER FAIRFIELD WADSWORTH, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Opthalmoscopy; SAMUel Gilbert WEBBER, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Diseases of the Nervous System; CLARENCE JOHN BLAKE, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Otology; JOHN ORNE GREEN, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Otology; AMOS LAWRENCE MASON, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Auscultation; JAMES READ CHADWICK, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Diseases of Women; JAMES JACKSON PUTNAM, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Diseases of the Nervous System; JOSEPH PEARSON OLIVER, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Diseases of Children; FREDERICK CHEEVER SHATTUCK, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Auscultation; THOMAS MORGAN ROTCH, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Diseases of Children: FRANK WINTHROP DRAPER, M.D., Lecturer in Forensic Medicine; CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT, M.D., Lecturer on Embryology; EDWARD NEWTON WHITTIER, M.D., Instructor in the Theory and Practice of Physic; WILLIAM PALMER BOLLES, M.D., Instructor in Materia Medica; FRANCIS AUGUSTINE HARRIS, M.D., Demonstrator of Medico-Legal Examinations; MAURICE HOWE RICHARDSON, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy; EDWIN Herbert Hall, M.D., Instructor in Physics; BENJAMIN OSGOOD PEIRCE, Ph.D., Instructor in Mathematics; BROOKS ADAMS, A.B., Lecturer on International Law.

And for five years from Sept. 1, 1882, the following Assistant Professors: CHARLES FOLLEN FOLSOM, M.D., Mental Diseases; WILLIAM HENRY BAKER, M.D., Gynaecology; JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE, Ph.D., Greek.

Also appointing for the ensuing year, CHARLES ELLIOTT ST. JOHN, A.B., Proctor of Divinity Hall.

Voted, to concur in giving the degree of A.B. to CHARLES STORROW, as of the Class of 1861. The President of the University informed the Board, "that it is the intention of the Corporation to elect a Hollis Professor of Divinity."

Votes of the Corporation regarding the admission to the Divinity School of Graduates only of some College were referred to Messrs. SALTONSTALL, MCKENZIE, and CABOT.

Voted, to oncur in the election of HENRY JACOB BIGELOW, M.D., as Emeritus Professor of Surgery.

Voted, to concur in the votes of the Corporation regarding the assignment to Graduate Scholars of the unrestricted Scholarship, understanding thereby the Shattuck, Townsend, Quincy-Tufts, and John Eliot Thayer Scholarships.

The President of the University presented the vote of the Corporation regarding disturbances during Commencement week and the revoking of degrees. The consideration of this was postponed.

Voted, to concur in establishing a Professorship of Veterinary Medicine.

COMMENCEMENT MEETING, June 28. - The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

Voted, to concur in the reappointment of WILLIAM AUGUSTUS ROGERS as Assistant Professor of Astronomy for five years, from April 9, 1882.

The following elections by the Corporation were referred, — Of DAVID WILLIAM CHEEVER, M.D., as Professor of Surgery, to Messrs. RUSSELL, WYMAN, and LYMAN; of DAVID GORHAM LYON, Ph.D., Hollis Professor of Divinity, to Messrs. SARGENT, LAWRENCE, and MCKENZIE; of CHARLES PARKER LYMAN, as Professor of Veterinary Medicine, to Messrs. Saltonstall, LEE, and HOOPER.

The Board concurred in the votes of the Corporation regarding the admission to the Divinity School after November next of graduates only of some College; and regarding the admission as Special Students to the Divinity School of such only as shall pass a satisfactory examination in the Greek and Latin Classics, and in the Greek of the Gospels.

ANNUAL MEETING, September 13, 1882. - The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

The report of the Inspector of Polls showed that, —SAMUEL A. Green, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr., WILLIAM G. RUSSEll, Leverett SALTONSTALL, and MOORFIELD STORY had been elected Overseers for the term of six years; and FRANCIS M. WELD and SOLOMON LINCOLN, for the term of one year.

The following reappointments were concurred in : — - CHARLES EDWARD FAXON, S.B., Instructor in Botany; BENJAMIN MARSTON WATSON, A.B., Instructor in Horticulture; EDWARD BURGESS, A.B., Instructor in Entomology; HENRY HOWLAND, Ph.D., Instructor in Torts.

The following appointments were concurred in: --ABNER POST, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Syphilis JOSEPH WeatherHEAD WARREN, M.D., Instructor in Oral Pathology and Anatomy. The following elections were concurred in: - DAVID WILLIAM CHEEVER, M.D., Professor of Surgery; DAVID GORDON LYON, Ph.D., Hollis Professor of Divinity; CHARLES PARKER LYMAN, Professor of Veterinary Medicine.

Messrs. LYMAN, R. M. MORSE, and ADAMS were appointed a Committee to nominate Visiting Committees.

The Hon. E. R. HOAR was re-elected President.

ADJOURNED MEETING, October 28. - The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

The following reappointments were concurred in: - TIMOTHY OTIS LOVELAND, D.M.D., CHARLES WILSON, D.M.D., ALBERT BENTON JEWELL, D.M.D., EDWIN PERLEY BRADBURY, D.M.D., EUGENE HANES SMITH, D.M.D., and EDWARD CORNELIUS BRIGGS, M.D., D.M.D., Clinical Instructors in the Dental School for 1882-83; VERGIL CLARENCE POND, D.M.D., Demonstrator in Operative Dentistry; GEORGE FRANKLIN GRANT, D.M.D., Demonstrator in Mechanical Dentistry.

The Board also concurred in appointing EDWARD SOUTHWORTH HAWES Instructor in Greek and Latin for the ensuing year.

ACCESSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

OCTOBER IST, 1882.

Only the more important titles are given, including occasionally other than recent accessions, for the purpose of rectifying the old cataloguing or of drawing attention to important books.

Accessions to the several departmental libraries are indicated by heavy-faced letters after the titles, as follows: