REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. To the Hon. J. M. GREGORY, Supt. of Public Instruction: In compliance with the requirements of law, the Board of Regents would respectfully report that, notwithstanding the disturbed condition of our country, and the extensive draught made upon our patriotic young men for the suppression of civil war, the career of the University during the past year has been one of eminent prosperity and usefulness. The attendance of students in all the departments, during the past year, has been much nearer the maximum of any former year than under the circumstances could have been reasonably anticipated, and only seems to show more fully, if need be, the strong hold that our State University has upon the confidence and friendly regard of our commonwealth and the country at large. Our Medical Department has been strengthened by the appointment and services of Prof. Samuel G. Armor, formerly of Cincinnati. Our Chemical Laboratory, heretofore taxed to its utmost capacity, by an unusually full attendance in that department, has recently been so much enlarged as to make its facilities for instruction and illustration, second to none in any institution in America. In view of the absolute necessities of the Law Department heretofore limited in its accommodations to our small University Chapel, and some of the rooms adjoining, the Board determined last spring to take upon themselves the responsibility of erecting a suitable and substantial Law building, which was let by contract and is now nearly completed. In the exercise of that strict economy, which a pressing necessity for all the funds legitimately belonging to the University has always imposed upon the Board of Regents, they do not doubt that they shall be able to meet promptly the necessary expense, of its erection, and when completed, it will be alike an ornament to the institution and the State, and will fully accommodate the Law Department, Law Library, and General University Library. At a recent meeting of the Board, a proposition for the removal of the Observatory from its present site to the University grounds, was referred to a special committee with power to act definitely for its ultimate accomplishment, who still have the matter in charge. This change, which is considered entirely feasible, will greatly increase the usefulness of the Observatory to the students of the University in connection with the Astronomical Department. Another pressing want of the University, which has been heretofore referred to by our Board, is a suitable College Chapel, for the erection of which we can only look to the State or the General Government to supply the necessary funds. Our Military Chair is still vacant, nor will the state of our annual income admit of any attempt to materially increase our corps of professors, and while we can only repeat our willingness to perfect the arrangement if it is thought desirable, we must look to the State to make the necessary provision for the increased expenses of founding, in connection with our Scientific Department, a free Military School. During the past year the Board of Regents have met with a severe loss in the removal, by death, of our respected and beloved colleague, the Hon. Luke II. Parsons, of Corunna. Three, also, of our Board of Regents, the Hon. Henry Whiting, Hon. Wm. M. Ferry, and Hon. O. L. Spalding, are now in the field with loyal troops for the suppression of rebellion against our common government. For a statement of the condition of the several Departments of the University, you are referred to the report of the President of the Board hereto annexed. For an account of the receipts and disbursements for the year ending June 30th, A. D. 1862, and an estimate of the receipts and expenses for the ensuing fiscal year, you are referred to the annual report of the Finance Committee, which is hereto annexed. The names of the professors, instructors, and other officers, and the compensation of each, are as follows: Rev. Henry P. Tappan, D. D. LL. D., President of the University, and Professor of Philosophy, salary $2,500. Rev. Geo. P. Williams, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics, salary $1,500, Abram Sagar, M. A., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, salary $1,000. Silas II. Douglass, M. A., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Minéralogy, Pharmacy, and Toxicology, salary $1,500. Louis Fasquelle, LL. D., Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, salary $1,500. Moses Gunn, M, A., M. D., Professor of Surgery, salary $1,000. James R. Boise, M. A., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, salary $1,500. Alonzo B. Palmer, M. A., M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Pathology, salary $1,000. Alexander Winchell, M. A., Professor of Geology, Zoölogy and Botany, salary $1,500. Francis Brunnow, Ph. D., Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory, salary $1,500. Corydon L. Ford, M. A., M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, salary $1,000. Henry S. Frieze, M. A., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, salary $1,500. John L. Tappan, M. A., Librarian, salary, $600. Alfred DuBois, M. A., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, salary $1,000. Datus C. Brooks, M. A., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, salary $1,000. Andrew D. White, M. A., Professor of History and English Literature, salary $1,500. Hon. James V. Campbell, Marshall Professor of Law, salary $1,000. Hon. Charles I. Walker, Kent Professor of Law, salary $1,000. Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, Jay Professor of Law, and Lecturer on Constitutional Law and Medical Jurisprudence, salary $1,500. Devolson Wood, M. A., Professor of Civil Engineering, salary $1,000. James C. Watson. M. A., Professor of Physics and Instructor in Mathematics, salary $1,000. Samuel G. Armor, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica, salary $1,000. Adam K. Spence, M. A., Instructor in Greek, Latin and French, salary $600. William Lewitt, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, salary $500. Preston B. Rose, Assistant in Chemistry, salary $250. D. L. Wood, Secretary, salary $200. September 30th, 1862. D. L. WOOD, Secretary. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. To the Hon. the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan: GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit to you the following report of the condition of the University during the past year: III.-NO. OF PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS. Department of Literature, Science and Art,.... Medical Department,.. Law Department,... Total,.. No new Professors have been appointed. 17 5 3 25 The Chair of Military Engineering and Tactics, which was created at the last annual meeting of the Board, has not yet |