OFFICIAL.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION.

MEETING OF OCTOBER 10, 1881.- Voted, to appoint the following gentlemen Clinical Instructors in the Dental School for 1881-82: :

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 accept the resignation of GEORGE MINOT GARLAND, M.D., as Assistant in Physiology.

Voted, to appoint GEORGE MINOT GARLAND, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Medicine for the current academic year.

Voted, to appoint EDWARD HICKLING BRADFORD, M.D., Assistant in Clinical Surgery for the current academic year.

Voted, to reappoint for the current academic year HENRY GROSVENOR CARY, Instructor in Vocal Music.

CHARLES EDWARD FAXON, S.B., Instructor in Botany.

BENJAMIN MARSTON WATSON, A.B., Instructor in Horticulture.

EDWARD BURGESS, A.B., Instructor in Entomology.

LESTER SACKETT Ford, B.A.S., Demonstrator in Zoölogy.

Voted, to appoint EDWARD STEVENS Sheldon, A. B., Instructor in Modern Languages.

Voted, to appoint HENRY JOHN DIXON JONES, A.B., Instructor in Elocution for the current academic year.

Voted, to accept the following resignations as of September 1, 1881 :

SUMNER BURRITT STILES, A.B., Proctor.
HENRY GILMAN NICHOLS, A.B., Proctor.

WILLIAM AMOS BANCROFT, A.B., Proctor.

GEORGE RIDDLE, A.B., Instructor in Elocution.

Voted, that Senior Forensics be placed in charge of FREEMAN SNOW, Instructor in Forensics and History.

Meeting of OCTOBER 31, 1881. — The Treasurer reported subscriptions from graduates of the Dental School to be applied towards a fund for the endowment of the school. The Treasurer was thereupon directed to enter upon the Donation Book of the College the name of each subscriber, and to send to each subscriber a copy of the following vote:

Voted, that the generous and timely gifts for the endowment of the Dental School be gratefully accepted, and that the thanks of the Corporation be sent to each subscriber.

Voted, to appoint JAMES C. THURSTON, Auditor of the Harvard Dining Association.

Voted, to appoint THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY, A.M., University lecturer upon English Literature for the current academic year.

Voted, to authorize Mr. ADAMS to cause the Stoughton Monument in Dorchester to be put in good repair at the cost of the University.

Whereas the President and Fellows have been asked if they would accept a fund the income of which shall be ultimately used for the medical education of women,

Voted, to consult the Board of Overseers anew upon the expediency of the University's underMaking that function.

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 14, 1881.-Voted, to appoint JOSEPH WEATHERHEAD WARREN, D., Assistant in Physiology.

Voted, that the title of the Instructorship in the Dental School now held by CHarles SedgWICK MINOT, S.D., be changed to that of Instructor in Oral Anatomy and Pathology.

Voted, that the gift to the College of a grand piano from the Committee of Arrangements for the Greek play, be gratefully accepted, and that the Treasurer be requested on behalf of the President and Fellows to thank the Committee therefor.

The President presented the following communication from T. JEFferson Coolidge, Esq., relating to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to be received by the College as the "Eben WRIGHT FUND:"

"TO THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE:

"In accordance with the terms of the annexed declaration of trust executed by Ambrose A. Ranney and William G. Russell, dated Sept. 21, 1881, I hereby designate and declare the uses and purposes for and upon which the fund therein named shall be held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College to be as follows, viz. :

"That said fund shall bear the name of EBEN WRIGHT.

"That it shall be kept as a permanent fund, the income, only, to be expended from year to

year.

"That the capital need not be specially invested, but may be merged in the general investments of the College.

"That the income be applied to meet the expenses of administration and service in the College Library.

"Witness my hand and seal this twenty-first day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty

one.

and it was thereupon

(Signed)

T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE." (L.S.)

Voted, that the President and Fellows gratefully accept from Messrs. Ranney and Russell, as Trustees, all their right as Trustees to said sum of one hundred thousand dollars and interest thereon, and agree to hold the same upon the trusts declared by Mr. Coolidge in his communication above recited, and that the Treasurer be requested on behalf of the Corporation to thank Mr. Coolidge for his very liberal and serviceable action in relation thereto.

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 28, 1881. — Voted, to appoint SERENO WATSON, Ph.D., Curator of the Herbarium and Instructor in Phytography.

Voted, that Professor ASA GRAY be requested to exercise a general supervision over the affairs of the Botanic Garden during the absence of the Director.

Voted, that until the further order of this Board one half the expenses of the Bursar's office and the whole expenses of the Hemenway Gymnasium, including the salary of the Director, be charged to the different departments of the University in Cambridge in proportion to the number of students in those departments.

MEETING OF DECEMBER 12, 1881. — Voted, that the additional gift of $125 from EDWARD RUSSELL, Esq., be gratefully accepted, and that it be credited to the Edward Russell Scholarship Fund.

Voted, to place a lamp at the north door of the vestibule of Memorial Hall.

Voted, to appoint G. STANLEY HALL University Lecturer on Pedagogy for the current academic year.

MEETING OF DECEMBER 22, 1881. Voted, to reappoint HENRY W. TORREY, Ezra Abbot, WOLCOTT GIBBS, FRANCIS J. CHILD, CHARLES E. NORTON, and GEORGE L. GOODALE to be members of the Council of the Library for three years from January 1, 1882.

The Treasurer reported that he had received from the administrator of the estate of the late Miss MARTHA C. DERBY the sum of five thousand dollars to found a Scholarship in the University, and it was

Voted, that this bequest be gratefully accepted upon the terms named in the will, and that the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to the administrator therefor.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE OVERSEERS.

Meeting of October 12, 1881. — Voted, to concur with the President and Fellows in appointing as clinical instructors in the Dental School for 1881-82, 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.

In reappointing for the current academic year:

HENRY GROSVENOR CAREY, Instructor in Vocal Music.
CHARLES EDWARD FAXON, S.B., Instructor in Botany.
BENJ. MARSTON WATSON, A.B., Instructor in Horticulture.
EDWARD BURGESS, A.B., Instructor in Entomology.

LESTER SACKETT FORD, B.A.S., Demonstrator in Zoology.

In appointing

EDWARD STEVENS SHELDON, A. B., Instructor in Modern Languages.

HENRY JOHN DIXON JONES, A.B., Instructor in Elocution for the current academic year. FRANCIS BARTON GUMMERE, A.B., 1875, Instructor in English for the ensuing academic

year.

The Standing Committees of the year were appointed as follows:

[These are given in the Annual Catalogue of the University, 1881-82, p. 257.]
MEETING OF OCTOBER 27, 1881.— Adjourned meeting.
The Saltonstall scholarships were assigned as follows:-

For 1880-81.

แ

"1881-82.

"1881-82. FREDERICK RUSSELL BURTON,
THOMAS COGSWELL BACHELDER, Junior

Reports were presented by the Committees to visit the Academical Department, the Divinity School, the Medical and Dental Schools, the Law School, the Observatory, the Library, the Botanic Garden and the Herbarium; and these reports were referred in course to the Committee on Reports and Resolutions.

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 17, 1881. - Special meeting. — Voted, to concur with the President and Fellows in changing the title of the instructorship in the Dental School now held by CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT, S.D., to that of Instructor in Oral Anatomy and Pathology.

Also in appointing THOMAS SERJEANT PERRY, A.M., University Lecturer upon English Literature for the current academic year.

The reports of the Committee to visit the Lawrence Scientific School and the Bussey Institution, the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology were presented and referred in course to the Committee on Reports and Resolutions. The President and Fellows presented a communication as follows:

"Whereas the President and Fellows have been asked if they would accept a fund the income of which shall be ultimately used for the medical education of women; Voted, to consult the Board of Overseers anew upon the expediency of the University undertaking that function.”

Referred to MORRILL WYMAN, M.D., THEODORE Lyman, Esq., Le Baron RuSSELL, M.D., JAMES E. CABOT, Esq., and RICHARD M. HODGES, M.D.

MEETING OF DECEMBER 8, 1881. — An adjourned meeting.

The Board concurred with the President and Fellows in appointing SERENO WATSON, Ph.D., Curator of the Herbarium and Instructor in Phytography.

The report of the Committee on Reports and Resolutions was presented and accepted.

The resolution previously offered and specially assigned to this meeting was taken up; viz., "That in the opinion of this Board the statutes making attendance on morning prayers and other religious exercises compulsory should be repealed." After discussion the Board refused to adopt

the resolution.

ACCESSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

JANUARY 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: