1 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 H. 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 H. Douglass, M. A., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 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, Zoology 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. By order of the Board. 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: I. NO. OF STUDENTS. Department of Literature, Science and Art,.... Medical Department,.... Law Department,. 270 216 129 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 been filled. Constant efforts have been made to accomplish this by correspondence and in other ways, but without success, owing simply to the fact that all those who possess the proper qualifications are engaged in the service of our country. It is hoped that at the opening of the next Collegiate year some officer returning from battle or captivity may be secured. In the meantime Prof. Wood has delivered a very creditable course of lectures on Military Engineering. Civil Engineering is the fundamental branch of Engineering in general. An officer from our army and a graduate of West Point associated with the Scientific Corps of Professors we already possess, will accomplish the double purpose of supplying whatever additional strength we may need in Mathematics and Physics, and of completing our Department of Engineering by adding the military branch. The daily military drill will also serve a twofold purpose in preparing young men for military service and in providing systematic, manly and healthful exercise. We are involved in a great and terrible war, which, in its prosecution to a successful termination, and in its inevitable consequences, perhaps involving a collision with foreign pow ers, one of which touches the border of our own State, is likely to make us for an indefinite period a military people. No measure can be more popular in our State than the establishment of a Military Department in the University; none more popular in the great North-West; none that will serve more to exalt us in the estimation of our sister States in general; none that more fitly comports with the renown which our regiments have won in many a bloody field; none that more naturally belongs to an institution which has already furnished brave soldiers and distinguished officers, some of whom have fallen in battle, while others have pined in captivity or wasted from wounds and disease; and none that will be more attractive to the young men who resort to institutions of learning. Nothing will touch the hearts of our students more than the appointment of a Professor who brings with him the assurance |