REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, } HON. JOHN M. GREGORY, Supt. of Public Instruction for the State of Michigan: The Constitution of the State, adopted several years after the University had been organized, and when it was in successful operation, and when it may be supposed the people of the State knew how to value it, and what were its wants, and the best way to ensure its success, has given the Board of Regents the general supervision of the University, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the University Interest Fund. The laws of the State have vested the government of the University in the Board of Regents. These also give them power to enact ordinances, by-laws and regulations for the gov ernment of the University; to elect a President; to fix, increase and reduce the regular number of professors and tutors, and to appoint the same, and to determine the amount of their salaries, and to remove the president, and any professor or tutor, when the interest of the University shall require it; also to appoint a secretary, librarian, treasurer, steward, and such other officers as the interests of the institution may require, who shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the Board. and receive such compensation as the Board may prescribe. Power is also given to the Regents to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, under the advice of the professorships, the books and authorities to be used in the several departments, and to confer degrees and grant diplomas. Having thus fully committed the University and its interests, and with these the higher educational interests of the State, to the Board of Regents, with a becoming vigilance and care, the Legislature has required them to make an exhibit of the affairs of the University in each year to you, setting forth the condition of the University and its branches, the amount of receipts and expenditures, the number of professors, tutors and other officers, and the compensation of each, the number of students in the several departments, and in the different classes, the books of instruction used, an estimate of the expenses for the ensuing year, together with such other information and suggestions as they may deem important, or you may require to embody in your report. This requirement shows the deep interest which the people of the State feel in the educational interests connected with the University which they have so fully and confidingly committed to the supervision and control of the Board of Regents. In order to make assurance doubly sure, the Legislature has provided for the appointment of a Board of Visitors, who are required to make a personal examination into the state and condition of the University in all its departments and branches, once, at least, in each year, and report to you the result of such examination. The Board of Regents thereon proceed to present to you the following exhibit of the affairs of the University for the year ending June 30, 1863:. NUMBER OF PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS. In the Department of Medicine,.. In the Department of Law,... 936 In the Department of Science, Literature and the Arts,.. 15 NUMBER OF STUDENTS. In the Department of Medicine,... 252 In the Department of Law, (Seniors 87; Juniors 45; Resident Graduates 2;).... .... 134 In the Department of Science, Literature and the Arts,... 266 Total,.. 652 Of these there graduated in The Department of Medicine,... The Department of Law,... 34 45 The Department of Science, Literature and the Arts,.. 45 For a more complete account of these you are referred to the report of President Haven, hereto annexed. ACADEMICAL STUDENTS IN THE DIFFERENT CLASSES. The names and number of Professors, Tutors and other officers and the compensation of each are as follows: Rev. Erastus O. Haven, DD., L. L. D., President of the University and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, salary $2,000. Rev. George P. Williams, L. L. D., Professor of Mathematics, salary $1,500. Edward P. Evans, Ph. D., Instructor in Modern Languages and Literature, salary $500. James R. Boise, A. M., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, salary $1,500. Henry S. Frieze, A. M., Professor of the Latin Lauguage and Literature, salary $1,500. Andrew D. White, A. M., Professor of History and English Literature, salary $1,500. Francis Brunnow, Ph. D., Director of the Observatory and Professor of Astronomy, salary $1,500. Alexander Winchell A. M., Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany, salary $1,500. A DeVolson Wood, A. M., Professor of civil Engineering, salary $1,000. James C. Watson, M. A., Professor of Physics, and Instructor in Mathematics, salary $1,000. Alfred DuBois, M. A., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, salary $1,000. Adam K. Spence, B. A., Instructor in Greek, Latin and French, salary $600. Datus C. Brooks, M. A., Librarian, salary $800. Charles K. Adams, M. A., Instructor in Latin, Rhetoric and English Literature, salary, $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 Profestor of Law and Lecturer on Constitutional Law and Medical Jurisprudence, salary $1,500. Silas H. Douglass, M. A., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Pharmacy and Toxicology, salary $1,500. Abram Sager, M. A., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and diseases of women and children, salary 1,000. Moses Gunn, M. A, M. D., Professor of Surgery, salary $1,000. Alonzo B. Palmer, A. M., M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, of Pathology and Materia Medica, salary $1,000. Corydon L. Ford, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, salary $1,000. Samuel G. Armor, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica, salary $1,000. William Lewitt, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, salary $500. Preston B. Rose, Assistant in Chemistry, salary $250. J. H. Burleson, Steward, salary $400. W. B. Jolly, Janitor, salary $325. Gregory Neigler, Janitor, salary $150. The books of instruction used are the same as last year. The following general view of the Library, Museum and other means of illustration and instruction may not be deemed out of place here, or uninteresting to the readers of your an nual report: SCHOOL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING AND TACTICS. At the annual meeting of the Regents, held in June, 1861, a Chair of Military Engineering and Tactics was established. Owing to the difficulty of procuring a suitable military man, during a war which makes such large demands upon military talent and qualifications, no Professor has yet been appointed to this chair. It is hoped, however, that one will soon be secured, when a full course of military instruction will be developed. As a temporary arrangement, the Professor of Civil Engineering will give a course of lectures on Military Engineering during the second semester. AGRICULTURAL COURSE. It is designed as soon as practicable, to organize a special department under this head, where courses of lectures will be given upon the theory of Agriculture as a science, and upon its special details. At present, lectures are given upon Botany, Zoology, Geology, Mineralogy and Chemistry, in which the application of these sciences to Agriculture is shown; and, in the Department of Practical Chemistry, students have an opportunity to study and engage in the analysis of soils, and other analyses, under the supervision of the Professor of Chemistry. It is believed that when this course comes into full operation, the collateral advantages of its connection with the University, no less than the thoroughness and fitness of the course itself, will commend it in a high degree to the attention of the agriculturists of the State. |