MISCELLANEOUS.

I. LIBRARIES.

The University Library, which has heretofore been located in the north Building, will be removed before the begining of another Collegiate year into the very ample and commodious Library Room, occupying the first floor of the new and elegant building, recently erected for its accommodation and the use of the Law Department. In this new apartment the Library will in every respect be very much better accommodated than ever before; the space is ample for the convenience of all who may wish to consult it; the arrangements for warming, ventilation and light are perfect; and the conveniences such that it is be. lieved the Library will be much more useful to the students than they have hitherto been able to make it. The Library now contains about ten thousand volumes, and an appropriation is made annually for the purchase of books and periodicals.

The Law Library will also be removed before the beginning of another term, to a spacious and comfortable room adjoining the Lecture Hall, in the same building. This Library is open to students ten hours each day, under such regulations as render it a convenient and suitable place, not only for consultation, but also for regular study, to those who see fit to make use of it for that purpose.

In May, 1858, the "Christian Library Association of the University of Michigan" was organized for the pupose of procuring, by donation and purchase, without expense to the University, a Free Circulating Library of moral and religious works, for the use of all members of the University. Its affairs are to be managed by a Board of Directors, of which the President of the University is President; two Directors are chosen by the Board of Regents; two by the Faculties; two by the Students' Christian Association; and two by the Christian Library Association, from persons not connected with the University.

II. DETROIT OBSERVATORY.

This Observatory, a donation of the citizens of Detroit, is now entirely finished. It is situated half a mile from the Uni. versity ground, on a hill 150 feet above the Huron river, from which is presented one of the most charming views in the country. The building consists of a main part, with a movable dome 21 feet in diameter, and two wings, one of which contains the rooms for the observer, while in the other the splendid Meridian-Circle, presented by H. N. Walker, Esq., of Detroit, is mounted.

This instrument, which is one of the largest and best of its kind, was imported from Berlin. The focal length of its telescope is eight feet; the aperture of the object-glass, six French inches. It is furnished with two circles, a little more than three English feet in diameter, and with eight microscopes, by which the divisions of the circle can be read as near as one-tenth of a second. The same room contains a siderial clock, made by Tiede, in Berlin, and two collimators north and south from the Meridian Circle, for the determination of the error of collimation..

In the dome, a large telescope, with an object-glass of thirteen English inches in diameter, is mounted. This instrument, which, in size, is surpassed only by the telescope in Cambridge, Mass., and by that in Pulkova, in Russia, was made by Mr. Fitz, of New York.

Students who make Astronomy an optional study during the Senior Year, or in the University Course, will have instruction in the use of the instruments, and will have an opportunity to participate in the observations.

III. THE MUSEUM.

The University Museum embraces the following valuable. collections, illustrative of Science, Art and History:

I. Natural History.

1. A choice collection of Minerals, embracing over six thousand specimens, principally European. This collection was purchased of the late Baron Lederer, and is called the "Lederer Collection."

2. A rich collection of the Mineral Species of Michigan, including all the varieties of Copper Ore and Associated Minerals from the different localities of the Lake Superior district. This collection is partly the fruit of the State Geological Survey, and partly the result of the subsequent labors of Professor Douglass.

3. The collection in Geology, consisting of the large and complete series of specimens brought together by the State Geological Survey; to which Professor Winchell has added his own collections of Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, with examples from other formations; together with the fruits of exchanges with the duplicates of the State collection.

4. A very large Zoological collection, consisting, 1st. Of a complete suite of the Birds which visit Michigan, with most of the Mammals of the State; a nearly complete series of the Reptiles found east of the Rocky Mountains; two thousand species of Mollusca, embracing all the land and fresh-water forms of the Northern and Western States, and a considerable collection of Fishes and Radiata. 2d, Professor Winchell's collections, embracing Land and Fresh-water Shells, from all parts of the United States, and from Jamaca, W. I.; osteological and microscopical preparations, and two thousand specimens of Insects. 3d, The "Trowbridge Collection." This is an extensive series of specimens in all the classes of the Animal Kingdom, made by Lieut. Trowbridge (late Professor in the University), upon the Pacific coast of our country; it furnishes a complete illustration of the Fauna of that coast, and will raise the University collection to a rank among the first in the country.

5. An Herbarium, illustrative of the Flora of the State, containing about fifteen hundred species, arranged and labeled, to which have been added about four hundred species from the Southern States, and two hundred and twenty-five from Germany.

II. Museum of the Medical Department.

The Anatomical Museum has been selected and prepared with direct reference to teaching. Although it is not deemed neces

sary to enumerate particularly its contents, a few may be named, to indicate the character of the collection.

Besides containing a number of Adult Skeletons, articulated and separate, of the most perfect description, there are preparations illustrating its various stages of development and change from its first rudiments of foetal life to extreme old age; and a variety of partial or complete skeletons of inferior animals, to exhibit its various modifications.

It contains, likewise, beautifully prepared Skulls and Teeth, to illustrate first and second dentition, and others showing many of the diseases to which they are subject.

Various Arterial Preparations, complete and partial, afford good facilities for studying the vascular system.

Several hundred Alcoholic Preparations of healthy and diseased structures-human and comparative-furnish important aid in illustrating Physiology and Pathology; while models in plaster and papier mache, with a valuable collection of Plates, Splints, and Surgical Instruments, meet the wants of the more practical branches.

An important addition to these means of illustration has recently been made by an importation from Europe, of great beauty and value; among which are a collection of bones of the head, disarticulated and mounted, and an extended collection of Wax Models, illustrative of various anatomical and pathological conditions, including representations of the anatomy of the pelvis and its contents, of several varieties of hernia, of specimens of small-pox and the vaccine disease, and of a large number of cases in ophthalmic surgery, &c.

The Department of the Museum illustrative of Materia Medica consists of a very complete suite of Crude Organic Medicinal Substances, embracing between five and six hundred specimens, imported from Paris, put up in beautiful glass-covered half-gallon jars of uniform appearance, finely displayed, arranged according to their order in Natural History, and labeled in both French and English; besides about one thousand other specimens of Simple Mineral and Vegetable Substances and Pharma

cutical and Officinal Preparations, Active Principles, &c., arranged in groups convenient for study; and altogether comprising a collection, which in amount, variety, and adaptedness to the purposes of instruction, it is confidently believed is not equaled by any of a similar character, even in the older institutions in this country.

Besides these actual specimens, Medical Botany is illustrated by between one and two hundred large and finely-colored Plates, framed and glazed, and displayed for observation.

A full suite of Instruments used in Diseases of Females, is deposited in the Museum, illustrating the surgical processes required in this class of cases; and the magnificent Portraits of Cutaneous Diseases, by Dr. Erasmus Wilson, and the no less useful collection by Dr. Robert Willis, illustrate very fully this department of Pathology.

III. The Fine Arts and History.

This collection was commenced in the year 1855, by Prof. Frieze, and at present comprises

1. A Gallery of Casts, in full size and in reduction, of the most valuable Ancient Statues and Busts. These were mainly executed at the Imperial modeling establishment of the Louvre, by Desachy, of Paris, and by the Brothers Micheli, of Berlin. 2. A Gallery of more than two hundred Reductions and Models in terra cotta and other materials. These represent the principal Statues, Portrait Busts, Vases, and other Antiquities in the Museo Borbonico and other European museums. They were executed at Naples.

3. A Gallery of Engravings and Photographic Views, execu. ted in Italy and Greece, illustrating, especially the Architeotural and Sculptural Remains of Ancient Rome, Pompeii, Paestum, Athens and Corinth.

4. The Horace White Collection of Historical Medallions, com prising, 1st, Four hundred and fifty Casts from Antique Gems in the Royal Museum at Berlin, illustrative of Ancient History; 2d. Over five hundred Casts illustrative of Medieval History and