Science which had not, at that time, graduated any students. The distribution of the membership of the council is now as follows: The departments at Berkeley have nine delegates, the Colleges of Law and Medicine have three each, the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy two each, and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art has one.

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Mr. J. N. LeConte has recently completed for the Department of Mechanical Engineering an harmonic analyser and curve tracer, to be used for the investigation of the wave forms of modern alternating current machinery. The underlying principle of the machine is the same as that described by Mr. G. U. Yule, in the "Philosophical Magazine," of April, 1895. By a change in the relative motion of the parts, the range of the instrument is very greatly extended, and the process of analysis is made very nearly automatic, no other hand work being required than that of guiding a point around the curve under investigation. its aid one can determine, with a degree of accuracy fully equal to that of any of the modern analyzers, the first eleven coefficients of Fourier's Series. Its construction is such, however, that the co-efficients must be determined one at a time, and the sine and cosine compartments must be determined independently. By a change in the arrangement of the parts, the machine can be made to trace by a continuous process, the course whose equation is given in the form of Fourier's Series, up to and including the eleventh term. In this latter process not only can the component courses represented by sine and cosine series be drawn, but also their resultant is traced directly on the machine.

What has the past year done for the University of California?

I.

It has brought various gifts from our friends. Among these are the following:

The very extensive Cowan collection of California books, pamphlets, and original manuscripts, both Spanish and English, presented by Mr. C. P. Huntington, at a cost of $3,000.

Mr. J. J. Valentine, in the name of Wells, Fargo & Co., presented a full set of the Bankers' Magazine bought in London for us; and about fifty other books on finance and economics.

The Semitic Library has received, through Dr. Voorsanger, from unnamed donors, an addition of very rare and valuable books, including the Talmud in twelve volumes folio, and many incunabula.

Mr. James K. Moffitt has again given $100 to the Library.

Mr. Louis Janin has given a valuable collection of books on mining and metallurgy.

* President's Commencement statement, 1898.

Other donors to the Library are Hon. John Swett, Mr. S. P. Avery of New York, Mr. G. H. Mastick, Mrs. G. H. Howison, and Mrs. Harriet D. Palmer. Regent Reinstein presented the original correspondence resulting in the Hearst gift for a permanent architectural plan for the University site.

Valuable specimens for different scientific collections were received from Messrs. H. C. Callahan, J. T. Arundel, and Newland Baldwin.

By a bequest of Mr. H. W. Gould, of San Diego, the University is to receive a large collection of minerals, Indian curios, etc., valued at $7,000.

The very noteworthy Museum of Alaskan Products has been given by the Alaska Commercial Company.

Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers of Chicago, through Mr. W. W. Mein, gave a valuable ore sampler and ore crusher. Regent Hallidie presented an engineer's transit.

Mr. James Moffitt gave a lease of three acres of land for viticultural experiments.

Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst has supplemented her other gifts by the sum of $2,740 for lighting the University grounds, and for lighting and opening for evening use the Library building. She has also equipped the new room for young women. To the Mining department she has given an additional laboratory with its equipment. And she has helped to house us here to-day in this ample tent.

Public-spirited citizens of San Francisco, through the efforts of Mayor Phelan and others, have presented a site for the Wilmerding Industrial School.

This is surely a goodly list of benefactions for the year 1897-98. Not all the gifts are enumerated.

II.

The year has seen noteworthy progress in our University life.

The Affiliated College Buildings in San Francisco are nearing completion. At Berkeley we have four new

buildings, one of them replacing the burned Agricultural Hall, besides an addition to the Gymnasium. These are wooden structures, and are called temporary; but there will be use for them for many years to come. They were much needed, and were made possible by the generous appropriation by the last Legislature.

There has been progress in organization. The new College of Commerce has been established, and will begin its special work in August. A large number of its courses can be found in departments previously organized, and a distinguished scientist, Professor George Davidson, has already been added to its staff.

The graduate work of the University has been increased, as was necessary on account of the larger number of graduate students.

Instruction in the Semitic Department has been doubled, an accomplished scholar, Professor M. L. Margolis, having come to share Dr. Voorsanger's gratuitous labors. (This service of Dr. Voorsanger might well have been enumerated among the gifts; and so of Dr. Gutsch's lectures on Jurisprudence, and other help in various departments, from local experts and chance visitors.)

The Oriental chair, with Dr. John Fryer as incumbent, has an expanding work, and will be especially helpful to the new College of Commerce.

University Extension has furnished many courses of lectures in San Francisco. One phase of it has been the Farmers' Institutes, which have been more numerous than before, and still more fully attended; with abundant testimony to their usefulness.

The University is in relation with more accredited high schools than ever before. The connection is of such manifest importance that it can by no means be terminated, though entailing much labor on several of our departments.

By the gauge of mere numbers the University has made progress, as its roll of students is larger than in any previous year: nearly 1,650 at Berkeley; over 2,350 in

all. More students receive their diplomas to-day: 232 at Berkeley; 105 from San Francisco, not counting the College of Pharmacy, whose students finish their course at another date.

What means this variety of Degrees given to-day, professional as well as academic? It means a closer coming together of the different departments of our throbbing University life. During the year a new Council of Associated Alumni has been formed, to concentrate and intensify the common interest of all who call this University their Alma Mater. In union is strength and joy.

The past year has brought a new development of a true University spirit. The Associated Students at Berkeley have themselves taken a manly stand against dangerous class collisions. We hail the beginnings of effective selfgovernment in the student body. We congratulate that body, also, on the patient and successful training of so many for the modern pentathlon: that was the ancient word when Greek met Greek in all-round athletics. Still more do we praise those who have persistently trained themselves for arguing important questions in the open forum of public audiences. The prizes they won on February 12th and April 23rd in the Carnot and Intercollegiate Debates, are a token of growing intellectual strength.

In the student body itself is the surest test and the best hope of University progress.

III.

Our standing as a University has become stronger than ever before. Relative standing is hard to determine. It does not hinge on numbers alone, nor on income, nor on variety of departmental work, nor on the celebrity of a few foremost men. University standing is a sum total whose particular factors are more or less elusive. But the combination of these factors makes its clear-cut impression. In various ways we are aware of a fuller recognition of our standing in the outside world of science and literature.