OFFICIAL.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION.

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 26, 1882. - Voted, that the President and Fellows gratefully accept the offer from the Class of 1828 of its Class Fund, upon the conditions named in the following votes passed at a special meeting of the Class:

1. The Class fund is hereby given to the Corporation of Harvard College upon the following conditions,

2. That the fund shall be allowed to accumulate until it amounts to three thousand dollars. 3. After the fund has accumulated to said amount the interest shall be annually devoted to the aid of one or more worthy scholars, connected with the College in any way, but under its guidance. 4. The condition for aid, as above provided, shall be as follows: that the recipients shall be poor and honest, hard-working students, though they may not be of the finest talents or highest College rank.

5. That any additions, by bequest or donation, that may be made to the fund shall be considered as entrusted to Harvard College for the general uses of the Fund of the Class of 1828.

6. That whenever hereafter any descendant of the Class of 1828 shall meet all conditions named in vote fourth, required of any student before he can receive aid from the fund, the fact of such descent shall decide the question.

7. The name of the Scholarship shall be "The Scholarship of the Class of 1828.”

MEETING OF OCTOBER 9, 1882. - 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 accept the offer of a Chronological Chart from EDWARD JOHN ENSOR, and to request the President to make suitable acknowledgment therefor.

Voted, to accept the resignation of FRANCIS BARTON GUMMERE, Ph.D., as Instructor in English, as of September 1, 1882, and FRANK WILLIAM TAUSSIG, A.B., as President's Secretary, as of September 1, 1882.

Voted, to appoint EDWARD HALE, A.B., Secretary for the President.

Voted, to appoint OLIVER MAYHEW WHIPPLE HUNTINGTON, A.B., Assistant in Chemistry for the current academic year.

Voted, that the gift of $300 from Professor JOSIAH P. COOKE for the compensation of an Assistant in Chemistry be gratefully accepted.

MEETING OF November 6, 1882. — Voted, to appoint FRANK NELSON COLE, A.B., 1882, to a Parker Fellowship for the current academic year.

Voted, that the resignation of Professor DANIEL D. SLADE be accepted as of September 1, 1882, and that the President be requested to write a letter to Dr. Slade, thanking him on behalf of the Corporation for his valuable services.

Voted, to accept the resignation of EDWIN PERLEY BRADBURY, D.M.D., as Clinical Instructor in operative Dentistry;

Of FRANCIS WINTHROP DEAN, S.B., as Tutor in Engineering as of November 1, 1882;

Of HENRY BURLEIGH WENZELL, A.B., as Proctor.

A petition was received from WALTER S. SWAN and other citizens and residents of Cambridge, and the Treasurer was requested to answer that the Corporation has no purpose to erect a new fence around Jarvis Field.

Voted, that a school of Veterinary Medicine be established in the University, and that its Faculty be constituted in accordance with the Statute relating to Faculties.

Voted, that the fees in the School of Veterinary Medicine shall be as follows:

For matriculation, five dollars.

For one year's tuition, one hundred dollars.

For half year's tuition, sixty dollars.

For graduation, thirty dollars.

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 20, 1882.

The committee appointed October 9th to consider the matter of enclosing College grounds for the use of the Athletic Association, made a report; and it was thereupon Voted, to appoint a Committee to act with the Committee of the College Faculty upon all matters relating to the promotion and regulation of College sports.

The President appointed Mr. ADAMS and Mr. AGASSIZ as the Committee.

The President read a letter from WILLIAM E. DARWIN, Esq., of England, offering to the College an etching of his father's study, which he says, "is an exact representation of the room as it was on the day of his death," and it was Voted, that the President and Fellows gratefully accept this very interesting memento of the late CHARLES DARWIN, and request the Treasurer to present to Mr. WILLIAM E. DARWIN their thanks for his kind remembrance of the College.

Voted, to appoint FRANCIS A. WALKER University Lecturer on the Tenure of Land, for the current academic year.

Voted, to appoint DANIEL TAYLOR HINCKLEY, B.A.S., Demonstrator in Anatomy for the current academic year.

Voted, to rescind the vote passed by this Board June 21st, 1882, in relation to disturbances on the College grounds at Commencement.

An amended vote was sent to the Overseers.

The Treasurer reported subscriptions towards the fund for Retiring Allowances, and stated that further subscriptions would doubtless be made. 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 fund for Retiring Allowances be gratefully accepted, and that the thanks of the Corporation be sent to each subscriber.

The Treasurer reported subscriptions towards a fund for the endowment of the Observatory, and stated that further subscriptions would doubtless be made. 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 Observatory be gratefully accepted, and that the thanks of the Corporation be sent to each subscriber.

The President laid before the Board a letter from OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M.D., resigning his position as Professor of Anatomy, the resignation to take effect on the 1st of December next. Whereupon it was

Voted, that Dr. Holmes's resignation be accepted in accordance with his wishes: but that the University loses with great regret his services as a learned, faithful, and interesting teacher, and his personal presence and influence as a distinguished man of letters.

Voted, to appoint OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in consideration of his many valuable services to the Medical School during the past thirty-five

years.

MEETING OF DECEMBER II, 1882. Voted, to proceed to the election of three Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, to serve for one year from January 1, 1883. Whereupon ballots being given in it appeared that WILLIAM GRAY, HENRY J. BIGELOW, and THOMAS G. APPLETON were elected. The resignation of SAMUEL H. SCUDDER as Assistant Librarian was accepted as of December I, 1882.

MEETING OF DECEMBER 22, 1882. — The Treasurer reported that he had received from the Rev. EDMUND F. SLAFTER as the executor of the estate of the late GEORGE B. DORR of Boston, stocks, bonds, and cash amounting at the executor's valuations to the sum of $111,150, the executor having retained for those entitled to the other half of Mr. Dorr's estate, the same number of shares and bonds of each kind, and the same amount of cash, with the exception that the College received the sum of $236.50 in cash as the equivalent of one share of Pennsylvania Coal Company and one share of New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company which could not be specifically divided.

Voted, that the Treasurer be requested to make due acknowledgment for this welcome and important bequest "for the benefit of the general funds" of the College, and that the GEORGE B. DORR Fund be established as an unrestricted University Fund.

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A gift of $1000 was received from the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture as the salary during the current academic year of Mr. SERENO WATSON, Curator of the Herbarium." A communication was received from Dr. R. M. HODGES, offering to the University on behalf of himself and others a bust of Professor HENRY J. BIGELOW, on condition that it shall be permanently placed in the Surgical Lecture room of the new Medical School building on Boylston Street, and it was Voted, that this offer be gratefully accepted upon the condition named.

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

Sundry appointments sent to the Board of Overseers for confirmation are not reported in the above record; but appear in the Records of the Overseers.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE OVERSEERS.

Stated MeetiNG, October 11, 1882. The Hon. CHARLES R. CODMAN in the chair. The following appointments for the current year were concurred in: CHARLES MAYNARD BARNES, LL.B., Instructor in Sales, and BARRETT WENDELL, A.B., Instructor in English.

The Committee on Elections, to which was referred a vote of the Association of the Alumni, suggesting changes in the method of electing Overseers, reported "that the terms of the proposed vote are inconsistent with the statute regulating elections to this Board; and that there is, therefore, no action which the Board can take." The report was accepted.

The reports of Visiting Committees were referred to the Committee on Reports and Resolutions. The Standing Committees for 1882-83 were reported. [These are given in the Annual Catalogue.]

ADJOURNED MEETING, October 18. - - The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

The following reports of visiting Committees were presented and referred: On the Divinity School, by the Rev. Dr. HALE; on the Observatory, by the Rev. Dr. Clarke.

SPECIAL MEETING, November 16. - The Hon. E. R. HOAR in the chair.

The following appointments for the current academic year were concurred in: HENRY GROSVENOR CAREY, Instructor in Vocal Music; FREDERICK BRADFORD KNAPP, Instructor in Surveying and Drawing; Dwight Moses CLAPP, Clinical Instructor in Operative Dentistry.

Voted, to concur in the order of the Corporation establishing a School of Veterinary Medicine, and to constitute its Faculty in accordance with the Statute relating to Faculties.

The vote of the President and Fellows regarding the restriction of drunkenness upon the campus at Commencement was discussed, but no decision was reached.

ADJOURNED MEETING, November 23. - The Hon. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL in the chair. The following appointments were concurred in: George Lyman KitTREDGE, A.B., and HERBERT MORISON CLARKE, A. M., Proctors.

The vote of the Corporation, appointing OLIVER Wendell Holmes, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, in consideration of his many valuable services to the Medical School during the past thirty-five years, was referred to Messrs HODGES, LEE, and WYMAN.

The following amended vote of the Corporation was concurred in:

Voted, that in view of the disturbances which occur upon College grounds during Commencement week, and the public scandal and evil to the College resulting therefrom, the Corporation hold themselves at liberty to revoke the degree of any graduate of the University for participating in such disturbances, provided that he has not held the degree for more than one week.

Voted, that in the opinion of this Board the interest of the College would be promoted, if at each Commencement the members of the graduating class should be the guests of the Alumni Association at the Commencement dinner.

Voted, that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of the vote to the Secretary of the Alumni Association, for the consideration of the Association at its next Annual Meeting.

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