Merrill Edward Gates, A. M., of Albany, for his eminent success as a classical teacher and as principal for ten years of the Albany Academy. Daniel Strobel Martin, A. M., of New York city, for his successful services as a professor of natural history in the Rutgers Female College. Under chapter 746 of the Laws of 1872, authorizing the examination of medical students for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Louis Eusebius Rade, of New York city, was duly examined by a board of medical examiners and reported as duly qualified. Whereupon the degree of Doctor of Medicine was granted to him by the Board of Regents. On the nomination of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 268 of the Laws of 1862, the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on the following physicians: Austin Wells Holden, M. D., of Glen's Falls. STATE LIBRARY. The Board of Regents, who are by law the trustees of the State Library, have transmitted to the Legislature a detailed report to which the Legislature is respectfully referred for an account of its increase and its present condition. The library contained at the close of the year 1879, the following volumes : STATE MUSEUM. The report of the Board of Regents, as trustees of the State Museum, which has been already presented to the Legislature, will give in detail the operations of this State institution. Steady progress has been made in the collection of specimens and their preparation for exhibition. The trustees beg respectfully to call your attention to the necessity of additional room for the collections and work of the Museum. Since its location in its present quarters, it has entirely outgrown the accommodations provided for it. The utility of the scientific collections is in a great measure lost by the imperfect means which exist for exhibiting them. BOUNDARY SURVEY. The work on the adjustment of the southern boundary of the State has not made any material progress during the past year. The Pennsylvania commissioners were not provided with the means to carry on the work, and no field work was therefore undertaken. By an act passed May 20, 1880, the Legislature has definitely fixed the principles on which the boundaries are to be settled. The board named as commissioners under this act, Chancellor Pierson and Regents Leavenworth and Depew. It is hoped that during their present sessions the legislatures of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey may take such action as to enable the commissioners appointed on the part of New York to finish speedily the work intrusted to them. All of which is respectfully submitted. By order of the Regents, DAVID MURRAY, H. R. PIERSON, Chancellor of the University. Secretary. DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. I. TABULAR STATEMENTS RELATING TO THE COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY. 1. A list of the colleges arranged in the order of establishment, with date of foundation, location and name of principal educational officer.. 2. Statement of the number of professors and students.. 3. Statement of property ..... 4. Statement of revenue and expenditures. 1234 II. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SEVERAL COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY. 4. Hobart College. ... 5. University of City of New York. 6. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (no report). 7. College of Pharmacy of New York 5 34 43 49 49 54 58 76 89 106 106 8. Madison University. .... 110 9. St. John's College 121 11. Medical Department of University of Buffalo (no report).. 209 20. Homoeopathic Med. College of City of New York (no report), 213 21. College of St. Francis Xavier 214 22. Vassar College 223 23. Bellevue Hospital Medical College.. 235 24. Manhattan College 251 28. Cornell University 26. New York College of Dentistry 27. Eclectic Medical College 29. College of the City of New York. 30. Rutgers Female College.... 31. Wells College 32. Syracuse University Medical Department... 33. American Veterinary College 36. Columbia Veterinary College.. 25. New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. 259 264 268 271 288 304 308 321 339 341 347 354 360 37. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Buffalo 364 III. ABSTRACTS OF ANNUAL REPORTS OF ACADEMIES. Schedules 2. Alphabetical list of Academies reporting in 1880, with names of officers, etc..... 1. List of Academies and Academical Departments of Union Schools, arranged by counties... 5. Permanent endowments and other property.. 6. Annual revenues and expenditures 7. Number of teachers and of volumes in libraries 8. Apportionments for the purchase of books and apparatus 9. Summary of text-books used.... 10. Statistics of teachers' classes. IV. ACADEMIC EXAMINATIONS. 1. Summary statement of the system of examinations 2. Instructions for the conduct of examinations .. 3. Number of students, etc., with annual apportionment in January, 1881..... 382 402 409 advanced.. 422 426 432 438 445 456 460 462 490 2. Minutes of the Eighteenth Convocation held July 13th, 14th and 15th, 1880..... V. UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 1. Sketch of the origin, objects and plan of the University Convocation (reprinted from former years) 499 503 4. Report of the Executive Committee by Warden Robert B. Fairbairn, D. D., LL. D ................ 3. Address of Erastus C. Benedict, LL. D., Chancellor of the University... 503 503 |