1. Gifts (Carlyle's Bequest; Cromwell's Mask; Physi- cal Laboratory; E. M. Barringer's Will; Sturgis- Hooper Professorship; Botanic Garden Subscription; 2. Literature and Art (Professor Lanman's Lectures and Books; the Greek Play; Ballads; Troy and My- cenæ; Bi-metalism; Art Collections; Semitic Studies; German Philosophy; Dante Society, etc.), 169-173. 3. Science (Dizziness in Deaf-mutes; Anthropology; Studies in Physics; Natural History Society Memoirs ; FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION. MEETING OF JANUARY 10, 1881: A communication was received from a committee appointed by the TRUSTEES of the Museum OF FINE ARTS, in relation to the care of the Gray Engravings, notifying the President and Fellows that the following rule would be adopted, if no objection should be made by this Board: "Rule 7. Visitors shall not be allowed to handle any engraving. But the Committee on the Museum may at their discretion give written permission to a special applicant to handle, in the presence and under the supervision of the Curator of the engravings, any print or list of prints specified by the applicant in a written request to them; such permission to be good only for a designated time." Also, that the following provision had been made by the Committee to further insure the safety of the Gray Collection: "Rule 4. That the College be requested to appoint some one each year who shall, on its behalf, examine all the prints, and report in writing to the President and Fellows on the integrity and condition of the collection. The cost of such examination to be paid by the Museum, and an official copy of the report to be deposited with the Curator of the Museum." And it was voted, that this Board has no objection to the adoption of said rule, and that it will from time to time appoint some one to examine the collections as requested. Voted, on recommendation of the College Faculty, "that examinations for admission be held next summer in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Exeter; and that a fee of five dollars be required from each person who presents himself for examination at any place except Cambridge." MEETING OF JANUARY 31, 1881::- Voted, in accordance with the regulation adopted by this Board May 31, 1880, to grant leave of absence to Professor JOSIAH P. COOKE for the ensuing academic year. MEETING OF FEBRUARY 14, 1881: The President communicated to the Board a letter from FREDERIC H. HEDGE, D.D., resigning the professorship of German to which he was elected in 1872, the resignation to take effect August 31, 1881. Whereupon it was voted, that Professor HEDGE's resignation be accepted, to take effect August 31, and that the President be requested to convey to him the thanks of the Corporation for the services which he has rendered as an instructor, and to express their sense of the high value to the University of his reputation and influence. MEETING OF FEBRUARY 28, 1881: A communication was received from the Librarian, announcing a subscription enabling him to enlarge the Library Bulletin into a Bulletin of the University, and it was Voted, That the title of the Bulletin be changed to the HARVARD UNIVERSITY BULLETIN, and that the Librarian be editor thereof, with the assistance of members of the several faculties; and to add to the present contents additional pages to contain official announcements, notices of original investigation, and other literary and scientific intelligence. The President informed the Board that a friend of the University had undertaken to pay to the President and Fellows for the construction of a new building for the Law School a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. ⚫ MEETING OF MARCH 16, 1881: Voted, to invite the MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY to luncheon, on the occasion of their centennial celebration, at such time and place as may be determined. Voted, in accordance with the regulation adopted by this Board May 31, 1880, to grant leave of absence to Professor JAMES B. THAYER and Professor NATHANIEL S. SHALER for the ensuing academic year. MEETING OF MARCH 30, 1881:- A petition was received from the ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY asking for the use of college land; whereupon it was Voted, that the Corporation do not think it expedient to grant the use of land to any college society for the purpose of erecting a permanent building thereon. STATED MEETING of April 13, 1881: Hon. CHARLES R. CODMAN, President, in the chair. The Board voted to concur with the President and Fellows in appointing, – As Proctor, HENRY CHAMPION JONES, A.B. As Clinical Instructors in the Medical School for the current academic year: THOMAS BUCKMINSTER CURTIS, M.D., in diseases of the Urinary organs; EDWARD HICKLING BRADFORD, M.D., in Orthopedic surgery; OLIVER FAIRFIELD WADSWORTH, M.D., in Ophthalmoscopy. As University lecturer on the Factory system for the current academic year, CARROLL D. WRIGHT. HORACE D. CHAPIN, Class of 1871, was appointed Principal Inspector, and FREDERICK CUNNINGHAM, LL.B., Class of 1874, and ARTHUR B. ELLIS, LL.B., Class of 1875, Assistant Inspectors of Polls at the election of Overseers on the next Commencement Day. The Committee to visit the Library presented their Annual Report, which was referred in course to the Committee on Reports and Resolutions. A Committee was appointed, consisting of those members of the Board who are members of the Committee to visit the Academic Department, to consider and report if any, and if so what, modification is desirable in the requisites for obtaining a degree. NOTES. RUSSIAN SOURCES ON NIHILISM. Dietoubistvo, sovershaiemoie russkim pravitelstvom. Zhenshtshini protsessa Moskofskikh Sotsialistof. Isd, Redactsii Ukrainskavo Sborika "Gro. mada." Zheneva, 1877. Tsiena, 25 santim. (Infanticide, committed by the Russian Government. The women of the trial of the Moscow Socialists. Published by the editors of the Ukraina Review "Gromada." Geneva. Price 25 centimes.) Professor Dragomanoff, the editor of the Review, mentioned in the title of this work, gives in a long preface interesting details of several of the prisoners. Some of the speeches of the Nihilists made in court are printed here, as in Russia they were not allowed to be published. Vnutrenneie rabstvo i voina sa osvobozhdenie. M. Dragomanova. Zheneva, 1877. Tsiena 1 fr. (The Slavery at Home and the War for Freedom. By M. Dragomanoff. Geneva, 1877. Price 1 fr.) Protsess 196. P. Alissova. 50 santim. (The Trial of the 196. By Peter Alissoff. Price 50 centimes.) Aleksandr II. Osvoboditel. Sotsh. P. Th. Alissova. Tsiena I frank. (Alexander II. the Liberator. By P. Th. Alissoff. Price I franc.) This pamphlet, containing a catalogue of most of the Nihilist Trials in Russia during the last twenty years, is translated into French and Italian, which versions, however, have greatly softened the bitterness expressed in the original against the present emperor of Russia. Ssud nad Tshernishefskim i Shto Dielat Roman napissanni im v zakluchenii 1862-3 Vtoroye isdanie Michaila Elpidina. (The Trial of Tsheznishefski, and What is to be done?" a novel written by him in prison, in 1862-3. Second edition. Michael Elpidin, publisher. Genève, Bâle, Lyon, 1876.) "What is to be done?" is translated into French and German. Turgenieff, Ivan Sergeievich. Ottsi i Dyeti. (Fathers and Sons.) Nov. (Virgin Soil.) These two novels have been translated into almost all modern languages. The German translation published at Mittau, Courland, was done under the immediate supervision of the author. Until about the middle of the year 1878, the political trials were stenographically reported in the Russian daily papers. The proceedings against those that took part in the demonstration on the Kazan Square, in St. Petersburg, on the 18th of December, 1876, are found in the "Sankt-Peterburgskia Viedomosti" (St. Petersburg News) of the 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, and 25th January, 1877 (old style) The trial of Viera Fassulich is stenographically reported in the "Golos" (Voice) of St. Petersburg of April 1st and 2d, and 3d, 1878 (old style). Here also is found the speech of her attorney, Mr. Alexandroff. The Government having forbidden the papers to mention the trials afterward, the Russian press in Geneva began to furnish the reports. See "Obshtsheie Dielo" (La Cause Générale), which is published monthly, and contains many of the speeches delivered by the defiant Nihilists in court. The most valuable material for the history and thorough understanding of Nihilism is furnished by the journal " Vperiod" (Forward!). This journal has very high connections which enable it to publish the secret circulars of the government to its officials, etc. It is published in London. For convenience, it issues at the end of the year a volume containing the most important material of the year. In the fifth volume, for the year of 1877, is found the official indictment, and a report of the trial of those accused of propagating Nihilism among the soldiers, and several other important trials, about which the home press could not utter a word. IVAN PANIN (Class of 1882). A few additions to the English sources given in Bulletin, No. 16, will be found in the Publisher's Weekly, March 19, 1881, p. 308. MISCELLANEOUS. On the 19th of March was issued No. 1 of the Harvard University weekly calendar, under the charge of the librarian, making announcements for the following week of all lectures, readings, concerts, etc., open to the public or to the students in general, and also of all such exercises of the departments as are not named for fixed days in the tabular views and other programmes of the University. Those calendars so far issued (Nos. 1 to 5) have chronicled, among other things, Professor J. P. COOKE's lectures on England, illustrated with the stereopticon; Professor LANMAN'S on the Vedas; Professor HEDGE'S on German literature; Professor JAMES'S on physiology and hygiene; Professor LovERING'S on electricity and magnetism; Dr. G. STANLEY HALL'S on contemporary German philosophers, and his Boston course on pedagogy; also readings from Plato by Professor ALLEN; from Chaucer by Professor CHILD; from the German drama by Professor WILLIAM COOK, Mr. HODGES, Mr. SHELDON and Mr. Lürz; from Molière by Professor JACQUINOT, and from Boccaccio by Mr. BENDELARI. Lectures are also noted before the Harvard Philological Society by Professor W. D. WHITNEY of Yale College on the history of the art of writing; by Dr. CHARLTON T. LEWIS of New York on the Blues and the Greens, a chapter of Byzantine history. A single lecture was given before the Harvard Historical Society by Professor MOSES COIT TYLER of the University of Michigan on the Tory side of the American Revolution, as illustrated in its literature. Col. CARROLL D. WRIGHT begun a course of three lectures on the Factory system, its origin and growth. Dr. J. LAURENCE LAUGHLIN lectured before the Harvard Finance Club on The funding bill and the panic. Professor LANE read a paper before the High and Latin School Teachers' Association in Boston on Latin conjugation, and Professor CHARLES L. JACKSON gave a public lecture in Cambridge on porcelain and its manufacture. It is proposed to print a list of the publications of the officers of instruction and government in the University (including librarians, curators, demonstrators, and assistants, together with instructors annually appointed), for the academic years 1870-71 to 1879-80, both inclusive; that is, from September 29, 1870, to September 30, 1880. The classes of works to be included are these: (1) Independent works as author or editor; (2) joint works as author or editor; (3) contributions, bearing the author's name, to serial, periodical, or occasional publications, including transactions of learned societies; (4) lectures, delivered within or without the University, which have been subsequently printed. A separate list of the contents of the Annals of the Observatory, the Memoirs and Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Reports of the Peabody Museum, the Library Bulletin, and the Bulletin of the Bussey Institute will also be given. Copies of the following publications can be bought at the Library: Catalogue of the collection of engravings bequeathed to Harvard college by Francis Calley Gray. By Louis THIES. Cambridge, 1869. 4to. pp. xliv, 530. Price $10.00. Library of Harvard University. Special publications, No. 1. Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. Cambridge, 1879. 8vo. pp. xii, 358. Price, in cloth, $4.00; printed on one side of the leaf and unbound, $5.00. Harvard memorial biographies. Two vols. Cambridge, 1867. 12mo. This work is edited by Col. T. W. HIGGINSON, and contains biographical sketches, by various hands, of graduates who fell in battle in the civil war, or died, in consequence of wounds or disease. Price, $3.00. Necrology of alumni of Harvard college, 1851-52 to 1862-63. By JOSEPH PALMER. Boston, 1864. 8vo. pp. viii, 536. Price, $ 1.00. - Beginning with the present number of the Bulletin, library accessions will be classed under separate heads, for greater convenience to those following special studies. As the headings are brief, some of the subjects which will fall under each (other than those which are perfectly apparent) are here indicated. Works of a (1) General and miscellaneous nature come first, including general bibliography. This heading is followed by (2) Theology and philosophy, under which are placed both general and physiological psychology, ecclesiastical and biblical subjects, ethics and ethnic religions. (3) Science embraces medicine, veterinary science, pseudo-science and magic. (4) Useful arts includes all forms of industrial science, manufactures and handicrafts, the combative arts, agriculture, landscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music and the archæology of art. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archæology; popular ballads and tales as well as medieval romances find their place here, while ballads not of popular origin appear under the final head. The scope of (7) History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title, but it should be explained that biographies of artists should be looked for under Fine arts, of astronomers under Science, etc.; genealogies and heraldry fall here, as well as legislation and constitutional and international law. Under (8) Law and sociology appear statistics, commerce, finance, political economy, jurisprudence, reforms, charities, education, public morality and hygiene, and public works, together with manners and customs, sports and games. (9) Philology embraces all departments, not only of language, but also of classical and oriental studies, excepting such as more properly fall under the second and sixth heads. Finally, (10) Literature includes elocution and rhetoric. ACCESSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY APRIL IST, 1881. Only the more important titles are given, including occasionally other than recent accessions, for the purpose of rectifying the old cataloguing or of drawing attention to important books. Accessions to the several departmental libraries are indicated by heavy-faced letters after the titles, as follows: I. General. [Brunet, P. G.]. Bibliomania in the present day in France and England. From the French of Philomneste jr. New-York. 1880. I20. IV. 17 Deutsche litteraturzeitung. Herausgegeben von M. Roediger. i. jahrg. nr. 1-13. 2. oct.-25. dec. 1880. W. Berlin. 1880. 4°. To be continued. Hel Finska vetenskaps-societetet. [Collections.] iii., v., xiv., xv., xvii., xx., xlii., xlviii., 1. osa. singissä. 1849-79. 8o, obl. 24° and 4o. Namely: · iii. [LÖNNROT, E.]. Kanteletar taikka suomen hoja lauluja ja wirsiä. 3 kirj. 1840. - The same. zen painos. 1864. v. [-] Suomen kansan arwoituksia ynnä. woituksen kanssa. zen lisännetty painos xiv. KALEVALA. [Edited by E. Lönnrot.] 1851. kansan wan 27251.12 27251.25 189 wiron ar27251.20 2en painos. 27251.28 27251.29 xv. [REINHOLM, A., editor]. Suomen kansan laulantoja pianolla soitettavia. i. 1849. 27251.23 xvii. [SALMELAINEN, E.]. Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita. 405. 1871-73, '63-66. i., ii. osa are "2en painos." [-] The same. i.-iii. osa. 1871, '54-63. 27251.41 27251.42 i. osa is "2 painos." xx. [PIPPING, F. WJ. skrifter pa Finska. 1856-57. xlii. [KREUTZWALD, F. R.]. Förteckning öfver i tryck utgifna B31.10 Eestirahwa ennemuistesed 34.170 jutud 1866. xlviii. [KALEVALA.] Kalewala. Helppohintainen painos. 1870. 27251.30 1. LÖNNROT, E. Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja. in osa; [ien.] 8-13 wilko. 1874 ['68-] 79. 44.49 France Institut. [Annuaire pour 1797, 1800, 1801, 1804, 1805, 1807, 1808, 1810-15, 1817-19, 18211-68, 1877, '79. Paris. [1797]-1879. 24o and 23.116; C13.25 120. zeit- und streit-fragen. Jahrg. ix. Heft 144; x. 145, 146. Berlin. 1880-81. 8°.. VIII. 7 Contents: ix. 144. LILIENCRON, R. (W. T. H. F.), baron VON. Ueber den chorgesang in der evangelischen kirche. 1880. -x. 145. DELSA, L. Beiträge zur steuer-reform. 1881.146. ENGEL, F. Aus dem pflanzerstaate Zulia. 1881. Hunnewell, J. F., and others. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands. [By J. F. Hunnewell, W. T. Brigham, and S. B. Dole.] Boston. 1869. 4o. IV.904 "Edition of 100 copies." Königsberg, Germ. — Königliche und universitäts-bibliothek. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum. [Compiled by E. J. H. Steffenhagen.] Fasc. i., ii. Regimonti. 1861-72. 4°. IV. 183 Michálek, A., and Klouček, J., editors. Slovanský katalog bibliografický za rok 1877-79 vydal spolek českoslovanských knihkupeckých účetních v Praze. Ročník i-iii. [Praze. 1877-79] 16o. B32.2 The "katalog" for 1879 was edited by J. M. Hovorka and J. Klouček. Philomneste, jr., pseudon. See [Brunet, P. G.]. [Thomas, R.]. Aggravating ladies: being a list of works published under the pseudonym of "a lady," with preliminary suggestions on the art of describing books bibliographically. By Olphar Hamst. London. 1880. sm. 80. A65.14 Ueber land und meer. Allgemeine illustrirte zeitung. [Edited by F. W. Hackländer and E. von Zoller. 45. bd. no. 14. Jan. 1881. w. [Stuttgart.] 1881. fo. To be continued. Virchow, R. (L. K.), and Holtzendorff, F. (J. W. P.) VON, editors. Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher vorträge. xv. serie. Heft 357-360; xvi. 361, 362. Berlin. 1880-81. 8o. 1.435 Contents: xv. 357. UFFELMANN, J. Die öffentliche gesundheitspflege im alten Rom. 1880.- 358. SPIESS, F. Der |