No. 55. IN SENATE, March 1, 1842. ANNUAL REPORT Of the Regents of the University. Hon. LUTHER Bradish, SIR: President of the Senate. I have the honor to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the Re- The following gentlemen composed the Board of Regents of the University, at the time of making the Report herewith published. The dates of their appointment are prefixed to their names. The GOVERNOR, ex-officio. The LIEUT. GOVERNOR, ex-officio. 1826, January 26, GULIAN C. VERPLANCK. 1831, March JOHN K. PAIGE. 23, JOHN A. DIX. 1833, February 5, WILLIAM CAMPBELL. April 1834, April 66 ERASTUS CORNING. 4, PROSPER M. WETMORE. 17, JAMES MCKOWN. JOHN L. GRAHAM. 1835, January 20, AMASA J. PARKER. April 8, JOHN MCLEAN. 1839, February 18, JOSEPH RUSSELL. 1840, 1841, 66 28, JOHN C. SPENCER. PETER WENDELL, Chancellor. T. ROMEYN BECK, Secretary. Messrs. McKoWN, PAIGE, and HAWLEY were the committee to prepare the Annual Report. REPORT. TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The Regents of the University, in discharging the duty required of them by law, to make an annual report to the Legislature, embracing a general view of the various matters contained in the reports made for the last year, by the several colleges and academies subject to their visitation, respectfully submit the following, being their fifty-fifth annual REPORT. That during their present annual session, reports have been made to them from all the colleges, except the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District, in which the courses of instruction are altogether discontinued, and from 131 academies subject to their visitation. Colleges. Reports have been received from Columbia College, Union College, Hamilton College, Geneva College, and its Medical Department, the University of the City of New-York, and its Medical Department, the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New-York, and the Albany Medical College. In the abstracts from these, which are herewith transmitted, will be found a general view of their condition, under the respective divisions of literary and medical instruction. The aggregate number of students in general science and literature is 653, and of medical students, 605; being a total of 1,258, and ex |