to the Memorial of the Senate, relative to the continued occupation of the Building in the Queen's Park by Lunatics, whereby the interests of the University are seriously injured, not merely by the non-payment of rent for the Building and Grounds occupied, but also by the inability of the Bursar to lease the Lots occupied and those in the neighbourhood.

(Carried).

Moved by Doctor Daniel Wilson, seconded by Mr. D. E. Blake, That the attention of His Excellency the Governor-in-Council be respectfully requested to the Memorial of the Senate, praying the reconsideration of the recent action of the Government, through which the expenses of the Bursar's Office have been augmented by the restoration of the Staff to its former number, notwithstanding the recommendation of the reduction of the Staff by the Visitorial Commissioners, appointed to enquire into the expenditure of University Funds, and the repeated remonstrances of the Senate, in reference to the excessive Expenditure in the Bursar's Office, and the former action of the Government in reference thereto.

CHAPTER XXIII.

REPORTS OF THE SENATE AND OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, 1864.

I. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1864.

To His Excellency, the Right Honourable Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck, Governor General of British North America:

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,

The Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Senate of the University of Toronto, respectfully present their Annual Report for the year 1864, and beg to state as follows:1. In the Faculty of Law, the number of Students who have passed the required requisite Examinations during the year, is as follows:

2. In the Faculty of Medicine, the number of Students who have passed the requisite Examinations during the year, is as follows:

Besides which, the Degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon two Gentlemen, being of the requisite standing, and having complied with the requirements of the Statute.

3. In the Faculty of Arts, the number of Students who have passed the required examinations during the year, is as follows:

Besides which, the Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on nine Gentlemen, being of the requisite standing, and having complied with the requirements of the Statute in that behalf.

4. The total number of Students examined during the year, is 207, and 60 Degrees were conferred in the different Faculties.

5. Thirty Scholarships were awarded during the year.

6. From a comparison with the Report of the preceding year, 1863, it appears that there is but slight variation in the number of Students who have submitted themselves for examination. For the year 1863, the gross total was 209; for the year 1864, the total is 207, and the distribution of Scholarships amongst the different Faculties is nearly the same.

7. During the year, an amended Curriculum of Subjects of Examination in the different Faculties was prepared, and the Statutes embodying the same have been presented for Your Excellency's approval. This amended Curriculum has been the result of careful consideration on the part of those Gentlemen of the Senate, who were especially conversant with the different subjects involved, and the alterations and amendments which have been are such, as it is hoped, will tend to the further usefulness of the University, and render any other changes unnecessary for a long period of time

to come.

8. The University of each year is satisfactorily discharging the important objects for which it has been founded, and the Senate have every reason to believe that the people of Upper Canada fully appreciate the great benefits it is conferring on the community.

All of which is respectfully submitted to Your Excellency.
THOMAS MOSs, Registrar.

JOSEPH C. MORRISON, Chancellor.

REPORT OF THE OBSERVATORY COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FOR THE YEAR 1864.

The general arrangements of the Observatory continue the same as heretofore. Instruments. No additions to the Instruments have been made during the year. Observations. No changes have been made in the times and manner of taking the Observations.

Records. The primary reductions of all the Observations is in an advanced state, and will be completed to the end of the year, in the course of a few weeks.

During the year just completed, two Volumes have been published, containing the results of the Meteorological Observations. Three hundred copies of the larger of these, containing 164 pages, and giving the results for the six years, 1854-59, were printed and half bound by Messieurs Lovell and Gibson at a cost of $627.35. An equal number of copies of the other Volume, consisting of 110 pages, and containing the results for the three years, 1860-62, were printed and half bound by Messieurs Chewett, for the sum of $467.50.

Between 40 and 50 copies of each of the Meteorological Volumes, as well as of the Volume of Magnetical Abstracts, have been distributed in Canada.

Through the liberal assistance of General Sabine, President of the Royal Society of London, a large number of copies of each of the three Volumes have been presented, or are in course of transmission, to various Institutions and Individuals in Great Britain and Ireland, the Continent of Europe, and other parts of the World.

I am greatly indebted also to Professor Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, for his aid in distributing several copies in the United States, as well as in the Brazils and Spanish America.

Library. No additions of any moment have been made to the Library during the year, besides the ordinary Serials, and a few Volumes of Observations presented to the Observatory.

Furniture.-Building.-No additions of any kind have been made to the Furniture, but it was found necessary to renew the greater part of the outside paint work of the Observatory Building.

Staff. The Staff of Overseers, consisting of Messieurs Walker, Menzies and Stewart, remains unaltered, and Mr. Davidson, as additional Observer and Computer, has been employed, as in former years.

Accounts. It will be seen by Financial Statement of the Expenditure during the year, that, owing to the extraordinary items of publishing the two Meteorological Volumes, amounting together to $1,094.85, the Expenditure has exceeded the Parliamentary Grant by $482.66. But, as the balance at the close of 1863 was $1,334.82, there is now a balance of $852.16 in favour of the Observatory, and available for future contingencies. G. T. KINGSTON, Director.

TORONTO, 29th December, 1864.

II. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY College, for the Year 1864.

To His Excellency the Right Honourable Viscount Lord Monck Governor General of British North America:

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY.

The College Council have the honour to present their Annual Report, for the year 1864, as follows:

:

Professor Cherriman takes the Department of Mathematics, and discharges the duties of College Auditor.

At the commencement of this year, the Reverend Doctor Wickson, who had efficiently discharged the duties of Classical Tutor and Registrar, during the preceding eight years, accepted the appointment of Rector of the Toronto Grammar School. Temporary appointments have been made to the offices thus vacated.

Graduates. Since 1854, the following Degrees have been conferred by the University of Toronto, on Students of this College: -M.D., 2; M.A., 44; LL.B., 7; M.B., 7; B.A., 75. The total number of Graduates is 135.

Students. The total number of those who attended Lectures during the past year was 240; of these 177 were Matriculated, and 63 non-matriculated. Of the Matriculated Students, 133 were in the Faculty of Arts, 43 in the Faculty of Medicine, and one in the Faculty of Law. Of the 63 non-Matriculated Students, 19 attended two, or more, Courses of Lectures, and 44 but one Course.

The following Table shews the Religious Denominations of the Matriculated Students:

Jourses of Study.-No change has been made in these Courses of Study during the past year, but next year, they will be modified, in accordance with the Statutes recently passed by the Senate of the University of Toronto.

TORONTO, January, 1865.

JOHN MCCAUL, President.

CHAPTER XXIV.

EDUCATIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE VARIOUS CHURCHES ON UNIVERSITY MATTERS, 1864.

1. THE METHODIST CHURCH, REPRESENTING VICTORIA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY.

I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF VICTORIA COLLEGE.

May 3rd, 1864. The Committee appointed to audit the former Accounts of the Reverend John Ryerson, not having acted, it was moved by the Reverend Doctor Enoch Wood, seconded by Mr. John Dumble, that the Reverend Richard Jones, the Reverend John Douse, and the Reverend John Borland be a Committee to audit those Accounts. (Carried).

The Lay Treasurer of the College, having presented his Financial Statement for the year 1863, it was moved by the Reverend G. R. Sanderson, seconded by the Reverend S. D. Rice, that the Treasurer's Report be accepted, and that he be authorized to embody in a supplementary Report, for the Conference, the probable expenditure to the 1st of June. (Carried).

The Agent of the College, having presented his Report, it was moved by the Reverend Doctor Ryerson, seconded by the Reverend Doctor Wood, that the Financial Statements of the Reverend Doctor Aylesworth be received, and that the cordial thanks of the Board be presented to him for the diligence, zeal and success with which he has prosecuted the laborious duties of his College Agency during the year. (Carried).

Moved by the Reverend John Douse, seconded by the Reverend Richard Jones, that the Reverend Doctor Aylesworth be requested to act as Agent of the College for the ensuing year. (Carried).

Moved by the Reverend Doctor S. S. Nelles, seconded by the Reverend Doctor Wellington Jeffers, that the Reverend George C. Whitlock, LL.D., having found it expedient, for domestic reasons, to resign his Chair as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Natural History in the University of Victoria College, the Board, in accepting the same, would express their high estimate of Doctor Whitlock, both as a Scholar and a Christian, and would record their warm appreciation of the diligence, zeal and fidelity with which he has discharged his duties in the University. (Carried).

Moved by the Reverend John Douse, seconded by the Reverend Doctor Jeffers, that the Reverend Doctor Whitlock, having resignd his Chair of Natural History and Natural Philosophy, the subjects taught by him be assigned to the Reverend Doctor E. P. Harris and Professor William Kingston, and that a new Chair be established, to be styled the Chair of Modern Languages and English Literature.

May 4th, 1864. Moved by the Reverend John Douse, seconded by the Reverend Richard Jones, that the Reverend W. H. Poole be requested to meet with the Committee appointed to audit the Accounts of the Reverend John Ryerson, and to afford such information as he may possess in relation to those Accounts. (Carried).

Resolved, That the Bursar be authorized to settle with Mr. W. W. Dean, allowing him for the loss which he has sustained by three Scholarships Notes which he took from Mr James Cisk.

Moved by the Reverend G. R. Sanderson, seconded by the Reverend John Douse, that the Reverend Doctors Wood, Ryerson, Green, Jeffers and the President of the College be requested to make all the enquiries practicable in relation to a suitable supply for the Chair of Modern Languages and English Literature, and to report the result to the next Meeting of the Board. The President of the College to be Chairman of the Committee. (Carried).

Moved by the Reverend Richard Jones, seconded by the Reverend John Douse, that the Reverend Doctor Aylesworth be substituted for the Reverend John Borland on the Committee to audit the Accounts of the Reverend John Ryerson. (Carried).

Resolved, That the President of the College, the Reverend G. R. Sanderson, Mr. John Dumble, Mr. William Kerr, Doctor John Beatty, and Doctor Cameron be a Committee on repairs of the College Building.

Resolved, That the renting of the Boarding Hall be referred to the same Committee. Resolved, That the Agents of the College shall divide their work as follows: namely Reverend Doctor Aylesworth to take the Cobourg and Peterborough Districts and all West of them the Reverend Charles Fish to take the Section East of the Cobourg District.

Resolved, That the Reverend Doctor Aylesworth's salary, and that of the Reverend Charles Fish, be $900 each per annum, exclusive of the Children's Fund allowances.

The President of the College asked for some instructions as to the salary the Committee would be authorized to offer the Professor of Modern Languages and English Literature, when it was agreed that the Committee might make an arrangement similar to that made in the employment of Reverend Doctor Harris, if found possible.

Resolved, That Mr. J. H. Dumble be appointed Treasurer of the College for the present year.

July 13th, 1864. The President of the College presented a Report which he had received from the Honourable Doctor John Rolph, Dean of the Medical Faculty, respecting the operations of that Faculty during the past year.

The Report was read by the Secretary, and after the reading, the venerable Dean was requested to make to the Board any statements he might deem advisable. The Dean addressed the Board at some length in relation to the Medical Faculty, after which the nomination of the Dean of the Faculty were approved.

Resolved, 1st, That Doctor James Newcombe be appointed Professor of Surgery. Resolved, 2nd, That the Dean be authorized to make provisions for the Chair of Anatomy during the ensuing year.

Resolved, That the Chairman of the Board be authorized to endorse, on behalf of the Board, the note given by the Dean of the Medical Faculty to Mr. Thomas Johnson. Resolved, That the Report of the Dean of the Medical Faculty be adopted and placed among the records of the Board.

Resolved, That the Members of the Board in the City of Toronto, with the Dean of the Medical Faculty, and the President of the College, be an Executive Committee to act in reference to matters relating to the Medical Faculty that may require special consideration ad interim.

The President of the College mentioned to the Board that he had called a Meeting of the Committee on the selection of a Professor of Modern Languages and English Literature, and that they were not at present able to report any recommendation.

Resolved, That another Committee be appointed to engage a Professor of Modern Languages and Literature.

Resolved, That the Committee consist of the President of the College, the Reverend Doctor Jeffers, Mr. J. D. Dumble, Mr. William Kerr, the Reverend Doctor Wood, and the Co-delegate.

Resolved, That Doctor Aylesworth be re-appointed Agent of the College for the present year.

Resolved, That a Second Agent be appointed to assist Doctor Aylesworth in securing subscriptions for the liquidation of the debt on the College.