REPORT.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION:

HON. HIRAM L. MILLER, Saginaw City, President of the Board.

HON. JOHN R. KELLOGG, Allegan.

REV. GEORGE WILLARD, Battle Creek.

HON. IRA MAYHEW, Albion, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and ex-officio Secretary of the Board.

FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTION:

JOSEPH R. WILLIAMS, President, and Director of the Farm. CALVIN TRACY, Professor of Mathematics.

LEWIS R. FISK, Professor of Chemistry.

* HENRY GOAD BY, Professor of Animal and Vegetable Physiology and Entomology.

* D. P. MAYHEW, Professor of Natural Science.

ROBERT D. WEEKS, Professor of English Literature and Farm Economy, and Secretary.

JOHN C. HOLMES, Professor of Horticulture, and Treasurer.

ENOCH BANCKER, Assistant in Chemistry.

JAMES M. SHEARER, Steward.

These gentlemen have not entered upon the performance of their duties. Dr. Goadby will do so when the Board of Education notify him that his services are required, and Mr. Mayhew as soon as an existing engagement permits.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION.

The Agricultural College of the State of Michigan was established in obedience to a requisition of the Revised Constitution of the State, adopted 15th August, 1850, which may be found in Art. 13:

"Sec. 11. The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School. The Legislature may appropriate the twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands now unappropriated, or the money arising from the sale of the same, where such lands have been already sold, and any land which may hereafter be granted or appropriated for such purpose, for the support and maintenance of such School, and may make the same a branch of the University, for instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith, and place the same under the supervision of the Regents of the University."