creditable to the State and to Hon. LYMAN C. DRAPER, the patient and persevering originator of them, and to Mr. DURRIE, their skilled custodian; and since the Chicago fire destroyed the historical depository there, they can be recognized as the largest and most valuable in the Northwest.

More iron stairways lead to the galleries and committee rooms of the chambers, and yet more, but narrower ones, lead to the store room where the arms and munitions of the State are kept and to the Tholus; from which top-most elevation an impressive downward view of the whole Rotunda is obtained. The outside of the Tholus affords convenience for enjoying an exceedingly fine view of the city, lakes and surrounding country.

The height of the Capitol from the basement to the gold gilt eagle on the op of the flag-staff is 225 feet and six inches, and exclusive of steps and porticos, the total length of the north and south wings is 228 feet, and of the ast and west wings, 226 feet.

The Capitol is surrounded with walks, greenswards, shrubbery and trees, which are carefully kept in good condition, and these, with the pearly white uilding rising in their midst, elicit the general expression that Wisconsin as a choicely located and elegant Capitol.

Published by W.Sott Taylor.

STATE UNIVERSITY, MADISON.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
[BY PROFESSOR S. H. CARPENTER, LL. D.]

BOARD OF REGENTS.

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, Ex-officio.

President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy.

JOHN W. STERLING, PH. D.,

Vice President, and Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy,
WILLIAM F. ALLEN, A. M..
Professor of Latin and History.

STEPHEN H. CARPENTER, A. M., LL. D.
Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and English Literature.

ALEXANDER KERR. A. M.,

Professor of Greek Language and Literature, and Principal of
Preparatory Department.

JOHN B. FEULING, PH. D.,

Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Philology.
COL. WM. J. L. NICODEMUS, A. M., C. E.,
Professor of Military Science and Civil Engineering.

JOHN B. PARKINSON, A. M.,

Professor of Mathematics, and Lecturer on Civil Polity and International Law. JOHN E. DAVIES, A. M., M. D.,

Professor of Natural History and Chemistry.

ROLAND IRVING, A. M., E. M.,

Professor of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy, and Curator of Cabinet.
HON. L. S. DIXON, LL. D.,

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Professor of Law.
HON, ORSAMUS COLE, LL. D.,

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Professor of Law.
HON. WM. PENN LYON, LL. D.,

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Professor of Law.

HON. P. L. SPOONER,
Dean of Law Faculty.

HON. H. S. ORTON, LL. D.,
Professor of Law.

J. H. CARPENTER, Esq.,
Professor of Law.

WM. F, VILAS, LL. B.
Professor of Law.

R. B. ANDERSON, A. M.,
Instructor in Languages.
ELMER H. CRAIG, A. B.,
Instructor.

ROBERT H. BROWN, PH. B.,
Instructor.

MRS. D. E. CARSON,
Preceptress of Female College.
MISS JOSEPHINE V. MAGOON
Associate Preceptress.

MISS LIZZIE S. SPENCER, Pí. В.
Assistant.

MISS ELLA SAGE,
Teacher of Instrumental Music.
MISS MARY C. WOODWORTH,
Teacher of Vocal Music.

MISS ANNA A. CUSHMAN,
Teacher of Painting.

HISTORY.

The State University was founded upon a grant of seventy-two sections of land made by Congress to the Territory of Wisconsin, as shown in Chap. ter 110, U. S. Laws of 1838, entitled:

"AN ACT concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Wisconsin. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby anthorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territory of Wisconsin, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the support of a University within the said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed."

The Territorial Legislature, at its session of 1838, passed a law incorporating the "University of the Territory of Wisconsin," locating the same at or near Madison. At the same session, a Board of Visitors was appointed, consisting of the following persons: The Governor, and Secretary of the Territory, the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the President of the University, ex-officio, and B. B. CARY, MARSHAL M. STRONG, BYRON KILBOURN, Wм. A. GARDNER, CHARLES R. BRUSH, C. C. ARNDT, JOHN CATLIN, GEORGE H. SLAUGHTER, DAVID BRIGHAM, JOHN F. SCHEMERHORN, WM. W. CORYELL, GEO. BEATTY, HENRY L. DODGE and AUGUSTUS A. BIRD. Nothing, however, was done by this Board, although they legaily remained in office until the