and sixty. A vacancy having occurred in the board of trustees of this college, by the death of Jonathan Sherwood, the Regents, upon the recommendation of the trustees, have appointed Dr. Moses Johnson to supply his place; and have also, upon the recommendation and report of the trustees, conferred the degree of doctor of medicine upon thirty-three graduates of the institution.

The trustees of the college of physicians and surgeons in the city of New-York report, that the condition of the college is more prosperous than at the period of the last report, and indulge the hope, that with the continued care of the Regents, and the legislative protection which the state affords to the college, recognised by its own authority, they will require no other aid than the well-earned reputation which the present faculty have acquired for talent and research in the various departments of science. That the number of students who have matriculated the present session, is one hundred and sixteen, showing a small increase since the last year: the whole of them, however, do not attend the lectures of each professor, neither do all of them pay for instruction. The trustees of this college have submitted to the Regents, a memorial addressed by them to the Legislature, which the Regents transmit with the documents accompanying this report.

The reports received during the present session from the academies, exhibit an aggregate of three thousand seven hundred and thirty-five scholars belonging to those institutions at the time of making their report; of whom two thousand and thirty are or have been engaged in classical studies, or in the higher branches of English education.

An abstract from the academic reports is herewith transmitted, exhibiting a general view of all the matters embraced in them, together with the distribution made by the Regents of the income of the literature fund for the preceding year, "the names of the seminaries sharing in such distribution, and the amount to be received by each." A similar abstract from the meteorological returns, received from most of the academies, is also herewith transmitted.

The Regenis, in compliance with a resolution of the honorable the Assembly, of the 15th January last, requiring them to lay before that house, in their annual report or otherwise, "a detailed statement of the affairs of Hamilton college, showing, among other things, the grounds of the difficulties under which that institution

is said to have been suffering, the number of students therein during the year past, the number of graduates at the last commencement, the salaries paid to each of the officers of the college during the last year, and the general prospects of that institution," respectfully report:

That not having in their possession any documents affording the information required by the Assembly, they caused a copy of the resolution, as soon as the same was received by them, to be transmitted to the president of the board of trustees of said college, with a request that the information required by it might be transmitted to the Regents, to enable them to lay it before the Assembly in their annual report. In answer to the communication thus made, the Regents have received from the chairman of the board of trustees of said college, the usual annual report of the college, together with an acknowledgment that a copy of the aforesaid resolution had been duly received, accompanied by an intimation that it could not be answered until the next regular meeting of the board of trustees should take place, which would not be before the month of May next: but the Regents have been since informed, by one of the trustees of said college, that a special meeting of the board was to be held in the ensuing month of March, for the purpose of furnishing the information required by the said resolution, to the end that the same might be laid before the Legislature at its present session. The Regents will, therefore, retain the said resolution, and comply with it as soon as they shall be enabled so to do by the trustees of said college.

The Regents would again respectfully call the attention of the Legislature to the difficulty of forming a board for the transaction of business, from the circumstance of so many of their body residing at a distance from the seat of government, and suggest the propriety of reducing the number necessary to form a quorum, from eight to six.

All which is respectfully submitted.

By order of the Regents.

SIMEON DE WITT, Chancellor.

G. HAWLEY, Secretary.