professor of materia medica; and Benjamin S. Barton, professor of natural history and botany. Of these gentlemen, the first six were chosen equally from the late College and University; the seventh, though nominally a member of the faculty, was not placed on the same footing with the others; as, by a resolution of the board, an attendance upon his lectures was declared not to be an essential requisite for obtaining the medical honours.

CHAPTER X.

ACCOUNT OF THE PROFESSORS OF THE

UNIVERSITY.

It will be most convenient, for the sake of avoiding confusion in the subsequent narrative of events, to pursue at once down to the present time the succession in the faculty of arts, without immediate reference to the particular situation of the seminary at the period of each new appointment. As the mere name of an individual is a blank to those unacquainted with his person, character, or history, a few condensed biographical notices will be necessary, in order that correct conceptions may be formed of the condition and merits of the institution of which the subjects of the proposed notices were the conductors.

The Rev. Dr. John Ewing, the first pro