. History of the University of Michigan . ,while William G. Peckbecame Professor ofPhysics and Ci\il En-gineering. For the )-ear1856-1857, William , afterwards adistinguished Professor inthe School of Mines, Co-lumbia College, served asProfessor of MathematicsAndrew D. White, afterwards so well knownin higher educational spheres, and in thediplomatic service of the country, was madeProfessor of History and English Litera-ture ; DeVolson Wood was called to theChair of Ph)-sics and Civil Engineering, andCleveland Abbe, the distinguished meteorolo-gist of later years, served as an ins
. History of the University of Michigan . ,while William G. Peckbecame Professor ofPhysics and Ci\il En-gineering. For the )-ear1856-1857, William , afterwards adistinguished Professor inthe School of Mines, Co-lumbia College, served asProfessor of MathematicsAndrew D. White, afterwards so well knownin higher educational spheres, and in thediplomatic service of the country, was madeProfessor of History and English Litera-ture ; DeVolson Wood was called to theChair of Ph)-sics and Civil Engineering, andCleveland Abbe, the distinguished meteorolo-gist of later years, served as an instructorin Professor Woods department. In 1862Charles Kendall Adams, afterwards Professorin the University, and the President of twoL^ni\-ersities in succession, served as Instruc-tor in Histor), and Edward P. Evans, who. CiiRVDOX L. FORD One year later became a well-known author, in Modern Lan-guages and Literatures. It is not necessary to go into further partic-ulars to show that Dr. Tappan preferred youngmen for his Professors chairs; no doubt inpart because, at the middle of the centur}-, thenew scholarship of the country was mainly thepossession of young men, but in part, perhaps,for other reasons. The resolution which vacated the three aca-demical chairs did not touch the College of Med-icine and Surgery, which continued steadily todevelop throughout theadministration. The Department ofLaw, the third of the de-partments pro\ided forin the Organic Act, wasopened in the autumnof 1859, with James , Charles , and Thomas as success of the newdepartment was assuredat once, if attendance betaken as a test of success ;ninety students being en-rolled the first year. TheLaw Building, however,was not ready for occupa-tion until late in 1863. Itcontained, besides the
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