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Rh ducted by men of such eminence in those departments of knowledge, have been a most successful innovation, and are an established feature of the school. Among the special lecturers and instructors who are now associated with the regular Faculty are the following: Hon. Edward J. Phelps, LL.D., and Hon. Henry Stoddard, lately one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the State, on the Law of Evidence; Hon. William E. Simonds, a well-known and successful patent lawyer, on Patent Law; Hon. Morris W. Seymour on Corporations; Mark Bailey on Elocution; M. Dwight Collier, on Attachments, Judgments, Executions; Thomas Thacher on Corporate Trusts; James M. Townsend, Jr., on the Transfer of Monetary Securities; Roger Foster on Federal Jurisprudence; George M. Sharp, of the Maryland Bar, for several years Legal Editor of the "Baltimore Underwriter," on Insurance. Of these gentlemen Mr. Simonds resides in Hartford, Mr. Seymour in Bridgeport, Mr. Sharp in Baltimore, and Messrs. Collier, Thacher, Townsend, and Foster in New York City. Except in the cases of Professor Phelps and Mr. Bailey, none of those named are otherwise connected with the Faculty of the University, the list not including those members of the University Faculty who also deliver lectures in the special and graduate courses of the Law School. The President of the University is ex officio one of the Law School Faculty. Professor Phelps has been absent for four years as Minister of the United States to England, but resumes his work of instruction with the coming year.

WILLIAM L. STORRS

Hon. Francis Wayland, LL.D., Dean of the Law Faculty, is a man of very wide acquaintance among prominent men, having held many other positions of honor, and been prominently connected with many liberal and charitable movements. He graduated at Brown University in 1846, and studied his profession at the Harvard Law School, commencing his practice at Worcester, Mass. Soon after his removal to New Haven he was elected Judge of Probate for the New Haven District, was afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of the State with Gov. Marshall Jewell, is now President of the Board of Directors of the State Prison at Wethersfield, and an active and prominent member of the National Prison Reform Association, being President also of the Connecticut Prison Society. He was for several years President of the American Social Science Association. The executive duties of his position as head of the Faculty require his constant attention; and although he formerly taught the classes in the Law of Evidence, he now takes no part in the work of instruction except to deliver two courses of lectures upon English Constitutional Law and International Law. He also presides at the meetings of the Moot Courts. During the years that he has been at the head of the school, its increased prosperity and the uniformity of its develop-