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Rh in the instruction given. The method of instruction preferred by Chancellor Ross was by means of text-books with very full synopses, or lists of questions for reviews, either written on the black-board for copying, or printed and placed in the student's hands.

Emlin McClain is a graduate of both the collegiate and law departments of the State University, completing his law course in 1873. For the following eight years he was engaged in practice, during that time editing and publishing a compilation of the statutes of the State, with annotations from the decisions relating thereto. In 1881, he was elected professor to succeed Professor Ross, when the latter became Chancellor. He removed to Iowa City and has since been constantly engaged in the discharge of the duties of that position. In 1887, upon the accession of Judge Love to the Chancellorship, Professor McClain was given the title of Vice-Chancellor, with a view to his having, in the absence of the Chancellor, the executive management of the Department, in addition to his duties as professor. During his connection with the Department, Professor McClain has prepared and published, in two volumes, a complete digest of the reports of the State Supreme Court from its organization, and also a new and enlarged edition of his compilation of the statutes, under the name of the "Annotated Code of Iowa." Although by these works he has acquired a familiarity with the Iowa law, he has preferred in his instruction to treat subjects of general law not depending to any considerable extent upon statutes or peculiar rules of State decision. Most of his subjects are presented by lecture—not formal but explanatory—accompanied by the study of cases, and guided by a printed outline or synopsis prepared by himself.

Fred Gilman was prepared for the bar in the office of a strict, thorough, and able common-law practitioner in Vermont. Coming then to Iowa, he practised his profession for eighteen years, when he was chosen professor in the Department (in 1887), and removed to Iowa City to give his entire time to the School. His method of teaching, involves the use of text-books, when available, but he presents some of his subjects by lecture. Being perfectly familiar with questions of Iowa practice, he is specially qualified for instructing in the various branches of Pleading and Practice.

Charles A. Schæffer, who was in 1887 chosen president of the University, last year became one of the lecturers of the law department, joining with Professor Gilman in a course on Medical Jurisprudence.

Walter C. Dunton was called to a professorship last year. He had been for many years a prominent practitioner in Vermont, and later a judge of the Supreme Court of that State. His plan of teaching involved the use of text-books, with a view to familiarizing the student with the law as it is thus concisely stated by able writers. He thought that in this way the student would be able to accomplish more, and be better fitted for actual practice, than by listening to lectures.

Eugene Wambaugh has been recently elected to a professorship in the Department. He took collegiate and post-graduate degrees at Harvard, and graduated from the Harvard Law School after a full three-years course. He pursued the study of the law with a view of becoming a law teacher, but finding no opportunity at once to engage in that work, he entered upon active practice in Cincinnati, and has been very successful in the profession during the past nine years. He now engages in the work for which he had prepared himself with the advantage of practical experience in practice added to his theoretical studies. He will reside in Iowa City and give his entire time to the School.

It has been necessary to omit full accounts of several prominent lawyers of the State who have been connected with the School, for short periods, as instructors or lecturers. Among these may be mentioned James B. Edmonds, who later removed to