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 The Cornell University School of Law. Here he has been chiefly engaged in the line of constitutional and corporation law, especially in the law of railway corporations. He has been counsel for the Virginia bond holders since 1880 in all their prolonged litigation; and was counsel for the bond holders in the well-known recent Reading and Wabash foreclosures. He has devoted much time and study to general topics of

the law, some of the fruit of which has ap peared from time to time in the shape of . addresses, essays, and reviews. His course on Constitutional Law at Cornell consists of twenty-four lectures, and covers a compen dious treatment of the entire Constitution as expounded and fixed by the latest authori ties. The course is most admirably adapt ed to the purposes for which it is given, and, although designed for students in the School of Law, is largely at tended by members of other departments. As a lecturer, Gov CHARLES ernor Chamberlain is remarkable for the logical treatment of his subject, for absolute clearness and accuracy of statement, and for the richness of his style. Instruction in the Patent Laws of the United States is given by the Hon. Benj. F. Thurston, of the Providence Bar, and Albert H. Walker, Esq., of the Hartford Bar. Mr. Thurston is a patent lawyer of national reputation, and a lecturer of great power. Mr. Walker is well known to the profession, not only by his career as a practitioner, but also through his valuable Treatise on Patent Law.

The course on Medical Jurisprudence is given by Professor Marshall D. Ewell, of Chicago, the well-known legal author and law teacher. The Hon. Orlow W. Chapman, a promi nent member of the New York Bar, and now Solicitor-General of the United States, delivers a special course on the law of Life Insurance. The Hon. Goodwin Brown, of the Albany Bar, for the past seven years Executive Coun sel in pardon and ex tradition cases, gives a brief course of in struction upon the Law of Extradition. Instruction in Ad miralty Law and in the Law of Marine Insurance is given by George S. Potter, Esq., a member of the wellknown admiralty firm of Williams & Potter, Buffalo, a gentleman of large experience in those specialties. And the Hon. Alfred C. Coxe, of the United States District Court, has recently been A. COLLIN. elected a. non-resi dent lecturer in the school upon the subject of Admiralty. Several important questions connected with the organization of the school had been determined by the Trustees before the election of the Faculty, but in a way entirely satisfactory to that body. One of these was as to the length of the course of instruction. It had been very much desired to make the course from the first one of three years. But in view of the fact that by court rule in the State of New York one of the three years of study required must be in the office of a practitioner, this was not thought to be