Faculty Appointments for 1890-'91.

At a special meeting of the board of overseers held Wednesday, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following votes:

Appointing L. E. Gates A. B. and G. P. Baker jr. A. B. instructors in English, and H. T. Secrist A. B. proctor in divinity hall for 1890-91; in appointing the following instructors for 1890-91: E. M. Buckingham M. D., diseases of children; F. H. Davenport M. D., gynecology; F. H. Hooper M. D., laryngology; H. F. Vickery M. D., clinical medicine; W. F. Osgood A. M., mathematics; J. L. Love Ph. B., mathematics; L. J. Johnson A. B., S. B., engineering; H. B. Lathrop A. B., English; J. B. Fletcher A. M., English; W. C. Sabine A. M., physics; in re-appointing the following instructors for 1890-91: J. J. Hayes elocution; William Schofield A. M., LL. B., Roman law; A. B. Nichols A. B., German; F. W. Nicolson A. M., Latin; W. F. Ganong A. M., botany; T. W. Harris A. M., geology; George Santayanna Ph. D., philosophy; G. H. Parker S. B., zoology; W. G. Thompson A. B., forensics; J. C. Wait, C. E., S. M., surveying and drawing; in re-appointing for 1890-91, D. D. Slade M. D., lecturer on comparatively osteology; T. W. Fisher M. D., lecturer on mental diseases; S. H. Durgin M. D., lecturer on hygiene; H. P. Quincy M. D. instructor in histology; J. J. Putnam, M. D., in diseases of the nervous system; E. G. Cntter M. D., in the theory and practice of physics; E. H. Bradford, M. D., in surgery and orthopedics; G. M. Garland M. D., in clinical medicine; J. W. Warren M. D., in physiology; W. W. Gannett M. D., in pathology and auscultation; C. M. Green M. D., in obstetrics; H. C. Ernst M. D., in bacteriology; in re-appointing the following clinical instructors for 1890-91: John Homans M.D., Edward Cowles M. D., F. B. Greenongh M. D., O. F. Wadsworth, M. D., O. W. Doe M. D., G. W. Gray M. D., Abner Post M. D., A. T. Cabot M. D., G. H. Tilden M. D., G. L. Walton M. D., F. S. Walton M. D., P. C. Knapp M. D.; in re-appointing for 1890-91, F. A. Harris, M. D., demonstrator in medico-legal examinations: H. L. Burrill M. D., demonstrator of surgical appliances; W. M. Conant M. D., assistant demonstrator of anatomy; in appointing the following persons to be members of administrative boards for Harvard College: Professors C. L. Smith, C. E. Norton, C. J. White, E. H. Palmer, John Trowbridge, W. E. Byerly, C. R. Lanman, S. M. Macvane, J. H. Wright; assistant professors, G. A. Bartlett, W. M. Davis, Adolphe Cohn; instructors, Freeman Snow, O. W. Huntington, G. L. Kittredge; tutor, M. H. Morgan; for the Lawrence Scientific School, professors W. S. Chaplin, N. S. Shaler, H. B. Hill, B. O. Pierce; assistant professors, E. H. Hall, H. C. G. von Jagemann; instructor, J. E. Wolff; in the graduate school, professors J. M. Pierce, F. D. Allen, W. G. Farlow, William James, C. L. Jackson, E. L. Mark, G. S. Lyon; assistant professors, E. S. Sheldon, Edward Channing, F. W. Taussig; in changing the title of the professorship now held by Dr. Brackett to the professorship of "dental pathology," and that of the assistant professorship now held by Dr. Briggs to the assistant professorship of "dental materia medica and therapeutics."

The report of the committee on Indo-Iranian languages by John Fiske was read and ordered to be printed. The report of the committee upon petitions for the admission of women to the Divinity School recommended that the petitioners have leave to withdraw, and the report was adopted.