SECEETAEY'S REPOET. 17 



SUPPLEMENTAEY DATA. 



The following statement is mainly quoted from my report to the Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction for the collegiate year ending August 19, 1885. 



The year has been one of great and important changes to the College, a 

 transition period \yhicli has given much anxiety to its friends, but from which 

 it promises to develop in continued vigor and usefulness. 



Within this year it has lost its president, secretary, and two of its professors. 

 It has had one entirely new department added to its course, and two more so 

 much enlarged from their former dimensions as to be practically new depart- 

 ments. 



November 24, 1884, Dr. T. C. Abbot tendered to the Board of Agriculture 

 his resignation of the Presidency of the College. This step was one which, 

 owing to failing health, he had for some time had in contemplation, and had 

 previously informally announced to the Board. The following resolutions were 

 drawn up by a committee of the Board, consisting of Governor Begole and 

 Messrs. Chamberlain and Reynolds, and unanimously adopted: 



Resolved. That in accepting the resignation of Dr. T. C. Abbot fi-om the Presidency 

 of tlie Michigan Agricultural CoUege. the State Board of Agi-iculture desires to express 

 its high appreciation of his labors m that position during the past twenty-two years, 

 and its belief that these labors have been largely instrumental in bringing this College 

 to its present high position among institutions of its kind. 



We further take pleasure in the fact that the services of Dr, Abbot will not thus be 

 lost to the Agricultural College, but that fi-om a I'rofessor's chair he will continue to 

 help forward the cause of practical agricultural education in this Institution. 



Dr. Abbot's connection with the College began Feb. 5, 1858, when he was 

 elected to the Professorship of English Literature. On Dec. 4, 1862, he was 

 made President. 



At this same meeting of the Board of Agriculture, viz., Nov. 24, 1884, it 

 was unanimously resolved that the Presidency of the College be tendered to 

 the Hon. Edwin Willits, at that time Principal of the State Normal School. 

 Jan. 8, 1885, this offer was accepted and the appointment formally made, and 

 Dr. Abbot was elected Professor of Mental and Moral Science. 



Owing to Mr. Willits' engagement with the Normal School he was unable 

 to enter upon his new duties at this College at once, and the transfer was not 

 made until July 1, 1885, till which time Dr. Abbot continued as acting Presi- 

 dent. 



On August 4, 1885, after a severe illness of six months' continuance, Robert 

 G. Baird, who had been Secretary of the Board and College since Aug. 25, 

 1875, died, and Henry G. Reynolds, of Old Missson, was elected to succeed him. 



Jan. 1, 1885, James Satterlee, Professor of Horticulture and Landscape 

 Gardening and Superintendent of the Horticultural Department since 1883, 

 closed his connection with the College by resignation, and Liberty H. Bailey, 

 Jr., was elected to his position. 



The last annual report from this College contains a statement of the detail 

 by the War Department of the United States of Second Lieutenant John A. 

 Lockwood as Professor of Military Science and Tactics. 



Lt. Lockwood entered on duty at once, and during the past year has organ- 

 ized a volunteer cadet corps of ninety members, most of whom have provided 

 themselves with uniforms. These uniforms cost from $14.00 to $20.00, and 



