founded by the State, and includes the College referred to in the Act 

 of Congress. The misapprehension on this point is a natural one to 

 those who have not informed themselves, and the Regents are glad 

 to correct it. 



Out of this error arises another the error of supposing that the 

 Act of Congress prescribes " the leading objects" of the University. 

 It does prescribe " the leading objects" of the College, but the Univer- 

 sity has for its purpose the interests of good education and sound 

 learning in every department of human study and pursuit. No just 

 idea of the University or of the administration of its affairs can be 

 got unless these two things be kept distinct. 



It is not true that the Regents have totally ignored the Mechanical 

 Department of the University of California. On the contrary, that 

 department was early organized, with a complete four years course, as 

 may be seen by consulting the registers of the University, published 

 during the last four years, and particularly that for 1874, published last 

 spring. The Professors assigned to give instruction in that de- 

 partment are President Oilman, and Messrs. John Le Conte, Joseph 

 Le Conte, Rising, Soule, Welcher, Kellogg, Pioda, Sill, Putzker and 

 Corella, eleven in number. A Professor in Industrial Drawing will 

 soon be added, making twelve in all. The course of instruction will 

 then be complete, but it is desirable, although not absolutely necessary, 

 that a special Professor of Mechanics should be appointed to take the 

 place of some of the Professors in some of the above mentioned 

 branches of instruction. 



It is also an error to state that the Regents have chosen " but one 

 Professor for the Agricultural Department, while for the College of 

 Letters the Board has elected nine professors, including the President, 

 two instructors and eight assistants, being nineteen professors and as- 

 sistants engaged in teaching Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics, 

 Modern Languages, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Engineering, As- 

 tronomy, Rhetoric, History, and the English language." 



The above statement is utterly erroneous. No professors or instruc- 

 tors have been elected for the College of Letters, or for any other 

 College. The Professors and Instructors are elected for the Univer- 

 sity, and not for any particular college. The organic law creating the 

 University, Section 3, makes it the duty of the Regents " so to arrange 

 the several courses of instruction that the students of the different col- 

 leges and the students at large may be largely brought into social con- 



