earnest and successful appeals among our citizens for the establishment of the "Dotroit Observatory of the University;" from the exalted character which he has attained as an able and eloquent divine, a Christian gentleman of just and liberal spirit, a philosophical scholar, unsurpassed in attainments, and a patriot who has infused the noblest sentiments and aspirations into the hearts of all with whom he has been associated; from the enthusiastic and almost unanimous verdict of the entire body of students who have been committed to his instruction; from the strong testimony of the great body of his neighbors in Ann Arbor, and of all citizens with whom he has been familiarly acquainted; from the various evidence which they possess, Dr. Tappan is the most fit and desirable incumbent of the office of President of the University-most acceptable to the great body of the people of the State, and less likely than any other person to create discord, irritation and opposition; and the Alumni therefore urge his reappointment to the Presidency.

In behalf of the Alumni by the Committee.

The following Tabular Statement exhibits the number of students in the Collegiate Department, (exclusive of the Legal and Medical Schools,) from 1851 to 1863, with their distribution into their respective courses:

Grand Total for U. Canada,.. 5,072 345,134 $3,437,500 $193,400 $1,736,800

In addition to these purely theological colleges, there are theological faculties in the Universities of Trinity College, Toronto, and Queen's College, Kingston, as well as the Roman Catholic colleges at Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto, and in the Baptist Literary Institute, at Woodstock.

A GENERAL STATISTICAL ABSTRACT,

Exhibiting the comparative state and progress of Education in Upper Canada, as connected with Universities, Colleges, Academies, Private, Grammar, Common, Normal, and Model Schools, from the year 1842 to 1861. Compiled from returns in the Eductional Department.

A GENERAL STATISTICAL ABSTRACT,-Continued.

NATIONAL AND STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS. The Annual Meetings of the several State Associations of Teachers, as well as of the American Instituto of Instruction, and of the National Teachers' Association were never more numerously attended than during the current year. We hope in our next number to give a summary of the proceedings of all these meetings for 1863.

We shall be under great obligations to the Secretary, or other officer, who will prepare and forward a brief History of cach Association, giving the name of the original founders, the date and place of each meeting, and name and subject of each lecturer, &c.

SIMONSON'S CIRCULAR ZOOLOGICAL CHART. We intended to have noticed at some length a very ingenious and useful Chart of the Animal Kingdom, constructed by Prof. Simonson, of Hartford, Conn., by which the classification of animals into their several sub-divisions, species, and varieties, can be seen and distinguished in a glance. This Chart will be published by Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Co., 130 Grand st., New York, and we commend it to the careful examination of every teacher who wishes to have at hand on his table, or the wall of his school, or class-room a convenient reference, or authority to settle the classification and characteristics of any disputed specimen of Zoology.

. WARREN COLBURN'S FIRST LESSONS. We are indebted to the publishers, FREDERICK A. BROWN & Co., 1 Cornhill Street, Boston, for a copy of a new edition of "Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic." This is one of the schoolbooks which we ever took any special pains to get into schools under our supervision; and we are glad to welcome it in new type, and with a fresh indorsement by our friend Dr. G. B. Emerson, who forty years ago, introduced it into the English High School of Boston, "as the most original and most valuable work upon the subject that has yet appeared." This high praise is as just now as when it was first penned.

WILKINS' STENCILING AND OTHER INKS. Having suffered much annoyance from the use of thick, corroding, and fading inks, it gives us great pleasure to express our great satisfaction with the qualities of several kinds of Ink manufactured by Wilkins & Co., Detroit, Michigan, which a friend has sent us for trial, and we think our friends among teachers, editors, and public offices in the West, will thank us for calling their attention to these inks, manufactured in their own section. We know of none better.

AMERICAN PHOTOTYPE COMPANY. We have before called the attention of our readers, and of all interested in wood-cut illustrations, to the economy, as well as the excellence of the photographic electrotypes of the American Phototype Company, whose place of business is No. 2 LeRoy Place, Beekman Street, New York City. We give on the next page an accurate and spirited copy by the same process, of the engraving (from steel,) in Elstob's edition of "Ascham's Latin Epistles." The plate gives the only portrait of that "grand Old Master," which has been followed on one of the panels of one of the Committee rooms of the new Houses of Parliament. We have here also, the portraits of several other historic names in education, that of Sir John Checke, the teacher of Queen Elizabeth, of Elmer, the teacher of Lady Jane Gray, and of John Sturm, the greatest educator of the sixteenth century. To Sturm, we owe the School Codes of Saxony, and Wirtemberg, the Academy of Geneva, and the most valuable suggestions of Ascham's "Schoolmaster."