APPENDIX,
No. XXXIII.

Members

of the Corporation,

&c.

No. XXXIII.-See pp. 300, 335.

MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION DURING THE PRESIDENCY
OF DR. KIRKLAND.

As a part of the class of persons here alluded to, it may be well to enumerate the members of the Corporation during Dr. Kirkland's administration, and to state their period of service.

Subscribers to a Professorship of Mineralo

gy, &c.

No. XXXIV.. See p. 309.

SUBSCRIBERS TO A PROFESSORSHIP OF MINERALOGY AND
GEOLOGY, IN 1820.

The following sums were paid annually, for three years, during the continuance of Mr. Cogswell in this professorship, according to

the terms of the original subscription.

Edmund Dwight,

Samuel Eliot,

$ 50
50

FOUNDERS AND BENEFACTORS OF THE THEOLOGICAL
SCHOOL IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

and Bene

factors of

the Theo

A complete list of the founders and benefactors of the Theolog- Founders ical School cannot, at this day, be obtained. The Records are incomplete; many subscription papers have been lost or destroyed; those of 1815, by fire. The best information research has been able to gain, will be given.

The circular, mentioned in the text,* was issued in December, 1815. The object proposed to "the liberal and the pious" was, "to provide funds for assisting meritorious Students in Divinity with limited means, to reside at the University for a requisite time; and, as the best method to the attainment of this object, to form a society for the education of candidates for the ministry, in Cambridge University, to be constituted of subscribers. Persons subscribing one hundred dollars, and clergymen subscribing two dollars, to be members for life; those subscribing five dollars a year, to continue members so long as they pay this annual sum." The following letter is the only document now to be found, illustrative of the means and agents by which this subscription was effected. The three persons whose names are subscribed to it, by their talents, their virtues, and public spirit, are well entitled to be regarded as having a leading influence in effecting the subscription.

"Rev. John T. Kirkland, President of Harvard University.

"Sir,

"The trust with which we are honored by the Government of the University having been fully executed within the limits of the New South Society, we have now the pleasure of enclosing the original subscriptions, amounting in donations to four thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars, and in annual contributions, to seventy-seven dollars. Should this result be viewed with any degree of

logical School.

No. XXXV.

APPENDIX, complacency, its favorable aspect is to be attributed, in a good measure, to the active services of Mr. John Howe and Mr. Isaac P. Davis, whose assistance has been rendered in a manner worthy the noble object they proposed to serve.

Founders and Bene

factors of the Theological

School.

"With fervent wishes for the best good of the University, and with sentiments of the greatest personal respect,

The subscribers met at the Boston Athenæum, July 17th, 1816, and chose the Rev. President Kirkland moderator of the meeting, and the Rev. Charles Lowell scribe; and the moderator, at the request of the assembly, having opened the meeting with prayer, "A Society for the Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University" was formed, and a Constitution and Rules for its government were adopted, of which the following article was a fundamental one; "It being understood, that every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiassed investigation of Christian truth; and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required either of the students, or professors, or instructors." The following list of the officers and subscribers, at that period, is the best record now attainable of the founders of the Theological School.

* Where the place of residence is not expressed, the subscribers belong to