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State as the choice of the bar for that office. He did not, however, receive the appointment, a person of a different political faith being preferred. In 1887 the Regents of the University appointed him to deliver a course of forty lectures on the subject of real estate. This course was commenced in April, 1888; and at a meeting of the Board in June following, he was made Jay Professor of Law.

Jerome C. Knowlton, Assistant Professor of Law, was appointed as such in 1885. He was born in Michigan, Dec. 14, 1850, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1875 with the degree of A.B., and from the Law School in 1878 with the degree of LL.B., and immediately entered on the practice of the law at Ann Arbor. In 1888 he edited an American edition of Anson on Contracts, which is used as a text-book in this and other law schools. He has, in the main, had charge of the text-book work of the Department.

JEROME C KNOWLTON.

Henry B. Brown, LL.D., the lecturer on Admiralty, is the United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. He was born in Lee, Berkshire County, Mass., March 2, 1836. He graduated from the Academic Department of Yale College in 1856, and spent the year following his graduation travelling in Europe. On his return to this country he commenced the study of law. He spent one year in the Yale Law School, and then entered the Harvard Law School. In December, 1859, he came to Detroit, and in July, 1860, was admitted to the bar. In less than a year thereafter, he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney, and held that position until May, 1868. In July of that year he was appointed, by Governor Crapo, a circuit judge for the County of Wayne, and held the position until his successor was elected by popular vote. He soon afterwards entered into partnership with John I. Newbury and Ashley Pond, two prominent lawyers of Detroit, and continued with them in the practice of the profession until March, 1875, when he was appointed United States District Judge. Not long ago one of the Detroit papers contained an article relating to Judge Brown, from which the following is taken, as not being without interest:—

"He is a man whose face, head, figure, and gait denote the best of mental and physical strength, and seen a square away, protected by an English cape-coat or an ordinary American overcoat, the stranger would call the man about thirty years old. The judge is in reality about fifty years old; but a strong neck, head, and shoulders at work in producing a swinging yet rather jaunty step, which is accompanied by free and careless manipulation of a slight cane, produces an appearance of athletic youthfulness, quite in keeping with the man's health and strength. On the bench the judge is dignified, almost austere; but he is right. He has remarkable power as a judge in the readiness with which he sees and passes upon a point raised by an attorney practising before him. In this way he is an expeditious judge, saving much valuable time. While he is dignified, he is patient, careful,