Page 11

(11)
the Law department would not only be restored " to its former
respectability and usefulness, " but would increase and become
one of the most distinguished schools in the Union. That our
state possesses men with the necessary qualifications, in an em-
inent degree, there can be no doubt ; and the Trustees have ac-
cordingly determined to organize anew, the Law school, on this
principle, at the close of the present course of lectures.
Yours respectfully.
JOHN BRADFORD, Ch'm. T. T. U.

M.
To Thomas D. Carneal, Esq. Chairman of the Committee of the
Legislature.
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY, Nov. 10. 1824.
Sir ---- I feel gratified that you have invited a communication on
the subject of an edifice for the Medical department of Transyl-
vania University. It is a matter of the utmost interest, to all
who are concerned with that branch of the institution, as Trus-
tees, Professors, Pupils, and Parents, who have some to educate
for the practice of Medicine and Surgery.
The Medical Faculty consists of six Professors and one As-
sistant, and there have been provided, for the use of the depart-
ment, a competent number of books and anatomical prepara-
tions. What remains as a desideratum, is, a suitable edifice,
detached from other buildings, for greater security from fire,
and capacious enough to afford lecture rooms for all the profes-
sors, and appropriate apartments for the Library, Museum of
Anatomical preparations, specimens of diseased parts of the bo-
dy, specimens of Minerals, specimens of Medicinal Plants and
Plants useful in the Arts, specimens of Medicines and the raw
materials out of which they are manufactured, chemical Appa-
ratus, and models of Surgical instruments and Apparel.
These various articles are scarcely less necessary to the popu-
larity, and perhaps more necessary to the perpetuity of the
school, than able Professors. To answer the ends for which
they are designed, it is indispensable, however, that they should
be collected and systematically arranged in one building ; and
that this should be the same in which the lectures are delivered.
Without this connexion, they could neither be employed by Pro-
fessors nor Pupils, in a way to render them of much utility. It
is necessary to bring them before the classes, in the respective
lecture rooms, which could not be done, unless they were be-
neath the same roof.
At the present time, one of the Professors meets his class in
a house of his own, and the remainder rent a building, which
affords them, with the Library and Anatomical and Mineralo-
gical cabincts, very imperfect accommodations, which are pecu-