The Overseers.

The board of overseers held a special meeting Wednesday, the Hon. Charles R. Codman in the chair. A committee consisting of Messrs. Green, Hoar, Lee, Lincoln and Peabody was appointed to present appropriate resolutions on the deaths of R. D. Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board. The report of the faculty on athletics was presented by President Eliot, and laid upon the table. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their appointments as follows:

Allen Danforth, A. M., deputy treasurer from the date when his resignation as a member of the board shall take effect: John C. Perkins, A. B., as proctor in Divinity Hall for 1888-89; Thomas M. Rotch, M. D., assistant professor of diseases of children; J. Mixter, M. D., demonstrator in anatomy; Chas. Gross, Ph. D., instructor in history; George H. Parker, S. B., in zoology; Thaddeus W. Harris, A. M., in geology; W. B. S. Clymer, A. B., in English; George Bendelair, A. B., in English history; Freeman Snow, Ph. D., in international law; G. W. Sawin, A. M., in mathematics; W. R. Thayer, A. B., in English; George P. Baker, A. B., in English; D. J. H. Ward, Ph. D., in philosophy; F. C. Huntington, A. B., in political economy; Robert Sanderson, in French; Theodore W. Fisher, M. D., on mental diseases.

The following re-appointments for the ensuing year were also confirmed: Edward Napoleon Kirby, instructor in elocution at the Divinity School; Samuel Holmes Durgin, M. D., lecturer on hygiene; Francis Augustine Harris, M. D., demonstrator of legal medical examinations; Herbert Leslie Burrell, M. D., demonstrator of bandaging and apparatus; Harold Clarence Ernst, M. D., demonstrator of terology; Otis Kimball Newall, M. D., assistant demonstrator of anatomy; Morris Hickey Morgan, Ph. D., instructor in Greek; Edward Lee Conant, A. B., instructor in forensics; John Joseph Hayes, instructor in elocution; Eugene Howard Babbett, A. B., instructor in German; Frederick Cesar Sumichrast, instructor in French; John Henry May, A. B., instructor in political economy; William Schofield, A. M., D. B., instructor in Roman law and in torts; John Eliot Wolff, A. B., instructor in petrography; John Carson Wait, C. E. S. M., instructor in surveying and drawing; Daniel Denison Slade, M. D., lecturer on comparative osteology; John Homans, M. D., instructor in the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian tumors; Francis Booth Greenough, M. D., instructor in syphilis; Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth, M. D., instructor in ophthalmoscopy; John Greenfied, M. D., instructor in otology; Abner Post, M. D., instructor in syphilis; Elbridge Gerry Cutler, M. D., instructor in auscultation; Arthur Tracy Cabot, M. D., instructor in genitourinary surgery; William Whitworth Gannet, instructor in auscultation; George Lincoln Walton, M. D., instructor in diseases of the nervous system; Henry Parker Quincy, instructor in histology; James Jackson Putnam, instructor in diseases of nervous system; Edward Hockling Bradford, instructor in surgery; Thomas Morgan Rotch, instructor in diseases of children; George Minot Garland, instructor in clinical medicine; Joseph Weatherhast Warren, instructor in physiology; William Whitworth Gannet, instructor in pathology; Charles Monteraville Green, instructor in obstetrics; Charles Harrington, instructor in hygiene.