modern plan of romanesque design, the same which has been adopted by the most eminent American architects in their best designs for collegiate and public buildings. The leading features of the exterior are the massive round arches, projecting pilasters, and circular buttresses terminating the principal angles. There is also an arcade of small windows which form an effective finish for the circular wings and main front. The building is elevated upon a basement 12 feet high, which is made up of colossal piers and arched constructions, and the foundations consist of heavy isolated pieces. This is a plan adopted by the architect, Mr. Clayton, in the construction of some of the largest buildings in Galveston, and it is a plan that has been approved by leading architects in Chicago and other localities where the surface foundations are of similar character. The basement is used for a boiler room, cauldron, and tank for keeping cadavers. These are carried by a dumb-waiter to the dissecting room on the third floor. An elevator connects the basement with the other floors. The main interior staircase also leads down to the basement, which is tiled in the principal part and paved in the others. Under the main entrance porch there is a porte-cochère for carriages and other vehicles.

A spacious flight of steps leading to an ornate portico gives direct entrance into the main or first floor of the building. Opposite the principal entrance and through a broad corridor extends the grand staircase, giving access to the other floors. Across the hallway is another large corridor running east and west through the building which opens into a lecture room for chemistry. This is in the circular wing in the west flank of the building, and is connected with spacious compartments for use as a chemical laboratory. The divisions on this floor consist of offices for the dean, provost, and professors. The second floor contains the two principal lecture rooms; one in the west flank for physiology and materia medica and the other in the east flank for anatomy. They are built in amphitheater form and have a dimension of 56 feet in width and 48 feet in length, the projectures from the main building being 36 feet in height. The estimated seating capacity for each is 300. Light and ventilation are furnished by an arcade of windows above the seats. The ceilings of the lecture rooms are curved with a view to securing proper acoustic properties. The amphitheater form of these lecture rooms produces an effect upon the external design of the building which is both striking and pleasing as well as novel and attractive. The vacant spaces underneath the seats are used for the models in physiology and for a museum of anatomy. This story also contains the private rooms of the professors of chemistry, physiology, anatomy, surgery, obstetrics, and pathology, as well as the experimental rooms in photography, microscopy, and bacteriology. The third or top floor contains the general dissecting room, which is 36 by 83 feet and is 24 feet high. It has a curved ceiling and

its longest front faces south, giving abundant light. There are 26 dissecting tables in this apartment, and the dean's lecture room and assistants' rooms adjoin.

At the east and the west end of the dissecting room are lavatories and wardrobes for the especial use of the professors and students. The upper portion of the amphitheater of the lecture room can be entered on this floor, as well as from the story below. The central façade of the main building is surmounted by an improved pavilion roof, which adds greatly to the architectural beauty. Pressed brick has been used in the construction, large quantities having been laid in a zigzag course, producing an artistic effect. The roof is slated in stones of blue and green, and artificial red sandstone has been used for columns, sill courses, hoods of arches, and other decorations. Polished columns of red Texas granite adorn the entrance, and encaustic tiles are placed on the front porticoes. The interior is finished off in native woods, principal among which the Texas pine and cypress predominate.

THE SEALY HOSPITAL.

The John Sealy Hospital, connected with the college, is a large, substantial, and costly, but old-time establishment, which is being finely improved and modernized in its advantages by means furnished by the heirs of Mr. John Sealy, the founder of the hospital, who died many years ago and left it with discretionary power in the executors of his estate to devote it to charitable purposes. It was accordingly transferred as "the gift of John Sealy to the city of Galveston, for the benefit of humanity and science,” as inscribed on the building, and subsequently the city, with the approval of the change by the Sealy executors, transferred it to the State for the university, the city reserving certain representation in its management and benefits under a lease from the university regents, and "the State, through the regents, reserving the right at any and all times to enter upon the premises and to alter or improve them at the State's expense, the better to make the hospital subserve the purposes of a medical college hospital to the medical department of the State University, provided that in so doing the use of the premises by the city for the purposes declared in the lease shall not be materially interrupted or impaired.”

The donation from the Sealy estate to the city of Galveston was on condition that the city would donate the south half of the city hospital block for a site and agree to conduct a hospital thereon. The city, after formally accepting the donation, and with the assent of the Sealy executors, offered the State the Sealy Hospital, and the old hospital buildings therewith, upon condition that the legislature would agree to appropriate the sum of $50,000 toward the erection of the medical department building of the university in Galveston. The legislature accepted the proposal and made the appropriation as asked.

At the next meeting of the legislature Galveston offered to donate $25,000 upon condition that the State would appropriate a like sum for the college. This proposal was accepted, and the State purchased the block of ground required for the college site, the city's contribution being applied toward completing the medical college building. The furnishing and equipping of the hospital was done by the city of Galveston, and contributions were made by citizens of Galveston of some $6,000 to $7,000 for the equipment of "The Texas Medical College and Hospital," which was the title of the medical school then being conducted in Galveston.

As shown, the amalgamation of the Sealy Hospital with the medical department of the State University results indirectly from the provision in the will of Mr. John Sealy, of Galveston, who bequeathed the sum of $25,000 for "charitable purposes," to be applied in the discretion of his executors, followed by further action of Mr. George Sealy, as executor, and Mrs. John Sealy, as executrix and principal legatee, in extending the provisions of the will by further grants, altogether aggregating about $75,000, from the estate.

The hospital was leased by the university regents to the city of Galveston (now about ten years ago) for twenty-five years, at the nominal rent of $1 per annum, the property to be used exclusively for hospital purposes and to be known as the John Sealy Hospital, and the city to provide for equipping and maintaining it as a first-class hospital during the term of twenty-five years, free of cost and expense to the State of Texas, and "the city to furnish all the facilities that the hospital may afford for the legitimate clinical and other teaching of the students attending the medical department of the university, and also to place at the disposal of the faculty of the medical department, as far as may be required by the faculty, for dissecting, pathological, and other purposes of instruction, the dead bodies of all charity patients who may die in the hospital and of which the city may have the right of disposal."

FIRST UNIVERSITY FACULTY.

The members of the first faculty of the university were Profs. J. W. Mallet, William Leroy Broun, Leslie Waggener, M. W. Humphreys, and R. L. Dabney, of the academic department, and O. M. Roberts and R. S. Gould, of the law department. The following statement shows their professional record up to the time they were appointed to their respective chairs in the University of Texas:

Prof. J. W. Mallet, A. M., M. D., LL. D., Ph. D., F. R. S., school of chemistry, and in charge of school of physics. Professor Mallet was born in England, but became a citizen of this country years before the late war. During the war he held the rank of colonel in the Southern army. At one time he was chemist to the State Geological Seminary of Alabama. Subsequently he was professor of chemistry in the University of Alabama and in the medical department of the University of Louisiana. For the past fifteen years he has filled the chair of chemistry in the University