University of California Register
By Editor
WE have received a copy of the Register of the University of California for 1885-86, which gives interesting information concerning that institution. There are in the Academic Senate fifty-eight members. Of assistants, demonstrators, and other officers not members of the Academic Senate, there are thirty-eight. There are at present 513 students in the University. In all, the University offers to students 161 courses in the various departments. The Lick Observatory will doubtless, under the direction of President Holden, who has a national reputation as an astronomer, be a valuable factor in the educational interests of the State. The 36-inch objective has at last been successfully cast, and will be finished during the year. Nearly two years will be required for mounting it. The great dome to cover the 36-inch refractor will be constructed of steel plates. The entire dome will be seventy-five feet in diameter, and will weigh about ninety-three tons.