essor of Zooelogy in 1879, and retained the
chair until 1894, when he was succeeded by Jacob E. Reighard, '82.
William Henry Pettee, Harvard, '61, assumed the work in mineralogy in
1875 under the title of Professor of Mining Engineering. In addition to
his work in his own subject, he served from 1881 to 1904 as editor of
the University Calendar and advisory editor of other University
publications. Edward Henry Kraus, Syracuse, '96, who occupies the chair
of Mineralogy at present, first came to the University in 1904 and
succeeded to the chair in 1908. When Professor Winchell returned to the
University after his term as Chancellor of the University of Syracuse,
he became Professor of Geology and held that position until his death in
1891, when he was succeeded by Israel Cook Russell, New York University,
'69. Upon Professor Russell's death in 1906, William Herbert Hobbs,
Worcester Polytechnic, '83, was called to the chair from the University
of Wisconsin.

Though courses in economics were given in the University almost from the
first and; in fact, with International Law, formed the special field of
work assumed by Dr. Angell for some years, the Department of Political
Economy as such was not organized until after Henry C. Adams, Iowa
College, '74, who came to the University as a lecturer in 1881, accepted
the chair of Political Economy in 1887. The first step toward a chair in
Sociology came with the appointment in 1899 of Charles Horton Cooley,
'87, a son of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of the first Law Faculty, as
Assistant Professor of Sociology, from which position he rose to a full
professorship in eight years. A separate chair of Political Science was
not created until 1910, when Jesse Siddall Reeves, Amherst, '91, came as
the head of the new department. The Department of Music had its first
beginning with the appointment of Calvin Brainerd Cady, Oberlin, '74, as
instructor in 1880. He became Acting Professor of Music in 1885, but
resigned three years later when Albert A. Stanley, Leipzig, '75, came as
the head of the Department and a few years later Director of the
University School of Music, now closely associated with the work of the
University though not in any way a part of it. After the disappearance
from the Faculty roll of the name of the Detroit portrait painter, Alvah
Bradish, who apparently gave a few lectures on Fine Arts during the
period from 1852 to 1863, no work in fine arts was given until the
appointme