Henry Philip Tappan, an American clergyman, born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., April 23, 1805. He graduated at Union college in 1825, studied at the Auburn theological seminary, was for a year assistant pastor of the Reformed Dutch church in Schenectady, and in 1828 was settled as pastor of a Congregational church at Pitts-field, Mass. In 1832 he was appointed professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in the university of the city of New York. In 1838 the faculty resigned, and for some years he conducted a private seminary. In 1852 he was elected president of the university of Michigan, which post he held till 1863, since which time he has resided chiefly in Europe. His principal works are: "Review of Edwards's Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will" (12mo, New York, 1839); "The Doctrine of the Will determined by an Appeal to Consciousness " (1840); "The Doctrine of the Will applied to-Moral Agency and Responsibility" (1841); "Elements of Logic, together with an introductory Review of Philosophy in general, and a preliminary View of the Reason" (12mo, 1844; revised and enlarged ed., 1856); " Treatise on University Education" (1851); and "A Step from the New World to the Old " (2 vols. 12mo, 1852). His three works on the will were republished in Glasgow (1 vol., 1857).