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NECROLOGY. 



RALPH HENRY GRAVES, C. AND M. E. 



Prof, R. H. (iraves was born at Hillsboro, April 1, 185L He received his 

 collegiate training? at the University of Nortii Carolina and the University of 

 Virginia. lie was elected to a professorship in the former institution in 1875 

 at the age of twenty-four and was connected with it down to the date of his 

 early death. His specialty was mathematics, and he contributed many [lapers 

 on this subject to the mathematical journals. He was one of the founders of 

 the Mitchell Society, and, as its records show, was an active supporter and 

 friend, holding several of the more prominent offices in the Society's gift. He 

 died in Raleigh, N. C, at the early age of thirty-eight, July 10th, 1889. 



EUGENE L. MOREHEAD. 



Eugene L. Morehead, Esq., was born in 1845. He graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina in 1868. He was a Confederate soldier. Settling 

 in Durham he successfully followed the business of a banker and was very 

 helpful in the building up of that town. He died in the early spring of 1889. 



CHARLES PHILLIPS, D. D., LL. D. 



Dr. Charles Phillips was born at Chapel Hill in 1822. He graduated at 

 the University of North Carolina in 1841 and was tutor there from 1844 to 

 1854. In 1854 he was elected to the Professorship of Engineering, and in 

 1861 to that of Mathematics. He was a professor in Davidson College from 

 1869 to 1875, when he returned to the University. He was Professor Emeri- 

 tus of Mathematics at the time of his death. The study of his life was 

 mathematics, and he was widely known as a mathematician and a preacher of 

 the Gospel of Christ. The Journal of the Society shows many articles from 

 his pen, and he was one of its most loved and respected members. He died 

 May 10th, 1889, at the age of sixty-seven. 



BENONI THORP. 



Benoni Thorp was born June 9th, 1868, in Granville county, N. C. He 

 graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1888. Immediately after 

 his graduation he was elected Assistant Chemist in the State Experiment Sta- 

 tion. He contributed several papers to the Journal of the Society. He died 

 of typhoid fever in Raleigh, July 23d, 1889, when only twenty-one years 

 old. 



