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of Professor Lindsley, he was elected Professor of Chemistry, 

 Geology, and Mineralogy, in the University of Nashville. 



In the year 1831, he was appointed Geologist of the State of 

 Tennessee, which office he filled until it was abolished in the year 

 1849. 



The death of Dr. Troost occurred in his 75th year, on the 14th 

 of August, 1850. He left a reputation for learning, zeal, and 

 amiability, with which his relatives and friends may well be satis- 

 fied ; and it must be a gratification to know that the first Presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Natural Sciences was worthy of the sincere 

 respect of every member of an institution which he participated 

 in founding. 



A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University 

 of Nashville was held, August 15, 1850, and adopted the follow- 

 ing resolutions: 



Resolved, That by the death of the venerable, learned, and 

 accomplished PROFESSOR TROOST, the University has been de- 

 prived of one of its most useful and exemplary instructors the 

 Country of one of its most gifted citizens and Science of one of 

 its most faithful votaries. 



Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the family of the 

 deceased, and tender to the mourning widow and children the 

 assurance of our heartfelt sense of their irreparable bereavement. 



Resolved^ That as a token of respect, we wear the usual badge 

 of mourning for thirty days, and that we attend the funeral of the 



Resolved^ That these proceedings be published, and that a copy 

 thereof be communicated by the Secretary to Mrs. Troost. 



PHILIP LINDSLEY, 

 President of the University, and of the Board of Trustees. 



For a portrait of Dr. Troost, the Academy is indebted to the 

 liberality of Thomas E. Yeatman, Esq., of St. Louis, Missouri. 



The success of the Institution is so largely indebted to the gene- 

 rosity of its second President, Wm. Maclure, that it might be 

 neglect to pass him unnoticed in thi place. 



Mr. Maclure was born in Scotland, in the year 1763, and died 

 in Mexico, in March, 1840. He first visited the United States 

 about the year 1782, and soon afterwards commenced a successful 

 career of commercial enterprise in London. He again visited 

 America in the year 1796, but returned to England in 1803, as 



