76 MERCER UNIVERSITY. 



N. H. Wood, A, M., Adjunct Professor of Mathematics; 

 appointed in 1848. 



The Rev. WiUiam T. Brantley, A. M., Professor of Belles 

 Lettres, Oratory, and History; appointed in 1848. 



M. C. Fulton, A. M., Tutor in Ancient Languages ; ap- 

 pointed in 1847. 



The University is now in a state of great prosperity. The 

 number of students, according to the last catalogue, was one 

 hundred and forty. 



The resources of the University are 100,000 dollars in stock 

 of the Bank of the State of Georgia, and about 1500 dollars in 

 other stocks, together with the proceeds of the tuition of stu- 

 dents, and a small amount of town lots. The buildings are : 

 Two three-story, 120 by 45 feet, for lodging rooms for students ; 

 a philosophical hall and chemical laboratory, a chapel, a libra- 

 ry and cabinet, president's house, and three houses for the pro- 

 fessors. The library contains between eight and nine thou- 

 sand volumes. The philosophical apparatus is one of the 

 most extensive and complete in the country ; the chemical 

 laboratory is ample ; the cabinet- of minerals large, and the 

 botanic garden in good order. 



The College has forty-four acres of ground on which the 

 buildings are erected, and which is set apart by the Legisla- 

 ture of the State for that purpose, and can never be diminished. 



Connected with the College are two societies. Each has 

 a very neat and convenient hall, erected at the expense of the 

 society, and costing about 4000 dollars each. The library of 

 each of these associations contains between two and three 

 thousand volumes. 



MERCER UNIVERSITY. 



This University is situated in Penfield, Greene county. 

 In the year 1829, Mr. Josiah Penfield, of Savannah, bequeathed 

 to the Baptist Convention of Georgia $2500, to aid in the edu- 

 cation of poor young men preparing for the ministry. Other 



