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had received it from a resident of the region of country where the painful 

 casualty occurred, and then the resohitions were unanimously adopted. 



On motion of Julius Gorrell, Esq., the newspapers of the town were re- 

 quested to publish the proceedings of the meeting, and then, on motion, it 



was adjourned. 



JAMES T. MOREIIEAD, Chairman. 



Charles H. Shober, Secretary. 



MEETING AT WILMINGTOJSr. 



From the Wilmington Herald, August 5. 



AccoRDiXG to previous notice, a meeting of the Trustees, former Students, 

 and Alumni of the University of North Carolina was held in the Court 

 House in the town of Wilmington on the 29th of July, 1857. 



On motion Dr. Thomas H. Wright was called to the chair, and John D. 

 Taylor requested to act as Secretary. 



The object of the meeting was explained in a few feeling and appropri- 

 ate remarks by George Davis, Esq., who also moved the appointment of 

 three to draw up suitable resolutions expressive of the sense of the meet- 

 ing. Whereupon George Davis, Esq., Rev. Dr. C. F. Deems and Eli W. 

 Hall, Esq., were appointed by the Chair. 



The Committee through their chairman, Dr. Deems, submitted the fol- 

 lowing resolutions which were unanimously adopted. 



AVhereas, the whole State of North Carolina has recently been called 

 to mourn the sudden and violent close of the life of Rev. Elisha Mitchell, 

 D. D., Senior Professor in the University, and whereas no other section of 

 the State can furnish a larger proportionate number of those who have 

 enjoyed the acquaintance of the eminent deceased, therefore 



Resolved, That the Trustees and former Students and Alumni of the 

 University of North Carolina, and the friends of science and of the late 

 Prof. Mitchell, assembled in Wilmington, do sincerely sympathise with the 

 general grief which his death has spread over the country ; that his great 

 abilities, vast acquirements, and indomitable industry, while they combin- 

 ed to present in him a model to the young men of the land, did much to- 

 wards the elevation of the University of our State to that lofty position 

 which it maintains among the very first institutions of learning in Ameri- 

 ca ; that his contributions to general science have given him a respectable 

 place among the most learned, and his special devotion to the development 

 (if all the physical resources of North Carolina has laid the State under 

 obligations which the gratitude of many a generation will scarcely avail 

 to cancel. 



