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members of the Faculty as may be willing to undertake them, and, if ne- 

 cessary, to appoint one or more tutors. That such temporary arrangements 

 shall be in force for and during the present session only; or, for such 

 shorter peried as the Board of Trustees or this Committee shall hereafter 

 determine. 



Test : CHAS. MANLY, Sec'y. 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE FACULTY. 



Chapel Hill, July 17, 1857. 



At the first regular meeting of the Faculty of the Universit}", after a 

 solemn prayer to Almighty God, the following paper was unanimously 

 adopted. 



TVhereas, since the last meeting of the Faculty of the University, an 

 All-Wise God has been pleased^ by a dispensation the more distressing be- 

 cause unexpected, to take unto Himself the oldest member of our Body, 

 the Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and 

 Geology: — bowing in humble submission to this sad bereavement, We, 

 the Faculty of the University, desiring to bear our testimony to the worth 

 of our departed companion and friend, and endaringly to record our tri- 

 bute to his memory, have unanimously adopted the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That in the lamented death of our late associate we feel that 

 the Institution to which we belong has lost one of the most valuable ofii- 

 cers she ever possessed ; and that in the devotion of forty years to her 

 service his zeal never slackened, his diligence never relaxed, his faithful- 

 ness never slumbered ; but during all that long period, ripening constant- 

 ly in experience, he consecrated his best faculties and varied attainments to 

 the advancement of the usefulness and honor of the Institution of which 

 he was so distinguished an ornament 



Resolved, That we cannot but feel also the loss that Science has sustain- 

 <^d in the removal of our departed friend. Pursuing it in various depart- 

 ments and not unsuccessful in any that he attempted, the rich and varied 

 vStores of his well cultivated mind gave to him, deservedly, a celebrity that, 

 reaching beyond the limits of this his immediate sphere of action, secured 

 to his name and opinions a weight of authority that was felt and acknow- 

 ledged by the scientific throughout our land; and in the midst of our re- 

 grets it affords us a melancholy satisfaction to reflect that he met his death 

 in the cause of Science, and thus, in appropriate keeping with the duties 

 of his life has, in his death, added his name to the list of her honored 

 martyrs. 



