THE LIBRARY OF 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 BY PROF. FISK P. BREWER^ «M 
 
 The Library of the University has been, and perhaps still is, the 
 largest in the State of North Carolina. The present Librarian on as- 
 suming his duties found no sketch of its history. The following sum- 
 mary of the principal facts that he has been able to learn, is published 
 for the gratification of those interested and in the hope of collecting 
 further materials. If he has fallen into any errors, he will be thankful 
 for their correction. 
 
 FOUNDING OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 The University though chartered in 1789 and located in 1792, was 
 opened to the public and received its first students in 1795. The 
 charter speaks of the Library as if it were to be an essential part of 
 the Institution : and with the gathering of the first classes the Library 
 was begun. Gen. W. R. Davie, afterward Governor, gave to it four- 
 teen volumes in 1795, and subsequently added twenty-five more. — 
 There is one volume indeed which was given before the Library or 
 even the University had any being. It is a stout folio of Bishop Wil- 
 son's Works, one of a number presented to Congress by his son, and 
 then distributed through its members to institutions of learning in the 
 several States. The fly-leaf contains the resolution of Congress, March 
 22, 1785, and underneath the following record : '"In pursuance of the 
 above resolution the undersigned, delegates from the State of North 
 Carolina, have agreed to transmit the works of Doctor Thomas Wilson 
 to Newberne to be deposited there in the Library belonging to the 
 public Academy, till the time arrives, which they hope is not far dis- 
 tant, when the Wisdom of the Legislature according to the express 
 intention of the Constitution shall have caused a College or University 
 to be erected in the State. Hu. Williamson, 
 
 Jno. Sitgreaves." 
 
 early donors. 
 
 Among the other early donors Richard Bennehan, Esq., of Orange 
 county gave 28 volumes and Joseph Blount Hill an Encyclopaedia in 
 18 volumes. In 1816 Rev. James Hall, D. D., of Iredell, gave 49 vol- 
 umes, a third of them printed before 1700, and all of them very inter- 
 esting for their contents or history. About a hundred volumes were 
 received from the Library of Joseph Gautier, of Elizabethtown, mostly 
 French books of devotion and Protestant theology. Only ten of these 
 are marked as gifts, and it does not appeer how the rest came into 
 the Library. About seventy-five other volumes besides Congressional 
 documents were donated before Dr. Caldwell's visit to Europe in 1824. 
 
 LIBRARY TAX. 
 
 The authorities of the University, appreciating the importance of 
 fostering the Library, took early measures to provide an income for 
 it. A law in 1803 declares "Every student on the establishment shall 
 be considered as using the books of the public library under the limi- 
 tations and restrictions already established, and for this privilege 
 each and every of them shall pay to the Librarian in manner al- 
 ready provided." What that earlier provision was, does not appear, 
 but in the rates ordered to be published Dec. 6, 1806, the Library 
 charge was fifty cents a session. The revised laws of 1813 raised the 
 charge to "one dollar for the session in advance," and required the 
 Librarian to "account to the treasurer of the board for the monies he 
 has received as librarian." Pres. Chapman reports (Nov. 1814) "that 
 
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 Bince the Library money has been placed at our disposal for the bene- 
 fit of the Library of the University, $205.25 have been received. There 
 is on file a catalogue of 174 books bought by the Faculty, probablv 
 With this fund, 29 in the year 1814, 102 in 1815, and 43 in 1816. In 
 Dec. 1824, the Librarian (probably Joseph H. Saunders, the Senior 
 Tutor,) reports 43 volumes and 64 numbers of Journals purchased at 
 a cost of $350.25 since "his account rendered to Committee of Ap- 
 pointment in February last," This was while the President was in 
 Europe purchasing books and nearly the whole amount was advanced 
 by the Librarian, the amount received from the students being only 
 $155, which was little more than the deficit of the previous report. — 
 There is no later record of the purchase of books by the Faculty, and 
 it is probable that the library charge was at this time abolished. It 
 is not referred to in the laws of 1838, neither do the students' bills of 
 1830 contain it, 
 
 PROPOSITION TO ENLARGE THE LIBRARY. 
 
 A report of the Faculty to the Trustees (Dec. 1822) appeals earn- 
 estly through six pages for the improvement of the apparatus and the 
 Library, closing thus : "Could the board find it consistent with the 
 present prospects of the treasury, or with any provision which may 
 be made, to direct that apparatus shall be procured to the amount of 
 five or even of one thousand dollars for the ensuing year, and library 
 equivalent to the one or the other of these sums, it is thought that 
 the interests of the Institution will be promoted more efficiently than 
 by any other means at its present stage of advancement." No allu- 
 sion is made in the report to the annual revenue from the Library 
 tax. Information on that subject seems to have been called for after- 
 wards by the Trustees, as appears from a notable Letter op Dr. 
 Caldwell on the Library, Feb. 19, 1824. He says, "Since the notice 
 given by Mr. Manly I have had the Library examined, and have found 
 that the books are all present, agreeably to the account herewith trans- 
 mitted. The Record in the hands of the Treasurer, will show the 
 number of the students for every session. These accounts therefore as 
 now presented by the Faculty, are completely subject to control on 
 the part of the Board ; and we would invite the attention of a Com- 
 mittee, or of the Board itself to the state of the Library, at such time 
 as may be convenient or eligible. I would suggest that a visit to the 
 Library may be directed and made for inspecting its condition, and 
 its correspondence with the accounts herewith rendered, during the 
 annual examination in June. It had not occurred to the Faculty, 
 though there is no proper reason why it should not have been done, 
 to exhibit to the Board, our proceedings in the application of these 
 funds. I shall be particular so to do it at all times hereafter, for the 
 reasonable satisfaction of the Board at its annual sessions. It was a 
 valuable privilege granted to the Faculty, and an important provision 
 for the College, when the ordinance was passed appropriating the li- 
 brary money for the purchase of books. Without some such fund, I 
 know not how we should have been able to get along as a body of 
 Teachers. It has enabled us to procure some books from year to year, 
 without which wc must have continued grossly ignorant. We must 
 have become completely stationary within limits, which if known to 
 others would have been disgraceful. It is perhaps hardly considered 
 with sufficient advertency that a professor in a College who is without 
 books in tolerable supply, is analogous to the creation of nobility 
 which for want of estate is obliged to live in rags.* What should we 
 
 ♦Please excuse the reference. Small things may be compared with 
 great for illustration. 
 
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 think of a lawyer or a judge who was told to go into the practice or 
 the decisions of the courts, and to prosecute his profession with emi- 
 nence and extensive success, while he was destitute of library, and 
 unable to determine what were the laws or the decisions of authori- 
 ties ? What is to be understood by a standing professorship in a col- 
 lege, if it be not, that he who occupies it, is to employ his whole time 
 and his utmost diligence in the extension of his knowledge by the 
 examination and study of the multitude of authors who have written 
 on the! subjects upon which it is his business to teach and deliver lec- 
 tures. ' It has been well said upon a late occasion in regard to impost 
 upon books imported into our country, enforced by a law of Congress, 
 that library constitutes a main part of the stock in hand to a man en- 
 gaged in literature. It is almost proverbial to say of men whose bus- 
 iness is literature, that they are a class who are apt to be found get- 
 ting along with difficulty, ever cramped by the restrictions of necessity. 
 "What should we think of laying impost upon a shoemaker's awls and 
 lasts, or a carpenter's planes and chisels, if there were no possibility 
 of obtaining these instruments but by sending to Europe ? And how 
 could a printer commence and go on to execute in the handsomest 
 style, and with the most extensive methods of his business in one of 
 our cities, if he was turned into a building, and told to go to work 
 with one or two fonts of types, and those perhaps half-worn ? Ob- 
 liged to make out his ink as well as he could, and to patch up his 
 presses by his own ingenuity ? It were easy to enlarge in these illus- 
 trations of the circumstances in which the Faculty here have been 
 compelled to proceed in their business with few books and no appa- 
 ratus. We have however been greatly relieved by the resource fur- 
 nished in the library money, with which we have had it in our power 
 to furnish some supplies of that species of food on which as instruct- 
 ors we are called upon to subsist and grow." 
 
 dr. caldwell's offer. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell proceeded to show that a large percentage would be 
 saved by expending a considerable sum at once, say $0,000, which 
 would be important enough to justify sending an agent to Europe on 
 the business. He offered to go himself, if the Trustees consented to 
 make the appropriation, declaring generously "My idea has been to 
 answer the bill for all my personal movements on the business from 
 my own resources." His expectation that the Library would continue 
 to be fostered, is indicated in this suggestion, "By taking pains to 
 contract personal acquaintance in the places visited for the transac- 
 tion of business, any future expenditures for the University in books 
 and apparatus, might be conducted without the necessity of an ex- 
 pensive or unsafe agency." 
 
 dr. caldwell's purchase. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell's offer was accepted, and lie went to Europe the same 
 year with six thousand dollars to expend for books and apparatus. — 
 He exceeded this sum a little in his outlay, paying $3,234.74, besides 
 freight, for 979 books. Most of these had come to hand and had been 
 placed in the Library by Dec. 14, 1825. He also brought over as do- 
 nations Thuanus in six volumes folio from a bookseller, and 54 vol- 
 umer from a Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. — 
 Though no catalogue of the purchases is on hand, yet no doubt among 
 them were a series of Latin (Delphin edition) and Greek classics in 
 uniform bindings; a number of the original editions of early treatises 
 on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, as those of Galileo, Tycho 
 Brahe and Kepler ; and early editions of Euclid in Greek, Latin, Ara- 
 bic, French and Engl ish, in which the composition of his own geome- 
 try may have given Dr. Caldwell special interest. 
 
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 FURTHER PURCHASES PROPOSED. 
 
 At the close of his report for 1829 (?) the President transcribes the 
 following representation "from the Professor of Chemistry for the 
 consideration of the Board." "An annual appropriation of two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars for the enlargement of the college library was 
 made in the summer of 1827, but no books have been purchased since 
 that time though they have been greatly wanted. The reason why no 
 funds have been appropriated specifically to this object is well known 
 to all concerned, and is doubtless a good one. At the present time it 
 is exceedingly desirable, to obtain the consent of the Board to the 
 purchase of the following books probably amounting to such a sum 
 as two hundred and fifty dollars." Here follows a list of fifteen vol- 
 umes chiefly belonging to the Professor's department. His applica- 
 tion seems to have been futile. 
 
 GIFT OP THE ENGLISH RECORDS. 
 
 It was possibly as a sequel to Dr. CaldwelPs visit in England that 
 the Kecord Commission some years afterwards, 1833 — 41, donated 
 their publications, 83 folios and 24 octavoes. Many of them contain 
 on a printed leaflet the words "Record Commission, 12th March 1831. 
 This book is to be perpetually preserved in the Library of the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina." There are also twelve books and many pam- 
 phlets written or edited by the Secretary of the Commission, Charles 
 Purton Cooper, which probably accompanied this grand donation. 
 
 PRO. MITCHELL ON THE LIBRARY. 
 
 After the death of Dr. Caldwell and the accession of Gov. Swain, 
 Prof. E. Mitchell went North to examine a collection of minerals 
 which had been offered for sale to the University. On his return, 
 Sept. 183G, after having visited Yale and Amherst, the Episcopal Col- 
 lege at Hartford and the Wesleyan University at Middletown, he com- 
 ments on the condition of our University in the following terms : "The 
 one particular in which our inferiority is most glaring and palpable 
 is the want of what has of late been called the "material of science 
 and literature — Books, Philosophical Apparatus, Cabinets of Miner- 
 als, Rocks and Shells. Nothing about the University of N. C. will 
 strike an intelligent stranger who has been making public schools an 
 object of attention as so little creditable to us as this part of our es- 
 tablishment. With reference to putting it into a good condition 
 disbursements for almost any other object may well be avoided." 
 Then after speaking of needed apparatus, Dr. Mitchell adds : "We have 
 a professorship of Modem Languages and with the exception of a 
 broken copy of Voltaire's works and some old books of controversy 
 between the Catholics and Protestants presented many years ago by 
 Gautier of Elizabeth in Bladen, have hardly a French work — in Ital- 
 ian, Spanish and Portuguese we have — nothing. Books are continual- 
 ly published in the different departments of science and learning 
 which the Professors must have — without which the Library of the 
 University cannot be respectable and which therefore it seems proper 
 that the Trustees should purchase." He thinks that curtailments 
 should "be made in any direction for the purpose of securing 8 or 10 
 thousand dollars to devoted to the purchase of Apparatus, Library 
 and Cabinets of Minerals and Shells." 
 
 CONDJTON OF THE LIBRARY, 1836. 
 
 W. H. Owen, the Librarian, reports, Dec. 15, 1836, about 1900 books 
 in the Library, of which he had prepared a catalogue not now pre- 
 served. Some additions were understood to be in contemplation by 
 the Trustees. The books were kept in the Junior recitation room in 
 Old South, second story, south side. He says : "From a thorough ex- 
 amination of the Library it appears that shortly after the college 
 
went into operation and for a considerable time thereafter much pride 
 was taken by gentlemen in different parts of the State in making val- 
 uable donations of Books to it, but for many years past this spirit of 
 individual munificence has entirely ceased; and as no available ap- 
 propriation has recently been made by your body, the Library has in- 
 creased but very little sinCe the addition made to it by the purchases 
 of Dr. Caldwell in Europe. After the Resolution of your Body was 
 passed empowering the Faculty to appoint some one of their number 
 Reciever of College dues and allowing a certain sum for his compen- 
 sation, the Professors agreed to discharge the duty alternately and to 
 receive only one half of the sum allowed as a compensation and to 
 expend the other half in the purchase of Books; but since the ap- 
 pointment of Prof. Mitchell as Bursar, of course this source of en- 
 largement ceases." 
 
 A NEW LIBRARY BUILDING. 
 
 A long blank now occurs in the history and development of the 
 Library. In 1850 a new building was erected for its accommodation 
 of which Hon. B. F. Moore, Chairman of a Select Committee of the 
 Trustees, thus speaks at the annual meeting. "The Library now in 
 the process of construction, will be one of the largest and altogether 
 the handsomest of our edifices. The cost of it will altogether absorb 
 all of our available means during the present year. How are we to 
 obtain the books so much needed to supply the shelves of this capa- 
 cious edifice ? Not a volume has been purchased by the Trustees 
 during the last quarter of a century. No stranger is ever invited to 
 examine our present collection. The Professors have, in some instan- 
 ces, supplied the means of instruction in their own departments, by 
 most inconvenient draughts upon private resources. It would require 
 a princely revenue, however, to command the important publications 
 constantly multiplying in every department of science and literature." 
 The handsome building was finished, but the books were soon moved 
 to the third story of the Old East, where they remained till the au- 
 tumn of 1869. 
 
 PKOF. MITCHEL'S LIBRARY. 
 
 In the year 1859 the books of Prof. Mitchell, who had died the year 
 before, were offered for sale. The University purchased a large num- 
 ber, l,897,(as a manuscript list seems to show. It includes books of a 
 wide range, history and theology, classics and literature, as well as 
 natural and physical sciences. This is believed to have been the only 
 purchase of books by the Trustees since 1824. 
 
 OTHER ADDITIONS SINCE 1824. 
 
 Within the past forty-five years a few gifts have been made by indi- 
 viduals, less than 60 volumes before March 1869 and about 300 since. 
 Furthermore the Library has been enlarged by the deposit of some 
 disused college text books ; the Smithsonian Institution has given its 
 scientific jmblications, 25 in number; the State has given 218 volumes 
 of her laws, legislative records and law-reports; and the United 
 States has given a constant stream of Congressional and Executive 
 documents, including Coast Survey, Observatory, &c, full fifteen hun- 
 dred in all. The total number of volumes now belonging to the Li- 
 brary is not far from seven thousand. 
 
 LIBRARIANS. 
 
 The Librarian of the University according to the laws of 1813 was 
 "to be appointed by the faculty every half year." The revised codes 
 of 1838 and 1851 alike provided that u The Senior Tutor shall be Li- 
 brarian." The revision of 1859 makes no mention of the method of 
 appointment which has since then been in the hands of the Trustees 
 or the Faculty. Joseph H. Saunders was Librarian in 1824 : Prof. W. 
 
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 II. 0»f on from Dec. 1836-'43; Prof. Ashbel G. Brown, 1844- , 50 ; Prof. 
 F. M. Hubbard and Pres. Swain, 1867^98 ; Prof. F. P. Brewer, 1869-70. 
 Prof. Hubbard's name appears only in the three catalogues from 1866 
 to 1868, daring most of which time the duties were performed by the 
 President. 
 
 TESTIMONY OF LIBRARIANS. 
 
 The present Librarian acknowledges the courtesies of Prof. Owen 
 and Prof. Hubbard, as well as of Prof. William Hooper, in aiding his 
 investigations. The latter in reply to an inquiry for the names of Li- 
 brarians before 1836, says, "The Library was so poor an affair for a 
 State University that a Librarian was hardly necessary." Prof. Hub- 
 bard writes, "The College Library was never open to the Students ; 
 on two occasions only, as I remember, consulted by persons from 
 abroad; and almost never — except as told above [used by Governor 
 Swain and the Librarian] — used by members of the Faculty." 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 From this historical survey it aj^pears that the founders and first 
 managers of the University appreciated the importance of a Library 
 and co-operated steadily for its accumulation ; that already before Dr. 
 Caldwell's death there arose either opposition or indifference to its en- 
 largement; and that since that time, notwithstanding several brave 
 efforts to give to this department its due importance, it has been 
 treated with discouraging neglect. The Libraries of the two Liter- 
 ary Societies have indeed been fostered by their members, but their 
 collections have been chiefly light reading and general literature. The 
 University Library is now as far behind the requirements of the times 
 as when the first President appealed to the Trustees for its liberal in- 
 crease nearly half a century ago. 
 
 DESCRIPTION QE LIBRARY BUILDING. 
 
 The new Library Building is in the form of a Greek temple. The 
 entire hall is about 84 feet long, by 32 feet wide and 20 ft. high, and 
 is lighted by five windows on each side. The basement has serv- 
 ed for an experimental laboratory, but is now only a place of storage. 
 The main hall was for a time used rather inappropriately for dancing 
 parties. 
 
 SPECIMEN BOOKS. 
 
 The character of the presents ancL purchases for the Library may 
 be illustrated by describing a few books. Among the gifts of the 
 Record Commission is the Domesday Book of William the Conqueror, 
 in two volumes with a supplement, it is, as is well known, a sort of 
 census of England, taken eight hundred years ago, written in Latin 
 w r ith many abbreviations. Thus in the census of the county of Es- 
 sex and "Hundred de Rochefort" a paragraph begins "Ragheleiam 
 ten & S." The second word is tenet and S is the initial of Suein w T ho 
 held Raleigh under King William. We suggest as a question for the 
 Historical Society whether Ragheleia is the village from which the re- 
 mote ancestor of Sir Walter Raleigh took his surname; and if so, 
 whether that ancient orthography should not be preserved in Latiniz- 
 ing the name of our city of Raleigh, rather than the form Ralega, 
 which is used in the last Latin catalogue of the University ? 
 
 One of the books, as we conjecture, of Dr. Caldwell's purchase, one 
 at all events bought of a Paris bookseller, has the following full de- 
 scriptive title surrounded with pictorial illustrations: "The Elements 
 of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. — 
 Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung by H. Bil- 
 lingsley, Citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine Scho- 
 lies, Annotations, and inuentions, of the best Mathematiciens, both of 
 time past and in this our age. With a very fruitfull Prscface made by 
 
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 M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mf^hematicall Sciences, what they 
 are, and whereunto commodious : where, also, are disclosed certain© 
 new Secrets Mathematical! and Mechanical 1, until 1 these our dales, 
 greatly missed." The date of publication, 1570, is given on the last 
 page. The fly-leaf at the beginning bears the name of Montucla, a 
 distinguished French mathematician of the last century, who was very 
 likely the former owner of the volume. 
 
 A Latin Paraphrase of Milton's Poems by Gulielmus Hogaeus, 1690 T 
 is found among Dr. James Hall's donations. The Paradise Lost be- 
 gins : " Primaevi cano furta Fatris, furtumque secutae." Another of Dr. 
 Hall's gifts is Derodon's Logic, 1659. On the fly-leaf is written "E 
 Libris Dan : Hyd : e Coll : Wadh : Anno Domini 1696," which seems 
 to show that 175 years ago the book belonged to a member of 
 Wadh am College in Oxford University. A later hand wrote "Ex libris 
 Gruli. Livingstone." Perhaps the owner of the book at that time was 
 the famous Governor of New Jersey. 
 
 Of Prof. Mitchell's books we select one, Outlines of Philosophical 
 Education, by George Jardine, for the purpose of copying a neat crit- 
 icism by Prof. Mitchell himself written on the fly-leaf. " The adjec- 
 tive Philosopical occurring in the title page of this volume is a mis- 
 nomer. The Author at thetime of composing it must have been be- 
 tween 70 and 80 years of age, since he states that he had been for fifty 
 years professor in the University of Glasgow. Evidence of the forget- 
 fulness incident to advanced age is furnished by his giving the same 
 sentiments twice in the same language in the compass of a single 
 volume. (Pages 452, 3, 4 and 518, 9.) He appears not to have been 
 a man of great ability — but of much worth and fidelity in the dis- 
 charge of his official duties who felt and proved the advantage of bring- 
 ing his pupils to co-operate with him in carrying on their education 
 by calling uponthem for frequent essays on the subjects of his lec- 
 tures. This is nearly the whole subject of the book which is called 
 " Outlines of Philosopical Education " with reference to his being 
 professor of Mental philosophy and not because any very new philoso- 
 phical views on the subject of education are contained in it. His me- 
 thods may unquestionably be applied with much advantage to my own 
 department — chemistry, rhetoric and history. Dec. 19th, 1832." 
 
 MATERIALS FOR UNIVERSITY HISTORY. 
 
 We conclude this sketch with a list of the documents on hand (be- 
 sides its own valuable archives) to illustrate the history of the Uni- 
 versity : 
 
 Of Catalogues the annual series is complete from 1848-9 to the present 
 time. Of earlier years there are only those of 1829, 33, 38, 41 and 44. 
 There are also the general Latin catalogue of 1852 : the Dialectic So- 
 ciety catalogues 1841, 52 ; Philanthropic Society catalogue 1852. 
 
 Of College Laws, the editions of 1822, 1838, 1852 and 1859. 
 
 Programmes.— Commencement 1820, 27, 28, 29, 39, 67, 68 and 70. 
 Freshman Exhibition June 1857. Examination, Nov. 1859. 
 
 Circulars, Dec. 1807, Sept. 1854, July 1867, July 1869, Sept. 1870. 
 
 Trustee Reports. — Report of Examining Committee June 10, 1819. 
 George E. Badger on the Controversy between the University and the 
 Claimants of her Western Lands, 1826. B. F. Moore on escheats, 1851. 
 Annual Meeting, 1868. Reports to Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion, 1869. 
 
 Commencement Addresses and Sermons. — By Hon. William Gaston, 
 (Prof. William Hooper and Henry S. Ellenwood, before N". C. Institute 
 of Education), 1832 ; Hon. Robert Strange, 1837 ; Hugh McQueen, 
 1839; Hon. John Y. Mason, LL. D., 1847; William Eaton, Jr., 1848; 
 
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 Hon, William A. Graham, 1S49; H*ml James ('. Dobbin, 1850; Hon. 
 A. 0. P. Nicholson, James II. Dickaon, M. D.. 1853; Hon. Aaron V. 
 h nvn, 1854; Rt. Rev. Bishop Atkinson, George Davis, Esq.. 1855; 
 Re\. B. Manly, Jr., Matt. W. Ransom. Esq.. 1856 ; Henry W. Miller, 
 Esq., 1857; William Hooper. 1859; Archbishop John Hughes, John 
 Pool. Esq.. 1860 ; Hon. Wm. H. Battle. LL. D„ 1865 ; Ex-Gov. Zebu- 
 Ion Baird Vance, 1866; John H. Wheeler, 1870. 
 
 University Magazine. — From Vol. I, No. 2, April, 1844, to Vol. X, 
 No. 8, April 1861, there are twenty-three numbers but not one vol- 
 ume complete. 
 
 Historical Society. — Report of Secretary, June 1845. 
 
 Literary Works by members of the Faculty. — Dr. Caldwell. — Ele- 
 mentary Geometry in Seven Books, to which an Eighth is annexed 
 containing such other Propositions a^ are Elementary — Subjoined is a 
 Treatise of Plane Trigonometry. Phil. 1822. 
 
 Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Samuel Paislev in Raleigh, April 
 4, 1813. 
 
 Sermon on the Doctrine of a Future Life. March 1828. 
 
 The Numbers of Carlton, concerning a Central Railroad. N. Y. 1828. 
 
 Letters on Popular Education, addressed to the People of North 
 Carolina, Hillsborough. 1832. 
 
 Pres. Swain. — Report on the Historical Agency for Pre iring Doc- 
 uinontar*fevidenceof the Historv of N. C. 1857. 
 
 Mt. Mitchell, the Highest Peak of Black Mountain, 1858. 
 
 Early Times in Raleigh, 1867. 
 
 Prof. William Hooper. — Latin Prosody. Phil. 1819. 
 Sermon on Deceitfulness and Wickedness of the Heart. Fayetteville. 
 Sermon before the Chowan Baptist Association, May 1851. 
 Prof. Elisha Mitchell. — Four articles in Anier. Jour, of Science, 
 1830, 31. 
 
 Prof. Denisox Olmsted. — Outlines of Lectures on Chemistry, Min- 
 eralogv and Geologv at the Univ. N. C. Raleigh, 1819. 
 Natural Philosophy 1831. (Stereotyped Edition 1855.) 
 Astrononiv, 1854. 
 Memoir of Eli Wliitney, 1846. 
 
 Several articles in Jour, of Science and the New Englander (with 
 memoir by Pres. Woolsey). 
 
 Prof. E. A. Andrews. — Latin Exercises. Boston, 1841. 
 Latin Grammar by Andrews and Stoddard. 
 
 Prof. James Phillips. — Elements of Conic Sections. N. Y., 1828. 
 
 Prof. Charles Phillips. — Plane and Spherical Trigonometry with 
 some of its Applications. Raleigh, 1857. 
 
 Memoir of Prof. Elisha Mitchell (with Bishop Otev's Funeral Ora- 
 tion). ChapelHill, 1858. 
 
 Prof. Charles F. Deems. — Twelve College Sermons. Phil. 1844. 
 
 Southern Methodist Pulpit, 1849-52. 
 
 Annals of Southern Methodism for they ear 1855. 
 
 Prof. H. H. Smith.— Robertsonian System of Teaching French, 
 with Rules of Pronunciation and a Full Vocabulary. ChapelHill, '58. 
 
 To the above list might be added a few publications by other gen- 
 tlemen whose connection with the Institution has been less promi- 
 nent, as well as various articles in theN. C. Journal of Education and 
 in the University Magazine.