Report of the Trustees of the Mississippi University, with Accompanying Documents, 1859 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of the Trustees of the Mississippi University, With Accompanying Documents, 1859 The proposition made to the University to join in this scientific enterprise, is in itself highly żattering, whatever may be the acceptance which it receives. It indicates more decidedly than any mere language of compliment could do, the estimation in which the University is beginning to be regarded by the scientific men of the country; and their convictions of what may be justly expected of it in behalf of the progress of scientific discovery. To accept it, moreover, would be attended with, what seems to me, no slight advantage, the immediate association of this Insti. Tution with all those organizations which, in this or in other lands, are engaged in promoting the advancement of knowledge and the necessary extension of its reputation throughout the scientific world. The effect of this upon the consideration in which the State itself will be held, by those who judge her, as most thinking men will, by the Institutions which mark her intellectual character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.