| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1870) September 7, 1870  | | | | Published: | 1870 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present the same
members as on yesterday. Resolved That the Chair of Scientific, Experimental, and
Practical Agriculture in the Agricultural Department of the
University of Virginia is hereby established- I have discharged the duties of Chairman of the
Faculty, by annual election of the Board of Visitors, for the
last sixteen years- I have on one occasion at least since the
close of the war, formally expressed to the Board my wish to
be relieved from service in this capacity and I have often
informally expressed the same wish to my friends- Whilst I
have no right to presume that it will be your pleasure to continue
me in this position, I respectfully ask that you will,
by the appointment of another, relieve me from duties which
may be better discharged by some other member of the Faculty. I beg leave to imform you that the present is
the eighth week of a painful and most serious illness, which
has not only kept me confined to the house during that time,
under the constant attention of my physicians, but which this
morning finds me so perfectly helpless, that I cannot even
walk across the room. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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