The State Chronicle

The executive committee of the board of trustees of the State University yesterday afternoon met here and received a notable gift, the library of the late Dr. Thomas F. Wood of Wilmington. It consists of a very large and admirably selected collection of medical works, and numbers also many of the rarer and finer works on botany. The books on botany and those relative to vaccination constitute in themselves a choice library. The library was presented by Mrs. Wood and its value is $5000. Dr. Wood ranked among the ablest physicians this State has ever produced, and was also a man of the best literary culture and devoted to the collection of books. As an amateur botanist his reputation was national. The trustees, to express their gratification at the gift have established two scholarships, in memory of Dr. Wood, each conferring free tuition. One of these is the "Thomas F. Wood medical scholarship" and the other the "Thomas F. Wood University scholarship." It is a fitting recognition of so valuable a gift as well as the high talent of the giver.