Clarissimo Josepho Desha, armigero, gubernatori, honorastissimo [sic] Roberto Macafee, armigero, vice-gubernatori ... curatoribus colendis et æstimandis Universitatis Transylvaniensis, reverendo Horatio Holley, LLD præsidii ... theses hasce, juvenes in artibus initiati, David Rice Achison [et al.] ... humillime dedicant