Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886 [PAGE 108]

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From Dr. Mcintosh on the work of the classes in Veterinary Science. From Prof. Morrow upon the affairs of the farm. I present a communication from G-eorge W. Henry, Esq., in which he offers to present to the University the thoroughbred Hereford cow, Empress, a superb example of that important breed. The trial of ditching apparatus and machinery which is to take place on the University farm, June 10 and 11, has been largely announced and promises much interest. I call attention to the accompanying list of Professors and Instructors whose appointments should be made or renewed for the year ending August 31,1887. I have to recommend special appropriations for expenditures as follows: 1. That the committee appointed last year to oversee the construction of fire walls and the continuance of ventilation of the main building, consisting of the Regent, the Business Agent and the Professor of Agriculture, be continued, with power to carry on the improvements as originally designed. 2. That authority be given to the Regent to purchase additional tools and machines for the mechanical shops, to the amount of the State appropriation for the new year. 3. That the following-named improvements be authorized to be paid from State appropriations for buildings and grounds: (a). The flight of stone steps now at the south end of the chemical building be taken down and reerected at the west side, making suitable changes to permit the main entrance to be on the first floor, with entrance below into the basement. Also, that the earth be removed from the outside of the stone foundation walls to their footings, the walls thoroughly coated with asphalt, and the earth replaced, a layer of furnace cinders to be placed against the stone, the object of this being to prevent further inroads of dampness upon the basement of this building. The estimate of cost for these improvements is $500. (&). The floor of the veranda to be relaid. This has already been allowed, but the work has been delayed, and the payment must come from next year's fund. Cost, $125. (<?). The railing to balcony in library to be finished, costing $50. The condition of this item is the same as the last. (d). Repairs to the gardener's house in the arboretum, to the amount of $100. (e). To be used for fencing in various places about public grounds, as required, $100. (/). For raising floor in the room east of Professor Burrill's room in basement, connecting that room with his, and providing the necessary fittings for its use in connection with his laboratory, $150. (g). For inside shutters for Professor Forbes' room, $100. That the following be assigned from the State appropriations for cabinets: For two microscopes and accessories, Professor Forbes $154 76 For additions to herbarium, Professor Burrill 150 00 For clerical services on same, Professor Burrill 15 00 For labor preparing wood specimens. Professor Burrill 15 00 That the following be assigned from State appropriations for laboratories: For new microscopic objective, Professor Burrill $125 00 For apparatus for electrical measurements, Physical Laboratory 450 00 Professor Morrow asks leave to buy steers for feeding and for payment for breeding stock to the amount of $1,200. This will be reimbursed later by sales from the farm of shorthorn cattle, and of hay. Professor Ricker asks for cases in his rooms $55 00 For continuing his collection of photographs 50 00 Very respectfully, S. H. PEABODY, Regent PROFESSOR FORBES' REPORT. Dr. 8. H. Peabody, Regent: I have the honor to submit the following as my report on the work of the zoological department of the University for the past term, and on the operations of the State Laboratory of Natural History since its transfer to the Trustees of this University:

ZOOLOGICAL DEPAKTMENT.

I have taught during the last term the regular classes in entomology and advanced zoology, the latter class having been taken over ground new to the course in the University, viz., the elements of histology and embryology. The histological work consisted of the preparation in the zoological laboratory, by the students of the class, of slides illustrating the various tissues of the animal body, and a careful study of these original preparations, together with a study and discussion of the text. In embryology a course of lectures was given on the elements of comparative embryology, and on the earlier stages of the development of the chick, and these were supplemented by six hours' work a week by the students in the zoological laboratory, in sectioning embryos and the preparation and study of slides.