Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886 [PAGE 168]

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160 very rare interest you have always taken in my work and the kindness and courtesy which has marked your action towards me without exception. By this generous support I have been able to work unhindered and with very important aid at the greatest times of need, and I beg that you will accept my hearty thanks and my expressions of most cordial esteem. It would be a sad day for me, should I be called upon to sever relations which, I assure you, have been more happy and sincere than any of the kind I have heretofore been permitted to enjoy. Nor must I omit to record my deep sense of the frank and cordial sympathy and cooperation which has been freely extended to me by every member of our corps of instructors. With such surroundings the lack of facilities with which any new department must contend, does not play so important a part as it might under different circumstances. I am also indebted in many ways to every member of the Board of Trustees with whom I have had any contact, as well as to many, very many of the good friends of the University among the citizens of Champaign and Urbana. Trusting that each succeeding report may find the department of Mining Engineering growing and doing its full share of efficient, work, I am, sir, very cordially and respectfully,

THEO. B. COMSTOCK,

Professor of Mining

Engineering.

ZOOLOGY.

PROFESSOR STEPHEN A. FORBES, P H . D. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

S. H. PEABODY, Regent: Although my appointment to the chair of Zoology and Entomology in the University took effect September 1, 1884, circumstances made it impossible for me to report here until January 1, 1885. Since that time my University duty has consisted of the teaching of the two classes in zoology and one in entomology, of the care of the Museum and Zoological Laboratory, and of the oversight and direction of the work of various special students in zoology and entomology, The principal zoology class continues throughout the year, two hours per day; the second zoology and the entomology are oneterm studies, each one hour a day. The time appropriated each day by the special students is difficult to estimate, but probably does not vary far from an average of one-half hour. Although during a part of this time myself and my zoological assistant are engaged together, usually I have needed to give only general attention to such work as has been especially committed to the assistant, so that he has relieved me of probably one-third of this instruction work.

DR.