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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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165 Plans are being made for the construction of a table to be devoted especially to the application of electrolysis to chemical analysis. This table and its accompaniments will add materially to the convenience and efficacy of our equipment. The expenditures of the department, beyond those involved in the improvements just described have been about the same as those of previous years. The usual additions to the permanent stock have been made, while little difference is to be noted in the amount of annual current receipts from students and from other sources. A statement of such expenditures and receipts will be detailed in a supplemental report. For the supplies of the coming year, I would respectfully recommend an appropriation of six hundred and fifty dollars (650.00), $400 for apparatus and $250 for chemicals. An immediate provision of this amount is desirable in order that the material may be secured at reduced rate by importation free of duty, and be in hand before the opening of the fall term. Eespectfully submitted, WM. MCMURTRIE, Professor of Chemistry. MATHEMATICS. PROFESSOR SAMUEL W. SHATTUCK, C. E. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. S. H. PEABODY, LL. D., Regent. SIR—I have the honor to make the following report upon the work of the mathematical department in this University. I class it under four heads: 1. That of the preparatory year. 2. That taken by students in the college of literature and science, etj. 3. That taken by students in the college oj engineering. 4. That taken by post-graduate students. The preparatory student occupies two terms upon algebra, fall and winter, and two upon geometry, winter and spring. The work is that of a good high school though concentrated into less time. The instruction has been given the past year by Prof. Eolfe in the spring term and by Mr. S. W. Stratton in the fall and winter terms. I believe that it has been well done. If a third term could be given to algebra with justice to the other studies of the year, I should advise it, as the younger and poorer students need considerable time to have the new concepts become fixed in the mind, and as many examples must be worked to gain this object.
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