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The report of the Faculty on the communication of Professor Roos to President Millard, was referred to the Faculty at your last meeting. Authority is asked to publish 6,000 copies of the annual catalogue at an expense not to exceed $300. S. H. PEABODY, Regent. PAPER N.

CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , March 2,1886. Br. S. IT. Peabody, Regent: SIK : I herewith present my report as Librarian of the University of Illinois, from March 1, 1885, to March 1,1886. The income of the library is fifteen hundred dollars from State appropriation. Of this, three hundred dollars were expended for periodicals, two hundred for binding, and one thousand for books. I wish that the State appropriation for the library might be doubled. The additions to the library for the past year have been nine hundred and seventy-nine volumes, making the total fifteen thousand nine hundred and ninety. The numbers in some of the principal departments are nearly as follows: Agriculture Natural History and Chemistry Engineering, Architecture and Mathematics English and American Literature History ^ Bound Periodicals of all sorts Philology and Concurrent Literature Philosophy, Social and Political Science 2.000 volumes. 1,900 2,600 1,900 2,400 2,500 1,000 1,000

Respectfully submitted, J. D. CRAWFORD, Librarian. PAPER 0.

UNIVEESITY, CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , March 8, 1886.

Dr. 8. H. Peabody, Regent: The receipts from sales on the farms for three months, ending March 1, amounted to $579.21. The expenditures for £ame time were $173.29. The winter has been a favorable one for stock, with the exception of a few days, and all classes of the farm animals have done well, almost without exception. Excepting the care of the stock, removal of manure, etc., it has not been practicable to do much work on the farms. In accordance with the directions of the farm committee of the trustees, I have announced a public sale of Short-horn cattle. The announcement was made for June 4, but various circumstances have made it seem best to change this to Friday, June 11. In accordance with the authorization of the same committee, I have been in correspondence with several breeders of Hereford and Holstien battle, and have visited some herds of oach breed with reference to purchase of a foundation for a herd of each of these breeds. I have found a kindly interest manifested aside from any question of direct profit from selling one or two animals, and hope to be soon able to make desirable purchases. The State Board of Agriculture has accepted the offer of the use of land on the University farms for the trial of machines for digging ditches for tile, and it is expected the trial will be had June 10 and 11,1886. The Prairie Farmer Company, Chicago, has forwarded to the University the large collection of Indian corn made in competition for prizes offered by it. The collection includes specimens forwarded by 156 persons in various States. "While much of it is not in the best condition, it is a valuable collection. During the past three months I have, by request, attended and addressed the Farmers' Institute, at Paris, Princeton, Nashville, Mattoon, and Farmers' Club at Kankakee, in our own State; an institute at De Soto, Mo., under the auspices of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture ; the annual convention of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society; the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Short-horn Breeders' Association; and have forwarded an address to be read at the Inter-State Agricultural Convention at Jackson, Tenn. My class-room work has been as usual. The members in eaeh class—"Animal Husbandry" and "Rural Economy"—has been small, but good progress has been made. Respectfully submitted, G. E. MORROW, Professor of Agriculture