Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1898 [PAGE 121]

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1897]

PROCEEDINGS OE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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For the field work and the office and incidental expenses, the sum of fifteen hundred (1.500) dollars per annum. For the improvement of the Library, the sum of fifteen hundred (1,§00.00) dollars per annum. For salaries and assistance the sum of four thousand (4.000.00) dollars per annum. For the publication of bulletins, the sum of seven hundred and fifty (750.00) dollars per annum. For the illustriation of the biennial report of the State Entomologist, the sum of two hundred and fifty (250.00) dollars per annum. For the expenses of the Illinois Biological Station, the sum of three thousand (3,000.00) dollars per annum. I respectfully request that the necessary assignments may be made to make these sums available for the purposes indicated. For the better organization of the^ staff of the State Laboratory of Natural History, I respectfully make the following recommendations: 1. That the Assistants of this Laboratory be classified as office assistants, laboratory assistants, and laboratory investigators. 2. That the Director of the Laboratory be empowered to engage ordinary employes; that office and laboratory assistants be appointed by the Trustees, on the nomination of the Director, for one calendar year, beginning July 1st; and that laboratory investigators be appointed without term, subject to removal by the Trustees only oil recommendation of the Director of the Laboratory. 3. That the Director be empowered to suspend assistants for cause unt the next meeting of the Board following upon such suspension, reporting the facts forthwith to the Executive Committee of the Board, this Committee to have power to sustain or to disapprove such suspension. 4. That all salaries be paid in twelve monthly installments, and that every •assistant be entitled to a vacation of one calendar month in each year, at a time to be determined by arrangement with the Director. 5. That members of the staff be subject to detail by the Director, at any time, for service at the Biological Station or in the State Entomologist's office, where such service does not involve change in the amount or origin of their pay. . 6. That laboratory assistants and investigators be authorized to give instruction in the Biological Departments of the University, under the responsible supervision of the heads of such departments, by agreement of all concerned and with the approval of the President of the University; .and that such teaching sssistants be classed as active members of the University Corps of Instruction, laboratory assistants to rank as assistants or instructors, as the President may determine, aud investigators to rank as assistant professors; Provided, that no change shall be made in any case either in amount or origin of the salaries of such assistants without authorization by the Trustees. It is the purpose of this section to. provide for such exchange of services between the biological departments of the University and the corresponding departments of the State Laboratory as shall be clearly to the advantage of both. I further recommend that Mr. Charles A. Hart and Dr. Charles A. Kofoid be appointed as laboratory investigators, the former to serve as Entomologist of the State Laboratory and curator of the collections, and the latter'as Zoologist of the Laboratory and Superintendent of the Biological Station; that Miss Lydia M. Hart be continued as artist of the laboratory, and classed as a laboratory assistant; and that Miss Mary J. Snyder and Mr. Henry C. Forbes be classed as office assistants, the first to serve as secretary, aucl the-second as business agent and librarian.