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1898. J

PROCEEDINGS OF BOAED OF TRUSTEES. COMMUNICATIONS FROM PRESIDERT DRAPER.

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On recommendation of President Draper $500.00 was appropriated for commencement exercises; also $100.00 for incidental expenses in the Library. The appointment of W. H. Simmerman as engineer in the heating department, at a salary of $60,000 a month, was recommended and the appointment was made. The matter of the superintendency of buildings and grounds was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act. A request from Professor T. A. Clark for leave of absence, without pay, during the next University year, was presented and approved. I t was ordered that the President's house be painted at an expense not exceed $200.00, and the work was put in charge of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. A communication with regard to a small animal house was referred to President Draper with power to act. The following rule with regard to the purchase of uniforms, prepared by the Committee of the Faculty on military affairs, was approved.

PURCHASING UNIFORMS.

In order that all uniforms worn at this University may be, in quality, make and finish in strict accordance with the qualifications adopted by the Board of Trustees, all students enrolled in the military department will be required to obtain them from that firm only that may, from time to time, be under agreement and bond with the Trustees to furnish said uniforms at a stated price and of standard quality. Appropriations were made of $30.00 for the purchase of equipment needed in the military department, and of $75.00 for the purchase of a State flag. The report of Professor Davenport, the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Dean of the College of Agriculture, was presented, with the recommendation that the requests made therein be granted. Authority was given to conduct experiments as proposed, and appropriations of Station and of the University funds were made as asked for in the report.

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, March 3, 1898. A. S. Draper, LL.D.< President of the University of Illinois, BEAR SIR:—The following is a report of the work of the various departments of the Agricultural Experiment Station, together with recommendations and estimates for the ensuing quarter. The Chemist of the Station is away on leave, to return in June. The small amount of chemical work that is imperative in the way of analyses of fertilizers, is done by Mr. Smith, a graduate from last year's class.