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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

f June 7,

M E E T I N G OF J U L Y 7, 1898.

The following call for a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was issued July 2, 1898: "Upon the call of the President, Mr. F. M. McKay, there will be a special meeting" of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at 9 o'clock a. m., Thursday, July 7, 1898, in the Trustees' Boom, Library Hall, Urbana, Illinois, to consider matters concerning* the electrical department of the University, and such other business as may be duly presented." There were present at the meeting Messrs. Bullard, McKay, McLean, Morrison, Raymond, and Smith and Mrs. Carriel; absent, Governor Tanner, Messrs. Armstrong, Freeman, and Pearce, and Mrs. Flower. After some discussion of the subject for which the meeting was called, the Board took a recess until 11 o'clock. After recess the Board received an invitation from Professor Davenport to visit the Experiment Station farm and see the planting of sugar beets, and the invitation was accepted on motion of Mr. Bullard. President McKay presented Professor Swenson's resignation of his position of assistant professor of electrical engineering in the University. Mr. Smith moved to accept the resignation, and then moved that further consideration of the matter be postponed until the September meeting of the Board. The vote on the motion to postpone was as follows: Ayes—Messrs. Bullard, McLean, Morrison, Raymond, Smith and Mrs Carriel; nay —Mr. McKay, and the motion to postpone prevailed. The Board adjourned.

W. L. PILLSBURY, ' F. M. MCKAY,

Secretary.

President.