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1897.]

PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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6. The Director shall require officers having1 charge of experiments, or taking observations, to report the same to him with regularity and as often as the nature of the same may make it desirable, and he shall cause the records thereof to be neatly transcribed in substantial books for preservation. < 7. There shall be an Agricultural Experiment Station Advisory Board consisting of the Director of the Station, the Vice-President of the University, the Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, two members of the Board of Trustees to be appointed by the Board at the annual meeting at which it selects its own officers and one member to be appointed by the Board upon the recommendation of each of the following bodies, viz.: The State Board of Agriculture, the State Horticultural Society, and the State Dairymen's Association. The Advisory Board shall select its own presiding officer and shall meet quarterly in the week prior to the meeting of the Board of Trustees at sufch particular time as it shall determine. The Director shall lay all needed information touching the work of the Station before the Advisory Board, and it shall consider and recommend to the Board of Trustees such lines of policy and such scientific experiments as it believes of most consequence to the agricultural prosperity of the State. The Director shall keep a record of the proceedings of this Board and transmit its recommendations to the President of the University for presentation to the Board of Trustees. U p o n r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e G e n e r a l F a c u l t y a u t h o r i t y was given to confer t h e degree of B . S. in A r c h i t e c t u r e u p o n E d w a r d E l l s w o r t h Orr. Also u p o n r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e G e n e r a l F a c u l t y it was voted to increase t h e n u m b e r of F e l l o w s h i p s from six to eight, and to m a k e t h e s t i p e n d a t t a c h e d to each $300.00 a year. T h e following resolution was a d o p t e d : Besolved, That the Board oj Trustees of the University of Illinois, in recognition of the liberality of the donors mentioned in the following list of persons and institutions, who have contributed valuable publications to the-Astronomical Observatory of this University, returns to them severally its grateful acknowledgement and thankful appreciation of their generous courtesy:

Titles of Work. No. of Volumes. Prom W h a t Institution. By Whom Presented. Value.

P u b . of Amer. E p h e m e r i s .. Pub. W a s h b u r n Obs'y Star Catalogues Von E n g e l h a r t ' s P u b . . . P u b . of von K u s s n e r ' s Ob-

$125 00 25 H a r v a r d College O b s ' y . . 10 U. S. N. Obs'y 50 00 8 W a s h b u r n Obs'y 50 00 2 U. S. W. Dept Superintendent 20 00 2 Priv. Ast. Obs., D r e s d e n . Baron v. E n g e l h a r d t 10 00 d oo 4 Von K u s s n e r ' s Obs'y Prof. L. D'Ball

'Twelve or fifteen volumes of Coast Survey Reports by the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and a large number of pamphlets and minor publications.

Also t h e following: Besolved, That the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars be appropriated for collinating telescopes, and equipping them, at the Observatory; and also that the sum of seventy-five dollars be appropriated for painting the internal surface of the dome, and calking and cementing the doors and windows at the Observatory. T h e P r e s i d e n t p r e s e n t e d a c o m m u n i c a t i o n from certain florists in t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d objecting to t h e U n i v e r s i t y selling p l a n t s a n d c u t flowers, in answer to which t h e Secretary was directed to reply respectfully t h a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y never seeks a commercial business and never solicits b u y e r s ; b u t w h e n i n t h e p r o s e c u t i o n of its o r d i n a r y work, it h a s p r o d u c t s which people are glad to come and p u r c h a s e , and it can t h e r e b y extend its work, it m u s t feel free to do so; a n d