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1897]

PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The Report from the Advisory Board of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and from the Director of the Experiment Station were presented by President Draper and were referred to the, Committee on Agriculture. A communication was received from Mr. H. H. Greene, of Bloomington, tendering his resignation as a member of the Advisory Committee of the School of Pharmany, on the ground of his having accepted another official position, and of his having retired from the practice of Pharmacy. The resignation was accepted. The proposition of Ottenheimer & Co. with regard to uniforms for the Battalion was referred to the Secretary and Business Manager. The request of I. H. Hill for the return of fees was denied. President Draper said that be had been consulted by the city authorities of Urbaria with regard to joining with the city in paving University Avenue along the north of the campus and on the east between University Avenue and White Street. The Board instructed the Secretary to notify the Mayor of the City of Urbana that the Board was in favor of the construction of the pavement, and would ask the Legislature to make an appropiation covering its share of the expense. The Board appropriated $275.00 or so much thereof as might be needed, for the purchase of the instruments mentioned below for mse of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1. A locomotive registering speed counter. 2. A special pyrometer. 3. A carpenter separating calorimeter. 4. Three way cocks and detent motives. A further request from the department of mechanical engineering for $150,00 for running expenses of the mechanical engineering laboratory during a spring term, was denied. President Draper presented the report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds which was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. It was voted that the Business Manager, after consulting with Professor Carman, should order, upon a satisfactory bid, physical apparatus and supplies, to be imported, not exceeding in amount $1,000.00. Mr. N. W. Graham's bill for expenses, amounting to $15.82, was ordered paid. The Secretary stated that Mr. A. D. Barber, of Hamilton, Mr. E. A. Riehl, of Alton, and Mr. H. B. Gurler, of DeKalb, had been recommended by the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, The Illinois State Horticultural Society, and The Illinois State Dairymen's Association, respectively, to represent them on the Advisory Board of the Agricultural Experiment Station. These gentlemen were appointed as recommended.