Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904
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88 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Scientific Apparatus, Etc. [June 8, I recommend that the following sums be appropriated for furniture, apparatus, and equipment in scientific departments: Botany, for equipment and materials.$1,845 Geology, for furniture and equipment. 1,100 Physiology, for furnture and equipment 1,260 Zoology, for furniture and equipment.$1,100 Total * $5,295 I recommend that of this sum $3,000 be charged to the special appropriation b for apparatus and appliances, and the balance to the general fund, or such other ball special fund as the Business Manager may think best. ma; It was so ordered. TELEPHONE SYSTEM SYSTEM AND EEPAIRS. I recommend that Professor Morgan Brooks and the Superintendent of BuildBi ings be authorized to proceed with the installation of a University telephone sysins tem tern as contemplated by the Legislative a] appropriation for that purpose. It was so ordered. I submit the following recommendations as to needed repairs by the Superinrecommendation! tendent of Buildings. These have been prepared under my general directions after consultations with Professors White and Breckenridge, by whom they are respectively approved. I recommend that they be referred to the Committee on that Buildings and Grounds with power to have them carried out, and that the funds hav be appropriated for carrying out the suggestions. sugg Repairs— On account of repairs for boilers and stokers On account of repairs for coal and ash machinery General repairs to heating system in the various buildings. Repairs to steam and return mains, covering, and cement work in tunnels Total :New W o r k Pipe covering for new Westinghouse engine Connecting engine exhausts to new grease extractor Moving and connecting up switchboard Total $150 00 250 00 275 00 125 00 $800 00 65 00 185 00 125 00 $375 00 New Apparatus for Boiler RoomSmall tools $100 00 New boiler feed pump 250 00 New water meter 150 00 New stoker for the hand-fired boiler 950 00 Total $1,450 00 RecapitulationRepairs 800 00 New work 375 00 New appliances 1,450 00 Total $2,625 00
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