Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 87]

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75 Mr. PICKEELL asked to be excused from further attendance at this meeting; which was granted, by vote. On motion of Mr. MAHAN, the Board adjourned (at 5:30), to meet at this place at 7 o'clock, this evening.

EVENING SESSION.

November 26tA, 1867. The Board assembled, and was called to order, by the Eegent, at 7 o'clock. The REGENT, having called Gen. BRAYMAN to the Chair, moved that the report of Committee on Library and Cabinet be taken up. It was so voted by he Board. (Mr. BURROUGHS havings agreeably to vote of the Board, arranged and filed his report, upon which Mr. QUICK'S resolution for the purchase of cabinet was based.)

V. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY AND CABINET.

The Committee on Library and Cabinet respectfully report: That no funds having been placed at their disposal, and no authority having been given them to make any purchases, their labors have been confined to inquiries what were likely to be the immediate and most pressing needs of the University, in respect to books and means of illustrating the different departments of Natural History, on the opening of tshe courses of instruction in the spring, and how these wants can be best met. Having in view a proportionate distribution of the present financial resources of the University between the different departments, according to the experience of similar institutions, the Committee believe that, from the present means, at least ten thousand dollars to library, and ten thousand to cabinet, would be only a fair proportion. It is not, however, supposed that it would be possible for the Board to appropriate this whole amount for immediate expenditure; and the Committee therefore ask that ($1,000) one thmsand dollars be placed at their disposal, to be expended during the next winter, at the best advantage possible, in purchasing such books as are indispensable on the opening of the University in the spring. In respect to cabinet, the Committee have pleasure in calling the attention of the Board to an opportunity which they believe to be of unusual interest. A collection in the three different departments of Mineralogy, Geology and Conchology, which was made by Prof. Bromby, of Georgia, during the last twenty-five years, is offered to this University on terms * h ch we believe extremely favorable. The catalogues of this collection, with estimates of its value, from Prof. C. U. Shepherd and other leading scientific authorities, are present; and presenting these