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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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154 yet, well understood. Whatever difficulty there is, lies not in the chemistry of agriculture, but in our ignorance of it. As soon as we have an accurate knowledge of the conditions and laws of growth, and in our efforts to aid nature, work with and not against her, then the discrepancies and apparent contradictions, always incident to a new science, or a new application of an old one, will disappear, and we shall have the greater cause to admire the wisdom and skill of Him who ev@lves, through this interaction of materials and forces, the many forms of plant life. SECOND DAY—9 O'CLOCK. Mr. M. L. DUNLAP moved that Dr. E. S. Hull, of Alton, be elected chairman of the Farmers' Institute, now in session. The motion was carried. Dr. J . M. GREGORY moved that O. L. Barler, of Upper Alton, act as Secretary of the Institute. Carried. At the suggestion of Dr. GREGORY, Mr. M. L. Dunlap moved that the morning hour of meeting be changed from 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock. Carried. Dr. GREGORY—I will take this opportunity to announce to the visitors present, that the college library will be open when the lectures are not going on, to which all are invited. METEOROLOGY. BY P R O P . W M . M. B A K E R , CHAMPAIGN. The subject assigned me in the present course of lectures is not of my own selection ; neither is it one to which I feel capable of doing justice, as indeed no man can, in the short space of one lecture. Meteorology is a subject so varied and extensive, that a person is puzzled rather as to what not to say, than as to what he shall present. It is very commonly thought, when the science of Meteorology is mentioned, that it relates only to the meteors that occasionally shoot athwart the sky, or to the so-called shooting stars, whose fiery flight we may see almost every night; and it is therefore supposed to have but little general interest. Or, if extended to include Climatology, it is supposed to have reference chiefly to the influence of the moon upon the weather, and to the prediction of storms, or of changes of temperature. Failing in these, it is thought to have no value.
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