Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 45]

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39 Phoenix, Blootnington, 100 rose bushes, and collection of flowering shrubs and bedding plants. Edgar Sanders, Chicago, 100 select bedding plants. P. S. Meserole, Chicago, 1 Allen's Weeder, 1 Hexamer pronged hoe. Joseph Mainhofer, Ottawa, 1 Messenger or Gopher cultivator, with extra shares. John Deere, Moline, 1 improved P. P. plow. O. M. Railsback, Champaign, 300 select green house and bedding plants. Jacob Strayer & Co., South Bend, Ind., 1 Statesman force feeding grain drill, grass sower and surveyor. Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co., 1 set of grocer scales, 1 set counter scales, discount on hay scales, $75. H. C. Rector, Champaign, 1 Blevin's patent plow and cultivator. M. A. & J. M. Cravath, Bloomington, 1 revolving cultivator and hilling machine. M. Dorsett, Chicago, 1 model straw rick, with ventilating tube for preserving hay or grain, and movable roof. M. Cochrane, Architect, 1 fine colored lithograph of new State Capitol. Valuable text and library books received from Sheldon & Co., New York, R. S. Barnes, New York, D. Applet on, New York, Harper Bros., New York, Ivison & Phinney, New York. S. M. Hayward & Son, Pana, 111., red Genesee winter wheat, for seed. A. Blumenshein, Florist, Chicago, collection of green house plants. Edgar Sanders, Chicago, collection of bulbs, Edgar H. Potter, Kalamazoo, Mich., improved three horse clevis.

DOINGS OF OTHER COMMITTEES.

The committee on Building and Grounds met in conjunction with the Executive committee, both in April and June. They recommended several alterations and improvements in the University buildings, which, having been considered and ordered' by the Executive committee, were atterwards carried , into effect. Th^y also recommended the erection of a building to be used partly as a carpenter's shop, and partly to shelter tools and one team. This building, under an order of the Executive committee, has been erected, and is now in use. The committee on Faculty and Studies has also held several meetings. The time when Prof. P o w d l should enter upon service having been referred by the Board to this committee, an interview was held with Prof. Powell, and on his full acceptance of the appointment tendered him by the Board, he was put on service at once, but at his own request was detailed to conduct the scientific expedition he was already engaged in. The sum .of six hundred ^600) dollars was voted to him as a salary in full for