Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 57]

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eral 98; Law and Political Science, 56 ; Military, 25 ; Philosophy and Education, 119; Cyclopedias, 12; General Periodicals, 351; Scientific Periodicals, 176; Public Documents, 457. The Library Hall, which has been Kept open daily to students, is also well supplied with the best Agricultural and other Scientific papers and periodicals. The apparatus of instruction embraces, besides that in the Department of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, a well mounted skeleton, a manikin, and preparations in papier mache exhibiting a horse's leg and foot (which can be dissected to show the parts), several sets of the jaws and teeth of the horse to exhibit the appearance of the mouth at different ages; also, greatly magnified preparations of flowers, fruits and grain, which can be taken to pieces to exhibit all parts of the flower and fruit, including envelopes, pulp and starch formations, and germs with pluma and radical. There is also a fine pair of magic lanterns, with apparatus to exhibit dissolving views; and sets of views in Geology, Natural History, Astronomy and History. Mechanical apparatus and models, and Agricultural implements of many varieties, are also accumulating to aid the practical instruction in these departments. Collections of seeds, soils, woods, minerals, insects, and other Zoological specimens are constantly gathering, and large additions are soon to be made from the collections made by the Powell Scientific Expedition.

THE FINANCES.

The Annual" Report of the Treasurer and the list of warrants drawn, with their dates, objects and amounts, will give you full information concerning the receipts aDd expenditures for the year.* The statement of the Bookkeeper, which I append, shows the following items of income and expense :

INCOME. Balance from last year Interest from bonds Farm produce on hand, March, 1869 Fees, for tuition, etc Receipts from farm for 1869 Kent of lands Coal sold students Garden—net proceeds Carpentery, chairs, etc., sold Total $1,324 59 24,390 00 1,TC0 31 2,670 50 1,181 76 246 45 404 81 73 47 31 81 $32,083 70

These do not embrace any part of the receipts from the State appropriations.

EXPENDITURES.

The appropriations made by the Board at the last annual meeting amounted to $36,044 00. The total expenditures, under these appropriations, have been $34,628 66. Some of the appropriations were found to overrun our needs, while others fell short. By the authority of the Executive Committee the deficiency of the latter was made up, as far as practicable, by the surplus of the former. The year's expenses, though less than the estimate, have never* See Appendix A and B.