Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 67]

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D. W. RAMSDALE, Chicago.—One bushel of Norway Oats. C. H. VAN OLINDA, Sandwich, 111.-—One bushel of Surprise Oats. EDWABD LYNCH, student—TWO well prepared Skeletons of Birds. Prof. W. F . BLISS—Two bushels of White May Wheat. J. M. GEEGOEY—An Organ for the Chapel, and a set of Engravings for the Library. SAMUEL NEWBY, student—One bushel Seed Corn. Mrs. - - NIINN, Tennessee.—A fine Geode and other specimens, for Cabinet. JOHN DEEEE, Moline, Ill.—One Subsoil Plow, which does excellent service. HOVEY & HEFFEON, Seedmen, Chicago—Fifteen varieties of Flower Seeds. Br. WAEDEE—400 Grape Cuttings, some Wilson's Blackberry and Everbearing Raspberry bushes Messrs. PETTIGEEW & "REED, Chicago—100 Fuchsia Cuttings. HENRY MICHAEL, St. Louis—24 Green-House and Bedding Plants. — CONKLING, Esq.. Champaign—One large Oleander and a collection of Summer Flowering Bulbs. J. O. CUNNINGHAM, Urbana—A collection of Dahlias. S. GKAVEB & SONS, Jacksonville, 111.—$25 off price of turning lathe, and circular and jig saws. PUBLIC OPINION.

Knowing the scrupulous fidelity with which you have sought to obey the laws under which you act, and to conform the University to the declared ends of the statute, I the more cheerfully invite your attention to those expressions of public opinion which concern the University, and which are already known to you through the public press. However unworthy may have been the original source of any sentiment which gains a lodgment in the public mind, and however limited the extent to which such sentiment may prevail, any fairly stated objection to our course and management ought to have our candid and careful consideration. We are all liable to err. No human institution is perfect. Let us profit'by all counsels, and thus attain our great end. Let us hear and weigh carefully and candidly every suggestion made for the improvement of the University. Let us correct, patiently, every public misapprehension of our plans and doings; and let us affirm afresh, and with stronger emphasis, our purpose to fulfill the laws under which we act, and to establish and maintain here a true University for the Industries, a school of sound, practical learning.

A P P E N D I X TO R E G E N T ' S

REPORT.

APPENDIX A. To the liegent of the Illinois Industrial University : SIR : At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, for 1800, $300 were appropriated for an expedition of survey and collection in the Department of Natural History. In accordance therewith, arrangements were early made. The Illinois Central and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads granted free passes over their entire routes for myself and party. The necessary equipments for camping out were produced, and the following named students of the University selected, each having special charge of the department named : I. S. Raymond, Botany; W. A. Reiss, Entomology; S. A. Reynolds, Geology;