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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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124 was decided that, as other lectures had been provided for that term to the full extent of means, the request would be considered at some future time. The meeting then adjourned, to meet again at the call of the Eegent. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871. The Executive Committee met on Thursday, January 19, 1871, at 3 o'clock, P. M., pursuant to call of the Eegent. Present—Messrs. Brown, Cunningham, Goltra, Lawrence, Pickrell, Wright and the Eegent. Absent—Messrs. Cobb and Griggs. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was dispensed with. The Eegent made a verbal report on the work carried on in the various departments. The sickness of the head farmer, Mr. G. S. Upstone, had necessitated the engagement of Mr. G. M. Eice, of Champaign, who being present, gave a statement of the work on the farm, and also concerning the stabling, feeding, and present condition of the cattle and hogs recently purchased. In the Horticultural Department, grafting was in progress. Four hundred scions, of leading varieties, had been received from Mr. Chas. Downing, N. Y., and quite a number from Hon. W. C. Flagg, of Alton. Preparations for the spring work were being made. One of the horses ordered to be sold at the last meeting had since died. The heating apparatus in the new green-house has been completed, and is in full and satisfactory operation. In the Mechanical Department, desks for eighteen students in the Chemical Laboratory had been made. Two large cabinet cases for the reception of zoological specimens and philosophical apparatus, are nearly completed. A thermometer graduating machine for an eastern manufacturing establishment, had been constructed, for which $150 were received. The winter term of the current year had been entered upon with an increase of twenty-seven new students, and the lecture season of two weeks is closing to-morrow.
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