Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 25]

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21 house, barns, drainage, tools, trees, etc.; $25,000 for mechanical and military building, machinery, etc.; $75,000 to begin the erection of the main building, which is to cost $150,000$ $10,500 to furnish the chemical laboratory j and $20,000 for library and apparatus.

LIBRARY.

The library, which has been carefully selected with reference to the scientific studies required in the several practical courses, includes now about 8,000 volumes. The large library hall is fitted up as a reading room, and is open every day and evening for study, reading and consultation of authorities. It is well provided with American, English, French and German papers and periodicals, embracing some of the most important scientific and art publications, monthlies, quarterlies, etc. The following is a list of the periodicals regularly received at the library:

Agricultural. American Agriculturist. Carolina Farmer. Colman's Kural World. Cultivator and Country Gentleman. California Fanner. Chemische Ackersnian. (German.) Hearth and Home. Journal d'Agriculture. (French.) Massachusetts Ploughman. Michigan Farmer. National Live Stock Journal. Northwestern Farmer. Prairie Farmer. [Reconstructed Farmer. Bural New Yorker. Southern Planter and Farmer. Southern Cultivator. Western Eural. Western Farmer. Willamette Farmer. Western Agriculturist. Horticultural. Gardener's Monthly. Horticulturist, La Propogation. (French.) Bevue Horticole. (French.) Engineering. American Builder. Architectural Beview. Le Moniteur des Architects. (French.) Mining Journal. (London.) Manufacturer and Builder. Railroad Gazette. Publication Industrielle. (French.) Scientific Press. Scientific American. The Builder. (London.) The Workshop. Von Nostrand's Eel. Eng. Magazine. Natural Science. Annalen der Physic. (German.) American Naturalist. American Journal of Science. British Journal of Science. (London.) British Microscopic Journal. (London.) Comptes Bendus. (French.) Geological Magazine. (London.) Journal of Franklin Institute. Nature. (London.) Philosophical Magazine. (London.) Educational. Chicago Schoolmaster. Hlinois Teacher. Maine Journal of Education. Michigan Teacher. Literary. Athaeneum, (London.) Atlantic Monthly. Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburg Beview. London Quarterly. North British Beview. North American Beview. Bevu des Deux Mondes. (French.) Scribner's Magazine. St. Paul's Magazine. The Nation. Westminister Beview. Language. Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Lit. News. Hlinois Staats Zeitung. Universe Illustre. (French.) Centralia Sentinel. Champaign Gazette. Chicago Post.