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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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194 U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION." SELIM H. PEABODY, PH. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS. To the Regent of the University: I have the honor to submit the following report of the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, and of its transactions to August 31, 1888. I t will be remembered that the endowment granted by Congress to the several States under the provisions of the act of July 2, 1862, commonly known as the "Agricultural College Act," was emphatically the Endowment of Instruction. The duty of the institutions which should be founded upon its bounty was to teach, Only indirectly is research even referred to in this law. In naming the subjects in which instruction should be given, the law makes the mechanic arts equally prominent with agriculture, while it includes "other scientific and classical studies." The University of Illinois, during the twenty years of its existence, has never failed to give to agricultural and mechanical instruction the full prominence which the organic law designed and required. Q l t is now more than five years since a movement was made to secure from Congress authority to establish and maintain in the several States a series of Agricultural Experiment Stations. The duty of the Stations springing from this movement is to be investigation, and that in fields relating to the various departments of agricultural industry. The endowment is the Endowment of Research. J The act wThich provides for the establishment of experiment stations, commonly called the "Hatch Act," was. approved March 2, 1887. I t is as follows: An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and .sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United ^States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote -.scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural
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