Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 209]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

versity park and arboretum with suitable fences, and much fencing elsewhere. The construction of a boiler house and chimney in the rear of the main building, and the removal of the boilers, thereto from the main building. The building of fire walls in the mansard roof of the main building, and the improvement of the ventilation therein. The building on the north farm of a dairy house and a farm cottage. The building of a small observatory for the accomodation of the theodolite. The building of a gunhouse, and the removal thereto of the artillery and ammunition from the machine shop. The consequent enlargement of the carpenter's shop, as also of the machine shop, and the addition of several thousand dollars' worth of tools and machines in each of these departments. The building of a blacksmith-shop and foundry, with suitable equipment of tools. The rearrangement of the physical laboratory and lecture room, and the preparation' of a room for the study of electrical measurements in the east basement of the main building, with purchase of a dynamo and accompanying apparatus. The equipment of the botanical laboratory, and fitting for its use of two rooms in the basement. The transfer of the State Laboratory of Natural History from Normal, and the arrangement of the west basement into suitable apartments for the use of this* laboratory, the office of the State Entomologist, and the zoological laboratory of the University. The purchase of a large testing machine, and the opening of a testing laboratory at the machine shop. The re-furnishing of the assaying laboratory. The equipment, at a cost of several thousand dollars of a laboratory of mining and metallurgy now in progress. The opening of the large hall of the upper story of the west wing for the reception of a museum oi; industrial art, which is already filled with work from our own shops, and with the many objects of interest returned from the exposition at New Orleans; and the installation of the Victor Emanuel memorial therein. The completion of cases in the library; and a multitude of other items designed to facilitate instruction in every department of the University. I n many respects the corps of instruction remains unchanged. Ten of the professors have been in the service of the University for periods of from ten to twenty years. The department of zoology has been reorganized, and with the State Laboratory shares the labors of a professor and an assistant professor of zoology. Other appointments have been: a professor of geology; a professor of mining engineering; a full professor of mechanical engineering; a professor of Latin; a professor of rhetoric and oratory; an instructor in modern languages, and an instructor in drawing. Other appointments are not named because, when made, they were made to fill vacancies, and were not extensions of the facilities of instruction. Courses have been extended or reconstructed to make the most of the work of these new laborers.