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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

SECOND

DAY'S

SESSION.

The Board met at 8:30 a. m. and adjourned to 3 o'clock p. m. in order to attend commencement exercises.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Board met at 3:30 p. m. Present—Trustees Bennett, Clemens, Cobb, McLean, Millard, and Shawhan. The Regent's report was taken up for consideration. The recommendations in regard to the connections, etc., of the water works were approved and the Regent was authorized to locate the line of water pipes within the grounds of the University. The committee on dormitories asked and were granted further time. The expenditure of the State appropriation of $2,000 for the laboratory of metallurgy and mining was referred to the Regent and Professor Comstock, with power to act. The following appropriations were made:

From State Appropriation for Buildings and Grounds— $350 for water connections. $300 for electrical laboratory. $200 for building fence on west side of campus. From State Appropriation for Cabinets— $150 for partitions and cases. $100 for work on herbarium. $50 for material for laboratory. From Current Funds— $100 for Chicago exhibition, (sundries.) $600 for advertising, $100 for commencement expenses. $50 for buildings and grounds. $200 for fuel and light. $100 for stationery and printing. $35.48 for Regent's expenses to Springfield. From State Appropriation for Apparatus and $275 for sundry purchases of apparatus. Material—

The following appointments of professors and instructors, etc., were made for the academic year 1887-8:

T. J. Burrill, professor of botany and horticulture S. W. Shattuck, professor of mathematics E . Snyder, professor of modern languages J . C. Pickard, professor of English language and literature N. C. Ricker professor of architecture J . D. Crawford, professor of history and ancient languages G. E. Morrow, professor of agriculture P. Roos, professor of industrial art and designing I. O. Baker, professor of civil engineering Wm.McMurtrie, professor of chemistry and mineralogy S. A. Forbes, professor of zoology and entomology T. B. Comstock, professor of mining engineering J . H. Brownlee, professor of rhetoric and oratory C. W. Rolfe, professor of geology D. Mcintosh, professor of veterinary science N. Butler, Jr., professor of Latin. A. N. Talbott, assistant professor of engineering and mathematics $2,000 per annum 2,000 " 2,000 " v 2,000 ' 2,000 " <k 2,000 2,000 " 1.800 " 2,000 ** 2,000 , " 1,000 * " 1,800 " 1,800 '4 1,500 " 1,800 •' 1,600 " 1,400 "