Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 117]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

A n d p a r a g r a p h f o u r of t h e r u l e s for amended to read a s follows:

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"4. ~No person other than the members of the classes will be permitted in the hall during class hours, excepting officers of the University or persons introduced by them. Students excused from drill for physical disability will not be allowed to exercise in the gymnasium, except on special permission of the Regent." B y t h e s a m e m o t i o n , t h e p r i n t i n g of 1 , 0 0 0 copies of t h e r u l e s w a s a u t h o r i z e d , a t a n e x p e n d i t u r e of n o t t o exceed fifty d o l l a r s , from c u r r e n t f u n d s . W i t h r e g a r d t o t h e d i s t r i b u t i o n pf t h e first v o l u m e of z o o l o g i cal a n d b o t a n i c a l r e p o r t s b y t h e S t a t e L a b o r a t o r y of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y t h e B o a r d a d o p t e d t h e following: WHEREAS, The state law, approved June, 25, 1885, making provision for the publication of a series of zoological and botanical reports by the State Laboratory of Natural History, under the charge of this Board, gives no direction concerning the distribution of such reports; Besolved, That the Director of the said Laboratory, the Librarian of the University, and the Secretary of this Board, be made a committee for the distribution of these publications; and t h a t we recommend to this committee t h a t the present edition of one thousand copies of the first volume on the ornithology of the state be issued substantially as follows: 1. To state officers and members of the legislature. 2. To state educational institutions. 3. To the colleges of Illinois. 4. To public high schools. 5. To private academies and seminaries. 6. To the public libraries of the state. 1. To scientific bodies and institutions in the United States. 8. To foreign scientific societies and institutions as an exchange. 9. To special students of ornithology within the state. 10. To American ornithologists generally. The copies remaining after a suitable supply to the persons, societies, and institutions of the above list, may be placed on sale or distributed, at the discretion of the committee. Receipts shall be taken for all the volumes issued, and an annual report of the distribution shall be filed with the Regent of the University.

The Board directed the Acting Regent to correspond with Dr. Peabody and consult with Prof. Woods with regard to the matter of procuring an engine for the machine shop, and t o report thereon at the next meeting of the Board. On motion of Mr. Bullard, one hundred dollars was assigned from the state appropriation for apparatus and material for collection of designs, etc., for the architectural drawing room. From the same fund one hundred dollars was appropriated for the purchase of a microscope for the geological laboratory. From the fund for fuel and lights fifteen dollars was assigned, to be used in putting gas fixtures into Professor Rolfe's room. From current funds fifty dollars was appropriated for a case in Professor Roos's room. From the state appropriation for apparatus and material, seventy-five dollars was appropriated for the use of the physical laboratory.