Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 13]

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UNIVERSITY

O F ILLINOIS.

Professor Forbes asks t h e following assignments from t h e state appropriation for cabinets, in which requests I concur:

For For For For work and material mounting birds.... wax models—comparative anatomy. .. glass jars and alcoholic preparations. labor in museum $150 11 200 00 50 00 50 00 $450 11

Professor Forbes, as Director of t h e State Laboratory of Natural History, presents a communication touching t h e needs of t h a t department. I have to request t h a t authority be given to t h e usual committee to expend t h e state appropriation for books and publications, for t h e current year. Also, from t h e state appropriation for apparatus and material,

For a typewriter for the Regent's office For tools for architectural shop For set of reloading tools for military department. Also from current funds, For repairs of rifle range

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150 00 40 00 25 00

Authority was given at t h e March meeting for t h e purchase of chemical supplies for t h e ensuing year. This preliminary action is necessary, as most of these supplies are purchased abroad, and are imported for t h e University duty free. ISTo assignment has been made for payment for this purchase. I recommend the appropriation for this purpose,

From current funds (balance turned over by chemical department). From state appropriation, apparatus and material $400 00 250 00 $650 00

I present t h e quarterly report of t h e Board of Direction of t h e Experiment Station. I present also t h e quarterly report of t h e Professor of Agriculture. Respectfully submitted,

SELIM H. PEABODY, Regent.

PAPERS PRESENTED WITH THE REGENT'S REPORT.

STATE LABORATORY OF N A T U R A L HISTORY.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: G E N T L E M E N : I have to request at t h e present time t h e following routine action with respect to t h e State Laboratory of Natural History: 1. That I be authorized to pay Professor Burrill $200 for his services as botanist to t h e Laboratory of Natural History during t h e current year. 2. T h a t t h e following assignments of t h e state appropriation for t h e Laboratory be made for t h e year ending June 30, 1889: For t h e Held work and t h e office and incidental expenses, $1,000; for t h e improvement of t h e library, $1,000; for t h e pay of assistants, $3,000; and for the publication of bulletins, $300. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. FORBES, Director of Laboratory.