Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 139]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

On motion, the Regent, Professor Forbes, and the Business Agent were charged with the proper expenditure of the balance of the state appropriation for cabinets. On motion of Mr. Bennett, the subject of the preparatory department of the University, and of the advisability of discontinuing it at an early day, was referred to the Committee on Instruction, to report upon at the June meeting. Messrs. E. E. Chester, of Champaign, H. M. Dunlap, of Savoy, and H. B. Gurler, of DeKalb, were, on motion of Mr. Cobb, elected to represent upon the Board of Direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, the Illinois State Horticultural Society, and the Illinois State Dairymen's Association, respectively. Dr. S. H. Peabody was elected a member of the Board of Direction and designated as its President. Professors Burrill and Morrow were elected members of the Board of Direction, and Professor Morrow was continued' as Acting President during Dr. Peabody's absence. Messrs. Cobb, Haskell, and Bennett, of the Board of Trustees, were also appointed members of the Board of Direction, on motion of Mr. McKay. Dr. Peabody and Messrs. Cobb and Chester were made the Executive Committee of the Board of Direction. The reappointment by the Board of Direction of the present staff of the Experiment Station for one year from April 1st next was confirmed, and the salaries continued as at present.

Station Staff. George E. Morrow, Agriculturist Thomas J. Burrill, Horticulturist and Botanist. Donald Mcintosh, Veterinarian Thomas F. Hunt, Assistant Agriculturist George W. McCluer, Assistant Horticulturist .. Edward H. Farrington, Assistant Chemist William L. Pillsbury, Secretary Salary.

$600 00 600 00 1,500 1,200 1,500 2,000 00 00 00 00

Authority was given the Board of Direction to continue and repeat experiments, and to undertake new experiments, as asked in its report to the Acting Regent. On motion of Dr. Edwards, appropriations of Station funds wTere also made, as asked in the same report, and the Board of Direction was given authority to get bids for apparatus and supplies, and to contract for the same on a satisfactory bid, as asked. The following appropriations from current funds, as asked by the Business Agent, were made, on motion of Mr. Cobb: