Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 59]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

up the present fence, 1,400 feet of which is nearly new and could be serviceable elsewhere. This also would come from the state fund for buildings and grounds. The three items named already are—

F o r p a r t i t i o n s in d r a w i n g - r o o m F o r r e n o v a t i n g chemical building F o r fence a b o u t n o r t h c a m p u s F r o m t h e s a m e fund— F o r cleaning a n d m i n o r r e p a i r s , vacation This will leave for o t h e r p u r p o s e s and contingencies d u r i n g the y e a r . Total a p p r o p r i a t i o n STATE A P P R O P R I A T I O N S OF 1888-9. $430 00 400 00 440 00 $1,270 00 300 00 SI,570 00 930 00 $2,500 00

The balance on account of buildings and grounds—$203—is needed for care of lawn at main building, and should be so assigned. The balance on account of books and publications is in the hands of the committee appointed for the purpose. Authority is asked to use $100 for binding. Estimates for this purpose have been obtained and will be presented. Authority is asked tor expending the balance remaining on account of cabinets, $178.58, for filling up the collection of the birds of Illinois. N Professor Forbes asks for means to buy five microscopes for the department of zoology, at cost of $45 each, and a microtome at cost of $40. I recommend t h a t the balance, $185.97, of appropriation for apparatus and material for the year now closing be used for this purpose, and t h a t $90 be appropriated from the similar fund of next year. A balance remains from the fund for metallurgical laboratory of $1,415.69. This has been reserved for building furnaces for metallurgical processes, in the hope t h a t the legislature would appropriate funds to remove the heating boiler from the chemical building into the boiler house at the main building, and give the room where the boiler now stands for the furnaces. . This hope is disappointed, and the committee having the matter in charge is not prepared to recommend any farther steps, before t h e next meeting of the board. At the March meeting authority was given to purchase chemical material and apparatus for importation. Bids were obtained and the purchase awarded to Eimer and Amend, of New York city. The goods will arrive in August, and an appropriation of $625 from state fund for apparatus and material is asked to be used in payment therefor.

T H E FACULTY.

The state appropriation for the next year will permit some needed advances of salary, and it is hoped t h a t some necessary additional force may be secured. I had hoped t h a t the time would be opportune for the appointment of a professor of physics, but the needs of the mining department do not indicate t h a t t h a t work should be taken out of present hands. The most serious need is now for assistance in the school of architecture. The needs of t h a t school have already been discussed, when speaking of the apartments occupied and needed. Professor Bicker has been industrious and uncomplaining. His school is one of the flrst in the land. He is overworked, and should have aid. I regommend t h a t an assistant in architecture be appointed, and t h a t such other drawing as may be germane be added to fill up this work. This will allow longer time for instruction in mathematics, which the increasing number of engineers requires.