Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 104]

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^PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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On motion of Mr. R a a b , assignments of funds of the L a b o r a t o r y of N a t u r a l History were made as asked by the Director, Professor Forbes:

Field, office, and incidental expenses Improvement of library Salaries and assistance Publication of bulletins Illustration of the Biennial Report of the State Entomologist. Total $375 00 1,000 00 375 00 125 00 250 00 $2,125 00

On motion of Mr. Cobb, appropriations asked by Professor Bicker were made as follows:

From the state appropriation for furnitureDesks and cases From state appropriation for apparatus and materialComputers , Camera Total., $110 00 40 00 75 00 $115 00

On motion of Mr. R a a b , there was appropriated from the United States fund—

For tools and machinery in the carpenter shop, as asked by Professor Bicker. $1,000 00

The sum t o be expended under the supervision of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Regent. F r o m the same fund there was appropriated—

For the physical laboratory. $1,000 00

On motion of Mr. Cobb, the University's membership fee of

•$25.00, in the ASSOCIATION O F AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND E X P E R I M E N T STATIONS, for the year 1 8 9 0 - 9 1 , was

ordered paid. The Treasurer's bill of $ 3 0 0 for premium paid on six per cent, bonds was ordered paid on motion of Mr. Morgan. The bond of the Treasurer for $300,000 was presented and referred t o the Finance Committee. The Board then adjourned t o meet in the University P a r l o r a t 8 o'clock a. m. the next day.

SESSION O F WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The r>oard met p u r s u a n t t o adjournment, the same members being present, except Mr. R a a b , as on the d a y before. The Regent h a v i n g presented a communication from P r o fessor Woods, declining a re-election, Mr. McLean offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the faithful, earnest, and eminently successful labors of