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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

upon authority of your Executive Committee, has accepted the proposition and entered upon the work. He is to receive a certain monthly compensation, and asks t h a t this be made known to you for such action as you may deem proper. I present also here a communication from Professor Morrow, accompanied by a letter from President Afcherton of Pennsylvania State College, with regard to a collective exhibit by land grant colleges at the World's Columbian Exposition:

U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, December 8, 1891.

Br T. J. Burrill, Acting Regent, D E A R SIR: A S I have the honor to be a member of each of the two committees to which President Atherton refers in the accompanying letter, and thus have had the opportunity to become somewhat well informed concerning the plans for the proposed collective exhibit of colleges and experiment stations in the Agricultural Building at the Exposition in 1893, I take the liberty of expressing the wish t h a t the Board of Trustees may give its approval to both proposals. The chief exhibits from this University and its Experiment Station must be in the state building. I believe, however, we may without injury to this state exhibit contribute something to the collective exhibits and t h a t these exhibits will do us good in many ways. Among others helping to call attention to our separate exhibits, which I think we may expect to be the most extended and complete of any made by an institution of like character in the country. Chief Buchanan, of the Agricultural Department of the Exposition, and Assistant Secretary Willis of the National Department of Agriculture, are especially interested in these collective exhibits, and will do all in their power to make them attractive and useful. I do not think it necessary at this time to make any specific statement as to what we may be able to furnish, but feel confident t h a t an expression of interest and approval would be helpful; more especially because we are in so fortunate a position as to a separate exhibit. Yours respectfully,

G. E. MORROW. T H E P E N N S Y L V A N I A STATE COLLEGE, November 7, 1891.

D E A R SIR: At the last meeting of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, provision was made for the appointment of a committee representing the colleges, but to act in co-operation with the committee already appointed for the Experiment Stations, for the purpose of arranging and carrying out a plan for securing a proper exhibit of the work of these colleges at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893. The two committees have recently held a joint session in Chicago, where they conferred with the Chief of the Department of Agriculture, the Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts (which includes Education), and the Director General. After a full and frank interchange of views a plan was formulated in Outline which met the approval of all parties, and was subsequently affirmed at a joint meeting of the two committees, with instructions to communicate it to all institutions interested, and to invite their prompt and hearty acceptance and co-operation. The two main features of the plan are as follows: 1. T h a t there shall be in the Agricultural building, in connection with the Experiment Stations, and, as far as possible, integrally united with them, an exhibit of a typical institution founded on national grants and organized and supported by state action. This does not mean t h a t any single institution will be adopted as fully representing the assumed type,