Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 26]

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PROCEEDINGS O P B O A R D O F TRUSTEES.

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On motion of Mr. Cobb, $200.00 was appropriated from the state appropriation for buildings and grounds to meet expenses incurred in repairs on the Chemical Laboratory and the ceiling under the stairways of University Hall, and to make. further repairs needed upon the ceiling. On motion of Mr. Harker, there was appropriated:

From current funds, for— Settees for one room Two teachers' desks Drawing desks for projection drawing Drawing desks for architecture Chairs New curtains for chapel

$60 00 35 00 50 00 45 00 30 00 60 00 $280 00

On motion of Mr. Harker, there was appropriated:

Prom the state appropriation for apparatus and material, for. ^ Microscopes for botanical work Collection of architectural drawings Models and casts for art department Band instruments and music Current expenses or physical laboratory

$200 100 30 75 50 00 00 00 00 00

$455 00

On motion of Mr. Cobb, there was appropriated:

IFrom the state acpropria + ion for cabinets, forCurrent expenses of zoological laboratory . Storage cases, same

$50 00 50 00 $110 00

The following appropriations were made of funds of the State Laboratory of Natural History for the quarter beginning October 1, 1890, on motion of Mr. Cobb:

For field work, office and incidental expenses, For salaries and assistance For improvement of the library

$250 00 750 00 125 00 $1,125 <

The sum of $25.00 was appropriated towards paying the expenses of the executive committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. The Kegent's bill for traveling expenses, f 123.31, was ordered paid from current funds. The report of the Committee on Library [see page 27] was approved. It was voted on motion of Mr. Cobb t h a t the Library Committee be authorized to expend the $1,000.00 of the state appropriation for the library.