Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 94]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF T R U S T E E S .

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I have further to request the assignment (conditioned as before) of the following sums from the next appropriation for the expenses of the Laboratory during the quarter ending September 30, 1891:

For For For For For field, office, and incidental e x p e n s e s the i m p r o v e m e n t of t h e library salaries a n d a s s i s t a n c e publication of bulletins t h e illustration of t h e Biennial R e p o r t of the State Entomologist.. $375 00 1,000 00 875 00 125 00 250 00

The foregoing items are, as it will be seen, one-fourth the annual appro" priation in the bill, with the exception of those for the library and the illustration of the State Entomologist's report, which are for the whole of the annual appropriation. The insufficient appropriation made by the last legislature for library purposes has thrown us behind with respect to the books needed for current work and t h a t next to be taken up, and I should like, consequently, to use at once the whole of the library appropriation for the year. As the item for illustrations is used but once in two years, it seems hardly necessary t h a t it should be drawn from the treasury in quarterly installments. Respectfully submitted, S. A. FORBES, Director of Laboratory. On the night of the eleventh of April, Military Hall and Machinery Hall were broken open and all the small arms stored in the two places, including swords and rifles, were carried away. The perpetrators of the act have not been discovered. The rifles and some of the swords were found the next day and were brought back to their places. I immediately placed a watchman in Military Hall, and, with the advice of the President of the Board, have continued this care to the end of this term. ' The rifles were much rusted and suffered other injuries, which have caused some expense in putting them again.in order. Also Board expenses are larger than estimated. Professor Shattuck asks for these causes from current funds:

F o r buildings and g r o u n d s F o r military d e p a r t m e n t | For Board expenses I To which I m u s t add for myself, for legislative d u t i e s at Springfield s i n c e t h e April meeting, traveling e x p e n s e s SI50 00 50 00 200 00 20 94

DONATION BY T Y L E R M ' W H O K T E E .

I have the pleasure to report a valuable donation of geological specimens and books from i yler McWhorter, Esq., of Aledo, Mercer county. His letter of gift is herewith appended. As authorized by the Trustees in such cases, I have sent to him a letter of thankful acceptance, and have assured him t h a t the conditions of his gift will be respected.

ALEDO, I I I . , June 2, 1891.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I have decided to donate my Geological and Mineralogical collection, containing about twelve hundred species, to your. University on the following conditions: 1st. That this collection be placed in the museum of your University, for the instruction of the students; and t h a t a suitable acknowledgment of the donation shall be framed, and kept in an appropriate place in. the museum of the University. 2d. Each species label, which marks a specimen from my collection, shall bear my name as donor.