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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

3d. Duplicates in my collection may be used for exchange, or for other purposes at your discretion. Witness my hand.

TYLER MCWHORTER.

A communication from a committee of t h e State Horticultural Society is herewith submitted:

COMMUNICATION FROM STATE H O R T I C U L T U R A L SOCIETY.

To the Board of Trustees University of Illinois. G-ENTLEMEN: The Illinois Horticultural Society desires to make an exhibit of trees, plants, etc., in fruitage, a t t h e World's Fair, and would like t h e assistance and co-operation of t h e horticultural department of the University in carrying forward its plans. The making of this exhibit is dependent upon the future action of t h e authorities, b u t t h e Society would like t h e consent of t h e Board of Trustees to t h e proposition a t this time in order t h a t necessary preliminary work may be done in preparing plants for fruitage during t h e summer. T h e Society will defray all expenses of work undertaken a t its direction. Respectfully submitted,

H E N R Y M. D U N L A P , Committee. CHAMPAIGN, J u n e 9, 1891.

Dr. 8. H. Peabody, Begent University of Illinois, D E A R SIR: I communicate herewith t h e request of Mr. H. M. Dunlap on behalf of t h e Illinois State Horticultural Society. I t appears to me t h a t t h e work desired can be done by t h e University horticultural department without detriment to itself in any way. The question however still remains as to whether this department should attempt similar work for itself. Should this be done t h a t for t h e Society need not be refused. While i t is desirable t h a t Mr. Dunlap's request should be answered now, it is not necessary—so far as t h e actual work is concerned—that t h e part relating to t h e exhibit by t h e department itself be specially considered until the next meeting of t h e Board of Trustees. I am very truly yours,

T. J, BURRILL.

I have thus far sought to make in this paper only such statements as concern the work of t h e University and its interests, down to t h e present time. There is much t h a t should be said touching its needs in the immediate future, and the disposition of t h e appropriations by t h e United States and t h e state, soon to fall under your control. I t does not seem to me proper t h a t I should now enter upon these topics. I must, however, express my thanks for t h e evidence this Board has shown of its confidence in me, by approving for eleven years, with such remarkable constancy and unanimity, t h e plans and propositions which I have been permitted to present. I wish to make two requests. T h e first is t h a t I may be permitted t o have t h e written statement of the acts of t h e Regent and Faculty, which I presented a t t h e March meeting, on t h e occasion of t h e inquiry into those acts pursuant to a petition of the students in re Steele and Pasfield, —entered upon and made part of t h e minutes of t h e Board of t h a t meeting. I t appears to me t h a t in a transaction of so grave a nature as t h a t was, t h a t t h e Regent and Faculty are entitled to a place in t h e record for their plea, equally with t h e findings of t h e court, and t h e expressions of gratification which the complainants were afterwards pleased to present. The second is t h a t for its beneficial influence on t h e good fame of t h e University, a statement of t h e Foster North case, including so much as has already been printed in t h e University reports, and t h e decision of the Supreme Court of t h e State of Illinois, be printed; and t h a t a t least