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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

survey. I have hitherto been deterred from taking this course by t h e fact already mentioned, t h a t the University might thus lose such incidental advantages as come from the location of the office here, and by the farther fact t h a t if this consequence should follow, the work of t h e office itself would almost necessarily suffer seriously, since the existing association with the University, the Agricultural Experiment Station, and t h e State Laboratory of Natural History, is in the highest degree helpful to it. "(2) My university duties and responsibilities might be lessened, if 'thought best, by the appointment of an assistant professor to divide t h e work of the department with me. This would require for a competent person, a salary of $1,500 to $1,800. "(3) An appropriation might be made for assistance in my state laboratory work sufficient to enable me to engage men competent to investigate and report without detailed supervision. An assignment of $1,500 a year to the State Laboratory for increase of salaries would probably suffice. If $500 a year could be added to this sum it would enable me to carry out at once a long cherished purpose of establishing on the Illinois river (probably at Havana) a permanent biographical station, for continuousinvestigation work throughout the year. As my laboratory assistants already bear a considerable share in the instructions of the university students—one of them, for example, having principal charge of my entomology class this year—and as the permanent station proposed would be an effective means of stimulating and aiding original work by students both in my department and t h a t of Professor Burrill, there would seem to be no impropriety in such assignment of university funds."

CATALOGUE.

A t your last meeting authority was given to make changes affecting: t h e courses of study, and for other minor announcements in the catalogue. Authority is now asked for your committee on publication t o make such adjustments of matter presented as seems necessary to secure uniformity and agreement, and to have 6,000 copies of the catalogue printed. I t seems to me desirable t h a t the preparatory school m a t t e r should be published separately, except t h a t a simple outline of course and admission conditions may be included in the general catalogue.

APPROPRIATIONS.

The following requests for appropriations are hereby submitted to yQu for your consideration: For examination of high schools $100 00 For a certificate for accredited schools 150 00 For military supplies 22 00 For The Technograph 100 00 For acting regent's expenses 43 85 For commencement expenses 200 00 For typewriter and cabinet for regent's office 120 00 I hand you herewith, making them a part of my report, a report from the agricultural department by Professor Morrow, and also a report of the board of direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

REPORT FROM FARM AND AGRICULTURAL D E P A R T M E N T .

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, March 6, 1894.

Dr. T. J. Burrill, Acting Regent, D E A R SIR: I respectfully present the following report from the agricultural department of the University for t h e quarter ending March L 1894. The receipts for the university farm have been $761.22; expenditures, #69,73; leaving balance to credit of $691.49. All t h e stock belonging t o