Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 71]

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UNIYEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

Eight hundred dollars was appropriated from the United States fund for the use of the department of physics and electrical engineering, to be expended by Professor Shea, the business agent, and the regent. Forty dollars was appropriated from the U. S. fund for the testing laboratory. Thirty-seven dollars from state appropriation for apparatus and material was appropriated for civil engineering. One hundred and fifty dollars from the U. S. fund was appropriated for t h e purchase of a planimeter and an integrator for the engineering college. From the U. S. fund $40 was appropriated for materia medica for t h e veterinary department. From the U. S. fund $400 was appropriated for the purchase of microscopes for the zoological department. From the U. S. fund $400 was appropriated for t h e use of the mechanical department. From state appropriation for apparatus and material $30 was appropriated for the use of the art department. Two hundred dollars was appropriated from the state appropriation for apparatus and material for procuring apparatus to be used in experimental psychology. On motion of Mr. Cobb, assignments of funds of the State Laboratory of Natural History were made as follows, for the quarter ending March 31, 1893: For field, office, and incidental expenses $375 00i For salaries . and assistance 875 00 For publica^on of bulletins 125 00 Assignments of Experiment Station funds and authority to undertake new work were granted, as asked in the report of the board of direction, of t h e Station. Authority wa"s also given the board to order for the laboratories of the Station, on satisfactory bids, chemical supplies and apparatus to the amount of $225, and botanical supplies and apparatus to the amount of $50. The committee on buildings and grounds made the following report: To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee on buildings and grounds reports in regard to the petition of the women students asking the trustees to erect a women's dormitory and boarding hall, t h a t it thinks it impossible, with the present income and the large increase of appropriations required in the educational department, to undertake this matter in the near future. We believe this work might be undertaken by the citizens of Champaign and Urbana with prospect of results t h a t would be as creditable to them as useful to the University, the board of trustees being in entire sympathy with such a movement. We further report t h a t we have had drawn new plans and have had estimates prepared for three new buildings in accordance with your instructions. The short time allowed enabled us to prepare sketches in t h e simplest form only, but the estimates have been carefully made. The library building is designed with book rooms in the central part, and th;^ reading rooms in the wings. The building, with, book rooms a n d one wing, can.be erected for..$125j:Q0O The second wing may be added at a later date f o r . . . . . .7.0^000' TW:TOu£eum building will'tost': : /:1 : .\-^ .:'..:. ::;:.;•,...........,.;:;:..'•. ^ 0 0 ( > . l :; The engineering building will cost i V\'.. f;. V;:.". • - : . 160yu$)» These estimates include heating, apparatus, and furniture.