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120

UNIVERSITY

or

ILLINOIS.

[June 9

MILITARY UNIFORMS.

Mr. Pillsbury, to whom with Professor Shattock, the matter of obtaining new bids for furnishing uniforms for the cadets of the Military Department of the University was referred (see page 73), reported that the committee had asked Capt. Brush to call for bids and that he had done so, and that the bids were ready for examination by the Board. The Board then referred this business to Messrs. Bullard, Brush, and Shattuck with power to act, and with instructions to report their action to the Board at its next meeting.

FELLOWS.

Upon recommendation of the Faculty of the University the following persons were appointed follows for the coming year: David Hobart Carnahan, in French. Albert Claude Hobart, in Civil Engineering. Edward Warren Poole, in Electrical Engineering. Don Sweeney, in Mechanical Engineering. Frederick William Schacht, in Zoology. Arthur Ernest Paul, in Chemistry. The Board then adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock p. m.

SESSION OF WEDNESDAY, J U N E 9, 1897.

The Board met pursuant to adjournment, the same members being present as on Tuesday. President Draper's bill for traveling expenses from December 29, 1896, to date, amounting to $149.09, was ordered paid upon recommendation of the Finance Committee. On motion of Mr. Smith the Business Manager was instructed to have a Bell telephone put into the President's house. The Secretary was instructed to answer a communication received from Capt. Wm. R. Courtney, of the Illinois National Guard, that as the South Farm, on which the University rifle range is situated is rented, and that as the tenant on the farm objects to the use of the range by others than members of the University Battalion, hik request that his company may use the range can not be granted. The recommendations of Professor Forbes, Director of State Laboratory Natural History, were presented by President Draper with his approval.

STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

To the Trustees oj the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to report that the appropriation bill for the expenses of the State Laboratory of Natural History, the Biological Station, and the State Entomologist's office has passed the Leg:sla ure as introduced, containing the following items: