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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUG. 16,

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1899.

When the Board met pursuant to adjournment the same members were present as in the morning. The matter of boiler insurance was referred to Professor Breckenridge and the chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. Mr. Smith moved that the requirement of the specifications that contractors should furnish surety company bonds be waived in the case of Valentine Jobst & Sons. This motion was lost on the following vote: Yeas, Smith, Carriel, Abbott; nays, Bullard, McKay, McLean; not voting, Mrs. Flower. On motion of Mr. McKay it was ordered that the chairman of the Board and the chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grrounds be authorized to approve bonds and to enter into contracts in accordance with the awards made above. The Business Manager, Professor Shattuck, presented a report of the condition of the University funds. I t was voted that Mr. J. 0. Llewellyn should receive for his services as architect and as superintendent of the agricultural buildings a five per cent, commission on contracts let, On motion of Mr. Bullard it was ordered that he be paid now two per cent, on contracts let and that subsequently he be paid monthly three per cent, on the amount of monthly payments on contracts. I t was voted that the President of the Board, with Mr. Smith and Mr. Bullard and the Business Manager, Professor Shattuck, should visit the State Auditor and State Treasurer, at Springfield, with the view to having the arrears of interest on the endowment fund paid at once. Vice-President Burrill presented the following communication: URBANA, ILLINOIS, August 16,1899. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, At your meeting of June 27, 1899, you authorized the employment of four additional officers of instruction in the College of Agriculture and three field assistants. To fill one of the former places, Professor W. D. G-ibbs, of Ohio, was tendered an appointment as associate professor of soil physics at a salary of $1,600 a year. This he declined and he has since further declined to accept an offer of $1,800 proposed by your Committee on Agriculture. The positions in animal husbandry and horticulture have been filled by action of your Executive Committee appointing William J. Kennedy, of Iowa, as instructor in animal husbandry and John W. Lloyd, now of New Hampshire, as instructor in horticulture, each at $1,000 a year. The failure to secure Professor Gibbs has changed considerably the condition of matters in the department of agricultural physics. There seems to be no way left but to take for the chief assistant in this department a younger man than Professor Gibbs, with less preparation, and to make it possible for him to grow into the position contemplated. Reviewing the whole matter it has been thought best that that the work should be divided between two such younger men but that they should act also as field assistants, each in his own department. With this in view, I recommend the appointment of Mr. Hugh E. Ward, M. S., as instructor in soil physics at a salary of $1,000 a year, to be paid