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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROPRIATIONS.

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President Draper recommended an appropriation of $75 for lighting the chapel by electricity, and the matter was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act. President Draper also recommended an appropriation of $500 for the, department of physiology for current expenses. The recommendation was referred to the Finance Committee, and by the chairman of the Committee, Mr. McLean, at once reported back with the approval of the Committee, and the appropriation was thereupon made. On the ground of merit, Miss Edith Stave was recommended to an honorary scholarship in music, the value of the scholarship to be the amount of her music fees, and the scholarship was granted. President Draper suggested that it would be well to have now and then free lectures to the students on subjects specially connected with their studies, and $500 was appropriated to defray the expenses of such lectures.

STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

President Draper presented the report of the Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, and the report was received and ordered printed on motion of Mr. Bullard. [For this report see page 340, 19th Report.] President Draper also presented a report from Professor Forbes with regard to transmittal of communications from the State Laboratory of Natural History. This matter was referred to the Committee on Instruction.ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY.

At the request of Professor Myers, Director of the Astronomical Observatory, President Draper presented the following resolution and recommended its adoption: WHEREAS": Professor G-eprge C. Comstock of the Washburn Observatory, Madison, Wisconsin, has permitted our Observatory to connect with the institution he directs for an exchange of signals for longitude, has himself taken care of the Madison part of the work of exchange, and has enabled us to profit by his extended experience and excellent judgment in work of this sort; and WHEREAS: Mr. W. W. Ryder, Superintendent of Telegraph of the C , B. & Q. railway, has loaned the University valuable instruments and ably represented its needs to the officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company; and WHEREAS: This latter company, through its representative, Mr. C. A. Tubbs, of Chicago, has permitted the University the free use of its lines between Champaign and Madison, Wisconsin, for an hour an evening from June 17 to July 9, for the above mentioned exchange of electric signals; and WHEREAS: Professor W. W. Payne of G-oodsell Observatory has loaned Observatory a personal equation machine for use throughout the exchange of signals; therefore be it Besolved, That we, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, do hereby extend to these men, severally and collectively, and to the Western Union Telegraph Company and its local agents in Champaign and Madison