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1900.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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T h e foregoing r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s were a d o p t e d except as to t h e addition to t h e brick house.

ADVISORY BOARD, AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,

I transmit herewith the minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Board of the Agricultural Experiment Station, held June 5, 1900, and recommend that appropriations be made to meet the estimates of the Director of the Station, for expenses for the quarter ending September 30, 1900, as follows:

Salaries Publications Office Agronomy , Animal h u s b a n d r y . Horticulture Chemistry Botany.... Total $1,540 200 300 300 200 360 50 50 00 00 00* 00 00 00 00 00

$3,000 00'

It is recommended that the desire of Dean Dayenport that the words "specialist in animal husbandry" be added to his title, for use in connection with Experiment Station work, be approved. It is also recommended that, in view of the appointment of Doctor Hopkins as Professor of Agronomy, hereinbefore provided for, no additional chemist be appointed to the Station, and that the chemistry work thereof be under the direction of the specialist in agronomy. Mr. G. P. Clinton, who has served the Station for many years as assistant botanist, asks for a leave of absence for ten months from September first next. Dean Davenport recommends that the request be granted, and at half pay. I concur in the recommendation except that I am unable to approve that portion in reference to half pay. I recommend that leave be granted without pay. At the request of Doctor Burrill, and upon the recommendation of the Director of the Station, I recommend that Professor Burrill be relieved from the duties of horticulturist at the Experiment Station, and that Professor Blair be advanced to the position. I recommend that the suggestion of the Director of the Experiment Station, to the effect that Mr. W. J. Fraser be given the title of "specialist in dairy husbandry," be approved. I recommend that Mr. L. H. Smith be appointed assistant in chemistry at a salary of $750 per year. I recommend that that the suggestion of the Director of the Station, to the effect that Miss Catherine Mclntyre be given the title of " Secretary of the Agricultural Experiment Station," be approved. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s of t h e foregoing p a p e r with r e g a r d to t h e A g r i c u l t u r a l E x p e r i m e n t S t a t i o n were adopted.

DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGR AND GROUNDS.

I transmit herewith a communication from the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds touching various matters within the functions of his department and recommend that the same be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act upon the matters presented. I desire to emphasize what the Superintendent says in reference to the coal supply. The unfortunate situation of this matter during the last two years has caused an extra expense of $1,000.00 a year; and, even worse than that, we have been handling and using more dirt than coal, and at times have been seriously menaced by an entire failure of supply. Some more effective arrangements must certainly be made.