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1899.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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state or first grade county certificate, and that entrance to classes be conditioned only upon the approval of the instructor and the President of the University or other principal administrative officer. We think that the fees might well be substantially the same as for other University work; namely, $10 for matriculation, a term fee equal to half the semester iee, when this shall be determined by the Board, and the usual tuition fee to special students for those attending the summer school without matriculation. As it is important that definite action upon this proposition be taken without delay, we earnestly request that it may be passed upon at this meeting of the Board or referred, in form for final action, to a committee ad interim. Respectfully submitted,

T. J. BURRIL,

Dean General Faculty,

S. A. FORBES,

Dean College Science,

E. DAVENPORT,

Dean College Agriculture. Your Committee on Instruction recommends that 1 a summer school be held according to the plan set forth above. Respectfully submitted,

J. E. ARMSTRONG, .

Chairman of Committee om Instruction. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e C o m m i t t e e was adopted, a n d an a p p r o p r i a t i o n of $3,000 was m a d e for t h e p a y m e n t of expenses a n d salaries. I t was voted, on t h e suggestion of Professor F o r b e s , t h a t t h e aski n g s for t h e S t a t e laboratory of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y a n d t h e S t a t e E n t o m oligist go i n t o t h e " g e n e r a l a p p r o p r i a t i o n bill,*' if t h e consent of t h e S e c r e t a r y of S t a t e t h e r e t o can be secured. O n motion of Mr. Bullard, it was voted t h a t w h e n m a t t e r s conc e r n i n g t h e S t a t e laboratory of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y should be u n d e r cons i d e r a t i o n by t h e B o a r d t h e D i r e c t o r of t h e L a b o r a t o r y should be present. Mrs. Flower suggested t h e a p p r o p r i a t e n e s s of t h e b o a r d ' s a d o p t i n g r e s o l u t i o n s i n memory of Professor T u r n e r , recently deceased, The P r e s i d e n t a p p o i n t e d M r s . Flower, Mr. Bullard, and Mr. A r m s t r o n g to p r e p a r e t h e s e resolutions:

RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING PROFESSOR JONATHAN BALDWIN TURNER.

To the Board of Trustees. Jonathan Baldwin Turner died at Jacksonville, in this State, on Wednesday, January 11th, in his ninety-fourth year. The fact is entitled to more than a passing notice by this Board, for the circumstances which insure his memory an enduring- place in the esteem and gratitude of all interested in the University are singular and exceptional. He came to Illinois in 1832. He was a graduate of Yale. College graduates were very rare in the Mississippi Valley at that time. It is doubtless within the fact to say that there were no others of his strong physique., his broad outlook, his interest in practical affairs, his gifts as a public speaker, and his aggressiveness as a humanitarian. For fifteen years he was a teacher in Illinois College at Jacksonville. He was always intensely interested in educational work and an unfaltering friend of the public schools. He was a marked figure in the town and gave it strong support; he was well known