Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900 [PAGE 96]

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UNIVERSITY o r

ILLINOIS.

[May

5,

$750 per annum to the State Agricultural Experiment station for the publication of my reports as State Entomologist—an arrangement which gives me the advantage of the station frank and address list, and gives the Station the benefit of regular bulletin publications on entomological subjects without any burden upon the station funds. If to these sums we add $8,000 appropriated in another bill to the State Entomologist for the destruction of the San Jose* scale, we have $35,500, which, with the addition to the State salary of the entomologist makes a total of $39,500 available for the maintenance of my entomological and general zoological operations for the next biennial period. These sums are made payable from the State treasury on receipted vouchers only, and the funds consequently do not come into the possession of the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the University. The $750 per annum to the Fxperiment Station and the $9,000 per annum.to the State Laboratory of Natural History are subject to the control of the board, the remaining appropriations being made to the State Entomologist direct. As these are the first appropriations which have been made to the State Laboratory in this form I would suggest that vouchers be made payable upon the approval of the Director of the Laboratory, and that he be required to make a quarterly financial report to the trustees. At your June meeting I will submit a scheme for the more specific assignment of these appropriations, but Tor the present I have only to ask that I be authorized to employ as entomological assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural History Miss Alice M. Beach, at a salary of $60 per month. Miss Beach is a graduate of Iowa Agricultural College, where she took extensive entomological work vnder Professor Herbert Osborn, now Professor of zoology at Ohio State University. She followed this with entomological work and teaching at the University of Minnesota and with the work of Entomological Curator at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. She is now assisting the State Entomologist of New York. As I shall have to engage Miss Beach at once to secure her, I would like to have her engagement date from June first. Kespectfully submitted,

S. A. FORBES,

Urbana, 111., May 3, 1899. Director of the Laboratory. A little later, Professor F o r b e s h a v i n g come in, a n d his c o m m u n i cation h a v i n g b e e n considered, on motion of Mr. S m i t h , it was voted to a p p o i n t Miss Alice M. B e a c h as an entomological assistant in t h e S t a t e L a b o r a t o r y of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y at a salary $60.00 a m o n t h , her e n g a g e m e n t to d a t e from J u n e 1, 1899. P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r p r e s e n t e d a c o m m u n i c a t i o n from Mr. Spencer, S u p e r i n t e n d e n t of B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s , c o n c e r n i n g t h e d i s c h a r g e of t h e head g a r d n e r , Mr. Uttenweiler, a n d t h e p r o m o t i o n of his assistant, Mr. F r e d A t k i n s o n , to his place. T h e c o m m u n i c a t i o n was referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s and Grounds. P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r p r e s e n t e d t h e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s from the profes sors of agriculture. T h e s e p a p e r s were referred to t h e special c o m m i t t e e appointed to consider m a t t e r s c o n c e r n i n g t h e A g r i c u l t u r a l D e p a r t m e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y at t h e last m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d . P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r also presented t h e following letter, which was referred to t h e same c o m m i t t e e :