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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 21,

the State Laboratory may do education a service at this time by giving its periodical publications a different form and direction. While brief technical papers should undoubtedly be published from time to time as new results of merely scientific value are obtained, I intend that our principal bulletin articles shall be prepared with the needs of the science teacher and the advanced science student especially in mind. A considerable demand has, in fact, already sprung up for such bulletin articles as we now publish, college professors especially seeking for them eagerly as a means to a knowledge of the zoology and botany of their immediate neighborhoods. Increased activity in publication has enabled us in the last two years to establish a larger and much more valuable system of exchange than heretofore, especially with European scientific societies and inscitutions. We are now receiving in exchange for our State Laboratory bulletin 181 periodical scientific publications, of which 59 are American, 28 are British, or British colonial, 26 are German, 16 are French, 12 Italian, and the remaining 40 are Kussian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese, Egyptian, South American and Japanese, Dr. C. A. Kofoid has tendered to me his resignation of his position as assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural History, a position which, in his case, involved the superintendency of the Biological Station, and the nominal rank of an assistant professor of zoology in the University. This resignation is in conseqeunce of an appointment received by him as assistant professor of zoology in the University of California. With the leave until January 1st, kindly granted to him on our behalf by the University of California, I can to advantage dispense with a Station superintendent for the remainder of the present appropriations period, and I recommend that his resignation be accepted, and that for the present no appointment be made to the vacancy thus created. His withdrawal from active Station work has necessitated some redistribution of service among the remaining members of the Laboratory staff; and I have to report for your approval the following list of assignments and salaries for the fiscal year now current: Thomas Large, Ichthyological assistant, at $85 a month; H. C. Forbes, Business Agent and Librarian, at $100 a month, and Mary J. Snyder, Secretary, and Lydia M. Hart, Artist, on the same terms as last year. I assume that the foregoing brief statement will serve the purpose of the Board as a guide to such action as I may have from time to time to request of them, but, according to my usual custom, I have undertaken the preparation of a more detailed and comprehensive report and discussion of our operations for general circulation, and 1 have to request, as heretofore, the privilege of substituting such a comprehensive paper for the present preliminary report in the transactions of the Board of Trustees. A special edition of this biennial report, as you will remember, I am accustomed to print in pamphlet form for general distribution to those likely to be interested in our work. Eespectfully submitted,

S. A. FORBES, Director.

T h e C o m m i t t e e on S t u d e n t s ' Welfare presesented t h e following r e p o r t w h i c h was a p p r o v e d : CHICAGO, Sept. 21,1900. lo the Board of Irustees of the University of Illinois: Your Committee on Students' Welfare begs leave to report that it is desirable that milk should be furnished by the University Dairy for use at the Dining Hall in pint and half-pint bottles, to be brought to the tables and lunch counter with seals unbroken, and that the same be sold at the lunch counter for three cents per half-pint and five cents a pint. The Committee also directs that a dietary list be hung on the north wall of the Dining Hall. Respectfully submitted, Committee on Students1

MARY T. CARRIEL, LUCY L. FLOWER, T H O S . J. SMITH,

Welfare.