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1901]

PEOOEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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At the September meeting of the Board it was voted that a committee be appointed to consider measures looking to the appointment of a member of the Faculty of the University as State Geologist. President McLean reported to the Secretary, October 30, that he had appointed the following persons members of such committee: Mrs. Abbott, Mr. Hatch, and Mrs. Carriel. The following resolution, offered by Mrs. Abbott, was adopted:

STATE GEOLOGIST.

Resolved, that in deciding, at the last meeting, to appoint a committee to secure the appointment of a member of the University Faculty as State Geologist, the Board acted without knowledge of the fact that the matter had been the subject of conference between the professors of geology of this and other leading universities of the State, with a view to an agreement upon a plan of procedure which would best promote the interests of geologic science; that the Board has no purpose to embarrass such conference, or interfere with the results thereof; that pending the fullest consideration of the subject by the scientific men most interested therein, the committee of the Board be requested to take no steps in the matter; that the President of the University, the Dean of the General Faculty, and the Professor of Geology are desired to confer with the authorities of other universities upon the subject, and, if practicable, arrive at an agreement which will secure cooperative action, and that in such event the committee of the Board act in accord with such agreement. President Draper announced that in accordance with authority given at the September meeting of the Board he had arranged that Prof. S. A, Forbes should attend as a delegate the convention of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations to be held in New Haven, Conn., next week. The Board adjourned.

ALEXANDER MCLEAN,

W. L. PILLSBURY,

President

Secretary,