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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Dec. 11 f

JResolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, That on and after the opening of the college year, September, 1901, tuition in all the regular academic departments of the University (not including the Preparatory School or the professional schools) be free, and that the Legislature be asked to appropriate for the use of the University a sufficient amount, in addition to the usual appropriations, to make good any loss of income hitherto accruing from tuition. B o t h t h e motion a n d t h e resolution were referred to t h e c o m m i t t e e of t h e whole v for consideration at a special m e e t i n g of t h e Board, to b e called by t h e P r e s i d e n t some t i m e p r i o r to J a n . 3 1 , 1901. T h e report u p o n a p p r o p r i a t i o n s was t h e n a d o p t e d as a m e n d e d . T h e Illinois S t a t e H o r t i c u l t u r a l Society, which was h o l d i n g i t s a n n u a l meeting in t h e A g r i c u l t u r a l B u i l d i n g at t h e U n i v e r s i t y , s e n t an invitation to t h e B o a r d to visit t h e Society, a n d t h e i n v i t a t i o n was accepted for 3:00 o'clock p. m. Mr. J . R. Scott a n d Mr. S p e n c e r were h e a r d u p o n M r . S c o t t ' s claim for additional compensation for h a u l i n g coal for t h e U n i v e r s i t y last year. ^" After t h e h e a r i n g t h e B o a r d voted to p a y M r . Scott $150.00 more. O n e h u n d r e d dollars was a p p r o p r i a t e d to complete t h e p a y m e n t for t h e new boilers which h a d been purohased. O n motion of M r s . Carriel, it was voted t h a t Professor B u r r i l l ' s salary b e $4,000.00 a year from J a n . 1, 1901.

STATE GEOLOGIC SUEVEY.

T h e following r e p o r t of t h e special c o m m i t t e e a p p o i n t e d at t h e N o v e m b e r m e e t i n g of t h e Board was a d o p t e d : lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee appointed to consider ways and means for the establishment of a geological survey of Illinois, submits the following report of progress: \ Your Committee arranged a conference in Chicago with representatives of the other leading universities of the State. Dean Forbes represented this University at the conference, and the suggestions which follow are largely based upon its results. We believe that conditions are favorable for asking the Legislature to establish a survey of the State so broadly organized as to cover all its geological resources; that this survey should be the creation of the State and not be subjected to special or partisan influence; that political methods should not be used to secure its establishment or support; that in the organization and administration of such survey the interests of geologic science should take precedence of all other considerations; that the work of the survey should be so organized and distributed that all competent geologists connected with the educational institutions of the State may have a share in its prosecution, and that such disposition be made of the results of the survey as will best promote educational ends and subserve the economic interests of the State, and that the principal laboratories of the survey shall be located at the State University.