Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 116]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

92

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. To complete the wiring under the new 220-volt system would cost, Estimate.

[ J u n e 8,

Additional fixtures Sockets and wiring of fixtures Incandescent lamps for entire building

$200 00 Labor of making the change 110 00 I Incidentals 150 00 Total Yours respectfully,

MORGAN BROOKS,

$150 00 40 00 $650 00

Professor

of

Electrical

Engineering.

4, 1903.

URBANA, ILLINOIS, J u n e

President A. S. Draper, University of Illinois, DEAR S I R : A few months ago Professor Williams at your request made a report on the condition of the electric wiring of the University Buildings, finding many points to criticise. Several of the really dangerous conditions were immediately remedied, but many improvements in the wiring, especially with reference to its neat appearance, could be made to advantage. At the same time the overhead wiring south of University Hall should be removed as far as the south end of the Agricultural Building. The arc-light circuit may give a little trouble in removal; the rest will be comparatively easy. I t is difficult to estimate with any great certainty on repair work, but if $275 were allotted to the above work, I think it could all be accomplished in good shape. Of this estimate $125 is for material and $150 for labor. Yours respectfully,

MORGAN BROOKS,

Professor

of Electrical

Engineering.

STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

I transmit herewith a report from Director "Forbes of the State Laboratory of Natural History, and recommend that his request for authority to employ Mr. E. E. Eichardson at $800 per year, and Mr. F . M. Webster at the same salary, for half his time, be approved.

It was so ordered.

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois: The principal function of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, as established by law, is the making of a biological survey of the State and the publication of the results of this survey in the form of bulletins and final reports. It is, consequently, an institution for research and not for instruction. On the other hand, its facilities have been held at the call of the University for purposes of instruction so far as practicable, especially during the summer vacation. A promising beginning with a series of summer schools of biology was made some years ago, and two such schools were held when the Station was established at Havana, but the introduction of a summer term at the University led to their suspension. Last year a similar opening of the Station, then established at Ottawa, was contemplated, and a plan to that effect was informally presented to the Trustees, but the extension of the biological work of the summer term to cover in part the objects of this opening made it impracticable. As the State Laboratory has no corps of instruction and no funds available for teaching, it can only act in this field through the University instructors, and it has been commonly regarded by all concerned as impracticable with the present force of the University, to maintain to advantage two lines of biological instruction, one at the University and one at the Biological Station. The investigation work of this Station has recently been concentrated almost wholly upon the fishes of the state, a final report on which is now in process of rapid preparation. Work upon this report has been greatly embarrassed by failure to find experienced and well trained assistants competent to aid me in the organization of