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1904. J

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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In making this disposition of my husband's books, I feel that I am carrying out what would be Mr. Palmer's wishes in the matter. Enclosed please find a list of the books prepared by Professor Grindley. I remain, my dear President Draper, as always, most sincerely your friend,

A N N A SHATTUCK P A L M E R . ' '

The list embraces 367 volumes and 446 pamphlets, valued by Professor Grindley at more than one thousand dollars. I recommend that the gift be accepted upon the conditions named, and suitably provided for in the Chemical Building, and that the appreciation of the Board be expressed to Mrs. Palmer. The work of the Department of Chemistry for the balance of the year has been arranged between the professors and instructors in charge. I t is not practicable to secure other competent aid for the period. The Board may very properly, as it seems to me, make some adjustment of Professor Palmer's unpaid salary for the year with his wife. I t is not too much to say that he gave his life through the intense interest in his science and his unsparing devotion to his University. The circumstances will justify the Board in going to the limits of its discretion in the premises, and I should be very glad if the Board might feel justified in paying the salary for the balance of the year. 2. Miss Katharine O'D. Manley has, because of ill health, resigned as Order Clerk in the Library. I recommend that Mr. Francis K. W. Drury, heretofore her assistant, be advanced to the position, and that Miss Anne D. Swezey, B. L. S., Illinois, 1903, be appointed as assistant at $60.00 per month to commence as of March 1st, and continue until September 1st. 3. I recommend the appointment of Victor Tyson Wilson as Assistant Professor of General Engineering Drawing in charge of the department, to begin September 1, 1904, at $1,600. 4. I transmit a letter from Dean Burrill of the Graduate School recommending that students in that school, and in residence, be hereafter charged the term fee the same as others in the University, and that such students not in residence be charged $15 for examinations for the master's degree. I t is the understanding that this should not apply to the holders of University fellowships. I approve this recommendation, and advise its adoption. 5. I transmit the recommendations of the several advisory agricultural boards touching the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and advise that they be adopted. 6. I transmit the estimates of the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Directors of the Experiment Station covering appropriations, and recommend that they be adopted, as follows:

From U. 8. College funds From State College funds From interest on endowment From U. 8. Station funds From Keceipts— College, agronomy College, animal husbandry... College, dairy husbandry College, household science (fees)

$2,600 00 2,000 00 6,700 00 3.750 00 10 00 1,439 18 2,521 77 200 00

State Station, soil investigations. $ 822 77 State Station, corn Investigations 984 24 State Station, feeding experiments 11,718 85 State Station, treatment of orchards 1,000 00 U. 8. Station, agronomy 982 22 U. S. Station, dairy husbandry... 42 78

Eespectfully submitted,

A. S. DRAPER