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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 2

HONORARY DEGREES.

20. The President presented a recommendation from the Council of Administration and the Senate of the University that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred upon Professor Stephen A. Forbes of the University, and upon Honorable George B. Cortelyou, Postmaster General of the United States. I t was voted to confer at commencement the degree of L L . D . upon George Bruce Cortelyou, L L . D . and upon Stephen Alfred Forbes, P h . D . T h e Secretary stated that the records of the Board contained nothing with regard to the conferring of honorary degrees in 1903 and 1904, and asked leave, which was given, to insert in the minutes of this meeting the following: At commencement in 1903, upon recommendation of the Faculty and by authority given by the Board of Trustees, honorary degrees were conferred as follows: Upon Honorable Shelby M. Cullom, Honorable J. G. Cannon, Honorable James R. Mann and Herbert Putnam, the degree of Doctor of Laws; upon Ira O. Baker, Samuel W. Stratton, Colonel Richard P. Morgan and John A. Ockerson, the degree of Doctor of Engineering; upon Thomas M. Hunt, the degree of Doctor of Agriculture; upon John B. Wright and Mary Tracy^ ; Earle, the degree of Master of Arts. At commencement in 1904, upon the same recommendation and authority, the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Honorable W. J. Bailey, Honorable Frank White, Honorable S. N. D. North, John W. Cook and Dr. W. E. Quine; upon W. F. N. Goss and Lincoln Bush, the degree of Doctor of Engineering; upon William A. Henry, the degree of "Doctor of Agriculture. DUPLICATE DEED. The Secretary stated that in an assignment made of the University's contract No. 201, .the residence of the assignee was given as Rockford, Floyd county, Iowa, when it should have been Stitzer, Grant county, Wisconsin; that final payment having been made on the contract; he made out a deed following the assignment of the contract in the matter of residence of the grantee; that the deed was duly executed and forwarded to a bank for delivery; and that -a request had been made to have the deed changed, or a new deed made, giving the correct residence of the grantee. The Secretary further stated that he had declined to do this, inasmuch as he did not consider he had any authority to make a deed in any other form without being first so directed by the Board of Trustees. I t was ordered that a second deed should be made giving the correct resident of the grantee, and stating that it was the sa'me person named in the previous deed as a resident of Rockford, Floyd county, Iowa.

INSECTARY.

T h e following report with regard to the building of an Insectary was adopted:

! To the Board of Trustees: Your Committees on Buildings and Grounds and on Agriculture, to which was referred the question of building an insectary for Professor Forbes, the' State Entomologist, desire to report that at a meeting held May 16, 1905, the committees considered the matter with Professor Forbes and decided to recommend the building of a two-story insectary and ofl&ces for the State, Entomologists. The State Entomologist has only $3,000 appropriated for this purpose, and the two-story building would cost near $5,000.

URBANA, May 16,

1905.