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1905]

PKOCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OF TRUSTEES.

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spent in the office of D. W. Langton, a landscape gardener in New York City, and three years in the planting department of Messrs. Olmsted of Brookline, Mass. In the latter office Mr. Wyman secured invaluable instructions, having been intrusted with the plant ordering and with the working up of many important planting plans. At this period in his study Mr. Wyman realized that he needed more knowledge of general design and consequently entered the architectural department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he took a two years' course in architectural. design, landscape design, and in civil engineering. During his summer vacation Mr. Wyman was associated with Mr. Chas. A. Piatt of New York, a landscape architect of the finest feeling. After a four months' trip abroad, studying landscape gardening in Italy, France, and England, Mr. Wyman came to Chicago, where he has since opened an office for the practicing of his art. During the late fall aricl the present winter, Mr. Wyman was associated with me in the improvement work at Fort Massac, where I formed a high regard for the man and bis abilities. "If the University is fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Wyman permanently, I am sure that we will be in a position to do a grade of work for the institution and the State in the subject of landscape gardening which few institutions are now in a position to do. I feel, too, that the time is fully ripe for such a movement and I hope that the above recommendation will meet with your hearty approval and that of other executive officials of the institution." The interests of landscape gardening in the University and in the State will undoubtedly be advanced if we secure the services of Mr. Wyman. It would be impossible to secure all of his time or that of any other really live landscape gardener upon any terms the University could meet, and I feel that we are fortunate if we secure a portion of the time of so good a man.

HOUSEHOLD S C I E N C E —

That Miss Susannah Usher be reappointed and given the title of Instructor in Dietetics and that her salary be increased from $1,000 to $1,100, to be paid in ten installments. That Miss Myrn Brockett be appointed Instructor in Household Science at $1,000, to be paid in ten installments. Miss Brockett is a graduate of the University of Michigan, of the class of 1892. She was a teacher in the high schools of Cassopolis and Muskegon, Mich., and at Elgin, 111., continuously from graduation until 1901, when she entered the household science course at Pratt Institute, from which she graduated in 1903, and has since been employed at Northfield Seminary, Mass. Miss Brockett is spoken of as a strong and well-trained woman, succeeding well as a teacher. That Miss Anna R. Van Meter be appointed Assistant in Household Science at $600, to be paid in ten installments. Miss Van Meter is a member of the graduating class and a woman of known skill. That Miss Charlotte Gibbs be appointed Assistant in Textiles, to give onethird time for $300, to be paid in ten installments.

BOTANY—

That Mr. J. T. Barrett be reappointed Assistant in Botany in the Experiment Station and that his salary be increased from $840 to $1,000. That Mr. Fred H. Rankin be reappointed Superintendent of Agricultural College Extension at the same salary as heretofore, $1,800. That Miss Catherine M. Mclntyre be reappointed secretary of the A g r i cultural Experiment Station. That Miss Grace Maxwell be reappointed as stenographer at a salary of $720.