Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 319]

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1905]

PEOCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TKUSTEES.

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8. The following request for an appropriation for additional microscopes and accessories in the physiological laboratory, made by the professor of physiology and approved by the Dean of the College of Science, is herewith submitted: "Students for physiology 4 have been registering along until the class now shows a registration nearly double that of last year. We shall be short fifteen microscopes and accessories. The actual cost of the microscope outfits alone will be $660. The accessories will be about $30.00. We shall therefore absolutely require, say, $700 for the outfits. If provision can be made for an extra hundred dollars to be used in case more students come it would be advisable. I have tried to borrow microscopes from botany and from Zoology, but they will have all theirs in use,—except possibly a half dozen old stands, which are not in order, and repairs on these will not pay. Two students cannot use a microscope at once so I can not 'double.' Very respectfully yours,

GEORGE T. KEMP."

Voted that an appropriation of $800 be made for the purchase of the desired miscroscopes and microscopic outfits in the physiological laboratory. 9. The Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station has requested that Professor Rietz of the department of mathematics, be permitted to do certain work in statistics for the Agricultural Experiment Station. He proposes to offer to Professor Rietz an opportunity for two months' service in the summer, to be exclusively devoted to this work. The Department of Mathematics joins in this request. The remuneration for the extra work in the summer would be $300, which, added to the $1,500 which Professor Rietz now receives as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, would make his total remuneration $1,800 for eleven months' work. The departments join in the recommendation that Professor Reitz' salary be fixed at this sum, and that $600 be charged to the Agricultural Experiment Station fund and $1,200 to the general University fund. Voted that Professor Rietz be permitted to do the work described and that his salary be $1,800 a year from J a n u a r y 1, 1906, distributed as recommended. 10. Profesor Stebbins requests that authority be given to let the contract for a small building and dome to cover the 4-inch telescope at the observatory. Voted to refer to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, with power to act. "The Director of the Experiment Station requests that authority be given to proceed with the construction of plans and the location of the farm mechanics building, which it is proposed to erect during the coming year, and which was authorized by a vote of the Board June 23, 1905. The buildingshould be completed and ready for ocupancy at the opening of the next college year in September. Voted that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Committee on Agriculture be requested to prepare and submit to the Board at its next meeting, proposals for the location of this building and plans for its construction. 12. The Director of the Experiment Station requests that the expense of making the Wright street extension and grading the grounds to be thrown into the general University campus should be charged to other than the Agricultural funds. Voted that, inasmuch as this g r a d i n g was an incident to the grading and preparation of the grounds and buildings intended especially