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1906]

PEOCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OF TKUSTEES.

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16. The faculty of the College of Agriculture recommends that a new course be announced in that college, to be known as landscape gardening. Voted that this matter be referred back for further consideration. SADDLES AND BRIDLES. 17. The head of the Military Department requests the' purchase of four horse equipments for the use of the Military Department of the University. It is estimated that the cost would not exceed $122.00. Voted that said horse equipments be purchased. 18. The Class of 1906 requests permission of the University Board of Trustees to place a sun-dial on the campus as a class memorial. Voted that such permission be given and that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds be authorized, in cooperation with the class committee, to select a suitable site. 19. I recommend that an assistant professorship in geology be created at a salary* not to exceed $1,500.00, and that the President of the University be authorized to look for a suitable incumbent for the year 1906-07. Voted that said recommendation be accepted. 20. I submit a communication from the caretaker of grounds in relation to a needed addition to the greenhouses. Voted that the communication be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for a report. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION. 21. I submit certain proposals from the staff of the Engineering Experiment Station for the assignment of $10,000.00 of the sum set aside in the budget for 1905-06 for the Engineering Experiment Station:

BUDGET No. 2, ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION.

Salaries and labor Special equipment and materials Bulletins and printing General and office expenses Total

$ 3,000 5,500 500 1,000

00 00 00 00

$10,000 00

The preliminary budget No. 1 of $20,000.00 was approved at the meeting of the Board on July 21, 1905. The equipment for "Boiler Trials with Illinois Coals" is now nearly ready. Some experiments in the Department of Civil Engineering are being arranged on the "Distribution of Pressure of Granular Masses." For this work two additional assistants will be needed. I, therefore, recommend: 1. The appointment of an Experiment Station assistant in charge of "Fuel Tests," at a salary not to exceed $1,600.00 for twelve months. 2. The appointment of an Experiment Station assistant in civil engineering, at a salary not to exceed $90.00 a month, for twelve months. It will be very desirable to have the cooperation and advice of representative Illinois organizations and industries in some matters concerning certain tests of importance which are from time to time projected. I have accordingly invited the following organizations to appoint one of their members to act on a conference committee concerning the proposed "Boiler Trials with Illinois Coals:" The Western Society of Engineers. The Western Railway Club. State Electric Light Association. State Geological Survey.