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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Apr. 25

Meeting of April 25, 1907,

A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the Palmer House in Chicago, April 25, 1907, pursuant to the following notice which was sent out by the secretary April 16th: Upon the call of the President, Mr. W. L. Abbott, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at the Paimer House in Chicago at 9:00 o'clock a. m., Thursday, April 25, 1907, to authorize the granting" of diplomas to those to be graduated that day from the School of Pharmacy, and to transact such other business as may be duly presented. When the board met pursuant to this call, the following members were present: Messrs. Abbott, Davison, Lehman, McLean, Madden and Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Busey ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Blair and Hatch. President James was present.

MATTEKS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT JAMES.

The president submitted the following matters for consideration: 1. A communication from Professor To wnsend-requesting that the University contribute the sum of $50 toward the expense of publishing the transactions of the American Mathematical Society for the year 1907-8. Voted that such appropriation be made. 2. A statement that certain complaints had been made by different people of the manner in which the University was administering the law providing for the certification of public accountants,. but that, in his opinion, these statements were not justified. Voted that no action was called for at present. 3. A communication from Professor Grindley giving an account of the first meeting of a Commission for the Study of Problems Relating to Human Nutrition, appointed by the University of Illinois. The meeting was held at the Fif ch Avenue Hotel in New York City, Saturday, March 30, 1907; present, Professors J. J. Abel of Johns Hopkins University, R. H. Chittenden of Yale University, A. P. Mathews of Chicago University, and H. S. Grindley of the University of Illinois. The commission was organized by the election of Professor J. J. Abel as chairman and H. S. Grirfdley as secretary. In accordance with the recommendation of the commission, Professor Theobald Smith of Harvard University has been invited to become a member of it, and has accepted. A statement that five thousand dollars had been received by the comptroller from the American Meat Packers Association toward the expense of the nutrition investigation, and that this had been credited to the nutrition investigation fund.