Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1908 [PAGE 34]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 25

The sum of $4,000 is requested by Professor Bay ley for additions to the equipment in the Department of Mineralogy. Professor Rolfe and Dean Townsend approve the request. I find on inquiry that this sum may be distributed, half for the current year and half for the following, without materially injuring the work of the department. Voted to defer the consideration of this item until later in the session. 7. An arrangement was made under authority given me by the Board of Trustees by which Mr. R. C. Purdy and Mr. Krehbiel of the Department of Ceramics were to give certain service to the Geological Survey. This service has been rendered and the Geological Survey has paid over the sum which is allowed ior this work, amounting to $855.00. I recommend that this sum be applied to the use of the Department of Ceramics, and that similar funds in the future be assigned to the same department. Voted that t'his recommendation be approved. DEPARTMENT OF ART AND DESIGN. 8. Professor F. F. Frederick, head of the Department of Art and Design, has resigned his position since the last meeting of the board, to accept the principalship of the School of Industrial Arts at Trenton, N. J. I am not at present prepared to make any recommendation for the headship of this department. I have asked Mr. E. J. Lake to act as head of the department for the present year, and have appointed Mr. E. V. Lawrence as instructor in the department for the present academic year, beginning Sept. 1, 1906, at a salary of $1,000. Voted that the action of the president in these matters be approved. I t was also voted that the matter of employing another person in this department be left with the president with power to act. The board then took a recess until 1:30 o'clock p. m.

Afternoon Session, September 25, 1906.

After the recess the same members were present as in the morning, and further matters were presented by the president. CO-OPERATION WITH UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ETC. 9. I presented to the board in an informal way at a previous meeting a proposed scheme of cooperation during the period of twelve months from July 1, 1906, between the United States Geological Survey, the State Water Survey, the Engineering Experiment Station and the State Geological Survey to provide for a comprehensive survey to determine the character and applicability of the natural waters of the State. The plan, which seemed at first likely to fail on account of the failure of appropriations to the United States Geological Survey, has been finally worked out in all its details, and I submit the agreement which was signed by the different parties to the same, for approval and record in the minutes of the board. Voted that the agreeement be approved and printed in the minutes of the board. This agreement, made and entered into this first day of July, 1906, between Charles D. Walcott, director, for and on behalf of the United States Geological Survey, of the first part, Edward Bartow, director, for and on behalf of the State Water Survey of Illinois, of the second part, L. P. Breckenridge, director, for and on behalf of the Engineering Experiment Station of Illinois, of the third part, and H. Foster Bain, State Geologist, for and on behalf of the State Geological Survey of Illinois, of the fourth part.