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1909]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The committee also recommends that a carpet be purchased for the Auditorium stage—about one hundred and fifty (150) yards—and that Mrs.Evans, Mrs. Alexander and Professor White be a committee to purchase it. Respectfully submitted,

W. L. ABBOTT, CARRIE T. ALEXANDER, FRED L. HATCH, LEWIS L. LEHMAN, LAURA B. EVANS,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The report of the committee was adopted on motion of Mr. Blair by the following vote: Y e a s : Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Crebs, Davison,, Grout, Hatch, Lehman and Meeker, and Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Busey;' n a y s : n o n e ; absent: Governor Deneen.

S T A T E W A T E R SURVEY.

The committee to which was referred the communication from Professor Bartow with regard to the work of the State Water Survey department reported as follows, and the report was adopted:

CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 1909.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: Your special committee to which was referred the communication from Professor Edward Bartow, director of the State Water Survey, submitted by President James, reports as follows: Your committee approves the recommendations of Professor Bartow, except that sanitary analyses should not be confined to municipal water supplies, but should be extended to private wells and water supplies when there is any suspicion that there is danger to health. Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES DAVISON, FRED L. HATCH. URBANA, I I I . , Dec. 19, 1908.

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois: MY DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES—The demand for water analysis of various kinds has so increased that the staff is kept busy with routine analyses and cannot make investigations on its own initiative as it should. For this reason I would respectfully submit the following statement for your consideration: The State Water Survey was established to make a chemical and biological survey of the waters of Illinois, with special reference to the general public welfare. It is our belief that the general public welfare is not conserved by the analyses of three classes of waters. First—The waters from wells used by but few people, if the analysis is desired merely from curiosity. Second—Water from wells used by manufacturers in their own • boilers. Third—A water, of which the composition of the mineral content is desired, that it may be commercially exploited as a medicinal water. I would recommend that the public work of the State Water Survey be confined to the following classes: First—Sanitary analyses of water supplies of any municipality, whether sent by health officers, city officials, or private parties. . ; Second—Sanitary analyses of any waters sent by or with the approval of State, county or municipal health officers, the analyses to be made in accordance witU the cooperative agreement with the State Board of Health. Third—The analyses of the mineral content of • the municipal water supplies.