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2. That students below this age desiring instruction in agriculture be registered in the academy. 3. That suitable courses in secondary agriculture be offered in the Academy under a competent instructor, such courses being similar to those that are now proposed for high schools generally, such instruction being modeled after the best ideals of said instruction in such schools. 4. That Farmers' Institute scholarships should follow the student whether he is registered in the College of Agriculture or in the Academy. This plan is entirely feasible from every standpoint which is known to the faculty. It serves the younger students even better than they are served now. We have this year but fifteen who are under 18 years of age, and while the number is not large, it is after all desirable to separate these students from the older people who are able to take our instruction from the standpoint of greater maturity. It may involve an additional instructor at perhaps $1,200.00, and I suggest that the President be given authority to employ such instructor. If this plan can be put into operation it will improve the grade of instruction that we can give in our University classes, it will accommodate students who come for a short time in the winter season better than they are accommodated now, and it will in every way afford superior advantages to the younger student. Inasmuch as it involves but 15 students, it is not a sweeping action, and it is a step ahead in the natural evolution toward the admission of our students on the same basis as others. It does not mean large outlay for equipment because the same equipment can be used to a very large extent which is now at hand: Indeed, it is a small matter from every standpoint. I may say that our faculty is a unit in believing that this will be a step ahead, not only in the quality of instruction but in the accommodation of this younger class of students. Very truly yours,

E. DAVENPORT,

Dean. Voted, on motion of Mr. Grout, t h a t said recommendation be approved. NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS. 16. Report from Professor H. S. Grindley in charge of nutrition investigations and the research laboratory, with a request that the Board of Trustees authorize the printing in full of the results of the nutrition investigation carried on under the charge of the research laboratory during the past two years.

URBANA, ILGU, May 8, 1909.

President E. J. James, University of Illinois: DEAR SIR—Your commission, appointed to consider the effect of potassium nitrate and potassium nitrite as present in cured meats, upon the,health of man, now in session at Urbana, begs to present for your consideration the following recommendation: The commission, after careful survey of the recorded data obtained in the experimental study carried out during the past year, are greatly impressed with the . desirability of an early publication in extended form of all the results collected, and would recommend that if possible the report of this investigation, when made public,. be presented in detailed form, so that' such general conclusions as may be drawn from the results may be accompanied by/all the data upon which the conclusions are based. The commission is fully aware that such a recommendation means considerable expense, but the members of the commission are convinced that such an expenditure will be more than justified by the scientific value of a report so presented. Rarely has such an extended scientific investigation in the field of nutrition been undertaken as the one now practically completed, and the University which has fostered the inquiry is not only deserving of congratulation upon the successful completion of such a large undertaking,