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the College of Medicine funds. The vote was as follows: Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mrs. Bnsey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore; noes, n o n e ; absent, Mr. AnBlair, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Meeker,

APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE. (8) A recommendation that Miss Maud Parsons be-.appointed assistant in Household Science and director of the lunch room in the Department of Household Science, for one year beginning Sept. 1, 1912, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) for the year. On motion of M r ; Hatch this recommendation was approved, the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore; noes, none; absent, Mr; Anthony, Mr. Blair, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Meeker.

RESIGNATION OP PROFESSOR SHATTUCK AND PROFESSOR BURRILL.

(9) The resignation of Dr. S. W. Shattuck as comptroller of the University and professor of Mathematics, to accept a retiring allowance from the Carnegie Foundation, to take effect Sept. 1, 1912. (10)- The resignation of Dr. Thomas J. Burrill as vice president of the University, professor of Botany, and botanist in the Agricultural Experiment Station, to accept a retiring allowance from the Carnegie Foundation*, to take effect Sept. 1, 1912. Action upon this matter was deferred until the next meeting of the board. . REORGANIZATION OF THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. (11) A recommendation that the board refer to its Finance Committee together with the president of the board, for consideration and report, the question as to the readjustment of the duties of certain administrative officers in the University which will be necessary as a result of the resignation of the vice president and comptroller. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved. NEW BUDGET PROBLEMS—LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT. (12) A memorandum in regard to important new questions that will be involved in the next biennial budget for the period 1913-1915, accompanied by a special memorandum in regard to the problems connected with the proper development of the University Library, as follows: I desire to call the attention of the Board of Trustees to the fact that the University now has before it a difficult and important problem, that of preparing a biennial budget for the next General Assembly. The plan of making up the budget to be presented to the General Assembly which has thus far been followed—and the only plan which under existing conditions has seemed to be workable—consisted in making a s careful estimate of the needs of the University in various departments, and stating these needs in as strong terms as possible to the Legislature. The needs of the University have always outrun the appropriations which have been" made. As a consequence, after the appropriations were made, it was necessary for the University to make up what was practically a new budget,