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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. PAPER R—INVENTORY JUNE 30, 1912— Concluded.

Permanent. Departments. Apparatus material. Museum illustrative.

[September 10,

Variable. Totals. Commercial material. $225 40 100 00 $ 2,789 29,516 650 140,639 11,366 1,531 10,838 75 90 73 33 89 00 10

Psychology Railway engineering Romance language Steam department Telephone system Veterinary science. Zoology Totals

$ 2,564 36 26,842 90 650 73 140,639 33 11,366 89 1,531 00 9,822 10 $1,253,922 49

$2,574 66

870 00 $59,025 00

146 00 $56,388 43

$1,369,335 92

* This includes United States Government property loaned to the University. FURNITURE'AND FIXTURES JUNE 30, 1912. Armory Gymnasium Woodshop Metal-shop Electrical Engineering Laboratory .Applied Mechanics Laboratory Engineering Hall Law Building University Hall Observatory Natural History Building Chemical Building Library ; "Woman's Building Auditorium Mechanical Laboratory President's House Ceramics Building Power Plant Physics Building Lincoln Hall Total RESOLUTIONS OF T H E ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL

$ 1,692 5,471 2,384 584 2,428 1,544 18,836 4,041 10,983 391 16,517 4,902 8,552 7,215 4,480 2,817 2,000 299 528 4,274 7,816

50 00 25 00 00 35 50 60 05 50 95 30 23 36 50 98 00 00 00 00 50

$107,760 57 SOCIETY.

President James presented for record the following set of resolutions concerning the medical school of the University, adopted by the House of Delegates of the Illinois State Medical Society at its last meeting held at Springfield, 111., on May 21, 1912:

WHEREAS The Legislature of Illinois did at one time grant the sum of $389,000 for the purpose of promoting the cause of medical education # and research byenabling the University of Illinois to provide a suitable plant for its Medical School, which appropriation was lost by the veto of the Governor; and WHEREAS, The Legislature did at its last session appropriate the sum of $60,000 per annum to the University for the support of its Medical School, which sum was lost by a decision of the Supreme Court on a highly technical point; and WHEREAS, On account of the failure of appropriation the University of Illinois has been compelled to close its Medical School, greatly to the injury of the interests of public health and medical progress in this State; therefore, be it , o c ^ , Resolved, That the Illinois State Medical Association m convention assembled, representing 5,500 practicing physicians, do hereby express our deep regret that the Legislature at its recent extra session did not reappropnate the sums already granted to the University for the purposes of medical education, thereby dealing a serious blow to the interests of the greatest educational institution of the State and setting back for an indefinite period the interests of public health in this commonwea_ ^ n ^ T h a t t h i g a s s o c i a t i o n pledge itself to the support of the policy of adequate appropriations from the State treasury for the development by the State University of the work in public health, medical research, and medical Resolved, Further, That a standing committee consisting of one from each county be appointed, whose duty it shall be to urge upon public attention, upon the Legislature, and upon the University authorities, the necessity of making adequate provision for this great public need.