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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 10,

field at once. On some other fields we are expecting to discontinue the cooperative work at the end of the present season, which will complete twelve years of investigation covering three full four-year crop rotations. In a few cases it will he best, however, to continue the present arrangement for a number of years more if it is possible to do so, even though there is no expectation that the University may ever secure legal control of the field. While it has abundantly served the purpose for which it was established, yet if we have no permanent experiment field in the locality it continues to render large service and exert large influence every year, and it adds of course annually valuable, data bearing directly upon the problems of permanent agriculture. In the list of experiment fields which has been furnished to the comptroller and to which President James refers, I think it would be better to change the expression "verbal lease from" to read "cooperative experiment field with," and will be glad to know the opinion of yourself and President James regarding this point. Yours very truly,

CYRIL G. HOPKINS. R E S I G N A T I O N OF DEAN QUINE.

(6) The resignation of Dr. William E. Quine as Dean of the College of Medicine, to take effect June 30, 19.13, or as soon thereafter as his successor is appointed.

It was voted to accept the resignation of Dr. Quine as Dean of the College of Medicine.

R E P O R T ON T H E P R I N T I N G OF T H E ALUMNI RECORD.

(7) A statement from James H. Kelly concerning' the preparation and distribution of the second edition of the Alumni Record; with a recommendation that the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) be paid to Mr. Kelley for extra work done in the preparation of this, volume.

On motion of Mrs. Evans, it was moved that this statement be printed in the minutes, and that an appropriation be made for a payment of five hundred dollars ($500) to Mr. Kelly as recommended. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Holt, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

June 9, 1913. President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. DEAR SIR : Permit me to submit herewith a statement regarding the publication of the 1913 Alumni Record. The following appropriations were made by the Board of Trustees: July 8, 1911, preliminary appropriation for second edition of the Alumni Record ; J $ 500 00 July 5, 1912, appropriation to cover expense of printing and publishing the hew edition of the Alumni Record . .* i 5,000 00 • $5,500 00 Data from the alumni, faculty members, and trustees were collected under twenty-four headings on a questionnaire mailed in November, 1911. About 60 per cent of those addressed responded to the first communication. The fifth communication, registered and containing a self-addressed, stamped envelope, was finally sent to 575 addresses. This brought responses from all but 102. For these the data were compiled from records in the registrar's office. Careful inquiry from every available source gave recent addresses for all but fourteen of these. A contract with specifications for printing three thousand copies of the Alumni Record was submitted to various printers, and the following bids were received: Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co. $4,810 00 Flanigan-Pearson Co , 3,934 00 R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. 3,825 00 On July 23, 1912, the contract was let to R. R. Donnelley & Sons for $.3,825. By February 22, 1913, two thousand two hundred (2,200) advance orders, for the Alumni Record had been received at $1.50, Because of this number of orders, five hundred (500) additional copies of the book were ordered from Donnelley & Sons at 54 cents, the contract price for additional copies. The first consignment of completed books was received from the printer April 24, 1913. The 1913 Alumni Record contains biographical sketches as follow*: Baccalaureate alumni 1872-1911 4,998 Graduate alumni to and including 1911 (but not included in baccalaureate alumni) • , 251 . Honorary alumni (not included in baccalaureate alumni) 47 • 5,296 Faculty 1,174 Trustees o 137 1,311