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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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for the purchase of apparatus and the employment of an assistant in the laboratory who will also do manikin or quiz work. (2) An assignment of three thousand dollars ($3,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the equipment of the Research Laboratory for Clinical Medicine. (3) An assignment of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the equipment and current expense of the Department of Pharmacology. (4) An assignment of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the equipment of the various clinical departments in the Dispensary. (5) An assignment of six thousand dollars ($6,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the Library of the College of Medicine, for the purchase of books, provision of cases and tables, subscriptions to periodicals, etc.

RESOLUTIONS OF M I C H I G A N BOARD OF R E G E N T S ATHLETICS. CONCERNING

(8) The following letter from the Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, transmitting certain resolutions adopted by the said Board of Regents on May 20, 1913 : The Governing Board of the University of Illinois, Vrbana, III. GENTLEMEN: At the meeting of the Regents of the University of Michigan held July 18, I Was directed to transmit to the Governing Board of each of the universities included in the Western Conference a copy of the resolutions adopted by the Regents of the University of Michigan at their meeting of May 29. I enclose herewith, from the printed minutes of the board, a copy of the resolution in question. I should appreciate an acknowledgment of the receipt of this communication, with a statement, if possible to furnish it, of the date at which the resolutions of the Regents of the University of Michigan will be placed before your honorable body. > ' Sincerely yours,

SHIRLEY W. SMITH., Secretary. A N N ARBOR, MICH., July 23, 1913.

RESOLUTIONS. (Adopted by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, May 29, 1913.) Resolved, 1. That i t ' is inconsistent with the dignity * of any university to surrender to any other authority its rights to prescribe and maintain its own rules and regulations. 2. That a university can best meet its responsibilities by reserving full power over the activities of the students under its control except where that power is expressly delegated to others under specific limitations. 3. That this board believes that an agreement can be reached upon rules heretofore adopted by the Western Conference, and that these rules, and all subsequent rules, before enforcement and adoption respectively, should be approved unanimously by the members of the conference; that under these* conditions this board would welcome a resumption by the University of Michigan of membership in the conference.

In this connection President James presented a recommendation that the resolutions in question be referred to the University Senate with power to act; such action being in accordance with the uniform policy of the Board of Trustees with reference to matters of this nature. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, the president's recommendation relating to this matter was approved.

LABORATORY F E E FOR B O T A N Y 12.

(9) A recommendation from the Council of Administration that the Board of Trustees establish a laboratory fee of two dollars ($2) for a new course in botany known as Botany 12.

On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved.

D O N A T I O N S FOR T H E M U S E U M OF N A T U R A L HISTORY.

(10) The following statement from Professor Prank Smith, Curator of the University's Museum of Natural History, with reference to two important donations recently received by the University for this Museum: In June last a collection of 2,000 birds' eggs in original sets, representing about 300 species all with complete data representing a catalog value of about $1,000 was presented by the collectors and owners, Messrs. M. K. Barnum, Superintendent of Motive Power of the Illinois Central Railway, and his brother, Major Malvern Hill Barnum of the United States Army. Last month Mrs. Thomas A. Worthen, recently of Warsaw, 111., presented a collection of marine and fresh water shells that had belonged to the- late Amos

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