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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1922
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1920] UNIVERSITY o r IUJNOIS 117 This matter was referred to the President of the U&iversity, with power to act. APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLICATIONS (21) A recommendation that $1500 be transferred from the Reserve and Incidental Fund and appropriated for the work in printing and publications. This appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Ev&m, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Hoit; no, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Oarr, Mr. Lowdto, Mr, Trimble, Mr. Ward. tSIFTS TO T H E Q U I N E U B R A « Y (22) A statement that the Quine Library of the College of Medicine has received the following gifts of importance: From Or. Eliza Root, for many ye- :^s Dean of the Women's Medical College of Chicago, 700 volumes, files of medical journals, reprints, and a collection of pathological and histological slides; also a large framed photograph of Dr. C. W, Eai$e, one of the founders of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From Mrs. George B. Weaver of Wilmette, a daughter of Dr. C. W. Earle, a fine portrait of her father. From Dr. D. A. K. Steele, 200 volumes of lx>oks and journals and a collection of stereoscopic anatomical charts. From Dr. B. Holmes, 200 volumes of books and journals. This report was received for record and the Secretary was directed to express to these donors the appreciation >o£ the Board. NASON COLLECTION The following statement: In 1908 the University purchased a part of the extensive collections of insects and fossils made by Dr. W. A. Nason of Algonquin, Illinois. Since tliat thne Dr. Nason has died, and his heirs have generously donated t o the Uni^ersky the balance of'his collections. Mr. F. C. Baker, Curator of the Natural History Museum, reports that these remaining collections are of great value. They represent the work of a generation by Dr. Nason. Much of the material was collected in northern Illinois, all with careful data, and the whole collection, especially the insects, is carefully mounted, with a large proportion in modern insect cases ready for study. Mr. Baker reports that the material may be summarized-as follows: (23) Insects Insects Insects Insects in in in in wooden Schmidt boxes (96) paper Kny-Scheerer boxes (228) cigar boxes (42) miscellaneous boxes (36) Approximately 10,000 25,000 5|0®O 5$G© Total insects (402 boxes)— 45,000 Mollusca, land, fresh water, and marine 10,000 Herbarium, mostly plants from northern Illinois; 2^600 Miscellaneous specimens, fossils, corals, echinoderms, minerals, Indian relics i|900 Total approximate number of specimens Boxes of microscopic slides Mounting boards for insects Collecting cases 58,000 14 20 2
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