Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 278]

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1927]

UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

27S

The property which the Illinois Power & Light Company needs to obtain from us would be 25 feet wide, containing .34 acre. The strip of ground between Sixth and Wright Streets has, I believe, as high a cash value as the strip east of Goodwin extending a distance of 598 feet. Adequate unloading facilities would be of considerable value to the University and I believe that if the Illinois Power & Light Company will, in addition to deeding us the .11 acre, also re-lay our switch tracks as w e would like to have them (which I think would cost a couple of thousand dollars), that w e might very well deed to them the ground they request, and I so recommend. I also recommend that if the general scheme meets with approval that the Buildings and Grounds Committee be instructed to reach a definite agreement with the Illinois Power and Light Company and to report their recommendation to the Board. Yours truly,

James M. White

Supervising Architect I concur in the recommendation, provided that any arrangements entered into shall be without expense to the University. O n m o t i o n of M r s . B u s e y , this matter w a s referred to the C o m mittee o n Buildings a n d G r o u n d s for consideration a n d report. FORESTRY EXTENSION WORK (23) Under the Federal McNary-Clarke Forestry Act the United States Department of Agriculture will provide a sum of $1,980 for forestry extension work next year, provided that the State of Illinois supplements this amount with a like sum for this work. The State Natural History Survey, through its Chief, Dr. Stephen A. Forbes, has offered to furnish the funds. The University is asked to furnish an office for the forestry specialist. I recommend that this cooperative scheme of forestry extension work be approved. O n motion of M r s . E v a n s , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted.

TRANSFER OF THE LIBRARY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY TO THE UNIVERSITY

(24) The following resolution has been received from the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation: W H E R E A S , the library of the Natural History Survey Division and the libraries of the biological departments of the University of Illinois are housed in the same rooms and shelved in the same cases, and are in charge of a single librarian, paid in part by the University and in part by the Survey, and W H E R E A S , all these libraries are freely used by the members of the Survey staff and by the faculty and students of the University, subject only to a prior right of the Survey staff to the use of the books, pamphlets, and papers of the Survey library, and W H E R E A S , it is understood by this Board that the University of Illinois is willing to take charge of the library of the Natural History Survey Division and to provide from its own funds for its care, maintenance, and increase as m a y be necessary to the work of the Survey, recognizing also the right of the Survey to its preferential use. R E S O L V E D that this Board advises the transfer of the library of the Natural History Survey Division by the Department of Registration and Education to the University of Illinois, on the following conditions: I. That each article now belonging to the library of the Natural History Survey or added to it hereafter shall bear a distinctive mark; 2. That such additions shall be made to it, from time to time, as are necessary to the work of the Natural History Survey as certified by the Chief thereof and approved by the President of the University; and