Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1868-1869 VERSION A [PAGE 20]

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20 object to establish and maintain that high toned, refined, and honorable public sentiment, which is at once the best safeguard against meanness and vice, and a constant inspiration to nobleness and virtue. DONATIONS. In addition to the donations heretofore acknowleged, the officers of the University take pleasure in acknowledging the following: Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Hon. John A. Logan, Hon. S. M. Cullom, congressional documents and speeches. Harper Brothers, Publishers, New York, set of classical text books and histories. D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, New York, several text books. Sheldon & Co., Publishers, New York, several text books. A. S. Barnes & Co., Publishers, New York, 1 set Mathematical and other text books. J. Davis Wilder, Chicago, 8 yards paper black board. J. H. Pickrell, Harristown, 111., 1 large and beautiful colored lithograph of group of Durham cattle. Edgar Sanders, Florist, Chicago, several flower bulbs. A. Blumenschein, Florist, Chicago, collection of green-house plants. T. A. E Holcomb, South Pass, 111., collection of Roses and green-house plants. Hovey & Co., 15 varieties of flowers. W. C. Flagg, barrel of Catalpa seed. Dr. J. A. Warder, 400 Grape cuttings. Messrs. Pettigrew & Reed, 100 Fuchsia cuttings. W. C. Mann, Gilman, 20,000 Hedge plants. H. Michel, St. Louis, 24 Green house and bedding plants, and 6 Dahlias. Samuel Edwards, LaMoille, 10,000 White Pine .seedlings. Northwest Fertilizing Company, 320 lbs. Raw-bone super phosphate. S. M. Haywood & Son, Pana, 2 bushels red Genesee Wheat for seed. M. C. Goltra, Jacksonville, seed Corn. John Burchard, Beloit, Wis., Gates and Castings for self-opening gates. E. M. Potter, Kalamazoo, Mich., Potter's Three-horse Clevis. Collins & Co., Hartford, Conn., per H. H. Taylor, agent Chicago, 1 cast caststeel plow with steel beam. John D. Platt, Warren, 111., 1 Curtis patent Fanning mill. J. H. Halsted, Springfield 111., 1 patent adjustable Harrow.