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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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SJ, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. kinds; a considerable collection of small grains and of grasses; a collection of fibres in various states of manufacture, and a series of analyses of grains, showing at a glance the elements and proportion of structure. The museum contains full lines of illustrations of the work of the shops: models made at the University or purchased abroad; drawings in all departments; Patent Office models, etc.; samples of building materials, natural and artificial; a large collection illustrating the forestry of Illinois, Florida, and California: with whatever may be secured that will teach or illustrate in this most important phase of university work. The exhibit made by the University at the Centennial and at the Cotton Exposition at Xew Orleans, finds a permanent abode in this apartment, and very large additions have been made of materials received from the Columbian Exposition of 1893. A notable feature of this collection is the gift of Henry Lord Gay, architect, of Chicago. It consists of a model in plaster and a complete set of drawings of a competitive design for a monument to be erected in Rome, commemorative of Victor Emanuel. first king of Italy. The monument was to be of white marble, an elaborate Gothic structure, beautifully ornamented, and 300 feet high. Its estimated cost was to have been seven and a quarter millions of francs. The design was placed by the art committee second on a list of 289 competitors. Mr. Gay's generous gift occupies the place of honor in the museum of industrial arts.
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