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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

museum. For these purposes direct appropriations are made by the legislature from session to session. A large amount of material has been collected and extended publications have been made in both the forms above mentioned. By an act approved March 2, 1887, the national government appropriated $15,000 per annum to each state for the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in connection with the colleges founded upon the congressional act of 1862, agricultural experiment stations, "to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science." Under this provision the station for Illinois was placed under the direction of the trustees of the University and its grounds were located on the University farm. At least one bulletin of results is published every three months, and they are for gratuitous distribution. Editions of 17,000 copies are now issued. For the more complete endowment of the state institutions founded upon the act of 1862, the congress of the United States, by a supplementary law passed in 1890, made further appropriations. Under this enactment each such college or university received the first year $15,000, the second $16,000, and likewise thereafter $1,000 per annum additional to the amount of the preceding year. The annual increase is to continue until the amount reaches $25,000, which sum is then to be paid yearly thereafter. The total appropriations by the state to the University for all purposes to date amount to $1,308,000. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS The land occupied by the University and its several departments embraces about 210 acres, including experimental farm, orchards, forest plantation, arboretum, ornamental grounds, and military parade grounds. The Chemical Laboratory is a building 75 by 120 feet, and two stories high, besides well lighted basement and mansard stories. It contains the general laboratories for students, instructors' laboratories, lecture rooms, store rooms, scale, rooms, and various apartments for special purposes,