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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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2 4 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ernment appropriated $15,000 per annum to each state for the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in connection with the colleges founded upon the congressional actof 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 the copies are gratuitously distributed over the state. Editions of 18,000 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 thereafter was to receive $1,000 per annum additional to the amount of the preceding year, until the amount reached $25,000, which sum was to be paid yearly thereafter. The total appropriations by the state to the University for all purposes to date amount to $1,793,164. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS The land occupied by the University and its several departments embraces about 210 acres. The Chemical Laboratory is a building 75 by 120 feet, and two stories high, with basement. It contains general laboratories for students, instructors' laboratories, lecture rooms, store rooms, scale rooms, and various apartments for special purposes. Engineering Hall has a frontage of 200 feet, a depth of 76 feet on the wings and 138 feet in the center. The first story contains the laboratories of the departments of physics
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