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INTRODUCTION.

The exercises attendant upon the dedication of the Transportation Building, the Locomotive Laboratory, and the Mining Laboratory of the University of Illinois were held at Urbana on May 8, 9 and 10, 1913. Besides the formal ded-

icatory exercises and addresses which were directed toward the three buildings as a whole, a railway conference and a series of mining conferences were held at which some of the largerproblems of each field were discussed by men prominent in the railway and mining worlds. In the ensuing pages are

contained the proceedings of those exercises relating particularly to the Transportation Building and the Locomotive Laboratory, which were held on May 8 and 9, A separate vol-

ume reoords the proceedings of the Mining Conferences and other exercises which appertain to the Mining Laboratory and the work of the Mining Department. The dedicatory exercises were inaugurated by an informal reception on Thursday, May 8, when from 3:00 to 5:00 o'clock p.m. members of the University and residents of Urbana and Champaign were given an opportunity of inspecting the Transportation Building and the Locomotive Laboratory and the Mining Laboratory. In addition to the large collection

of framed pictures and relics whioh were permanently on exhibition in the corridors of the Transportation Building, there were also several collections of pictures and documents, mostly of an historic nature, that had been loaned by various