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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Income of the University 33 the University in 1915 by his son, Professor Evarts B. Greene. The Constance Barlow-Smith Collection, consisting of musical scores, manuscripts, books and portraits, was presented to the University by Mrs. Smith in 1916 upon her retirement from the assistant professorship of sight singing and ear training after thirteen years' teaching in the School of Music of the University. The Carl Martin James Collection, 1030 volumes relating to statistics and similar subjects, and the Amanda K. Casad Collection, 1732 volumes relating to history, economics, politics, and education, were presented to the University in 1915 and 1916, respectively, by President Edmund J. James. In 1919, Mr. Samuel Insull presented to the University a collection of U. S. Government reports, nearly complete. The Quine Library of the College of Medicine had its be- . ginning in a collection of books presented to the College in 1892 by Mrs. A. Reeves Jackson after the death of Doctor Jackson, the first president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Soon afterward Dr. William E. Quine gave a thousand volumes to the library and for a considerable period made an annual donation of $300 for its maintenance. An important series of gifts to the University is represented by twenty-seven tracts of land in various portions of the State, which have been donated for use as experiment fields. These have a total area of over 500 acres and a total estimated value of from $75,000 to $100,000.18 In February, 1917, the Trustees of the University were notified by the executors of the estate of the late Alfred B. Jenkins of West Orange, New Jersey, that the University of Illinois was one of twelve institutions named in Mr. Jenkins' will as residuary legatees of his estate. The principal of the gift when received is to be held as a part of the endowment fund of the University and to be known as the " Alfred B. Jenkins Endowment."10 The largest individual gift in the history of the University was received in 1914 when Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign, a former trustee, donated four farms having a total area "Details regarding these fields are given in Chap. I I M Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18, p. 240
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