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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Land 51 In the summer of 1917 forty acres of woodland three and a half miles northeast of Urbana were purchased by the University, to serve as a natural history preserve for the especial use of the departments of botany, entomology and zoology.34 In 1919, 20 acres immediately north of this tract were purchased and added to i t The total cost of the 48 city lots in Urbana and the two undivided blocks in Champaign purchased during the sixteen years, amounting in all to about 23.17 acres, was $227,722.33. The cost of the 569.35 acres of farm land amounted to a total of $404,555.46. In 1913, alumni of the Medical School of the University, together with other friends of medical education, secured and donated to the University the entire stock of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. The acceptance of this stock brought to the University the property of that College, including the land occupied, amounting to a total of about 1.3 acres.35 The value of this land was estimated at $60,000 by a committee of the Chicago Real Estate Board in June, 1913.36 In 1914-15 the so-called "acre property" in Chicago, a part of the land acquired with the School of Pharmacy in 1896, was sold. This tract contained about two and a half acres. 37 In 1915 three adjoining pieces of property in Chicago in the vicinity of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Illinois, were purchased as a site for the School of Pharmacy. 38 In 1917 four lots near those of the School of Pharmacy were purchased as an addition to the Chicago campus.39 In addition to the lands occupied by the University at Urbana and in its vicinity, a large number of tracts of farm land in various parts of the state are used by the Agricultural "Ibid. pp. 95, 333, 412 "Sept., Univ. of HL, 1914, pp. 172-4, 204 "Kept, Univ. of HL, 1914, p . 257 "Sept., Univ. of H I , 1916, p . 190 *IWd, p. 861 •ComptroUer's Report, Univ. of HL, 1918, p . 92-93, Tract No. 106, 106 Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of UL, 1916-18, p. 240
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