entered into competition by proposing to donate to its use specified sums of money, or their equivalent. Champaign County offered a large brick building in the suburbs of Urbana, erected for a seminary and nearly completed, about 1,000 acres of land, and $100,000 in county bonds. To this the Illinois Central Railroad added $50,000 in freight. The General Assembly accepted this offer May 8, 1867.

The state has from time to time appropriated various sums for permanent improvements, as well as for maintenance. The present value of the entire property and assets is estimated at $2,600,000.

The institution was incorporated February 28, 1867, under the name of the Illinois Industrial University, and placed under the control of a Board of Trustees, constituted of the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President of the State Board of Agriculture, as ex-officio members, and twenty-eight citizens appointed by the Governor. The chief executive officer was called Regent, and was made an ex-officio member of the Board and presiding officer both of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculty.

In 1873 the Board of Trustees was reorganized, the number of appointed members being reduced to nine and of ex-officio members to two-the Governor and the President of the State Board of Agriculture. In 1887 a law was passed making membership elective, at a general state election, and restoring the Superintendent of Public Instruction as an ex-officio member. There are, therefore, now three ex-officio and nine elective members. Since 1873 the President of the Board has been chosen by the members from among their own number for a term of one year.

The University was opened to students March 2, 1868. The number of students enrolled at this time was about fifty, and the Faculty consisted of the Regent and three professors. During the first term another instructor was added, and the number of students increased to 77-all young men.

During the first term instruction was given in algebra, geometry, physics, history, rhetoric, and Latin. Work on the farm and gardens, or about the buildings, was at first compulsory for all students. In March of the next year, however, compulsory labor was discontinued, save when it was made to serve as a part of class instruction. A chemical laboratory was fitted up during the autumn of 1868. Botanical laboratory work began the following year. In January, 1870, a mechanical shop was fitted up with tools and machinery, and here was begun the first shop instruction given in any American university. During the summer of 1871 the Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory, burned June 9, 1900, was erected and equipped for students' shop work in both wood and iron.

By vote, March 9, 1870, the Trustees admitted women as students. During the year 1870-71 twenty-four availed themselves of the privilege. Since that time they have constituted from one-sixth to one-fifth of the total number of students.

According to the original state law, the usual diplomas and degrees could not be granted by the University, but certificates showing the studies pursued and the attainments in each were given instead. The certificates proved unsatisfactory to the holders, and in 1877 the legislature gave the University authority to confer degrees and issue diplomas.

In 1885 the legislature changed the name of the institution to the "University of Illinois." It also passed a bill transferring the State Laboratory of Natural History from the Illinois State Normal University to the University of Illinois. This laboratory was created by law for the purpose of making a natural history survey of the state, the results of which should be published in a series of bulletins and reports, and for the allied purpose of furnishing specimens illustrative of the flora and fauna of the state to the public schools and to the state 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 Agricultural Experiment Station for Illinois was placed under the direction of the Trustees of the University, and a part of the University farm, with buildings, was assigned for its use. At least one bulletin of results is published every three months, and the copies are gratuitously distributed over the state. Editions of 24,000 copies are now issued.

In 1890 the Congress of the United States made further appropriations for the endowment of the institutions founded under the act of 1862. 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.

May 1, 1896, the Chicago College of Pharmacy, founded in 1859, became the School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois. Its rooms are at 465 State Street, Chicago.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University held December 8, 1896, upon recommendation of the President of the University, the Trustees voted to take steps for the organization of a law school. Appropriations were made for salaries, for the purchase of books, and for incidental expenses. Pursuant to this action of the Board of Trustees, the School of Law was organized, and opened

September 13, 1897. The course of study covered two years, in conformity with the existing requirements for admission to the bar of Illinois. In the following November, however, the supreme court of the state announced rules relating to examinations for admission to the bar which made three years of study necessary, and the course of study in the Law School was immediately rearranged on that basis. On February 9, 1900, the name of the School of Law was changed, by vote of the Board of Trustees, to College of

Law.

Negotiations looking to the affiliation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, with the University, which had been going on for several years, were concluded by the Board of Trustees by action taken upon propositions submitted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons to the Board at its meeting of March 9, 1897. According to the agreement made, the College of Physicians and Surgeons became on April 21, 1897, the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois. The College is located at 813 West Harrison Street, Chicago.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held April 22, 1897, the matter of the appointment of a librarian was considered by the Board and referred to a committee. This action of the Board was taken with a view of bringing to the University the School of Library Economy, which had been established in 1893 at the Armour Institute of Technology, in Chicago, and of securing the Director of that school for librarian of the University library. These plans were carried out and the State Library School was opened at the University in September, 1897.

Pursuant to action taken by the Board of Trustees March 12, 1901, a School of Dentistry was organized as a department of the College of Medicine. The school was opened October 3, 1901.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

The land occupied by the University and its several departments embraces about 210 acres.

The Chemical Laboratory is a three-story building, the ground plan of which is shaped like the letter E. The extreme dimensions are 230 feet along the front and 116 feet along the wings. The middle rear wing contains the lecture amphitheater, which will seat 350. The end wings contain the large general laboratories. The central part of the building is occupied by offices, museum, class and seminary rooms, supply rooms, etc., and a number of special rooms for research work. There is a well-lighted basement, which contains the heating and ventilating plant, and rooms for assaying and metallurgy.

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 department of physics, the drafting seminary, and one of the recitation rooms of the department of electrical engineering, and the masonry laboratories and instrument rooms of the department of civil engineering. The second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of the department of physics, the recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets, and studies of the departments of civil and municipal engineering, and the main office of the department of electrical engineering. The third story contains the elementary laboratory of the department of physics, the drawing rooms, lecture rooms, cabinets, and studies of the mechanical departments, as well as the library, the office, and the faculty parlor. The fourth story is devoted to the department of architecture, and contains drawing and lecture rooms, cabinets, a photograph studio, and a blue-print laboratory.

The Wood Shop is a brick building in the form of a cross, one portion being about 200 by 46 feet, one story high, while the other part is 52 by 80 feet and two stories high. This shop contains the bench room, lathe room, ma