R. W. STARK, B.S., Assistant, Chemistry. In Animal Husbandry 903 West California Avenue, U. H. W. MUMFORD, B.S., Professor and Chief. Experiment Station Farm, U. L. D. HALL, B.S., First Assistant, Animal Husbandry. III East Chalmers Street, U. William Dietrich, B.S.A., First Assistant, Swine Husbandry. 701 West California Avenue, U. R. C. OBRECHT, B.S.A., First Assistant, Horses. 1016 Nevada Street, U. E. S. GOOD, B.S., Assistant, Animal Husbandry. In Dairy Husbandry 1007 West Illinois Street, U. W. J. FRASER, B.S., M.S., Professor and Chief. 1003 South Wright Street, C. C. E. LEE, B.S., First Assistant, Dairy Manufactures. 510 West Healy Street, C. J. M. TRUEMAN, B.S., First Assistant, Dairy Husbandry. 501 Daniel Street, C. C. C. HAYDEN, B.S.A., Assistant, Dairy Husbandry. 906 West California Avenue, U. H. A. HOPPER, B.S.A., Assistant, Dairy Husbandry. In Horticulture 906 West California Avenue, U. J. C. BLAIR, Professor and Chief. 810 West Oregon Street, U. 1106 West Oregon Street, U. J. W. LLOYD, M.S.A., Assistant Chief, Olericulture. 1005 South Wright Street, C. J. R. SHINN, B.S., Field Assistant, Pomology. In Botany 1106 West Oregon Street, U. T. J. BURRILL, PH.D., LL.D., Professor. 1007 West Green Street, U. C. F. HOTTES, PH.D., Chief, Vegetable Pathology. 915 West California Avenue, U. J. T. BARRETT, A.B., Assistant, Botany. 203 West Stoughton Street, U. 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 founded in 1888 and placed under the direction of the Trustees of the University, and a part of the University farm, with buildings, was assigned for its use. The Federal grants to the Station have been liberally supplemented with state appropriations, until its revenues have become the largest of those of similar institutions throughout the world. Investigations are conducted in the growing and marketing of orchard fruits, the methods of production of meats and of dairy goods, the principles of animal breeding and nutrition, and in the improvement and the economic production of crops. All the principal types of soil of the state are being studied in the laboratory under glass and in the field. A soil survey is in progress which when finished will map and describe the soil of every farm of the state down to an area of ten acres. Twenty to thirty fields and orchards are rented in different portions of the state for the study of local problems, and assistants are constantly on the road for the conduct of experiments or to give instruction to producer or con sumer. The results of investigation are published in bulletins, which are issued in editions of 40,000, and distributed free of charge. Much of this work is of exceptional interest to students, especially of graduate grade, and it is freely available for this purpose, so far as is consistent with the interests of the Station. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION STAFF EDMUND JANES JAMES, PH.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT. LESTER PAIGE BRECKENRIDGE, PH.B., DIRECTOR. Besides the Director, the staff includes the heads of departments1 of the College of Engineering, and the following SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS Roy W. RUTT, B.S., Assistant to the Director and Secretary to the Staff. 609 South Busey Avenue, U. CHARLES H. HURD, B.S., Assistant in Laboratory of Applied Mechanics. 11011⁄2 West California Avenue, U. HENRY BERNHARD DIRKS, M.E., Assistant in Mechanical Technology. MAURICE L. CARR, B.S., Assistant in Physics. 202 John Street, C. 703 South Third Street, C. DUFF A. ABRAMS, B.S., Assistant in Laboratory of Applied Me chanics. 703 South Third Street, C. FRANK K. OVITZ, B.S., Assistant in Chemistry. 1105 West Oregon Street, U. The Engineering Experiment Station was established by action of the Board of Trustees, December 8, 1903. It is the first and, so far as known, the only experiment station connected with any college of engineering in this country. Its purposes are the stimulation and elevation of engineering education, and the study of problems of special importance to professional engineers, and to the manufacturing, railway, mining, industrial and other in For the names of these heads of departments, see Faculty of the College of Engineering, pp. 121ff. terests of importance to the public welfare of the State and the country. The laboratories of the College of Engineering are being equipped with additional apparatus and facilities to further such research. The practical nature of the investigations and their adaptation to presentday needs are assured by means of conferences with committees of the leaders of the State's industrial activities. The control of the Station is vested in the heads of the several departments of the College of Engineering. These constitute the Station Staff, and, with the Director, determine the character and extent of the investigations to be undertaken. Reports of experiments on reinforced concrete and high-speed tool steels have already been published and acknowledged to be contributions of great value to engineering science. STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY STAFF EDMUND JANES James, PH.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT. Professor STEPHEN ALFRED FORBES, PH.D., LL.D., DIRECTOR. 923 West Green Street, U. 504 East Daniel Street, C. 1002 West Green Street, U. MARY JANE SNYDER, Secretary. FRANK ELMER WOOD, A.B., Assistant in Ichthyology. 1301 West Springfield Avenue, U. EARL QUINTER SNIDER, Accountant. EDNA LUCY Goss, B.L.S., Librarian. 1002 West Oregon Street, U. 9011⁄2 West California Avenue, U. In 1885 the legislature 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 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. |