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MEETINfJS. 



Regular meetings of the council shall he liclil on t'he first Monday afternoon of 

 each inoutli not occupied hy the faculty. Special meetings may be held at the call 

 of the director. 



REPORTS. 



(1) Each head of ;i department represented in the council sliall submit to the 

 director, not later than May 15 of each year, an outline of the jjroposed work of his 

 dej)artmeiit fi)r the ensuing year, together with the approximate cost for the per- 

 formaiice of the same; also such l)udgets for supplies as he may need for the ensuing 

 year. When such reports, estimates, and budgets shall have been approved by the 

 director and regents, tlie same shall become operative. 



(2) The annual reports of the departments to the director for publication shall be 

 submitted not later than July 1. 



(3) The annual report of the station shall l)e issued July 1 of each year. It shall 

 contain, in addition to the usual financial statement and the report of the director, 

 a summary <if the work of each department for the preceding fiscal year; also such 

 additional matter as may be valuable for publication, but of so miscellaneous a 

 character and meager in (piantityas not to make a regular bulletin of the department. 



(4) The regular bulletins of the station shall be paged continuously for the fiscal 

 year covered by them. 



(5) AH jness bulletins shall be of uniform style and size, as No. 11. 



(6) Regular bulletins shall be in size 6 by 9 inches, and the form and arrangement 

 of the Cornell Station bulletin shall be adopted for the first two pages, and our 

 otticers and staff shall be arranged as shown in the following pages. * * * 



IliLINOIS. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, l^rlxnm. 

 Department of the University of Illinois. 



The Illinois Station is regarded as coordinate in rank with the agricultural college 

 rather than a department of it, that is, the experiment station is regarded as a dei)art- 

 ment of the university rather than of the college. The governing board of the 

 station is the board of trustees of the university, which c(msists of the governor of 

 the State, the i)resident of tlie Statt' board of agriculture, and the superintendiMit of 

 jjubiic instruction, e.x otiicio, and i( members electeil by the people, 8 at each bien- 

 nial election, for a period of six years. The duties of this board are those of trustees, 

 to administt-r funds as appropriated and directed by C'ongress and the State legisla- 

 ture. Immediate su]>ervision of station affairs is delegated to a committee of 4 of the 

 board of trustees, known as the committee on agricultin-e. The director of the station 

 is responsible for the conduct of the work and makes all reports, together with recom- 

 mendations as to I'mjdoyees to the board of trustei-s through the president of the 

 university, .\ction is ordinarily taken u|ion his reconnneiidation, although a matter 

 might arise upon the reconmietidation of the advisory board or of the president of 

 the university. 



TIh" work of the station is carried ])y fivi^ departments, namely: Agromtmy, 

 chemistry, animal husbandry, <lairying, an<l Imrticulture and botany. The head of 

 each department is held alisolntcly responsible for money intrusted to liini, and 

 little restraint is jtlaced on his freeilom of action, but he is held strictly accountable 

 for residts. lie is chargi-d with the duty of rei)orting regularly to his superior odicer 

 and may be called upon at any time to re|)ort upon any feature of the work in hand. 



The funds appropriated by the Stale for .special investigations are managed in 



