UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN


State Laboratory of Hygiene: DR. WILLIAM D. STOVALL, director.
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey: DR. E. A. BIRGE.
State Geologist: E. F. BEAN.
Washburn Observatory: JOEL H. STEBBINS, director.
Agricultural Experiment Station: CHRIS L. CHRISTENSEN, director;
    NOBLE CLARK, assistant director.
Wisconsin Union: PORTER BUTTS, house director.
Forest Products Laboratory (financed by the United States Govern-
    ment): C. P. WINSLOW, director.
United States Weather Bureau: ERIC R. MILLER, meteorologist.

Location: With the exceptions noted below all departments of the
    University are located at Madison. The Extension Division, the
    general office of which is at Madison, has a Milwaukee center in
    the University Extension Building, which is located at 619 West
    State Street. It has other district offices at 108 West College
    Avenue, Appleton; 1015 Woodland Avenue, Eau Claire; and Box
    743, La Crosse. The branch Agricultural Experiment Stations are
    at Ashland Junction, Hancock, Marshfield, Spooner, and the Pen-
    insula State Park in Door County.
Total personnel: See page 369 in the following article.
Publications: Annual Report of Comptroller; Biennial Report of the
    President; University Press Bulletin (bi-weekly newspaper re-
    lease); The Badger Quarterly; Bulletins (occasional, including
    announcements of courses and publications of the Bureau of Busi-
    ness and Economic Research); University of Wisconsin Studies in
    Language and Literature; University of Wisconsin Studies (quar-
    terly, scientific); Agricultural Experiment Station Reports (an-
    nual); Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins (popular re-
    search); Retail Bulletin (monthly, $1.00 per year); Wisconsin
    Law Review (quarterly magazine, $2.50 per year); books by the
    University of Wisconsin Press.

  Our State Constitution provides for the University of Wisconsin in
Section 6 of Article X as follows: "Provision shall be made by law for
the establishment of a state university at or near the seat of govern-
ment and for connecting with the same, from time to time, such col-
leges in different parts of the state as the interests of education may
require."
  Accordingly, a University was established in 1848 in the first year
of statehood. Classes began the next year and in 1851 the first building
(North Hall) was erected. No appropriation from state funds was
made to the University until 1869. In the meantime the institution was
financed entirely from the proceeds of the sale of lands donated to the
state for the establishment of a university. The Constitution meant
these lands to be a permanent endowment but when they had to be
sold to meet current expenses practically the entire endowment from
the United States was lost. Even though the University has received


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