Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois, at Its Twenty-Fourth Session, Convened January 2, 1865, Vol. 2 The Directors of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb respectfully submit the following as their tenth biennial report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.