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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 10

137. Riverdale Chemical Company, H a r v e y : a. $500 to the State Natural History Survey for research on insecticides. b. $1,000 to the Department of Agronomy for investigations on weed and brush control problems. 138. T h e Rockefeller Foundation, New York City: a. $2,800 for American Studies in Kyoto, Japan, under the sponsorship of Kyoto University, Doshisha University, and the University of Illinois. b- $3,75o for the costs of study of European sales taxes by Professor John F. Due of the Department of Economics. 139. Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $500 to the Department of Horticulture for field studies on fungicides for fruit diseases. 140. Sharp and Dohme. Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, $1,325 to the College of Veterinary Medicine for research. 141. Southern Illinois Breeding Association, $1,919.10 to the Department of Dairy Science for research. 142. Stauffer Chemical Company, New York City, $500 to the Department of Horticulture for studies on investigation of captan and mercury on apples and strawberries. 143. Swift and Company, Chicago: a. $5,000 to the Department of Animal Science for research on the effect of physical form of the ration on utilization by growing-fattening lambs. b. $7,000 to the Department of Food Technology for a study of the reversion factor in beef tallow. 144. Tennessee Corporation Research Laboratories, College Park, Georgia, $400 to the Department of Horticulture for research in fungicides for the control of diseases of fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals. 145. Transparent Package Company Foundation, Chicago, $500 to the Department of Food Technology for a study of various types of films as retardants to deterioration of meat and meat products. 146. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, New York City, $500 to the Department of Horticulture for studies of fungicides. 147. Union Stock Yard and Transit Company, Chicago, $1,000 to the Department of Agricultural Economics to expand adult education work, to improve the quality of hogs produced for market in the state of Illinois, and ti encourage the marketing of hogs on a quality basis. 148. United Cerebral Palsy Association, Inc., New York City, $13,085.28 to the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children for a study of the language process of preschool cerebral palsied children. 149. United States Public Health Service, for support of the following research and educational programs: a. $12,000 for a study in the biological utilization of food emulsifiers am'. bread softening agents of the polyhydroxy ester type, under the direction of Dr. Fred A. Kummerow, Department of Food Technology, for two years beginning September I, 1953 (A-257). b . $15,120 for a study to determine the basic nutrition of virulent insects, under the direction of Dr. Gottfried S. Fraenkel, Department of Entomology, for two years beginning September 1, 1953 (E-533). c. $24,815 for a study of metabolic mechanisms, under the direction of Dr. Irwin C. Gunsalus, Department of Bacteriology, for two years beginning September 1, 1953 (A-562). d. $19,990 for a study of the chemistry and metabolism of the sphingolipides, under the direction of Dr. Herbert E. Carter, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, for two years beginning September I, 1953 (B-574)e. $27,777 for studies of the generality and behavioral correlates of social perception, under the direction of Dr. Nathaniel L. Gage, Bureau of Educational Research, for two years beginning September 1, 1953 (M-650). f. $6,508 for a study of the survival of protozoa at freezing temperatures, under the direction of Dr. Norman D. Levine, College of Veterinary Medicine, for one year beginning September 1, 1954 (E-790). g. $5,400 for the study of the relation of dietary fats to atherosclerosis, under the direction of Dr. Fred A. Kummerow, Department of Food Technology, for one year from September 1, 1954 (H-1819).