Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 234]

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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S .

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but should at the same time have full credit for all that has been accomplished. By publication of the detailed report, as suggested, the University of Illinois will secure for herself that public recognition to which she is, justly entitled, and, in the opinion of the commission, such a method ofi publication is for many reasons eminently desirable. Respectfully submitted,

R. H. CHITTENDEN, A. P. MATHEWS, THEOBALD SMITH.

URBANA, I I I . , June 2, 1909.

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois: DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES—I respectfully request that this Laboratory be allowed a grant of $15,000.00 to publish in full in. .the near future the results of the saltpeter investigation as suggested by the non-resident members of the Saltpeter Commission. To publish the full details of this investigation as requested by the commission will require four large octavo volumes (10x7 in.), each of 500 pages, including charts, diagrams, curves, tabulated data, etc. The printing of an edition of 1000 will cost approximately $6,500.00. If the details are to be published in full by the University in the near future, as suggested by the commission, it will be necessary to devote much work to the preparation of the manuscript, beginning at once and continuing for one year. If the results of this investigation are to be published in detail within the next twelve months we must be given permission to begin work at once, and it will be necessary to arrange for us to have the following help: First—I must be allowed two-thirds of my time for this work and therefore two-thirds of my salary ($2,000.00) should be paid from the above requested grant. Second—Dr. MacNeal must devote one:half his time to this work and he should be allowed $1,200.00 for his services in this connection. Third—Mr. F. W. Gill must devote all his time to assisting in the preparation of the manuscript. This will incur an expense of $1,800.00. Fourth—It will be necessary for me to have an assistant chemist in the editorial work at a salary of $1,000.00 for the year. Fifth—To be able to do this work within twelve months, and if it !is undertaken at all in this way it must be done within twelve months, there will also be required one stenographer, one clerk, one calculator, and one draftsman, each at a salary of $600.00 per year. I earnestly request this grant for the following reasons: We have made in this connection in the Research Laboratory the most extensive, thorough, exhaustive, and scientific nutrition investigation upon man ever before made in the world. The results of this investigation, giving in detail the normal and abnormal nutritional activities of a group of twenty-four men for a period of 220 days, are of inestimable value to the clinician, the physician, the surgeon, the pathologist, the physiologist, the bacteriologist, the biological chemist, and to the sciences of human and animal nutrition, and to public health and sanitary science. I know positively that this statement is not too strong nor does it exaggerate the importance or value of this work. N The attitude taken by the non-resident members of the commission, ent tirely in every way of their own initiative, in their communication of May 8 to you, fully substantiates these statements. The publication by the University of the details of this investigation, which will at once be recognized as a classical research, will be still another step in placing the University of Illinois in the front rank in scientific research work of the highest order. Yours very truly,

H. S. GRINDLEY.