Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 535]

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1911]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

491

After consideration of the question I wrote the following communication* to Mr. McCall:

UKBANA-CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , June 28, 1911.

J. W. McCall, Esq., Gibson City, III.: MY DEAE SIB—In answer to your letter of June 10, which came while I was absent from the University and was referred to the vice-president, who had an interview with you in regard to the matter of your communication I beg to say that I think the University would be very glad to undertake the kind of an investigation which you suggest. I regret to say that, for the present biennium at any rate, there is little probability that the University could expend any money for this purpose. But if your Canners' Association would pay, say, the sum of $1,000.00 per year, for two or three years, as the case might be, I think the University would undertake to provide space and general supervision for such an investigation as you propose, using the money to hire a competent assistant in the Department of Bacteriology and Chemistry to do this work. If the association should care to consider this matter, I should be glad to take it up with the Department of Chemistry and Bacteriology. Faithfully yours,

EDMUND J. JAMES.

In answer to that communication I received the following:

GIBSON CITY, I I I . , Aug. 25, 1911.

Mr. Edmund J. James, President University of Illinois, TJrbana, III.: DEAR SIR—At a meeting recently held in Chicago by the Illinois Canners' Association, your proposition, as outlined in your letter of June 28th, to undertake the special research work relative to canning corn and other vegetables, provided the association would guarantee the University $1,000.00 per year for a term' of three years, was accepted, and I was authorized to elose. negotiations with you for the same. Am pleased to enclose herewith Chicago exchange for $1,000.00 in payment of the first year's installment, and will thank you to get this valuable work under way at your earliest convenience. I remain, Yours truly,

J. W. MCCALL,

President Illinois Canners' Assn. This money is- therefore in the hands of the comptroller, awaiting authority from the board for the undertaking of this, investigation. I recommend that the president of the University be authorized to appoint' a research assistant, for one year, at a salary of not to exceed $1,000.00, to undertake this work, and that an appropriation of the fund, thus contributed by the Illinois Canners' Association be made for this purpose. I n accordance with this recommendation, it was voted to accept this offer of the Illinois Canners' Association, and to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) already received for the purpose specified in the offer. SUMMARY OP MEDICAL SCHOOL SITUATION. (5) The following statement in regard to the status of the relations between the University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, to be printed in the minutes: In accordance with the authority given me by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees on Aug. 1, 1911 (page 468), I wrote letters offering the position of Professor of Physiology and Junior Dean of the College of Medicine to Dr. Elias P. Lyon, now professor of Physiology and dean of the Medical College, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., and offering the position of professor of Anatomy in the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois to Dr. Albert Chauncey Eyclesheimer, now professor of anatomy in St. Louis University.