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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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$50 in amount, and providing further, that the President and Secretary of the Board shall be furnished complete information as to the University warrants so signed and issued. Very truly yours,

GEORGE E. FRAZER., Comptroller.

It was voted to approve the recommendation of the comptroller be contained in the foregoing letter.

PARTIAL PAYMENT OF M E M B E R S OF COMMISSION INVESTIGATION. ON NUTRITION

(9) The following statement in regard to the national commission in charge of the investigation in human nutrition and suggestion with reference to the payment of its members: In the year 1907 the. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois authorized the appointment of a national commission to supervise an experiment in human nutrition conducted by the Research Laboratory of the University in that subject. The commission as first constituted consisted of Professors A. J. Abell, of Johns Hopkins University; R. H. Chittenden, of Yale University; A. P. Mathews, of the University of Chicago, and H. S. Grindley, of the University of Illinois. The first meeting of the commission was held on Saturday, March 30, 1907. Subsequently Professor Theobald Smith, of Harvard University, was added to the commission. Later Professor Abell, of Johns Hopkins University, resigned his membership on the commission, and Professor D. L. Edsall, of, the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed in his place. The arrangement made with these men was that they were to give the necessary supervision to the conduct of this experiment, and that the non-resident members of the commission were to receive a lump sum of five hundred dollars in payment for their services, aside from traveling expenses, and an honorarium . of fifty dollars for attendance at each meeting of the commission. I t was supposed when this work was begun that the experiment would be concluded within two or three years. Owing to various circumstances, among others the growing importance of the investigation and its enlarging scope as the commission proceeded with the work, the final report of the commission has not yet been completed. In view of these facts, I think it would be a fair and proper thing for the University to pay these men at least four-fifths of the sum due them for their work as supervisors of the research work. We have already printed three volumes of the report of this investigation, and copies have been sent to each member of the Board of Trustees. Two volumes are still to be printed. Preparation for the next volume is in an advanced state, and much • work has been done on the final volume.

It was voted that the comptroller be authorized to pay to each of the non-resident members of this commission as indicated above the sum of four hundred dollars ($400), leaving a balance of one hundred dollars ($100) to be paid to each member when the publication of the results of the investigation shall be completed.

TREASURER HAUGAN'S REPORTS.

The secretary presented for record the following reports from Mr, H.. J&* Haugan, Treasurer, for the quarter ending March 31, 1913, and for the period from April 1 to April 5, 1913:

[REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1913.]

H. A. HAUGAN., TREASURER, I N ACCOUNT WITH T H E UUIVERSITT OF ILLINOIS,. MARCH 31, 1913. DR.

1913. Jan. 1. Balance per last statement $177,451 34f 2. Received from State Bank of Chicago, for credit of College of Medicine fund 60 00 6. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 220 00 7. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 245 00 9. Received from the State Auditor, for credit of general fund 492,125 00 9. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 245 00 10. Received from O. E. Staples, Chief Clerk, for credit of Agricultural Experiment Station fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 20 11. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 115 00 13. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 65 00 14. Received from W. B. Day, Actuary, for credit of School of Pharmacy fund 215 00 17. Received from the Treasurer of the United States, for credit of Agricultural Experiment Station fund 7,500 0a