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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 17,

furnaces and warm-air heating installations. This Association is a commercial organization representing all or practically all of the manufacturers of warm-air furnaces in this country. It is a large and powerful organization, which up to the present time has been more interested in the commercial problems connected with the business than with the scientific problems involved. At our invitation a committee of this Association recently visited the University and witnessed a test of a warm-air furnace in the furnace testing plant which I have already mentioned. As a result of this visit and of the interest of the committee in the possibilities for scientific study of warm-air furnaces, the committee recommended to the Association that the contract here presented be approved, with the understanding that the Association will spend not to exceed $'8,ooo.oo for the initial period of one year. This recommendation was unanimously approved at the convention of the Association held in Milwaukee on June 12, 1918. If the proposed contract meets the approval of the Board of Trustees, the formal agreement can be entered into between the University and the Association. There is almost no existing scientific data available in this important field of heating. It seems to me, therefore, that this cooperative agreement is a most important one and that the results secured may have a far-reaching effect in shaping the design and in increasing our knowledge of the installation and operation of such apparatus. From the size of the fund which the Association is willing to furnish the University, this is the most important cooperative investigation whch the Engineering Experiment Station has ever undertaken. Trusting that you may approve this contract, I am, Very cordially yours,

G. R. RICHARDS

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT A R T I C L E S O F A G R E E M E N T between the National W a r m Air Heating and Ventilating Association and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for cooperative investigation of W a r m Air Furnaces and Furnace Heating Systems, by the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, under the following terms and conditions: I. This agreement is executed for a period of one year beginning October 1, 1918, with the understanding that it may be extended for additional similar periods under the same or such other terms as may be mutually agreed upon. I I . The Engineering Experiment Station will supervise and direct all testing work and the computation of all results obtained; it will furnish the furnace testing plant now installed in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, together with all testing instruments necessary in the investigation. Should important changes in or additions to the present testing plant become necessary, it is agreed that the cost thereof shall be charged against the fund provided by the National W a r m Air Heating and Ventilating Association for the general investigation as hereinafter provided.