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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926
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570 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 14 STEAM HEATING William V. Hoier Company E. J. Gaffey Company Mehring & Hanson Company George H. Kirk A. Kilander Sc Company Davis Construction Company Robert Gordon, Inc William A. Pope Arcade Steam Heating Company VENTILATION Mehring & Hanson Company Mellish-Hayward Company $ 25,500 26,3 37 28,789 29,628 29,995 30,827 31,200 32,230 42,825 $ 9,170 9,520 $ 1,200 1,447 $ 6,825 7,3 50 8,149 8,436 8,611 TEMPERATURE REGULATOR EQUIPMENT Johnson Service Company National Regulator Company ELECTRIC WIRING Hoffman Electric Company Fuchs Electric Company J. F. Fisher & Company, Inc Chester Johnson Electric Company W m . A. Corrao Electric Company ; ELECTRIC DUMBWAITER Gallaher & Speck Company $ 2,295 Pitt Engineering Company 2467 Wheeler Elevator Company 2,540 Elevator Supplies Company, Inc 2,852 Wicker Electric Company 2,900 BUCKET ASH HOIST Burke Engineering Company $ 1,39° Gillis & Geoghegan i,79i O n motion of M r . Barr, these contracts were awarded as recommended. APPOINTMENT OF DR. HOMER LEROY SHANTZ (15) I recommend that Dr. Homer LeRoy Shantz, now senior physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, be appointed professor of botany and head of the department beginning September 1, 1926, at a salary of $6,500 per year, under the University regulations. Dr. Shantz received the degree of bachelor of science from Colorado College in 1901 and in 1905 received his doctor's degree from the University of Nebraska. He was instructor in botany at the University of Missouri from 1904-7 and professor of botany and bacteriology at the University of Louisiana for one year. He has been connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture since 1908, first as an expert in alkali and drought resistant investigations, as plant physiologist from 1910 to 1918, as botanist from 1918 to 1920, as physiologist in charge of physiological and fermentation investigations from 1920 to 1922, as physiologist in charge of plant geography^ in its relation to plant industry from 1923 to date, and as senior physiologist in charge of plant physiological investigations from 1924 to date. He has been a special lecturer of the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, and in the Graduate School, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Shantz has been a member of various educational commissions and scientific expeditions, including the Smithsonian African expedition in 1919-20. He is a contributor of numerous articles to scientific journals, dealing chiefly with vegetation and its value as an indicator of the agricultural capabilities of the land.
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