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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REPORT O F COMMITTEE O N PATENTS (24) The Committee on Patents makes the following recommendation on certain patents which have been under consideration during the year: I. That Mr. H . O. Croft be permitted to take out and retain control of a patent on an invention improving the transmission of heat through boiler tubes. 2. That Professor Charles T. Knipp be permitted to control the patent he has taken out on the apparatus showing the Track of Alpha Rays. 3. That M r . H. A. Brown be permitted to make an assignment, as he requests, to the University of a patent on a non-continuous carrier wave radio-telephone transmission, and that the University meet the legal costs, amounting to date to $303.55, of this assignment. 4. That a patent applied for by Professor Jakob Kunz on a modification of the Brown-Knipp detector tube be assigned to the University, and that the University assume the costs on this case which would amount to $330.55. 5. That Professor T. T. Quirke of the Department of Geology be permitted to control the patent and development of a device which permits the use of a projection lantern under daylight conditions, and that no assignment ofrightson this device shall be made to the University. N o additional appropriation of funds is involved in the above assignments because the standing appropriation to cover Patents on Discoveries and Inventions for the year 1926-27 is sufficient to cover the costs in both cases. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . Blair, these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e approved. A t this point, President Trees w a s called f r o m the r o o m , a n d requested M r s . E v a n s to act as chairman.

AGREEMENT WITH BALTIMORE a OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY

(25) Pursuant to the action of the Board of Trustees on September 22, 1926, (page 127) authorizing the continuation of the exploration of certain Indian mounds, and appropriating $5,000 for that purpose, the Provost of the University in m y absence authorized the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board to execute an agreement with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for the exploration of the Harding M o u n d at East St. Louis, Illinois, which is owned by the Railroad. The agreement gives the University permission to explore this mound and to secure such objects as m a y be found therein for its museums. I ask your confirmation of this agreement. O n m o t i o n of M r . Blair, this a g r e e m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d a n d confirmed.

DEGREES IN FEBRUARY

(26) The following recommendations from the University Senate for Degrees to be conferred as of February 14, 1927. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL The Degiee of Master of Arts In Chemistry Frances Mildred Hodsdon, A.B, Northland College, 1922, A.B., University of Wisconsin, 1923 Ernest James Sheppard, A.B., Colorado College, 1922 In Economics Guy Everett Morrison, A.B., De Pauw University, 1922 In Education Crawford John Ramsay, A.B., 1917