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1928]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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APPOINTMENT OF DR. C. I REED . (18) On recommendation of Dr. Dreyer and Dean Davis, I recommend that Dr. C. I Reed be appointed Assistant Professor of Physiology in the College . of Medicine for one year, beginning September 1, 1928, a a salary of $3,300. t O n motion of Mr. Barr, this appointment was made. APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR C. F. HOTTES AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY (19) I recommend that Professor C. F. Hottes be made Head of the Department of Botany for the academic year beginning September 1, 1928. O n motion of Mrs. Evans, this appointment was made. APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR W. S. BAYLEY AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT O F G E O L O G Y (20) I recommend that Professor W . S. Bayley be appointed Head of the Department of Geology for the academic year beginning September 1, 1928. O n motion of Mrs. Grigsby, this appointment was made. APPOINTMENTS TO PLYM FELLOWSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP (21) On nomination of the Plym Fellowship Committee and the recommendation of Dean Ketchum, I recommend that Mr. Granville S. Keith of the class of 1927, now Assistant in Architecture, be appointed the Fifteenth Francis J Plym Fellow in Architecture, and that Mr. Edwin A. Horner, of . the c a s of 1922, be awarded the Fifth Plym Foreign Scholarship in Architecls tural Engineering. O n motion of Mrs. Ickes, these recommendations were adopted. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR DEAN K. C. BABCOCK (22) I recommend that the leave of absence on account of i l e s granted to lns Dean Babcock at the meeting of the Board, November 17, 1927 (see page 488), and extended on February 14, 1928 (page 542), be extended further from April 17, 1928, to September 1, 1928, on half salary. O n motion of Mr. Trees, this recommendation was adopted. LEAVES OF ABSENCE OF PROFESSORS STANLEY WHITE

AND E. W. LEHMANN

(23) At the l s meeting of the Board, I presented the requests of Professor at Stanley White and Professor E. W. Lehmann, of the College of Agriculture, for sabbatical leaves of absence next year under the rules. In the absence of certain s e i i information, you referred both cases to me to act when s t s pcfc aified that the plans of the two men concerned were outlined in d t i i aceal n cordance with University regulations. After conferences with Dean Mumford, I was s t s i d that t i was done, and therefore granted the leaves of aife hs absence in accordance with the authority given. This report was received for record. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR MISS JOSIE HOUCHENS (24) On recommendation of Director P. L. Windsor, I recommend that Miss Josie Houchens, Binding Librarian, be granted leave of absence for one month, without pay, in addition to her month's vacation with pay, in order to enable her to accept a temporary position in Columbia University Library for two months t i summer. hs O n motion of Mrs. Evans, this leave was granted. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR PHILBRICK (25) On recommendation of Dean Harno, I recommend that Professor Francis S. Philbrick of the College of Law be given leave of absence without