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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May

6

University of Illinois on April 2, 1935, as assignee of the application of Dana Burks, Jr., Serial No. 462,221, for an Improvement in Means and Method of Freezing a Clear Block of Ice. T h i s report w a s received for record. JUDGE JOHNSON APPOINTED STATE DIRECTOR FOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL (7) A statement concerning the proposed appointment of Judge Johnson to be Director for the State of Illinois for the National Emergency Council; and a recommendation that Judge Johnson be authorized to accept this appointment on some basis to be decided later.

Judge Johnson made a statement concerning this matter. On motion of Mrs. Freeman, Judge Johnson was authorized to accept this appointment and the President of the University was requested to work out the necessary details and to report them to the Board.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (8) T h e following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: Mr. Robert Allerton, of Monticello, $800 for the continuation of the American Traveling Scholarships in Architecture for 1035. Modine Manufacturing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, a Modine unit heater of the latest type equipped with no volt, A.C., 3-speed motor for the use of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Michigan State Library at Lansing, 383 volumes and pamphlets of the official publications of the State of Michigan, to the University of Illinois Library. These publications were needed in order to make the collections in the Library more complete and usable. Mr. R. F. Stanford, a senior in mechanical engineering, a demonstration model of the Grunow household refrigerating machine to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Chicago Woman's Club, $100 as an additional contribution to the UltraViolet Ray Research Fund, which is under the direction of Dr. Albert Bachem, of the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine. Mr. Charles E. McBurney, of the class of 1934, to the Ricker Library of Architecture, a collection of forty-three colored lantern slides of "A Century of Progress International Exposition." Mr. David W. Haering, of the class of 1929, of the College of Pharmacy, a beautiful cut-glass show globe which was in use in the pharmacy of Mr. Haering's father, George V. Haering, for fifty years. Louisiana State University, $75 to assist in the publication as one of the Illinois Biological Monographs of the thesis of Dr. H a r r y J. Bennett on "The Life History of Cotylophoron cotylophorum, a Trematode from Ruminants." Dr. David Kinley, three prints executed by the Japanese artist Hokausai (1760-1849), which are of very definite historical and artistic interest, to the collection of the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

This report was received for record.

PURCHASE OF COAL TANKS (9) T h e Purchasing Agent submits the following quotations received on two steel coal tanks for the Power Plant: Leader Iron Works $1 134 50 Garver Tank & Manufacturing C o r p . . . . 1 232 00 Chicago Steel Tank Company 1 510 00 Chicago Bridge & Iron Works 1 590 00 Installed Installed Installed Installed