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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Minor agreements executed under the general regulations of the Board of Trustees: Amount to be paid by the With Whom Purpose Tenure University Date Illinois Bell Rental of program supIndefinite #10.50 per January 17, 1936 Telephone Co. ply circuit Tor Radio month Station WILL. American Can Rental of can closing 1 year from #1.00 per January 8, 1936 Company machine. January 1, year 1936 Lease renewal executed under general regulations of the Board of Trustees: Amount to be received by the Leased to Property Tenure University Dolt Illinois Bell 138 pairs of underground 1 year from £3+5.60 January 31, 1936 Telephone Co. cables. January 1, 1936

This report was received for record.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (27) The following report of gifts: 1. American Council of Learned Societies, $1,200 for the preparation of an index of a specimen conspectus rerum profanarum (index of secular matters) tinder the supervision of Professor W. A. Oldfather, of the Department of Classics. The initial contribution of $600 was received March 16, 1935, and another $600 was received in January, 1936.' 2. Geological Society of America, $600 for the construction of a map of the topography off the west coast, the work to be done by Professor F. P. Shepard, of the Department of Geology and Geography. 3. The Crerar Library, thirty-five volumes of the Zeitschrift fur Augenheilkunde (valued at approximately $200) to the College of Medicine. 4. Mrs. Alice V. B. Clark, widow of the late Dean Thomas Arkle Clark, an oil painting of the Dean by Richard Hult. (This painting is now hanging in the recreation room of McKinley Hospital.) 5. Illinois Society of Engineers, a bronze plaque to commemorate the founding of the Society at the University of Illinois in 1886. (This plaque is to be hung in Engineering Hall.) 6. The Solvay Process Company, and the Dow Chemical Company, organic chemistry fellowships (one by each company) of $600 per year for three years beginning September, 1936. The Companies have agreed to the establishment of these fellowships under terms and conditions proposed by the University and similar to those governing the fellowships established by the Chemical Foundation which were approved by the Board on April 20, 1935. 7. The E. I, du Pont de Nemours & Company, $2,000 for the employment of a research assistant in the Department of Chemistry during 1936-37 to assist Professor R. C. Fuson in his researches, this being a continuation of the grant made by this Company last year.

On motion of Mr. Barr, these gifts were accepted with thanks.

REPORTS ON PATENT APPLICATIONS (28) A report from the Secretary of the Board that he has received the following documents relating to patents: 1. United States Letters Patent No. 2027982, Processes for Removing Catalysis Inhibitors from Aqueous Solutions, issued on January 14, 1936, to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois as assignee of H. F. Johnstone. 2. Assignment of H. F. Johnstone to the Board of Trustees of his right, title, and interest in and to the invention disclosed in his application for United States Letters Patent, Serial No. 56,433, filed December 28, 1935, covering an improvement in Process of Recovering SO> from Waste Gases, Case 7. The 'The American Council of Learned Societies, organized in 1919, consists of 19 national societies, such as the American Philosophical Society, the American Historical Association, the American Classical Association, etc. Among its activities is publishing, for example, the Dictionary of American Biography. It is financed by annual dues from the member societies and by grants from foundations. -