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Professor George L. Clark, of the Department of Chemistry, in his research work 14. George Davis Bivin Foundation, $600 for a fellowship to assist Dr. H . H . Anderson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, in his research program in the mental hygiene of children. 15. Mrs. Lorado Taft, loan of four of the figures of the ensemble which was to be the "Fountain of Creation" on which the late Lorado Taft had been working and which was to stand at the east end of the Midway in Chicago. These figures will remain the property of the University unless the plans for the completion of the ensemble should go ahead, in which case the Taft Associates or Mrs. Taft would return the figures to Chicago at their expense. 16. Dr. A. E. Hertzler, of Halstead, Kansas, his medical library (approximately 5,000 volumes and 8,000 separates carefully indexed and filed) valued at $30,000, to the College of Medicine. (At its meeting on July 16, 1937, the Board made an appropriation of $800 to cover the cost of moving the library from Halstead to Chicago.) 17. Mr. Leonard Crunelle, of the Lorado Taft Studios, his "Madonna and Child" in plaster, to the College of Fine and Applied Arts. (Mr. Crunelle is one of the good living American sculptors and has to his credit many fine things scattered over the country. H i s Lincoln figures at Dixon and at Freeport have been particularly praised.) 18. Utilities Research Commission, Incorporated, Chicago, $500 as a contribution towards the research project known as Summer Cooling—Heating and Ventilation Research. (This is a cooperative investigation in the Engineering Experiment Station with the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and the National W a r m Air Heating and Air Conditioning Association.) 19. Dr. S. Prentiss Baldwin, of the Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory, $600 for the continuation of a research assistantship in the Department of Zoology. This amount will be furnished in twelve installments of $50 each. 20. Prest-O-Lite Battery Company, an additional $125 for a Research Assistantship in Chemistry. 21. F e r r o Enamel Corporation, $1,000 a year effective September 1, 1937, "to aid a worthy graduate student in Ceramics or Ceramic Engineering to take advanced work for the degree of Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy" under certain terms and conditions. T h e fellowship stipend shall be $750 per year. The execution by the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board of the memorandum of agreement covering this was authorized. 22. Sears, Roebuck and Company, $3,750 to assist first-year and second-year students in Agriculture through scholarships and loans to be awarded on the recommendation of the Dean. This is a renewal of a similar grant made last year which the Board accepted, and the conditions governing the award of scholarships and loans will be the same as before. 23. T h e family of the late Lorado Taft, the collection of the geological specimens belonging to his father, the late Professor Don Carlos Taft, to be used by the University in any way it sees fit. T h e collection was brought to the University with one of the loads of the Lorado Taft collection of casts. 24. Captain Stuart Cameron, M.D., of Rantoul Field, a collection of native pottery, excavated upon the Island of Omotepe in Lake Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua. Doctor Cameron, who is a graduate of the University (M.D., 1925) makes no demand for display and has in mind only the scientific and artistic interest which might attach to the collection for those on the staff who have been interested in the history of ceramics. 25. Dr. Glenn M. Hobbs, an engraving by T h o m a s Barlow, entitled " T h e H o m e of Washington." This engraving was popular in this country some fifty to seventy-five years ago and is an excellent memento of the art taste of that time. 26. T h e estate of the late Dr. E d w a r d W . W a s h b u r n , of Washington, D.C., formerly Professor and H e a d of the Department of Ceramics, five bound volumes of articles, a parcel of articles ready for binding, and two whole volumes, all works of his, for the University Library.