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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Minor contracts executed under general regulations of the Board of Trustees, October 9 to November 4, 1937.

Amount to be paid by the For University Dale Contract for structural steel work $3 671 00 October 30, 1937 for repairing and improving the Auditorium Illinois Bell Telephone Co Agreement to furnish one program Published September 24, 1937 supply circuit for radio station rates WILL The agreement with the Illinois Bell Telephone Company is for wire service from the Urbana High School to the Radio Station for the broadcasting of programs, such as band concerts, choruses, et cetera, originating in that building. With whom E. N. DeAtley

This report was received for record.

TAXES ON HART FARM IN FRANKLIN COUNTY

(16) The Comptroller reports that the Board of Review of Franklin County has sustained the University's objections to the previous valuation placed on the Hart farm for several years and has reduced this from $4,000 to $2,555, which will result in a reduction of about $66 in the taxes.

This report was received for record.

STUDY OF CORM DISEASES OF GLADIOLUS

(17) A report of the execution of an agreement with the Vaughan Seed Company of Chicago for a cooperative investigation to determine the cause and control of corm diseases of gladiolus by the Agricultural Experiment Station. The agreement is drawn for a period of one year beginning November 1, 1937, with provision for its extension on mutual consent, and the Company has agreed to contribute $900 for the expenses of this investigation. On motion of M r . Adams, the execution of this agreement was approved.

EXPANSION OF DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

(18) The State Department of Public Welfare has offered the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery quarters in the new addition to the Research and Educational Hospitals to be constructed in the near future for the study and treatment of nervous diseases. It is understood that this new unit will be equipped and operated by the State Department but that the University will be expected to furnish the professional staff in accordance with the existing agreement governing the operation, management, and staff of all units of the Research and Educational Hospitals. This arrangement would be similar to that in the Illinois Surgical Institute for Children in which the University's Department of Orthopaedics has quarters and for which it supplies the professional staff. To provide an adequate professional staff for these new quarters when in full operation, there will be required by 1941 a number of new positions in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, including one Chief Neurologist and Pathologist on full time at a salary of $10,000 a year, one Assistant to the Department Head at $2400, one Assistant to the Pathologist at $l,8oo, one Dispensary Head at $1,000, one Chief Resident at $1,000, one First Year Resident at $600, one Secretary at $1,500, and one Stenographer at $1,200. This will involve eventually a total increase in the salaries budget of that Department of $19,520, but as an initial program during the biennium 1939-1941 the increase could be held at $13,120. It is anticipated that the building will be available in 1939. Due to the retirement of two members of the staff there would be a reduction of $2,340 in this total increase in 1941. The matter is being brought to the attention of the Board for consideration as a matter of policy. In view of the educational and research advantages