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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The committee appointed to consider the request of the Illinois State Florists' Association has reviewed the matter carefully from many angles and we feel that the request of the Association in most respects is entirely justified. However, the committee feels that with the situation as it is at the present time in all of our agricultural departments, we would hardly be justified in placing $7,500 a year into new activities solely in the field of floriculture, much as the demand indicates this is needed. We are convinced that a minimum of $4,000 a year additional money should be allocated in the next biennial budget for research work in the field of floriculture. Naturally, the men who are doing research work at this institution must visit the commercial establishments in the state and familiarize themselves with methods and developments in these commercial places. w L BuRLls0N

H. A. RUEHE H. P. RUSK J. C. SPITLER J. C. BLAIR, Chairman

The President of the University was authorized to include this item in the budget for 1939-1941.

PURCHASES RECOMMENDED

(22) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. Dental instruments for College of Dentistry, from the Fara Manufacturing Company, Chicago, at a price of $1,991.73. These instruments are for resale to students and the item is non-competitive. 2. One 42" Blue Printing, Washing, and Drying Machine, to replace old equipment in Blue Printing Laboratory, from the C. F. Pease Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a price of $1,079.77 f.o.b. Urbana. 3. Sixty Packages Precious Metals (each 3 DWT. Dee 2 Casting Gold and 13 DWT. Dee 5 Casting Gold), and 6 DWT. Dee 2 Casting Gold, from the Thomas J. Dee & Company, Chicago, at a price of $1,513.60. This material is for resale to College of Dentistry students and is non-competitive. 4. One radiographic and fluoroscopic unit ("Fluoradex D" Unit and Model "B" Cassette Changer, with accessories) from the Dick X-Ray Company, sales agents for Westinghouse X-Ray Company, Incorporated, at a price of $4,689.59 delivered and installed in the McKinley Hospital. The Hospital Association made a gift of $6,000 to the University for this equipment (the balance to be used to pay a part of the cost of remodeling rooms in which this equipment is to be installed). This unit is the latest development in the x-ray field and although other equipment could be bought for less it is the judgment of the Executive Committee of the McKinley Hospital and of Professor G. L. Clark, an authority on x-rays, that the University is fully justified in paying a higher price in view of the improvements included in this equipment. O n motion of M r . Cleary, these purchases were authorized as recommended.

DELEGATION O F SIGNATURES

(23) At the annual meeting of the Board on March 18 (Minutes, page 642), the officers of the Board were authorized to delegate the signing of their names to certain members of the staff in the Business Office. The transfer of Mr. H. A. Hazleton from the position of Assistant Bursar to that of Assistant to the Comptroller (vice Arthur Lincicome, who resigned) makes necessary changes in this delegation. I recommend that paragraph two of the resolution adopted on March 18 be amended to read as follows: "The President of the Board of Trustees is authorized to delegate to C. H. Pratt, to L. M. Dahlenburg, and to C. C. DeLong, authority to sign his name as President of the Board of Trustees to vouchers against the State Auditor; and to delegate to C. A. Webber, and to H. F. Thornes, authority to sign his name to warrants on the University Treasurer covering vouchers approved in accordance with regulations approved by the Board."

On motion of Mrs. Freeman, this revision was adopted as recommended.