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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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4. Mr. C. A. Kiler, Champaign, a Hepplewhite sofa to the Department of H o m e Economics. 5. Mr. Virginius Chase, Peoria, 8500 labeled specimens of Illinois vascular plants to the University of Illinois Herbarium. 6. Mr. David S. Lansden, Cairo, a copy of his father's book, "History of the City of Cairo," to the Ricker Library of Architecture. 7. Dr. D. M. Olkon, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, the following equipment for the Department of Psychiatry, with the understanding that the equipment will be assigned to Doctor Olkon for his sole use as long as he remains a member of the faculty: I oscillometer, 1 kymograph with clock, 1 jaquate timing clock, 1 bow galvanometer, 1 myo-angiograph, 1 Zeiss microscope, I calcium arc lamp with rheostat and stand, I time watch, 1 "Foku" camera (Zeiss) with rheostat, and a variety of attachments. The original cost of this equipment was approximately $2,000. 8. Dr. and Mrs. Eric Oldberg, Chicago, a late i6th century embroidered textile of English design, which was used as a baptismal font cover at the baptism of Charles I of England, to the Department of Art. 9. Professor Emeritus Frederick Green, $l,ooo as a further contribution to the "Lois Shepherd Green Scholarship" fund for undergraduate students in Philosophy. 10. Woman's League, $1,000 as a fund to be known as "Woman's League Fund," the interest to be distributed by the Dean of Women to needy women students of the University. Grants for Research 1. Dr. B. Z. Rappaport, Associate in Medicine, and three of his patients, a total of $5,500 in support of the allergy antigens research work of Dr. Rappaport, with the understanding that these funds are to be used in accordance with the same conditions as those which applied in the case of previous grants for this purpose. 2. Aeration Processes, Incorporated, $2,800 for research work on the manufacture of ice cream, to be carried on by the Department of Dairy Husbandry during the academic year 1942-1943. 3. Aeration Processes, Incorporated, $2,500 for the support of a postdoctorate fellowship in Bacteriology during 1942-1943. 4. Coca-Cola Company, Wilmington, Delaware, $1,200 in support of a research project under the direction of Professor C. C. Price of the Department of Chemistry. 5. Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, $1,200 for the establishment of a fellowship in the College of Medicine for the investigation of the diagnostic value of colostrum. 6. Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc., New York City, $1,000 for the support of research work on the effect of vitamin A in hypertension, to be carried on in the Department of Physiology under the direction of Dr. G E. Wakerlin. 7. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, $1,000 in support of a fellowship in Organic Chemistry for the academic year 1942-1943. 8. National Lead Company, Brooklyn, New York, $1,000 for the establishment of a graduate research assistantship in Chemistry for fundamental research on the properties and uses of soybean oil, to become effective at the beginning of the second semester of 1942-1943. 9. Mr. Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., $1,000 for the establishment of a fellowship in the College of Pharmacy to be known as the "Charles R, Walgreen Fellowship." 10. Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, $875 in support of research work by Dr. N. D. Coggeshall of the Department of Physics. 11. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, $800 additional for the purpose of defraying publication costs of the results of research carried on in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology under the supervision of Dr. F . H . Falls. 12. Continental Oil Company, $750 for the renewal of a special research assistantship under the direction of Professor G. L. Clark of the Department of Chemistry, for the academic year 1942-1943.