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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

983

Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Governor Kerner, Mr. Page, Dr. Weatherly.

ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT (30) The Director of the University Press requests authority to assign the copyright in. .the article "Tantalus and the Dead Sea Apples" by Professor John M. Steadman which appeared in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology in January, 1965, a publication of the Press, to the University of North Carolina Press. T h e latter is publishing a collection of articles by Professor Steadman and requests assignment of the copyright as a matter of convenience. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , a u t h o r i t y w a s g i v e n a s r e q u e s t e d . PURCHASES (31) T h e President submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the Director of Purchases and the Vice-President and Comptroller; also a list of purchases authorized by the President. The lists of purchases authorized and purchases recommended for Board approval were presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from state appropriations to the University) and purchases from institutional funds. The latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, contracts with private corporations and other organizations, funds from foundation grants, and grants from corporations and other donors, and University revolving funds authorized by law. The total amounts of these purchases were: From Appropriated Funds Purchases Recommended „ $345 535 77 From Institutional Funds Purchases Authorized Purchases Recommended $ 39 900 00 460 244 06 $500 144 06 Grand Total $845 679 83 A complete list of the purchases authorized and purchases recommended, with supporting information, including the quotations received, was sent to each member of the Board in advance of the meeting, and a copy is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.

On motion of Mr. Clement, the purchases authorized by the President were approved, and the purchases recommended were authorized.

COMPTROLLER'S REPORT OF PURCHASES APPROVED (32) The Vice-President and Comptroller also submitted a report of purchases approved by him on recommendation of the Director of Purchases in amounts of $2,500 to $5,000. A copy of this report is filed with the Secretary. This report w a s received for record. COMPTROLLER'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS (33) The Comptroller's monthly report of contracts executed was presented. N e w Contracts

With Whom American Iron and Steel Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration NGR14-005-111 Swift and Company United States Air Force AFOSR-68-1499 Total Purpose Fracture toughness of high strength structural steels Relations between machine structure and syntactic relations of linguistic elements, and the information bearing parameters displayed in timedomain speech signals Dietary nitrogen furnished by a mixture of urea and soybean meal (both the meal form and a pelleted form) to ruminants Complex analysis (mathematics) Amount to be Paid to the University $ 9 000 00 80 000 00

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