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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 14

learn new chemical and physical techniques that will be useful in biological experiments with the plant viruses. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering HERBERT E. CASTES, Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the Department o! Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, first semester, full pay: to visit important biochemical departments and lipid research centers of Europe in order to study at first hand their present programs and long-range objectives. HEBBERT A. LAITINEN, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, second semester, fun pay; to study experimental research techniques in high temperature electrochemistry. KENNETH L, RINEHAKT, JR., Assistant Professor pt Organic Chemistry, second semester, full pay; to study physical and chemical methods for the structural elucidation of natural products, as applied particularly to antibiotics. Department of English MURRAY KRIEGEK, Professor of English, first semester, one-half pay; for completion of The Classic Vision, the final portion of a three-volume study, two volumes of which have been published. ROBERT ORKSTEJN, Assistant Professor of English, first semester, one-half pay, and second semester, without pay; to devote the year to work on a scholar!) book on Shakespeare's history plays. J. KERKER QUINN, Associate Professor of English, second semester, full pay; for preparation of an edition of correspondence between W. B. Yeats and F. P. Sturm, and investigation of Sturm's life and work. ROBERT L. SCHNEIDER, Assistant Professor of English, first semester, full pay; to provide time, free from teaching and committee work, for full concents tion on a critical study of the fiction of George Eliot. CHARLES H, SHATTUCK, Professor of English, full year, one-half pay; to compile for publication a descriptive catalog of all the discoverable Shakespeare prompt-books, from the beginnings to circa 1914-20. HARRIS W. WILSON, Professor of English, full year, one-half pay; to launch and complete a study of H. G. Wells and the Fabians, based on the H. G. Wells Archive at the University of Illinois. Department of French BRUCE H. MAINOUS, Associate Professor of French, second semester, full pay; for European travel and research in nineteenth-century French literature utilizing primary sources in European collections, mainly in Paris and vicinity. Division of General Studies EDWIN M. BANKS, Assistant Professor of Biological Science and of Animal Behavior, Department of Animal Science, full year (February 1, 1962, to February li 1963), one-half pay, or second semester of 1961-62, full pay; full year leave contingent upon receipt of outside supplementary financial aid; to pursue a research program involving the psychosocial and physiological components of sexual behavior in sheep. FRANK COSTIN, Associate Professor of Psychology and Counselor in the Studem Counseling Service, first semester, full pay; to complete a study on t!w effects of abnormal psychology and mental hygiene courses on attitude toward mental illness, and to visit universities doing similar kinds of reseated Department of Geography JOSEPH A. RUSSELL, Professor of Geography and Head of the Department, s«ond semester, full pay; to initiate field study in Greece and Turkey and l« continue detailed field investigation of economic and geographic aspects or industrial dispersal in northern Italy. Department of Geology HAROLD W. SCOTT, Professor of Geology, second semester, full pay; to stud); handwritten manuscripts in the Rare Manuscript Library, University oi Edinburgh, Scotland; these manuscripts cover geological thought prior I' any published records.