Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 16]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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2. E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, $2,200 for research assistants and other expenses of an investigation by Professor H . F. Johnstone of new and improved methods of utilizing sulphur dioxide and sulphur trioxide in the production of inorganic chemicals. 3. Mead, Johnson and Company, Evansville, Indiana, $2,000 for research conducted by Professor Isaac Schour on teeth structures. This is a renewal of a grant previously given by the Company in support of this program. 4. Carnegie Corporation of New York, $1,500 to the College of Fine and Applied Arts for the purchase of a collection of prints (Carnegie Art Reference S e t ) . This grant is made on condition that the University will contribute a like amount (an assignment was made by the Board of Trustees on December iH, 1939, Minutes, page 670). 5. Nutrition Research Laboratories, $1,275 to be used in the research program being carried on in the Department of Physiology of the College of Medicine under the supervision of Dr. C. I. Reed. They have increased their grant from $150 a month to $325 a month. The above amount includes two $150 and three $325 payments. 6. American College of Dentists Research Board, $1,000 for fellowship to Mr. William J. Furuts for graduate work in the College of Dentistry under Doctor Isaac Schour on histologic study of the effect of various mineral deficiencies on dental and oral structures in animals. 7. Middle West Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Association, $400 for a scholarship in agriculture. (See page 145.) 8. T h e Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, T h e Cherry Burrell Company, and the Manton Gaulin Company, $100 each to assist with the research program of Professor F. R. Steggerda of the Physiology Department. 9. National Research Council, $175 to support an investigation by Dr. T. W. Harrell of the Department of Psychology for the Civil Aeronautics Authority. (See page 145.) 10. American Potash Institute, Incorporated, Lafayette, Indiana, 1600 feet of 16 mm. educational film showing crop experimental work in southern Illinois. This has been deposited in the Visual Aids Service library for loan to schools, agricultural organizations, and other agencies interested in using it. 11. Ford Motor Company, one Model 01A motor, as a loan to the Department of Mechanical Engineering for educational purposes. 12. Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corporation, Bloomington, Illinois, one Ice-O-Matic milk cooling unit to the Department of Dairy Husbandry. 13. Mr. Robert Allerton, Monticello, oak panelling, bookcases, and stone fireplace and mantel from the hall of his home in Monticello. 14. Dr. W. G. Solheim of the University of Wyoming, two centuries of exsiccatae of Rocky Mountain plants; and Mrs. W. L. Nearthing of Oak Park, Illinois, a set of books and reprints from the personal library of Mabel Smallwood, for the Department of Botany. 15. Dr. P. J. Sarma, Associate Professor of Surgery, a copy of the book entitled "The Collected Works of Charaka"; F. A. Davis Company, "The Cyclopedia of Medicine, Surgery, and Specialties," 15 v., Philadelphia, 1939-1940, to the Library of the College of Medicine. 16. Dr. Charles Parker H o w a r d and Mr. Hartwell Carver Howard, of Champaign, one East Indian shawl (hand embroidered) and a daguerreotype of their sister, to the Department of Home Economics. 17. Mr. John N. Chester, a lead plate which is a replica of a French leaden plate deposited during the Celeron journey to the Ohio in 1749; several framed portraits, one of Mr. H e n r y R. Worthington at the age of forty-eight, together with a history of the Worthington Pump Company from 1840 to 1940, and a framed autographed portrait of Mr. Julien Kennedy, a famous consulting metallurgist of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The replica of the lead plate will be displayed in the Engineering Library, the framed portrait of Mr. H e n r y R. Worthington will be hung in the Arthur Newell Talbot Laboratory, and the portrait of Mr. Kennedy will be displayed in the Metallurgical Laboratory.