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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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12. Illinois W a t e r Treatment Company, Rockford, Illinois, water softening equipment valued at $350 for the Department of Ceramic Engineering. 13. Dean Maria Leonard, $30.00 for three cash scholarship prizes to be awarded during the second semester, 1040-1941, to the young women having the highest all-University averages in (1) the Panhellenic senior group, (2) the W o m a n ' s Group System, and (3) the Resident Government System. 14. Standard Agricultural Chemicals, Inc., $500 for an investigation of dinitro compounds by the Department of Horticulture. 15. Liberty Chemical Laboratories, Franklin P a r k , Illinois, $300 for an investigation of greenhouse insecticides by the Agricultural Experiment Station and the State Natural History Survey. 16. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, Illinois, $1,500 for research work on the production of industrial oil from soybeans under the direction of Professor A. Garrell Deem of the Department of Chemistry. 17. Illinois Chapter of Sigma Xi, $500 for the establishment of a Sigma Xi Fellowship in the Graduate School to be awarded biennially or as funds of the local chapter permit. 18. American Medical Association, $300 to assist Dr. C. E. Cahn Bronner in research work on the oxygen requirement of bacteria under different nutrition. 19. Musher Foundation, Inc., $125 (payable at the rate of $25 a month) for research work on the anti-oxidant properties of oat flour in the preservation of meat and edible fats. This is to pay the expenses of the study for five months from February 1, 1941, under a cooperative research agreement previously authorized by the Board of Trustees. Comptroller's Report of Gifts 1. University of Illinois Foundation, $43,000 for Illini Union Building furnishings. 2. A r t h u r Andersen Research and Education Fund, $500 for renewal of graduate scholarship in Accountancy or Economics. 3. United States Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,400 additional for tests of riveted joints by the College of Engineering. 4. Dow Chemical Company, $750 for an assistantship in Chemistry for 1940-1941. 5. F e r r o Enamel Corporation, $1,000 for renewal of a graduate fellowship in Ceramic Engineering for research under the direction of Professor A. 1. A n d r e w s ; $750 is for salary and $250 for other expenses. 6. Electric Auto-Lite Company, $375 for a Research Assistantship in the Department of Chemistry. 7. Standard Brands, Inc., $850 additional for research on the effects of yeasts on the digestive tract by the College of Medicine. 8. Nutrition Research Laboratories, Inc., $597.12 additional for Vitamin D Research by the College of Medicine. 9. Charles A. Dennison Estate, $400 to be added to the Dennison Memorial Fund for Purchase of Library Books. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r n o f , t h e s e g i f t s w e r e a c c e p t e d w i t h t h a n k s . AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE (21) At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on February 21 there was presented a recommendation that automobile insurance, providing coverage of $5,000 for property damage, and $25,000/50,000 for public liability on the University's fleet of 61 passenger cars and 52 trucks, for one year from April 4, 1941, be placed with the American Automobile Insurance Company of St. Louis, Missouri, through its representative, Beers & Beers, Champaign, Illinois, the lowest bidder, at a premium of $1,281.83. Action on this was deferred, pending the receipt of further information in answer to specific questions. These questions and the information in reply thereto a r e : I. W h y was not a bid submitted by the Continental Casualty Company, present insurer? T h e report of the Purchasing Agent, submitted herewith, indicates that a notice was sent to the agency representing that company, and no