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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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5. University of Illinois Mothers' Association, $223.46 for the purchase of a silver tea service for the Illini Union Building. 6. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, Illinois, $300, for the purpose of carrying on a study of "Sweetose" as used in various dairy products, to be carried on by the Department of Dairy Husbandry. 7. T h e American Medical Association, $350, for a study of water soluble proteins by Dr. William H . Welker of the College of Medicine. 8. T h e American Dry Milk Institute, Inc., Chicago, $500 for research work in the Department of Animal Husbandry on biological tests on "enriched bread." 9. Professor H e r m a n B. Dorner, a gift of his valuable private collection of pressed plant specimens to the University Herbarium. 10. T h e F a r m e r s Creamery Company, Bloomington, Illinois, $300, for a study of a basis for a scale of wages for the employees of the company to be undertaken by the Department of Agricultural Economics. 11. Professor and Mrs. W. S. Robertson, three paintings from the early twentieth century period. 12. Professor Emeritus George T. Flom, a number of rare books and pamphlets for the Scandinavian collection of the Library. 13. T h e Prairie Farmer, Chicago, the first high compression gas tractor used in general farm work in Illinois, to the Department of Agricultural Engineering in recognition of its work in advancing the use of high-compression tractor engines. 14. Alumni and members of the faculty of the Department of Geology and Geography, oil portraits of Professor Emeritus William S. Bayley and Professor Emeritus Thomas E, Savage. 15. Mr. H e n r y Putzel, St. Louis, Missouri, engravings from the sixteenth and eighteenth century periods, prints of the seventeenth century, and several rare books for the Museum of European Culture. 16. Dr. Francis L. Lederer, Professor and Head of the Department of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, and three other members of his staff, $125, for the purchase of an improved type of microprojector for the Department. 17. T h e Student Senate, $300, to provide an annual scholarship of $100 for the next three years, to an undergraduate student. 18. T h e New York Community Trust, on behalf of an anonymous client, $750 to pay the stipend of a graduate fellowship in Chemistry during the academic year 1041-1942. This is a continuation of a fellowship awarded during the current academic year. 19. Niagara Sprayer and Chemical Company, Inc., Middleport, New York, $500, for a proposed project on the testing of lead arsenates. 20. T h e Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, on behalf of an anonymous donor, $75, to serve as a lecture fee for Professor John Garstang, famed excavator. 21. Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, $300, for a study of the synergistic action of certain organic suifur compounds when used in an agricultural insecticide. 22. 1040 Electrical Show, $120, to the Department of Electrical Engineering, to be used in purchasing equipment. 23. Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, New York City, $1,500, for the establishment of two fellowships of $750 each, to be awarded to outstanding graduate students in organic chemistry and to be known as Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation Fellowships. 24. T h e Velsicol Corporation, Chicago, $760, for the support of certain researches on insecticides being conducted by Dr. Clyde W . Kearns of the Department of Entomology. 25. Standard Brands, Inc., of New York, $1,450, for the renewal of their grant under the title of "Yeast Effect on the Digestive Tract," carried on in the Department of Physiological Chemistry, in the College of Medicine. 26. John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, New York City, $6,250, to support Dr. Ernst Gellhorn's investigation of the physiological foundations of convulsions and of the treatment of dementia praecox, in the College of Medicine.

On motion of Mr. Jensen, these gifts were accepted with thanks.