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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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pay $2,700; and (b) the load-resisting properties of plastics to determine the tensile, compressive, and torsional strengths, fatigue strength with several ranges of stress, impact strength, and to obtain complete stress-strain diagrams and creep characteristics, for the expenses of which the Federal Government will pay $2,400. T h e research on these investigations has been designated as a confidential project, and as such the provisions of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics regarding the employment of aliens will apply. Partial payment in the amount of 50 per cent of the contract price will be made on completion of at least half of the work. T h e evidence of such completion shall be submitted in the form of a preliminary report. Final payment will be made on completion of all the work, including the submission of the complete report (in sextuplicate), together with original illustrations, and its acceptance by the Committee. T h e first contract is for the continuation of the research work carried on last year.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this action was approved and confirmed, with the suggestion that appropriate information concerning these agreements be sent to the Committee on Patents.

PATENT ON MACHINE FOR APPLYING INSECTICIDES (14) At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on July 22, 1041 (Minutes, page 397), the Board authorized the University's patent attorneys to prepare an application for a patent on the discovery of a machine for producing fog or smoke developed by Mr. C. W . Veach, Assistant in Agricultural Engineering, and Mr. W. E. McCauley, Assistant Entomologist in the State Natural History Survey Division. In asking for authorization from the State Natural History Survey Division to transfer his entire right and title to the invention described in the petition to the Board of Trustees and to the Natural History Survey Division, it has come to the attention of Mr. McCauley that in his assignment papers there is no mention of the Natural History Survey Division. The Chief of the Survey, therefore, has authorized Mr. McCauley to sign the papers as now drawn up, with the reservation that an equitable adjustment of any income resulting from this patent be made between the University of Illinois and the Natural History Survey Division. An adjustment whereby the University and the Survey would share equally any income accruing from this patent after deducting all costs would seem to be a fair arrangement. T h e Chief of the State Natural History Survey Division has requested that the proposal as described above be approved by the Board of Trustees.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this adjustment was authorized.

S U P P L E M E N T TO A. F. KAESER S T U D E N T LOAN F U N D (15) Miss Marion A. Kaeser, Highland, Illinois, offers the University notes totaling $7,975 which were a part of the assets of the estate of her late father, Dr. A. F. Kaeser. These represent loans made to two individuals while they were students, one of whom is now on the faculty of another university, and the other is a practicing physician. She wishes these notes to be added to the "A. F. Kaeser Student Loan F u n d " established by her father (Minutes of September 30, 1939, page 555) and to be administered under the same procedure as this loan fund. These notes are now past due and she asks that the University make all possible efforts within a reasonable time to collect the principal in each case (the interest on the notes has previously been waived by the donor), but with a stipulation that one of the individuals be not called on to pay any part of his notes prior to January, 1944. Miss Kaeser has endorsed these notes "Payable to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois without recourse" and has deposited them with the Bursar. I recommend acceptance of this gift.

On motion of Mr. Fornof, this gift was accepted.