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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Minor contracts executed under general regulations of the Board of Trustees:

With Whom Columbia Artists, Inc. Richard Copley Concert Management Redpath Lyceum Bureau Commonwealth Edison Company Illinois Iowa Power Company Internationa! Business Machines Corporation With Whom American Dry Milk Institute E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company Phenolphthalein Research, Inc. A. K. Staley Manufacturing Company Wrought Stee] Wheel Industries For Lecture of Sigmund Spaeth Lecture of C. W. Cadman Lecture of Carl Mose Electric service agreement for the Clucago departments Gas service agreement for Men's Residence Hall Rental of tabulating machinery for tabulating office in Accounting Division for 19411942

Amount to be Paid by the University

$300 $150 5200

Date July 31, 1941 August 6, 1941 August 27, 1941 August 11, 7941 August 11,1941 September 9, 1941

Scheduled rates Scheduled rates Monthly rental 5778 40 Amount to be received by the University

720

For Extension of agreement for research in calcium in foods Extension of contract on investigation to study the quantitative utilization of urea in covering protein requirements Renewal of agreement of phenolphthalein research Extension of agreement for study of nutritive value of soybean oil meal for poultry Study of causes and prevention of failure of wrought steel car wheels

Date August 14, 1941 July 31, 1941

Si 52 $1 000 £6 200

September 20, 1941 August 11, 1941 August 5, 1941

This report was received for record.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY AND GRANTS OF FUNDS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES (21) A report of the following gifts and grants of funds for various purposes received by the University since the last report:

Gifts

1. The Students' Mutual Benefit Hospital Fund, $900 for the purchase of an electrocardiograph, a stethograph, and a table for these instruments. 2. University Concert and Entertainment Board, $500 to apply on the purchase of a new piano in the Auditorium. 3. Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, specimens having an estimated value of $465, for use in the investigation of "Fatigue Tests of Welded Joints" being carried on in the Department of Civil Engineering. 4. Class of 1942, $664.82, to be set up as a scholarship fund to be administered by the Committee on Special Undergraduate Scholarships. 5. Family of the late Professor W. A. Foster, books and pamphlets for the University Library. 6. John Crerar Library of Chicago, to the Department of Botany, three valuable card indices: The Gray Herbarium Index, The Torrey Botanical Club Index, and The Index Algarum Universalis. 7. College of Dentistry, $189.84 resulting from the G. Walter Dittmar testimonial banquet, to the Gallie Emergency Fund, this fund now to be known as the Gallie-Dittmar Student Loan Fund. Grants for Research 1. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, $2,000 for the employment of a research assistant in Chemistry for Dr. H. R. Snyder (continuation of grant formerly given for research program of Dr. F . C. Fuson). 2. Cerophyl Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., $1,200 for research in the Department of Botany dealing with the correlations between the various vitamins and other components in certain grasses; and $100 for research on proteins in grasses, this being a continuation of a research grant originally made by the American Dairies, Inc.