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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (20) A report of the following purchases authorized by the President of the University in accordance with the University Statutes: 1. Approximately 250 crossbred or fine-wool yearling ewes, for the Department of Animal Husbandry for experimental purposes. The purchase requires inspection of several lots of animals, and the price will depend on the market at the time of purchase. The approximate cost is $3,500. 2. Forty-eight dental instrument cases, from H. Gerstner & Sons, Dayton, Ohio, at a price of $25.50 (f.o.b. Dayton) per case, or a total of $1,224. This is a non-competitive item as the cases are made according to a special University design, and to secure uniformity should be purchased from the manufacturer who has supplied them before. The cases are for resale to students. 3. Fresh and smoked meats and poultry, 29 items, for the Research and Educational Hospitals during the month of June, from the following lowest bidders, as per quotations received May 26, 1942, a schedule of which is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record: Swift & Company, 10 items $1 518 60 New City Packing Company, 1 item 105 75 Irwin Brothers, 5 items 701 25 Jourdan Packing Company, 3 items 585 00 Cudney & Company, 2 items 413 00 Davidson Meat Company, 1 item 100 80 Armour and Company, 7 items 416 70

On motion of Mr. Davis, the action of the President of the University in authorizing these purchases was approved and confirmed.

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. Dr. Francis L. Lederer, Professor and Head of the Department of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, $134.50 to supplement the Francis L. Lederer Otolaryngology Trust Fund. 2. Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, $100 to the Department of Horticulture, to be handled as an expendable trust grant. 3. Dr. J o r d a n P. Sandman, South Weymouth, Massachusetts, $25 to be added to the Gallie-Dittmar Student Loan Fund. 4. Anonymous donor, $100 to be used as a partial scholarship for a selected deserving freshman student in the Chicago Colleges during the academic year

1942-1943.

5. Airs. T. A. Clark, to the Museum of European Culture, a vase which was given to the late Dean Clark by a Chinese student. 6. Estate of Mr. Albert Hale, Chicago, a Louis Lot flute and a collection of colored slides, to the University High School. 7. Mr. F. L. Thompson, Vice-President of the Illinois Central System, two large bound volumes of the architectural work of the distinguished Chicago firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White. 8. Mr. Roy Vincent MacNicol, New York City, nine paintings selected from his "Around the World Collection." 9- Mr. C. A. Kiler, Champaign, a collection of original manuscripts, cartoons, books, and newspapers to the School of Journalism. 10. Professor C. E. Bradbury, an oil portrait of the late Professor Edward J. Lake to the Department of Art. 11. The Adelphic Literary Society, through Mr. Charles A. Kiler, two portrait prints of Washington and Lincoln to the Alumni Association. 12. Mrs. W. H . Schick, a microscope which belonged to her son, Lieutenant William R. Schick, -who was killed in action at Pearl Harbor on December 7, to the College of Medicine, to be lent to needy, worthy students while in school and to be kept in the possession of the College for this purpose.