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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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7. American Legion Auxiliary, $500 for use in the cooperative play-groups for veterans' children at the University. 8. Rite-Way Products Company, Chicago, $200 for a scholarship to be awarded to a student who has done outstanding work in 4-H Club or Future Farmers of America activities. 9. Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers, District 25, $87.68 which represents the balance of a fund raised for "Living Memorials," and will be used for the purchase of a wheel chair table. The money has been added to the Occupational Therapy Gift Fund. 10. An additional $100 for the Tau Delta Tau Student Loan Fund previously accepted by the Board of Trustees. Grants for Research 1. Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research, New York City, $6,400 for research by the Agricultural Experiment Station on "The increase of the humus content of soils and the functions of organic matter in producing super high yields of crops." This amount will be given annually for a period of five years if progress on the research project is considered satisfactory at the completion of each year. 2. Midwest Barley Improvement Association, $100 in support of a barley variety-fertilizer test at Woodstock, Illinois. 3. Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Parke, Davis and Company, and the Upjohn Company, an additional grant of $9,600 in support of research on antibiotics in the Agricultural Experiment Station during the year beginning September 1, 1947. 4. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware, $4,500 in support of the du Pont Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry during the academic year 1947-1948, $3,000 to be used as stipend and $1,500 for purchase of supplies and equipment. 5. American Cyanamid Company (Calco Chemical Division), Bound Brook, New Jersey, $3,000 for a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry for one year. 6. Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, New York City, $1,700 for two fellowships of $1,200 each in chemistry during the year 1947-1948. This is a renewal of a previous grant. A balance of $700 remaining from a grant for 19461947 makes the total of $2,400 for this year. 7. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, $2,000 for the continuation of research in the Department of Chemistry on the mechanism of the combustion of sulfur during the year 1947-1948. 8. The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, $1,500 in support of a fellowship in chemistry during the academic year 1947-1948. 9. Magnavox Foundation, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana, $1,500 to continue a fellowship in chemistry during the academic year 1947-1948. 10. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, $1,200 to continue support of a fellowship in organic chemistry during the year 1947-1948. 11. Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $1,200 to continue support of a fellowship in chemistry during the academic year 1947-1948. 12. Cincinnati Chemical Works, Inc., Norwood, Ohio, $1,000 to continue support of a fellowship in chemistry during 1947-1048. 13. Corn Products Refining Company, Argo, Illinois, $1,000 to continue support of research on phytates in the Department of Chemistry under the direction of Professor J. C. Bailar during the year beginning September 1, 1947. 14. Victor Chemical Works, Chicago, an additional grant of $750 in support of a fellowship in chemistry up to February 1, 1948. A previous grant of $1,750 was renewed last year. 15. Pan American Refining Corporation, New York City, $1,265 in continued support of a graduate fellowship in chemical engineering during the academic year 1947-1948. 16. Shell Fellowship Committee, New York City, $1,200, plus tuition fees up to $300, in support of a fellowship in chemical engineering during the academic year 1947-1048. 17. United Engineering Trustees, Inc., $4,800 for the completion of the research project "Fatigue tests of welded structural joints" in the Department of Civil Engineering.