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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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126. Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, Chicago, $2,127.20 to be added to the Sinnissippi Forest Trust Fund in support of forestry research. 127. Motorola, Inc., Chicago, $40,000 to the College of Engineering for research in the general areas of solid state physics and radio wave propagation. 128. National Live Stock and Meat Board, $3,500 to the Department of Physiology for a study of calcium phosphorous requirements. 129. National Oak Wilt Research Committee, $9,000 to the State Natural History Survey for research on oak wilt disease. 130. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., in support of the following: a. $18,600 for research on carbon dioxide exchange during the induction period of photosynthesis, under the direction of Professor Robert Emerson of the Department of Botany ( N S F - G 2 7 ) . b. $17,200 for research on mode of action of cocarboxylase in carbohydrate metabolism, under the direction of Dr. Elliot Juni of the Department of Bacteriology ( N S F - G 4 ) . c. $4,600 for research on growth and cellular transformation during regeneration in amphibia, under the direction of Professor S. Meryl Rose of the Department of Zoology (NSF-G115). d. $9,500 for research on the alkaloids of haplophyton cimicidum, under the direction of Professor H . R. Snyder of the Department of Chemistry ( N S F GI35). e. $S,ioo for research on the Goldbach problem in algebraic number fields, under the direction of Professor Paul T. Bateman of the Department of Mathematics (NSF-G141). f. $3,000 for research on the geometry of matrices, under the direction of Professor Josephine Mitchell of the Department of Mathematics (NSF-G142). g. $9,200 for research on low temperature electronic phenomena in solids, under the direction of Professor Robert J. Maurer of the Department of Physics (NSF-G145). h. $5,000 for research on adsorption processes at electrode surfaces, under the direction of Professor H . A. Laitinen of the Department of Chemistry (NSF-G225). i. $17,500 for research on pathways of carbohydrate oxidation in aerobic bacteria, under the direction of Professor Willis A. Wood of the Department of Dairy Science (NSF-G257). 131. The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, $2,500 to the Department of Chemistry for research on the role of related nutrients in the metabolism of tryptophan and niacin. 132. Ohmite Manufacturing Co., Chicago, $5,000 to the Department of Ceramic Engineering for research. !33- Ortho Research Foundation, Raritan, New Jersey, $150 to the Department of Physiology for research. 134. Research Corporation, New York, New York, to the Department of Chemistry: a. $3,600 for research on the determination of the transference of numbers of the alkali halides in non-aqueous solvents, under the direction of Professor B. Roger Ray. b. $2,000 for research on a new method of resolution of optically active organic substances, under the direction of Professor J. C. Bailar. 135. The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York, $5,000 to the Department of Entomology for research in insect nutrition, under the direction of Professor G. S. Fraenkel, for one year beginning July 1, 1952. 136. Samuel Rubin Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, $3,500 to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for research under the direction of Professor Julian Steward. 137. Scientific Oil Compounding Company, Inc., Chicago, $1,000 to the Department of Horticulture for work on testing solubilized oil fungicides for tomato disease control. 138. Sharpies Chemicals, Inc., Wyandotte, Michigan, $1,000 to the Department of Agronomy for research on weed eradication.