Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

486 MARCH MEETING, 1938
February 15, 1938
The committee appropriated as an addition to the Nonresident Lecture fund
the sum of $175 to provide honoraria for several speakers who it is anticipated
will appear under the auspices of the University during the remainder of the
present University year.
February 19, 1938
Present. the President and the Vice-President and Secretary.
Mr. Silas Y. Cotton, Instrument Man in the Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, at the salary of $1,750 a year, died January 9,
and to replace him Mr. L. A. Null has been appointed (transferred from the
Buildings and Grounds Department) at the same salary to date from February
3. In order to meet the routine payment to Mr. Cotton's widow and to take care
of the salary of Mr. Null, an addition to the Electrical Engineering budget of
$125 was required. As the whole procedure following the death of Mr. Cotton
was in accordance with Regents' regulations, the committee appropriated this
additional sum of $125.
February 25, 1938
At the request of Dean Henry C. Anderson, the committee approved the
following transfers of funds:
1. From Adm'nistrat'on, College of Engineering, Dean's Fund, $300 to the
Mortimer E. Cooley Foundation of Engineering Organization Expense account (p.
444)
2. From Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Salaries, to Civil Engineering, Salaries, $190
3. From Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Salaries, to Aeronautical
Engineering, Salaries, $50
4. From Mechanical Engineering, Salaries, to Aeronautical Engineering,
Salaries, $100
The first action was taken so that active work may begin toward the interests
of the Mortimer E. Cooley Foundation of Engineering, and the other three
transfers were made to provide for salaries for assistants for the second semester
of the present University year.
March 7, 1938
At the request of Dean Yoakum the committee approved the transfer of the
sum of $85 from the Expense and Equipment budget to the Salary budget of
Research Project R No. 15 (p. 336).
March 7, 1938
The committee approved the transfer of the sum of $50 from the Salary
budget of the Department of Chmm'cal and MetallurgIcal Engineering to the
Salary Ludget of the Department of Metal Processing to provi le, with funds now
appearine in that [udget, a salary for a student assistant for the second semester
of the present Unix Nrsity year.
The following contracts, supplemental contracts, and purchase
orders made or at cepted by the Department of Engineering Research
were placed on retord (p. 463):
Contracts
With the Sodium Silicate Manufacturers Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
for research on use of sodium-silicate adhesives; at an estimated cost of
$1,000
With the Ontario Refining Company, Copper Cliff, Ontario, for study of crystallization of nic'el sulphate: at an estimated cost of $660
With The International Nickel Company, New York City, for study of vacuum
fusion research on steels; at an estimated cost of $2,000
Supplements
With the Detroit Electric Furnace Comnany, for additional work in connection
with studies of gun iron, Project IM92; at an estimated cost of $200 (p.
141)
With The United States Graphite Company, for investigation of brushes; at an
estimated cost of $1,000 (R.P. 1932-1936), p. 844)
Purchase Orders
From the Ford Motor Co' pany, for vacuum-fusion analyses; at an estimated
cost of $125