Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

208 FIRST MARCH MEETING, 1940
tors of this State and elsewhere to students in journalism during 1938-1939. The
Regents last year appropriated $500 for the payment of these lecturers, but about
one-half this sum had been turned back as unspent balance at the end of the year
1938-1939. The Operating Committee approved Professor Brumm's request. The
appropriation of $300 added only $50 to what the Regents had originally allowed,
though it does increase the budget of the present year in the full amount of $300
(R.P. 1936-1939, p. 622).
The following contracts, supplemental contracts, and extensions
and purchase orders made or accepted by the Department of Engineering Research were placed on file (p. 174):
Contracts
With Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, Kellogg,
Idaho, for work on spectrographic development; at an estimated cost of
$5,000
With the Metal Window Institute, Washington, D. C., for research work on
heat conduction through glazed openings; at an estimated cost of $2,000
With the Armco Drainage Products Association, Middletown, Ohio, for design of
tunnel liner; at an estimated cost of $1,000
With the Eaton Manufacturing Company, Detroit, for investigation of various
types relative to products made by the company as covered by specific authorization (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 195); at an estimated cost of $7,500
With The Murray Corporation of America, Detroit, for introductory investigation
of plastics; at an estimated cost of $750
Supplements
With Jenks and Muir, for extension of time on Project No. 1M54 (R.P. 1936-1939,
p. 411); at an estimated cost of $6,000
With The Dow Chemical Company, for extension of time on Project M1165 (R.P.
1936-1939, p. 463); at an estimated cost of $800
With The City of Toledo, Ohio, for extension of time on Project M205 (R.P.
1936-1939, p. 909); at an estimated cost of $500
Purchase Orders
From Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, for oxygen determination; with no
estimated cost stated in order
From the Michigan State Highway Department, for tests on coal samples; at an
estimated cost of $25
From The Barrett Company, Edgewater, for determination of sound-deadening
qualities of 21 samples; at an estimated cost of $150
The Board placed on file an acknowledgment by former Regent
Stone of his pleasure in the statement adopted January 26 (p. 169).
The President reported the sudden death of Dr. David Murray
Cowie on Saturday, January 27, 1940. The following statement was
on recommendation of the President adopted for the record:
The Regents of the University of Michigan hereby record their deep sorrow
at the death of Dr. David Murray Cowie, Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious
Diseases in the Medical School of this University, and their appreciation of the
attainments and the services of this loyal alumnus of Michigan who became a
member of its staff forty-four years ago. Constantly alive to the need for research
upon the cause and treatment of disease, Dr. Cowie contributed importantly to
medical knowledge; at the same time, throughout his career, he employed in active
medical practice his skill and his talent for human relationships. His success as a
physician and scientist is attested by the honors conferred upon him by his
colleagues, by the respect and affection which he inspired in his students, and by
the confidence reposed in him by thousands of patients. In testimony of the
great loss which the University of Michigan has suffered in Dr. Cowie's lamented
death, and in token of their sympathy with his surviving family, the Regents have
directed that this memoir be incorporated in their official Proceedings, and that
a copy thereof be sent to Mlrs. Cowie by the Secretary of the Board.