University of Virginia Library

GIFTS

The President reported receipt of the following gifts and grants:

                                   

From the Virginia Academy of Science, for equipment for the Observatory	$ 100.00
From the American Philosophical Society, a grant to Dr. Morris S. McKeehan, of the Anatomy Department	500.00
From the National Committee for Free Europe, to be applied toward the salary of Dr. Geza Teleki, Acting Associate Professor of Foreign Affairs, for the session of 1951-52	2,000.00
From the Bristol Community Chest Cancer Committee, for equipment to be used in cancer work by the Department of Internal Medicine	600.00
From the Seven Society, to be used by the President	77.77
From Mr. David Tennant Bryan and Mrs. Amanda Bryan Kane, books from the library of their father, John Stewart Bryan, valued at	6,068.33
From Mr. Samuel Bemiss, rare books valued at	425.00
From Mr. G. M. Alexander, of Lynchburg, a BOOK OF HOURS, of the Fifteenth Century, valued at	500.00
From the U. S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, for research under Dr. James C. Mace, of the Engineering Department	30,000.00
From the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Roads, for work to be undertaken by the Bureau of Population and Economic Research	10,500.00
From the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for medical research by Dr. Chalmers L. Gemmill	8,476.79
From the National Bureau of Standards, U. S. Department of Commerce, for continued research by the University of Virginia Engineering Experiment Station, beginning July 1, 1952	100,000.00
From the Department of the Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, for research under Dr. J. W. Beams	60,000.00
From the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, for continued research in astronomy by Dr. H. L. Alden	2,420.00
From the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, for continued research in astronomy by Dr. H. L. Alden	1,320.00
From the Cole Steel Equipment Company, Inc., New York, for research by the University of Virginia Engineering Experiment Station	2,500.00
From the Concrete Building Units Company and Southern Light Weight Aggregate Company of Richmond, for certain research by the University of Virginia Engineering Experiment Station	$ 800.00
From the Department of the Army for research in physics under Dr. Frank L. Hereford	6,188.75