Board of Visitors minutes :: September 9, 1955 :: University of Virginia Library

Mr. John L. Pratt, to be used for the Pratt Trace Analysis Laboratory in Chemistry	$20,000.00
From the Hon. Robert Smith Simpson, 352 items for Alderman Library, valued at	245.70
From Mr. Francis Gwynn Townes, a set of Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology", valued at	240.00
From the Literary Executors of Ellen Glasgow, the Ellen Glasgow Papers, valued at	5,000.00
From Col. John R. Fox, 13 volumes valued at	115.00
From the following persons for the purchase of a high voltage cancer machine for the Medical School:
Mr. William H. White, Jr.	3,363.87
Mrs. Mary R. White	1,424.70
Mrs. Jennings C. Wise	769.52
Mrs. Fannie Cook	1,000.00
Mrs. Martha N. Gates	500.00
Mr. F. S. Royster, Jr.	1,000.00
Mr. Eben C. Speiden	3,326.32
Mr. Edward D. Tayloe	2,712.13
Mr. C. F. Burroughs	500.00
Mr. A. B. Carrington, Jr.	500.00
Mr. Charles T. Neale	2,000.00
Mr. E. R. W. McCabe	250.00
From Mr. Hubert Harris, for the Cerebral Palsy Clinic	100.00
From the Union Carbon and Carbide Company, for a scholarship in Engineering	430.00
From the Westinghouse Educational Foundation, for the Westinghouse Achievement Scholarship in Electrical Engineering for the 1955-56 session	500.00
From the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity for a Law scholarship	200.00
From the Interfraternity Council, for a scholarship	900.00
From Mr. John Lord O'Brian, to be added to the Alumni Law Fund	200.00
From the McGregor Fund, for the creation of a revolving fund for publications of the McGregor Library	5,000.00
From the Virginia Society for Crippled Children, for a scholarship	350.00
From the Civil Air Patrol, Virginia Wing, for teacher scholarships at the Air Age Education Workshop	3,000.00
From the Allstate Foundation for summer school work in driving education	$5,000.00
From the estate of the late Mr. L. J. McCormick, for the Observatory	2,650.00
From Voorhees, Walker, Smith and Smith, for a fellowship in Architecture	2,000.00
From the Carnegie Institute of Washington, for a pre-doctoral fellowship in Physics for the session of 1955-56	1,750.00
From the Ford Foundation, a grant for case-related research activities under the Sponsors of the Graduate School of Business Administration	800.00
From the National Science Foundation, for research in Astronomy under the direction of Professor A. N. Vyssotsky	4,800.00
From Mr. A. W. Gauger, for research in Engineering under the direction of Professor Hubbard	300.00
From the American Medical Association, for research under the direction of Dr. E. D. Brand, Department of Pharmacology	400.00
From the American Cancer Society, for research under the direction of Dr. Cornelia Hoch-Ligeti, of the Department of Pathology	7,095.60
From Allen-Sherman-Hoff Pump Company, for continued research under the direction of Professor Hubbard of the Engineering School	4,300.00
From the Ford Foundation, for studies under the direction of Professor Charles Micaud of the Department of Foreign Affairs	15,000.00
From the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, for research under the direction of Professor Quarles of the School of Engineering	500.00
From the Rockefeller Foundation, for research under the direction of Professor L. J. Halle, of the Foreign Affairs Department	9,000.00
From Acme Visible Records, Inc., for research under the direction of Professor Hubbard of the Engineering School	15,000.00
From the National Science Foundation, for research under the direction of Professor F. W. Finger of the Department of Psychology	15,500.00
From the U. S. Public Health Service, for continued research under the direction of Dr. Alfred Chanutin of the Department of Biochemistry	14,375.00
From the U. S. Public Health Service, for continued research under the direction of Dr. Vincent Hollander of the School of Medicine	25,000.00
From the Department of the Army, for research as follows:
Physics, under Dr. F. L. Hereford	17,343.52
Medicine, under Dr. A. E. Feller	7,000.00
Chemistry, under Dr. P. M. Gross, Jr.	8,714.00
Engineering, under Professor R. M. Hubbard	40,000.00
From the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for research as follows
Pharmacology, under Dr. C. L. Gemill	7,020.00
Biology, under Dr. J. N. Dent	5,708.00
Chemistry, under Dr. A. T. Gwathmey	14,424.00
Medicine, under Dr. Herbert Jonas	6,325.00
Physics, under Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau	98,511.00