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THE report of the Council of the Royal Society, presented at the anniversary meeting on December 1, records that a bequest of 10,000l. has been received “for the prosecution of original research in medicine for the prevention of disease and relief of suffering with special attention to tropical diseases in British possessions and to cancer and tuberculosis.” On the recommendation of the sectional committee for physiology, the subject of kala azar has been chosen for investigation, in view of its grave and increasing prevalence in India, and of the complete ignorance which exists as to the mode of infection. A further donation of 500l. has been received from Mrs. Tyndall, who in 1910 made a generous gift of 1000l. for the purpose of encouraging and furthering research in all matters pertaining to mining. It is the wish of Mrs. Tyndall that the income from this additional donation be used, at the discretion of the Tyndall Mining Bequest Committee, solely as a fund to meet out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Tyndall research student in the carrying out of his investigations. The nineteenth and final volume of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers is now in the printers' hands. This contains about 44,200 entries under the letters T-Z, bringing the total number of entries for the period 1884-1900 to about 384,000. The publication of this volume will complete the great work of cataloguing the scientific papers of the nineteenth century. The first volume of this per-manent record of the achievements of science during the period 1800-1900 was published in 1867. The cost of the catalogue has been very great, and might have prohibited the completion of the undertaking but for the assistance of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond and other donors, and for the generosity of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. Even apart from this assistance the total direct cost to the funds of the Royal Society has amounted to 24,970l.
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Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society. Nature 114, 840–841 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114840a0
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