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THE new Sir William Dunn School of Pathology was formally opened at Oxford on the afternoon of Friday, Mar. 11. Unfortunately the Chancellor of the University, Viscount Cave, who was to have performed the opening ceremony, was prevented by illness from being present. The circumstances which led the Sir William Dunn trustees to make this magnificent presentation to Oxford were detailed by Mr. C. D. Seligman, the senior trustee present, and the building was gratefully received and declared open by the Vice-Chancellor, the Warden of All Souls, on behalf of the University. The objects of this munificent offer made to the University in Nov. 1922, subject to confirmation by an Order in the Court of Chancery of Feb. 1924, have thus been carried out. Of the total gift of £100,000, £80,000 has been devoted to the building and to its equipment, and £20,000 has been invested as a fund for maintenance and for the encouragement of the study of pathology. On the other hand, the University has provided a site of 21/2 acres near the south-east corner of the University Parks, and covenants to make permanent provision for the upkeep of a chair of pathology and for a full teaching staff. £3000 has, moreover, been allocated for the refitting of Prof. Dreyer's old Department of Pathology as a school of pharmacology —a subject which hitherto was poorly housed in attics under the roof of the old Radcliffe Library in the Museum.
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News and Views. Nature 119, 433–437 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119433a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119433a0