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MRS. CAMERON, widow of Lieut.-Col. Lewis Cameron, Indian Medical Service, who died at St. Helier, Jersey, in 1930, bequeathed all her estate and effects to the University of Edinburgh and directed that the fund, to be known as ‘The Lewis Cameron Fund’, should be utilised in establishing a yearly prize for the best paper on bacteriology or on the diagnosis of disease by students of the University. The estate amounted to £103,771. This amount was regarded by the University as out of proportion to the purpose of the bequest. The University gave an undertaking to Mrs. Cameron's executors that they would make application to the Court of Session for a scheme for the regulation of the purposes affecting the estate, and on January 14 the Court approved the administration of the fund as follows: £3,000 for the establishment of two yearly ‘Lewis Cameron’ prizes of £50 each, one open to undergraduate students and the other to postgraduate students of the University for the best papers on subjects related to bacteriology or to the diagnosis of diseases; £15,000 for the endowment of a ‘Lewis Cameron’ teaching fellowship in bacteriology; £15,000 to stabilise by endowment one of the existing lectureships in bacteriology; £10,000 to form a ‘Lewis Cameron’ research fund, and £10,000 for a ‘Lewis Cameron’ library fund to provide books relating to bacteriology and the diagnosis of disease. The remainder of the estate, about £50,000, is to be set aside as the nucleus of a building fund for providing additional accommodation and equipment in the University for teaching of the sciences bearing on the diagnosis of disease and for research in these sciences. It is hoped that allocation of this sum for buildings may enable the University to obtain assistance from other sources, and so make possible an extension of the medical buildings and of their equipment necessary to maintain the reputation of the University as a centre of medical education and research.
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Bequest for Bacteriology at Edinburgh. Nature 135, 142 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135142a0
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