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A BEQUEST by the late Lady Dewar is announced of ten thousand pounds to the Royal Institution. The gift is free of duty, and is made on the condition that the income is to be used for the purpose of furthering scientific research in the Institution and as a permanent memorial to the work there of her husband, Sir James Dewar. Lady Dewar has also left to the Royal Institution her husband's medals and diplomas and his scientific papers and apparatus, together with a sum of money to provide accommodation for them. A large part of his apparatus, in particular that used in his low temperature researches, has remained at Albemarle Street since his death, and in recent years has been displayed in the Institution's collection. The papers and objects now presented are additional material likely to be of great historic value to the Institution in relation to the period of Dewar's professorship. Lady Dewar's other bequests include £4,000 to the Royal Society's Mond Laboratory at Cambridge and £3,000 to the Royal Academy of Music. The residue of the estate is left for the furtherance of research in chemistry and physics at one of the Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Glasgow or Aberdeen, or for the assistance of bacteriological research in connexion with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
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Lady Dewar's Bequests for Science. Nature 135, 334 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135334d0
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