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AN appeal has recently been issued to erect a memorial to Lord Grey of Fallodon. Apart from his fame as a statesman, Lord Grey will be remembered as a lover of Nature. In writings that combine the poetry and the science of bird observation, he has taught many to find the purest and most lasting joys of mind and heart. It is proposed to erect a threefold memorial: (1) To set up a statue or bust in a central spot in London; (2) To acquire and make over to the National Trust ‘Ross Castle’, the small hill-top crowned by an ancient earthwork which adjoins Chillingham Park in Northumberland, a favourite view-point of Lord Grey's, which he often visited from Fallodon; (3) To develop (by further endowment and otherwise) the existing scheme of research maintained by the British Trust for Ornithology at Oxford, of which University he was an undergraduate and in later years the Chancellor, to form a permanent Institute of Bird Studies, to which his name would be attached. Further information can be obtained from the Secretary, The Viscount Grey Memorial, 7 Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, S.W.1.
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Viscount Grey Memorial. Nature 137, 146 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137146b0
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