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AS in previous years, perusal of the report of the Medical Research Council provides the reader with a broad view of the research work carried out in Great Britain in medicine and its allied subjects: from its pages, the trend of recent investigations can be quickly and easily followed. The increase in the grant-in-aid provided by Parliament enabled the Council to restore the cuts in salaries and to proceed with plans for new research work which had been temporarily in abeyance, and to undertake additional investigations required for the purposes of administrative departments. Lord Dawson of Perm and Prof. A. E. Boycott retired from the Council, and Prof. J. A. Ryle and Prof. M. J. Stewart were appointed to succeed them. Towards the close of the period under review, the Council learnt of the impending retirement of its chairman, the Marquess of Linlithgow, on his appointment as Viceroy of India. The funds of the Council have been augmented as hi previous years by sums of money for the promotion of particular schemes of research, provided by a number of different bodies. The Council is also responsible for the award of Rockefeller medical fellowships and Dorothy Temple Cross research fellowships in tuberculosis; the arrangement with the Rockefeller Foundation of New York will not, however, be renewed at the end of the present academic year, the fellows who are now abroad being the last to be appointed. The change is not due to any doubts as to the value of the scheme, or to any dissatisfaction with the results which have been achieved; but is due entirely to a fundamental change in policy of the Foundation, which involves abandonment of its present system of international fellowships in favour of concentration upon a more restricted programme for the promotion of research. The Council is concerned with the question of filling the gap in the system of higher medical education caused by the withdrawal of these fellowships; meanwhile, the trustees of the late Viscount Leverhulme are providing funds, for the next five years in the first instance, for the award of one travelling fellowship annually.
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Medical Research in 1935. Nature 137, 973–975 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137973a0
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