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IN the report of the Council which was presented to the Court of Governors at its annual meeting on February 23, reference is made to two recent benefactions, namely, one of £10,000 by Sir Charles Hyde and the other of £2,000 by the Pro-Chancellor and Mrs. Barrow. These were given as peace thank-offerings. Sir Charles Hyde's gift, to be applied to a purpose chosen by the Prime Minister, is to be known as the Neville Chamberlain Physical Fitness Fund, and the income is to be used towards the maintenance of the University's scheme for physical education. The contribution of Mr. and Mrs. Barrow is to be added to the Medical School building fund. Mrs. Ellen M. Parrott has given £500 in memory of her late husband, to be known as the T. H. Parrott Geological Research Fund, for “advancement of research in Geology”. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Cadbury, who recently provided funds for the building of the St. Francis Hall, have given a further sum of £3,000, the income of which is to be used for the maintenance of the Hall. As part of the scheme for physical education, a gymnasium (with ancillary rooms and three squash courts and one fives court) is to be built at a cost of £15,000, of which £10,000 has been promised by the University Grants Committee and £5,000 by a private benefactor. Funds for the establishment of a department for research into mental diseases in the new building of the Medical School have been guaranteed for a number of years. The laboratories are now occupied, and Dr. Stanley Barnes has been appointed honorary director of mental diseases research, with Dr. F. A. Pickworth as senior research officer. Several investigations into cancer, financed by the Local Committee of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, are being carried out in the new Medical School. The Poynting Memorial Lecture is to be given on March 7 in the Physics Department by Dr. H. B. G. Casimir, of Leyden, on “The Approach to the Absolute Zero of Temperature, and the Properties of Matter at the Lowest Attainable Temperatures”. The Huxley Lecture is to be given on March 16 at the University, Edmund Street, by Sir Albert Seward on “Aspects of Evolution in the Plant World”.
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University of Birmingham: Annual Report. Nature 143, 370–371 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143370c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143370c0