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THE University of Natal is celebrating at Pieter-maritzburg on March 15 and Durban on March 19 the granting of a charter to the University which became effective at the beginning of this year. Sir Raymond Priestley, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, Lord Eustace Percy, vice-chancellor of the University of Durham, and Prof. J. Dover Wilson, formerly regius professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh, are visiting South Africa for these celebrations. They are travelling under the Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme initiated by the British Council as a result of recommendations made at the Congress of Universities of the British Commonwealth last July. Under the scheme the Council will award travel grants to university teachers travelling on recognized study leave ; distinguished scholars invited for short visits ; and postgraduate research workers holding research grants. The grants are made on the recommendation of a committee representing the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom, and the Universities Advisory Committee of the British Council.
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University of Natal. Nature 163, 395 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163395a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163395a0