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NATURE 



[July 21, 1910 



ticns allied to London University. The fellowships are 

 open to any man or woman of European descent who is 

 a graduate of any approved university within the British 

 Empire. 



The late Dr. Charles Graham, who died in November, 

 1909, and had been since 1889 emeritus professor of 

 chemical trchnology at University College, London, be- 

 queathed his residuary estate to London University, to be 

 applied to the promotion of research at University College 



itinerary regulated and prescribed by the trustees, will be 

 elected by the trustees on the nominatio'n of the Vice- 

 Chancellor or other executive head of each of the univer- 

 sities in the United Kingdom, the President of the Royal 

 Society, and the president of the British Academy. M. 

 Kahn has provided funds sufficient for a period of three 

 years, and is prepared at the expiry of that time to endow 

 the fellowships in perpetuity if they should prove to fulfil 

 the objects which he desires. 



Tablk L — Universities and University Colleges in England and Wales 

 Returns of Income, 1908-9 

 (Figures to the nearest £) 



Hospital Medical School " for the prevention, cure, or 

 alleviation of human disease or suffering." The legacy 

 was estimated at 35,000/. 



Still more recently, M. Albert Kahn, a well-known 

 French philanthropist, has handed over to a board of six 

 trustees a sum of 4140/. to provide for the annual award of 

 two travelling fellowships, each of the value of 660!. It is 

 expressly desired by hiin that the trust shall be permanently 

 associated with the University of London. The fellows, 

 V bo must travel for at least twelve months, according to an 



NO. 2125, VOL. 84] 



Mr. Alexander Elder gave, in igog, a suin of 20,000?. as 

 endowment for a chair of naval architecture in the Uni- 

 versity of Liverpool, and Mr. W. H. Lever, of the firm of.. 

 Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight, in ]\Iarch, 1910, made a gift 

 of 91,000!. to the same university for the erection of a 

 building in which the School of House and Town Planning 

 could be accommodated, and also the School of Architec- 

 ture, and for assistance to the School of Tropical Medicine 

 and the School of Russian Studies. 



City companies and corporate bodies have also made new 



