0'^ The Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitotoc/y 
gratify all who have gained an insight into the deep significance of the many 
problems which parasitology presents when viewed from the standpoint of 
pure science. 
We should, moreover, signalize the generosity of the benefactors who have 
rendered possible the establishment of such an Institute, for the help they 
have given deserves the gratitude of all who are concerned directly or in¬ 
directly in securing the welfare of man, animal or plant by combating the 
parasites which are the cause of so much waste and death throughout the 
living world. 
I. EVENTS ANTECEDENT TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE 
INSTITUTE. 
Since the writer’s tenure of the Quick Professorship of Biology has had an 
important bearing upon the developments which led to the foundation of the 
Institute, it seems appropriate, in the first instance, to dwell upon the history 
of the Professorship and the conditions that apply to its tenure. Moreover, 
the work done in the Quick Laboratory during the years 1907-19 led by a 
process of natural growth to the inevitable necessity for the more favourable 
accommodation that has since been found in the Molteno Institute. 
The will of Frederick James Quick 1 bequeathed to the University of 
Cambridge a fund called the Frederick James Quick Fund 2 , the income thereof 
to be devoted to the promotion of '"study and research in the sciences of 
vegetable and animal biology.” The administration of this fund was entrusted 
by the testator s trustees to a Board of Managers consisting of the Vice- 
Chancellor and six Members of the Senate of the University appointed by 
Grace. The income of the fund was to serve (a) mainly for the stipend of a 
Chair (£1000) to be called the Quick Professorship of Biology, and (b) for the 
expenses of research carried on in the Professor’s laboratory. The Quick 
Professorship is tenable for three years from the date of election, the latter 
taking place triennially and being open to all who may apply. The writer has 
been elected to five successive triennial periods of tenure. At the end of the 
first and second triennial periods an interval of six weeks occurred during 
which the chair was vacant and the stipend ceased, but the regulations governing 
the chair were modified in 1918 3 by advancing the date of re-election so that 
there should be no break in the tenure of the Professorship. 
The original regulations governing the Quick Professorship 4 provided inter 
alia that it shall be the duty of the Professor to devote himself to the study 
of the Protozoa, especially such as cause disease, and generally to promote that i 
branch of science by research and by the superintendence of a laboratory or 
otherwise. The regulations provided, moreover, that the chair might “at 
1 For biographical note relating to Mr Quick, see p. 100. 
2 See Cambridge University Reporter, 3, n. 1903; 33, hi. 1906, pp. 577-581; 1, v. 1906, pp. 778- 
3 Ibid. 23, iv. 1918, p. 619. 
4 Cambridge University Reporter, 13, hi. 1906, p. 579. 
