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any time after twelve years from the election of the first Quick Professor be 
subject to alteration by Grace of the Senate on the recommendation of the 
Board of Managers.” 
It may be mentioned here that the regulations were modified in 1920 1 
on the recommendation of the Managers of the Quick F und whereby the* 
regulation cited in the previous paragraph was altered, the words ‘ it shall 
be the duty of the Professor to devote himself to the study of the Protozoa, 
especially such as cause disease,' being changed so as to read “it shall be the 
duty of the Professor to devote himself to the study of Parasitology. 1 he 
Managers recommended that the field of study and research should be Para¬ 
sitology for the following reasons: 
Parasitology includes, of course, the study of Protozoa causing diseases as a special 
section. As a pure science it is closely linked up with vegetable and animal biology generally, 
while as an applied science it appeals equally to the medical man, the veterinarian and the 
agriculturalist. 
Professor Nuttall has now been elected Quick Professor for periods of three years, five 
times in succession, and the work continuously carried out by him, and under his direction, 
has insensibly drifted into the wider field of Parasitology. 
Hitherto there has been no suitable laboratory available for the Quick Professor of 
Biology. The authorities of the Medical School placed the unfinished part of their Museum 
at his disposal, temporarily, but even then the Professor and his staff have been crowded 
into what is practically one room. It is a happy solution of this difficulty that a new Institute 
has been given to the University, planned expressly for the continuation and expansion of 
the work of the Quick Professor. 
As Professor Nuttall has been so closely associated with the gift to the University of lh(* 
Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology it seems to the Managers of the Quick 1 und 
desirable to extend the field of activity set down for the Quick Professor so that it may 
coincide with that for which the Research Institute is destined. 
Regulation 11 for the administration of the Quick Fund provides for alteration of the 
other regulations except nos. 1, 2, 7, 10 and 11 at any time twelve years after the d A ■ of 
the first election (16th October, 1906), “provided that in all cases the main object of the 
Fund, namely, the promotion of study and research in the sciences of vegetable and animal 
biology shall be adhered to. ’ The alteration of regulation 8 (1), now T proposed, is entiieH 
in keeping with the main object of the Fund. 
The Quick Endowment for Research . As previously mentioned (see p. 98), 
the Quick Fund, which provides the stipend of the Professor, also makes a 
certain provision for the expenses of research carried on in his laboratory. Phis 
fund, during the years 1906-18, yielded an average annual income of about 
£200 which has since increased to £300. Until the foundation of the Molteno 
Institute this represented the sole permanent source of income available for 
the purposes of research and the maintenance of a laboratory. 
1 Cambridge University Reporter, Date of Report 2, xn. 1920. 
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