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Since 1909, annual Grants have been derived continuously from the Tropical 
Diseases Research Fund (Colonial Office), three grants were obtained from 
the Local Government Board (1913-16), three from the Board of Agriculture 
(1915-17) and one from the Rockefeller Institute, New York (1913-14), whilst, 
since, 1917, grants have been received from the War Office (once), and (re¬ 
peatedly) from the Medical Research Council and Medical Grant Committee 
(Ministry of Education). 
In addition to the foregoing, various Benefactions were received from private 
and other sources as follows: In 1909-10, from The Transvaal Government, 
£500; The Government of Cape Colony, £500; The Duke of Bedford, £100; 
Lord Rothschild, £100; Sir Richard Cooper, Bart., £100; Mr and Mrs P. A. 
Molteno, £100; Harry Mosenthal, Esq., £26. 5s.; J. Buchanan, Esq., £25; 
The Tropical Diseases Research Fund, £25; E. Darwin, Sc.D., F.R.S., £5. 5s.; 
Julius Auerbach, Esq., £5. 5s.; Fred C. Norton, Esq., £2. 2s.; making a total 
of £1489 x . In 1914, from Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno, £400 (£100 thereof toward 
expenses of publication); Sir Dorabji J. Tata, £250; Mr and Mrs Henry Bubb, 
£25; making a total of £675 x . 
THE FIELD LABORATORY. 
In 1909-10, largely through the above-mentioned benefactions, a field 
laboratory was erected by the writer upon the Milton Road at a distance of 
two miles from the Medical School and present site of the Molteno Institute, 
the laboratory serving for experimental researches that cannot be carried out 
in the town. The buildings are of a temporary character but ample to meet the 
needs of the Institute in the future; they form an essential annex to the In¬ 
stitute. Our laboratory can accommodate two to four research workers, being 
adequately and economically heated by hot water radiator pipes and a coke 
furnace, water and gas being laid on but not electricity. The site of our labora¬ 
tory forms a part (about 5 acres) of the University Field Laboratories com¬ 
prising 27 acres of land. (See Fig. 2, showing the general distribution of the 
buildings.) 
II. THE FOUNDATION OF THE MOLTENO INSTITUTE. 
The highly unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in the Quick Laboratory 
led the writer to issue an appeal for funds with which to erect an Institute 
for Parasitological Research in Cambridge. The appeal was issued in printed 
form in May 1919 for private circulation 1 2 . From Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno 
it evoked the following generous response which was subsequently published 
in the Cambridge University Reporter by the Vice-Chancellor: 
1 See Cambridge University Reporter, 22, n. 1910 and 9, vi. 1914. 
2 Nuttall, G. H. F. (1919), The Need of an Institute for Parasitological Research in Cambridge, 
19 pp. 28 x 22 cm. (Illustrated with a general view and plans of the proposed Institute, Quick 
Laboratory and Field Laboratory. Privately printed at the University Press, Cambridge.) 
