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Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno’s Benefaction. 
Emmanuel College Lodge. 1 November, 1919. 
The Vice-Chancellor has pleasure in publishing 
has been received by Professor Nuttall: 
Professor George II. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., 
Long field, 
Madingley Road, 
Cambridge. 
to the Senate the following letter which 
10, Palace Court, 
London, W. 2. 
October 23rd, 1919. 
Dear Professor Nuttall, ' 
I have for long been interested in your work on parasitology. I regard this work as of 
the very greatest value to the Empire and particularly to Africa, the home of so many 
diseases transmitted by and through parasites. 
Your researches have already produced results which are of immense benefit in the 
control and prevention of diseases both of men and of animals. Indeed research of this 
nature is indispensable if Africa is to be made habitable for white men and for animals 
of European stock. 
Your researches are however not bounded by the African field, vast as it is, but will 
apply all the world over in alleviating human suffering and protecting human and animal 
life from disease. 
I am well aware how utterly unprovided you are with the necessary accommodation 
to carry on research work. It is really a scandal that this should have been allowed to 
continue for so long, and the difficulty grows continuously with the increase in the number 
of your specimens and the extension of 3 'our work. 
Mrs Molteno has also been greatly interested in your work and desires to join me in 
providing funds for the erection and maintenance of a suitable building to be used in the 
future as an Institute for parasitological research in the University of Cambridge. 
We understand from you that you consider a sum of £20,000 would provide a suitable 
building with its fittings for this work, and that a further sum of £10,000 would be necessary 
as a fund to provide an income for the upkeep and maintenance of the Institute, and that 
anv surplus from this income could be used with the greatest advantage in furthering the 
purposes of research to be carried on in the Institute. 
Mrs Molteno and I will be glad to present to the University these sums of £20,000 and 
£10,000 making £30,000 in all for these purposes, on the understanding that the University 
is prepared to provide a suitable site. We desire that this sum should be a benefaction to 
the University for the purposes outlined above. 
After provision for the upkeep of the fabric, the balance of the income available from 
the maintenance fund should be placed at the disposal of the Director of the Institute (in 
the first place yourself) to be used at his discretion in furthering the work of research. 
We desire further to say that we have examined the plans drawn up by Mr Harry 
Redfern, F.R.I.B.A. — with the general view of the proposed Institute as it would appear 
on the Downing site at Cambridge. These plans appear to us to afford a suitable building, 
with the various halls for Library, Museum, etc. and rooms for Professor and students carrying 
» on research work. 
Accommodation appears to be provided without any unnecessary superfluities in 
bricks and mortar, and yet to be simple and dignified, and we hope it will be found possible 
for this plan to be carried out. 
I will be obliged to you if you will convey the contents of this letter to the Vice-Chancellor 
for communication to the Senate, and to the Cambridge University Association. 
