108 The Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology 
I may conclude by saying that I am a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an 
M.A. and LL.M. of the University, and that I have always had the highest regard for the 
University, and for the great work which it has done and is carrying on, and I am very glad 
to have the opportunity, in some small way, to assist in extending that work. 
Believe me, 
Yours faithfully, 
P. A. Molteno. 
This great benefaction was followed by a second of £6000, likewise from 
Mr and Mrs Molteno, to meet the greatly increased cost of building that became 
apparent as soon as the estimates were worked out 1 . 
It may be noted here that Mr and Mrs Molteno had already helped on the 
work of the Quick Laboratory financially in 1909 and 1914 (see p. 105) and that 
throughout the intervening years they had evinced much sympathy and 
interest in the researches carried out in our laboratory. 
The foregoing benefaction led to another which otherwise would not have 
been received. It was announced in the Cambridge University Reporter as 
follows: 
Benefaction from the late Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. 
Emmanuel College Lodge. 20 November, 1919. 
The Vice-Chancellor has pleasure in informing Members of the Senate of a further 
benefaction received, on November 18, by Professor Nuttall: 
In the Cambridge University Reporter of 22 February, 1910, under the heading “Bene¬ 
factions for Research Work in Parasitology,” the Vice-Chancellor informed Members of the 
Senate that various donations had been received by Professor Nuttall for the purposes of 
a field laboratory on the outskirts of Cambridge, adding that “£1000 has been promised, 
anonymously, when the fund has reached £6000.” 
This promise emanated from the late Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, who visited 
Cambridge in July, 1909, and evinced much interest in the parasitological work that was 
being carried on in the University. 
When Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno generously offered the sum of £30,000 for the purpose 
of building and maintaining an Institute for Parasitological Research in Cambridge (Reporter, 
4 November, 1919, page 206), an offer since accepted by Grace of the Senate, Professor 
Nuttall communicated with the late Lord Strathcona’s representatives, with the result that 
Lady Strathcona asked the Executors to pay Professor Nuttall the sum of £1000 “con¬ 
ditionally promised as a contribution to the Biological Research Laboratory (now the 
Institute for Parasitological Research) in connexion with Cambridge University.” 
THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY. 
Before describing the new Institute in detail an account may be given of 
the ceremony of its inauguration. 
The Institute was opened on the afternoon of 28th November, 1921 2 . I 
by Earl Buxton of Newtimber, G.C.M.G., late Governor-General of South A 
1 See Cambridge University Reporter, 20, xn. 1920, p. 130. 
2 Before the opening ceremony, visitors from the outside were entertained at lunch parties 
given respectively by the Vice-Chancellor and Mrs Pearce at Corpus Christi College, Sir Arthur 
Shipley and the writer at Christ’s College, Dr and Mrs H. K. Anderson at the Lodge of Caius 
College and by Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno at the University Arms Hotel. 
