110 The Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology 
Chancellor, Mr and Mrs P. A. Molteno, Earl Buxton, Lord Pentland, Sir Arthur 
Shipley, Professor Caullery and the Mayor of Cambridge. The speeches were 
brief and may be summarized as follows: 
The Vice-Chancellor 1 welcomed the founders to the Institute they had 
brought into being and thanked them warmly on behalf of the University for 
their noble benefaction, stating that he "‘could conceive of no more worthy 
object for generous-minded men to spend their money on than an Institute 
for Research of that kind, which necessarily must in some sense ameliorate 
the lot of mankind.” He read a telegram from General Smuts which Mr Molteno 
had received through the High Commissioner of South Africa; it ran: 
The Union of South Africa welcomes the opening of the Molteno Institute, which 
Institute is made possible by the generosity of the Molteno family. The progress of the 
Institute will be sympathetically watched by South African scientists. 
The Vice-Chancellor had that morning received a letter of congratulation 
and good wishes from Dr Edmond Sergent, Director of the Institut Pasteur 
of Algiers, whilst Professor Nuttall had been the recipient of a telegram which 
ran: 
Institut Pasteur et Societe Pathologie Exotique Paris adressent a Institut Molteno et 
a son eminent Directeur cordiales felicitations et voeux de prosperity (signed) Roux, Cal¬ 
mette, Mesnil. 
Mr Cecil Warburton, who spoke on behalf of the writer, welcomed the 
representatives of the Colonial Office, Ministry of Health, and War Office, 
and those who had come from various universities and scientific institutions. 
He dwelt briefiy on the main features of the new Institute and the plans that 
were being matured for its future development as a centre for research and 
advanced instruction in the whole domain of parasitology. 
Mr P. A. Molteno, whose rising to speak was welcomed by loud applause, 
after referring in the friendliest manner to the writer, expressed his and 
Mrs Molteno’s cordial approval of the way in which their benefaction had been 
applied in the construction and arrangement of the building. He referred to 
the very inadequate facilities which had hitherto existed for parasitological 
research in Cambridge and to the importance of such work for the Empire, 
judging by his own experiences in Africa. His eloquence, that of the practised 
speaker, greatly appealed to the audience. 
Earl Buxton spoke as an old friend of the founders who by birth were 
connected with South Africa, the name of Molteno having for long been well 
known and respected there, “ especially since the time of the first Prime Minister 
of Cape Province, Sir John Molteno,” moreover, Mrs Molteno’s father, Sir 
Donald Currie, had done much to assist in the development of the country. 
His Lordship referred to the generosity of the benefaction conferred on the 
1 The following abstracts of the speeches delivered on the occasion are made from a shorthand 
report. 
