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CAMBRIDGE.—More details are now available of the munificent offer which the International Education Board has made to the University. The University's scheme in its entirety includes a sum of £500,000 for the new University Library, of which the University has found half from its own resources. The remaining £679,000 of the scheme is made up as follows: (a) Agriculture. For teaching and research staff in animal physiology, plant genetics, and soil science, £92,900; for building and equipping a laboratory for genetics, mycology, bacteriology, cytology, etc., £40,000; for further research endowment, £30,000. (b) Biochemistry. For teaching and research staff, £24,000; for research endowment, £22,200. (c) Colloidal physics. For teaching and research staff, including a professorship, £50,300; for research endowment, £25,000. (d) Physics. For the establishment of a professorship of mathematical physics, £30,000. (e) Botany. For plant physiology, £57,250; for mycology and bacteriology, £51,250. (f) Physiology. For teaching and research staff, £33,000; for research endowment, £22,200; for buildings and equipment, £32,500. (g) Zoology. For teaching and research staff in entomology, experimental zoology, and protozoology, £77,900; for buildings and equipment, £90,500.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 122, 632 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122632a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122632a0