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A COMMITTEE has been formed at Cambridge to raise a fund to obtain a portrait of Prof. Michael Foster. The portrait will be presented either to the University or to Trinity College, as the subscribers may decide. Among the members of the committee are the Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of King's, the Masters of Trinity, Jesus, and Downing Colleges, Sir George Stokes, M.P., Sir George Paget, Sir George Humphry, Prof. Jebb, M.P., Prof. Darwin, Prof. Newton, Prof. Roy, Prof. Stanford, Prof. Stanton, and Prof. Thomson. Dr. Lea, of Gonville and Caius College, is the treasurer of the fund.

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Notes . Nature 45, 18–21 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045018a0

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