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CAMBRIDGE.—The Vice-Chancellor announces that he has opened a University Benefaction Fund, to which he has placed during the present term donations for various academic purposes amounting to nearly 3500l. This sum includes a gift of 1000l. from Dr. Peckover, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, and a grant of 1050l. from the Mercers' Company for the rebuilding of the medical schools. The family of the late Sir George M. Humphry, Professor of Surgery, have contributed 600l. towards the latter object, by way of a memorial gift; and Mr. H. Westwood Hoffman, 100l.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 57, 188–189 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057188a0
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