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ACCORDING to the annual report for 1936 of the Council of the Royal Society, Mr. H. B. Gordon Warren, who died in 1932, directed that the income of his residuary estate should be used for the promotion of scientific and industrial research, and in particular to advance knowledge in metallurgy, engineering, physics and chemistry. The trustee of the estate, Williams Deacon's Bank, Ltd., has agreed that the trust shall be administered by a committee consisting of two members appointed by the Bank and eight others appointed by the Royal Society. It is understood that the fund will be slightly in excess of £200,000. The Society has also received the residuary estate of the late Sir Joseph Petavel, which amounts to about £40,000. During the past year, the Society applied to H.M. Treasury for an increase of £1,000 annually for the grant-in-aid for scientific investigations, and an increase of £500 annually for international research associations and scientific congresses. These applications have been approved by Parliament, so that the annual grants for 1936-37 for scientific investigations and for international and other congresses will be £7,000 and £2,500 respectively. From the Parliamentary grants-in-aid, a sum of £6,000 has been allotted to scientific investigations, and a sum of £1,775 to scientific publications of institutions other than the Royal Society. The Council has also decided unanimously to propose to the Society that the number of annual elections to fellowships should be increased from seventeen to twenty.
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Royal Society Research Funds. Nature 138, 961 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138961b0
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