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AT a meeting of the Royal Society on May 26, Sir Henry Wellcome was elected a fellow of the Society under Statute 12, which provides for the recommendation by the Council for election of “persons, who … either have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science, or are such that their election would be of signal benefit to the Society”. Sir Henry, who was knighted last January for his public services, has been a generous and frequent benefactor of scientific research. In 1899 he founded the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum, where the late Sir Andrew Balfour worked for many years; he established in England in 1913 his Bureau for Scientific Research and Historical Medical Museum, and in 1914 the Museum of Medical Science, including Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; in 1920 he founded the Wellcome Entomological Field Laboratory. Last year, Lord Moynihan laid the corner-stone of the Wellcome Research Institution, where the Historical Medical Museum and Museum of Medical Science will be brought together under one roof, and facilities provided for research in medical zoology, parasito-logy, entomology, tropical medicine, and hygiene-the corner-stone, as Lord Moynihan remarked, of a long life's work. Sir Henry Wellcome's election to the Royal Society is a fitting acknowledgment of one who has done as much as anyone in Great Britain to promote the advance of the science and art of medicine.
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Sir Henry Wellcome, F.R.S. Nature 129, 822 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129822c0
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