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AT the recent quarterly meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, a communication was received intimating that His Majesty the King had been graciously pleased to become patron of the Campaign. The following grants amounting to £5,530, and making a total to date of £30,990 for the year 1936, were approved: £1,100 to the Radium Beam Therapy Research; £1,750 (in addition to the grant of £1,850 already made for the year 1936) to the Mount Vernon Hospital; £500 (in addition to the grant of £600 already made for the year 1936) to the Marie Curie Hospital; £100 and £80 to Dr. C. R. Amies, at the Lister Institute and Dr. P. R. Peacock, of Glasgow, respectively, for the purchase of special types of centrifuges; £1,000 to the Manchester Committee on Cancer to cover the cost for two years of investigations to ascertain whether there is any connexion between the use of heavy oils in motor-vehicles and the apparent increase in the incidence of cancer of the upper air passages and the lung; £1,000 to the North of England Branch of the Campaign to meet the cost for the second year of the short-wave investigations being carried out at Newcastle, on behalf of the Campaign, under the direction of Prof. W. E. Curtis and Dr. F. Dickens. In this connexion the Council expressed its appreciation of the technical assistance afforded the workers by the technical staff of the Marconi Company. The Royal Society and the Medical Research Council have nominated Prof. Matthew Stewart, of the University of Leeds, to succeed Prof. R. T. Leiper, who has retired, as one of their five nominees on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Campaign.
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British Empire Cancer Campaign. Nature 137, 651 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137651a0
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