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IN connexion with the centenary celebrations of the birth of Joseph Chamberlain, the first Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, Sir William Waters Butler has given £10,000 to provide scholarships, to be known as the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial scholarships. The University has also received a generous benefaction from Sir Charles Hyde, Bart., who has offered £10,000 towards the museum of the new Medical School, with the suggestion that this part of the new building should be known as the Chamberlain Memorial Museum. It is felt that this gift, like that of Sir William Butler, is very appropriate to the occasion; for it is well known that the University, of which Mr. Chamberlain was the founder and first Chancellor, occupied a foremost place in his regard, as being an essential part of the city for which he had done so much. His foresight in placing the new buildings in Edgbaston, where there would be ample room for expansion, has been notably justified in the event. It may well be that the most enduring monument to his name will be the University of Birmingham. Mr. Chamberlain's interest in medical research was made evident in the part he took in the establishment of the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine.
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Chamberlain Memorial at the University of Birmingham. Nature 138, 156 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138156c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138156c0