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UNDER the terms of the will of the late Sir Henry Head, the Royal Society is named as residuary legatee, and it is believed that a substantial sum of money will go to the Society in due course. The broad terms of direction in the will are that the money “shall be applied for the purpose of the advancement in England of the science of medicine in the widest sense”; for this purpose a committee of not less than three or more than five is to be appointed to administer the fund. Without imposing any obligation on this committee, the will suggests that the fund, or part of it, might be used to establish professorships or similar posts or research scholarships in a branch of medical science at medical or other educational institutions. Sir Henry Head, who died on October 8 last, had been a fellow of the Royal Society since 1899, and was awarded a Royal Medal of the Society in 1908.
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Sir Henry Head's Bequest to the Royal Society. Nature 147, 84 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147084b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147084b0