Calendar: 1937-1938 Page 409
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426 benefactions to king's college london 1932 Hartwell Esq gift of the medallion portrait of Sir Israel Gollancz which is placed in the Skeat and Furnivall Library forming part of the memorial to Sir Israel Gollancz Miss Hilda Ntmmo Smith copy of photograph in which Sir Charles Wheatstone is the central figure his neighbours being Faraday Huxley Brewster and Tyndall This hangs in the Physics Honours Laboratory Vickers Armstrong Ltd Vickers Hardness Testing Machine for the Mechanical Engineering Department The value of the gift is between 150 and 200 Commercial Secretaries Ltd of Cable Research House number of copies of Vols and II Cable Research Handbook For distribution to senior students in the Electrical Engineering Department 1933 General Electric Company Two glow-discharge tubes of special design for experiments in the Physics Department George Macmillan Esq Some fifty books for the Ronald Burrows Memorial Library Madame Gennadius Some books for the Ronald Burrows Memorial Library The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Committee 100 to- wards the cost of rebinding books in the Skeat and Furnivall Library Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company new and interesting type of electric motor For the Electrical En- gineering Department Dr Chapman Inspector of the Board of Education The honorarium due to him for course of Special Lectures given in the College This gift of 15 has been used towards the cost of cinema projector of new type used by Dr Chapman in his lectures For the Electrical Engineering Department Mrs Gleadow Daughter of the Late Professor Seely Geological and geographical slides and micro-botanical slides Miss Ada Crompton Under the will of the late Miss Ada Crompton sum of money estimated to be over 10 000 is vested in the University to be held on behalf of King's College to found Travelling Scholarships in French to be held by women who are or have been students of King's College for Women or King's College The holders are to reside in any University town in France or Belgium approved for the purpose by the University of London Messrs Robert Jenkins and Company of Rotherham Gilled Tube Heater on which some tests had been carried out in the College For the Chemical Engineering Department
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