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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1951-1952-372

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xvi ANNUAL REPORT Capital Grant and by War Damage Compensation Other structural work amounting to £10 510 has been carried out and £26 321 has been spent on Furniture and Equipment for new Buildings and on new Equipment for Laboratories the cost of which has been met from Capital Grants Donations Special Apparatus Fund and Revenue Surplus The redecoration of the College deferred during the war years has been proceeded with and will be met from the Reserve for Decorations and special grant of £15 000 from the University Grants Committee 11 BENEFACTIONS The Agricultural Research Council made grant of £1 080 towards the salary and National Insurance of research worker in cytology and the provision of microscope and other apparatus and materials The Institute of Petroleum made grant of £300 to the College The Nuffield Foundation made grant to the College of £8 250 in order to meet over period of five years the salaries of two research workers in the Department of Zoology The Rockefeller Foundation made grant of5 000 dollars to cover the cost of two research binocular microscopes and two dissecting micro- scopes for the Professor of Zoology Mr Dover former Head of the Electrical Engineering Depart- ment at Battersea Polytechnic made gift to the College of copy of Clerk Maxwell's Electricity and Magnetism which had previously belonged to John Hopkinson Dr Τ Emmerson made gift to the College of equipment con- structed by Mr Η Shurmer postgraduate student under the direc- tion of Dr Emmerson at the Research Laboratories Miss Florence Hughes bequeathed the sum of £1 000 to the College for the institution of scholarship or scholarships for women Sir Henry Lynch Bart of Rio de Janeiro presented to the College collection of contemporary papers relating to the Portuguese East India Company which was founded by the Iberian Crown in August 1628 Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons gave two old surveying instruments to the College Dr Pickering bequeathed to the College the sum of £350 to found an additional prize in the Faculty of Medical Science Mr Charles Sabine presented to the College life-size white marble bust of the late Sir Charles Wheatstone 12 COLLEGE SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES The new Union premises at Chesham House were officially opened at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term The concentration of the different faculties in single club-house has given new vigour and liveliness to the social activities of the Union Society as whole The facilities of the new premises such as the publications room Union offices general and faculty common rooms have been fully used Commemoration Week at the end of the Michaelmas Term was
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