Research Scholarships at the Royal College of Surgeons

Abstract

AT a meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on April 14, the president of the College, Lord Moynihan, announced an important benefaction from the trustees of the late Viscount Leverhulme. In presenting £1000 to provide “Lever-hulme Scholarships” in surgical research, the trustees expressed the hope of being in a position to make a similar donation from year to year. The gift thus announced permits the Council of the College to go forward with an ambitious scheme of experimental research made possible by the munificence of Sir Buckston Browne, who a year ago gave £100,000 to build, equip, and endow a Research Farm at Downe, Kent. The Buckston Browne Research Farm, which is approaching completion, has been built on land which adjoins the home and grounds of Charles Darwin, which Sir Buckston acquired in 1928 and conveyed to the British Association, to be maintained as a memorial of Darwin and to be used for the advancement of science. The Leverhulme Scholarships are to be given to aid young men and women who are selected by the Council of the College to investigate surgical problems at the Buekston Browne Research Farm. Besides the laboratories at Downe, the Council has also equipped laboratories in the College, Lincoln's Inn Fields. These are now fully occupied. Lord Moynihan succeeded in obtaining temporary scholarships for men working in the College laboratories from Sir Bernhard Baron, Lord Beaverbrook, and the late Lord Melchett. The Council also sets aside annually from its own funds £500 to provide a College fellowship in surgical research.