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THE Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the membership of the University Grants Committee has been increased from ten to fifteen. It is constituted as follows: Sir Walter Moberley (chairman), formerly vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester ; Dr. E. A. Benians, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Prof. W. E. Collinson, professor of German in the University of Liverpool ; Sir Charles Darwin, director of the National Physical Laboratory ; Miss Margery Fry, formerly principal of Somerville College, Oxford ; Sir Robert Greig, director of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, member of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and of the Agricultural Research Council ; Prof. A. V. Hill, Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society ; Dr. P. D. Innes, chief education officer, Birmingham; Sir Frederic Kenyon, formerly director and principal librarian of the British Museum ; Prof. P. S. Noble, regius professor of humanity, University of Aberdeen ; Principal Andrew Robertson, recently professor of mechanical engineering, University of Bristol ; Prof. E. J. Salisbury, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ; Dr. J. C. Spence, lecturer on diseases of children, University of Durham ; Prof. R. H. Tawney, professor of economic history, University of London ; Sir Henry Tizard, president of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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University Grants Committee. Nature 152, 717 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152717b0
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