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RESEARCH AND CHARITIES
[press association.] (Received Jan. 4, 8.20 a.m.)
LONDON, Jan. 3. The late Ludwig Mond, the famous chemist, and' part proprietor pi. the largest alkali works in the world (in Cheshire) subject to, his wife's life interest bequeathed to the v Royal Society of Loiidon £50,009 for the endowment of research in natural science; £50,000 to the University of Heidelberg, for similar objects; £20,----000 to the Munich Academy for promotion of arts; £20,000 for pensions or occasional assistance to Brunner, Mond and' Company's aged and disabled workmen; and £20,000 to charities in Cassel (Germany) his birthplace. Also/subject to his wife's life interest and- to certain conditions as regards housing and exhibition, he bequeathed to the national gallery 56 pictures from his collection of three or four thousand, chiefly of the Italian N school.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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