RADIUM INSTITUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14003, 8 March 1909, Page 5

RADIUM INSTITUTE.

♦ '' : —r? ■ j THE KING AS PATRON; , By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. I -•. London, March 5. ' Kino Edward has become patron ,of the Royal Radium Institute, of which one section will deal with ••' necessi- ' tous patients., and another with the well-to-do. ~.";"; • —. - '"■■v- ■':- : .-■■:.-r.:,. ■■;■■■ :-' '7:'-;, :,.■'■ . The committee of the new Radium .Xufcti-* tute consists of the < following!momborsr— Sir Frederick Trevcrs, Bt, G.C.V.0.," (chairman),; a;member to be nominated by, • Lord Iveagh, a member to be nominated by ' Sir Ernest ; Cassel, Sir William Ramsay, , K.C.8., Sir. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir Malcolmn Morris, and the Hon. Robert J. Strutt, _ F.R. S. A site has been secured rin the:neighbourhood" of Cavendish Square,'■ and the building will be proceeded* with forthwith. : Sir Frederick Treves says : " The finances ;' for research! work ■ are • provided, and, as'we •■ shall take paying patients as well as ; poor people,--institute will bo made self-supporting; , With: the exception )of the - Paris * Radium.- Institute,, there;' is no other organisation of,'' a similar, character in the world. '. Money has been , provided for the establishment of a radium institute in "Vienna, but there only research .work will be carried on; patients will not ,' be ; treated.", , , r \ ■" ■" ' ■■