Research - discovery - achievement.

Date:
Between 1950 and 1959?
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Research - discovery - achievement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE WELLCOME FOUNDATION LTD. The Wellcome Foundation is a unique organisation. It is registered as a private limited liability company, but all the shares are vested in five Trustees, whose aim, in the words of Sir Henry Wellcome's will, is— the advancement of research work bearing upon medicine, surgery, chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, therapeutics, materia medica, pharmacy and allied subjects, and any subject or subjects which have or at any time may develop an importance from the invention and improvement of medicinal agents and methods for the prevention and cure of disorders and the control or exter- mination of insect and other pjsts which afflict human beings and plant life in tropical and other regions and elsewhere. They are also empowered to establish or endow research museums and libraries in any part of the world, and to give financial assistance for the collection of information of every kind connected with the history of medicine and allied sciences. Burroughs Wellcome & Co. is the name under which the original partnership set up in 1880 between S. M. Burroughs and Henry S. Wellcome survives today. On the death of Mr. Burroughs in 1895 it became a one-man undertaking, and in 1924 was merged with the late Sir Henry Wellcome's other interests and assets in The Wellcome Foundation Ltd. Its organisation is world wide for the distribution of products made in the laboratories and works of The Foundation. Henry Wellcome's benefactions and unceasing interest in the prevention and cure of disease received official recognition when he was knighted as a Generous Supporter of Medical Research, and when he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society under a special statute which allows the election of benefactors of research. Other honours included the honorary degrees of LL.D. and D.Sc, and an honorary F.R.C.S. He died in 1936 at the age of 82. The Wellcome Foundation's research activities are carried on in a number of Units varying considerably in character and in the l