CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5] — Page 203

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Foreign Office, S..1.

7th June 1921.

Dear Wood,

My friend Dr. H.G. Earle, Professor of Physiology

of the University of Hongkong who is at present on leave,

would very much like to see you in connection with the

future of the medical school there. The matter is specially

opportune at this moment, because a Commission representing

the Rockefeller Foundation is in London, and is indeed being

It is fortunate entertained by H.M.G. at an early date.

also that Dr. Earle should be in London because he is, of

course, entirely familiar with the affairs of the Hongkong University and its medical school

You will be aware that the Rockefeller Foundation has

done much for medical education in China, and it is hoped

that it may be found willing to render assistance to the Hongkong medical school. It has given £1,000,000 to Univer-

sity College, London.

Dr/

Major the Hon. E.F.L. Wood M.P.,

Colonial office.