The Weizmann Institute announced today it had received a gift of 270, 000 pounds sterling ($750, 000) from the Edmond James de Rothschild Memorial Group of London for additional animal breeding houses at the Institute. The same donor group made a gift of $890, 000 in 1960 for the establishment of two experimental animal houses.
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