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Royal Institution Crisis Grows
from the Guardian (UK)
The financially troubled Royal Institution sank deeper into crisis today as senior members clashed over moves to oust the organisation's ruling council en masse. Moves to replace the entire governing body were drawn up in protest after the Institution's director, Lady Susan Greenfield, was made redundant in January without the membership being consulted.
The Institution, the oldest independent research body in the world, will hold a vote on the proposals at a special general meeting on 12 April, but documents circulated by the council to its 2,400 members warned supporters they risked causing "immense harm" to the organisation and would "threaten its financial stability."
Rebel members said much-needed benefactors would have greater confidence in their proposed replacement council, which they would like to see include Julian Hunt, the former head of the Met Office; John Stein, professor of physiology at Oxford University and Baroness Sally Greengross.
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