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- ↑ Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge, 2023; The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (link), page 705
- ↑ Statutes and Ordinances of University of Cambridge
- ↑ Whittle, P., The Cambridge Statistical Laboratory up to 1993 (revised 2002), archived from the original on 2013-12-19, retrieved 2009-04-23