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His Excellency
The Earl of Crewe
K.C.M.G.
My Lord.
Secretary of State for
The Colonies.
Hongkong December 22nd 1909.
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I have the honor to request the Government to propose my
candidature for the Nobel Prize of 1910.
By the "Code of Statutes " of the Nobel Foundation,it is essential that every candidate for a prize under the terms of the Will be proposed as such in writing by some fully qualified person, and must be handed in at Stockholm before Ist February 1910,
I am advised by His Excellency The Governor that as Hongkong is not a "State" under (b) of the enclosure to Your Excellency's circular despatch
of 23rd of last September, showing additional rules from the Nobel Institute for the proposal of a candidate, he does not consider such proposal can
come from him.
The procedure laid down in paragraph 8 of the Statutes is
*The grounds upon which the proposal of any candidates name is made must
"be stated in writing and handed in along with such papers and documents
s may be therein referred to H
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Those grounds, to accompany my papers are the following THESES.
(1) Original research on the occurrence of Platinum metals, with
discovery of the function of osmium in the disintegration of
rocks, and distribution of osmium exide.
(2) Cause and origin of Malaria in Tropical Countries.
(3) Toxicological effect of osmic tetroxide, described as
attributed to condensed oxygen er ozone contained in it.
The Nebel Committee of Stockholm have already reeived from Hongkong a
parcel of native ●smium oxide, which has been the subject of my studies.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord,
Your Obedient humble servant
Thant Smith
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