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2. I also enclose copies of the papers and memoirs referred to in the Reports of the work done in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine..
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No. 3.
DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL to SIR P. MANSON.
MY DEAR SIR Patrick,
(Received January 31, 1907.)
[See No. 6.]
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge, January 24, 1907. MANY thanks for kindly replying to my letter regarding funds for Tropical Diseases Research. I very well understand that the balance in question is one upon which there are many claims, notably those of the London School of Tropical Medicine. In view of what you state I would modify the proposal contained in my letter to the effect that I apply for a grant of £100 a year to establish a Research Studentship in Medical Entomology. There is great need of some such endowment in Cambridge, for the reason that, consequent upon the establishment of the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, we are constantly coming in contact with men from the tropics who seek advice and information regarding zoological subjects, more especially with regard to biting flies, ticks and other arthropods which are concerned in the transmission of disease. The foundation of the Quick Professorship of Biology the holder of which is to devote himself for the next 12 years to the study of the protozoa, especially in relation to disease, makes it especially desirable," for the development of protozoology, that a staff of special workers should be developed in connection with the work in hand. This work is mainly one of research, the teach- ing holding quite a subsidiary position. The work which we have done on malaria, piroplasmosis, &c., and the work we are conducting on mosquitoes, ticks, &c., all applies directly to tropical medicine. An increasing amount of material is con- stantly coming to us from the tropics, the men desiring our opinion upon it. More- over we have a number of men referred to us with a view of their obtaining peculiar facilities in Cambridge for their work. We have a big zoological school in Cambridge with specialists of world-wide reputation in different lines. I may mention Dr. Sharp, the entomologist, Mr. Shipley, the helminthologist, Mr. Adam Sedgwick (general zoology), and Mr. Borradaile, who has made a speciality of crustacea. Mr. Verrall, the leading dipterist of Great Britain, resides at a short distance at Newmarket. Mr. Verrall's collection is one of the largest in the world, and rich in the possession of many type specimens such as are not present in the British Museum. The main bulk of the fund hitherto appears to have been applied to the paying of the teaching, &c., in connection with the Schools of Tropical Medicine. It appears to me that a small part of it might very well be confined more purely to research, by which means our knowledge would be advanced. In the possession of its great Biological School, Cambridge offers peculiar facilities for intercourse with workers in different directions. That these advantages are recognised is evidenced by the fact that men from the tropics are coming in increasing numbers to acquire special knowledge in our laboratories and to work up material which they have collected in the tropics. Our making an effort to increase their facilities by no means infringes upon the Schools of Tropical Medicine whose main function necessarily will continue to be that of teaching and training men for practical work in the tropics, and in preparation for the examination for the Diplomas in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The class of men which we wish to aid is not that which wishes to go through the course at the Schools of Tropical Medicine. For instance, Dr. Graham (from the West Coast of Africa) has recently heen referred to me by the Colonial Office. He has made extensive collections of biting flies, ticks, crustacea (in relation to the guinea-worm), and wishes to identify their species. He has been unable to obtain the aid he desired at the British Museum. In addition, he desires to obtain some special information regarding protozoa, upon which we are carrying on investigations here. Similarly, Captains
Holmes and Baldrey, of the Indian Veterinary Service, have been sent to Cambridge to qualify themselves for more advanced work. We feel ourselves short-handed in dealing with such men, for they require not merely teaching, but actual contact with men who are doing research along different lines, and who are capable of giving them peculiarly technical knowledge such as cannot be acquired in courses that are given to a general body of students.
To conclude, assuming that the claim of Cambridge will receive some approval, I would suggest that at least the sum of £100 a year be granted from the funds for the establishment of a Research Studentship such as I have described, the same studentship to be held for two years at a time and to be renewed subject to the approval of whatever body may be named to govern in the matter. I trust that you will consider this proposal and let me know in due course if you think favourably of it.
Believe me, &c.,
G. H. F. NUTTALL.
P.S.-Am sending this in duplicate to Sir Michael Foster.
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No. 4.
TRINIDAD.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
(Received February 4, 1907.)
Government House, January 19, 1907.
[Printed as No. 10 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 3992], March, 1908.]
No. 5.
UGANDA.
MEMORANDUM.
Printed copies of three despatches* from the Commissioner of Uganda are circulated herewith for the consideration of the members of the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
In the first of these despatches is formulated a scheme for coping with the epidemic of sleeping sickness in that Protectorate.
The second contains the data collected by the Sleeping Sickness Extended Investigation on which this scheme is based.
In the third are submitted for approval certain Rules which have been framed by the Commissioner under the Uganda Township Ordinance, 1903, for the purpose of giving legal effect to the scheme, with special reference to the Peninsula of Entebbe.
It will be seen that the scheme involves a large expenditure of public funds, amounting to a total of some £25,000 for the first three years at any rate. Such an expenditure would, no doubt, be justifiable if the scheme offered a certain prospect of stamping out the disease, but the accompanying copy of a memorandumt from Dr. Moffat, C.M.G., who was recently Senior Medical Officer of Uganda, and possesses a wide knowledge of local conditions, shows, to say the least, that the matter requires further consideration by qualified experts. In asking, therefore, the Lords Commis- sioners of the Treasury to sanction provisionally the expenditure required for the next financial year, Lord Elgin has stated that he will address a further communi- cation to them when this consideration has been given, and he would be glad if the Advisory Committee (who will, no doubt, be mainly guided by the advice of its
No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 178, No. 10 in Miscellaneous No. 201, and No. 101 in Miscellaneous No. 178.
No. 6 in Miscellaneous No. 204.
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