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No. 64.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR NUTTALL.
SIR,
Downing Street, 3 December, 1908. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of November,* on the subject of the grant of £100 a year for two years towards the establishment of a Studentship in Medical Entomology in the University of Cambridge.
2. In reply, I am to inform you that the question of the disposal of the sum of £25 unexpended of the grant for 1907-1908 will be brought before the next meeting of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund in May, 1909.
3. In the meantime, the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed
1908-1909. year the sum of £100 in respect of the grant for the you
to pay
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I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, 4 December, 1908.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that your letter of the 15th of July, enclosing a notification with regard to the course of instruction at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was duly laid before the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, at their Second Ordinary Meeting on the 27th of November, and that it was read with interest by the Committee.
I am, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 66.
H. BERTRAM COX.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 7 December, 1908.)
South Kensington, S.W., 5th December, 1908. WITH further reference to your letter of November 9th, 1908. I am now directed to forward to you the report (with appendices) § of Professor E. A. Minchin, for the year ending June 30th, 1908. Professor Minchin trusts that his report for the present year is sufficiently detailed for the purposes of the Secretary of State. He would be glad, in view of the technical terms which the report contains, to have the opportunity of correcting a proof, if it is printed.
I am, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 67.
P. J. HARTOG,
Academic Registrar.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. F. P. JEPSON.
Downing Street, 5 December, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 3rd of November, reporting on the work in medical entomology done by you as student in medical entomology at the University of Cambridge.
2. Your letter was laid before the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, at their Second Ordinary Meeting on the 27th of November, and was read by them with interest.
• No. 59.
↑ No. 40.
§ See Appendix III in [Cd. 4476] March, 1909.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
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No. 68.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HELD ON THE 10TH OF DECEMBER, AT 5 P.M.
PRESENT :-
Sir THOMAS BARLOW (in the Chair).
Sir CHARLES Lucas.
Sir PATRICK MANSON.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
Dr. GRAHAM was in attendance.
Dr. Graham submitted for appointment to be Assistant Director of the Medical Research Institute at Lagos, the name of Dr. A. Connal, M.B., Ch.B., of Glasgow University, who had served for six months as his Assistant on plague duty in the Laboratory at Accra. He laid stress on the excellent work then done by Dr. Connal, which had also received the approval of Professor Simpson, and of the Acting Principal Medical Officer of the Gold Coast. Dr. Graham mentioned that Dr. Connal was at present an Assistant at the Belvidere Fever Hospital in Glasgow. He was engaged in bacteriological work, having under preparation an important Dr. Graham added that neither of the treatise on cerebro-spinal meningitis. Tropical Schools, to whom he had applied for help, could undertake to recommend anyone. The salary was only £500, and no permanent position could be offered or guaranteed. A medical officer would do better, from a pecuniary point of view, to accept a post in the regular service; he himself had lost money by becoming Director of the Research Institute. But he knew that Dr. Connal was anxious to engage in research, and he therefore confidently recommended him as in every way suitable for the post.
Sir Thomas Barlow and Sir Patrick Manson considered that Dr. Graham's recommendation should be accepted. They were of opinion that it was important to secure the services of Dr. Connal, who seemed to be exceptionally qualified for the post, and while concurring in the proposal of Sir Charles Lucas that Dr. Connal should at first be offered the post for a year only on probation, they recommended a longer term should be offered if necessary, and Sir Charles Lucas undertook that this recommendation would be carried out if possible.
Dr. Graham was anxious that the appointment should, if possible, be confined at first to one year, in order that if it were decided not to continue his appointment as Director, the new Director should be able to choose an Assistant for himself.
(2.) Dr. Graham also stated that he had seen Professor Simpson, who had recently returned from Lagos, and who had reported that there was no equipment available for the Laboratory.
Dr. Graham laid stress on the difficulty of getting equipment easily, especially in the case of books, many of which were very scarce, out of print, and hardly to be obtained except by a year or two's search. Books indeed he could lend, but he considered that it was disadvantageous not to have books permanently for the use of the laboratory staff. He laid before the Committee a list of apparatus and of books which he considered desirable, and which had been drawn up with a special view to the study of black-water fever, which he intended to investigate.
Sir Thomas Barlow and Sir Patrick Manson expressed general approval of the list, but urged the necessity for economy, and the disadvantage of purchasing books or apparatus which might become antiquated or which were superfluous.
Finally the Sub-Committee recommended that Dr. Graham should immediately submit to the Sub-Committee a definite list of apparatus and of books with approxi- mate cost, which should then be submitted to Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir Patrick Manson, and Dr. Rose Bradford separately, who would examine the list with the assistance of their experts and decide how much should be recommended by the Sub-Committee for final purchase.