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It will be seen that this leaves an adverse balance of £94 per annum, without taking into account the expenses that are necessarily entailed in the purchem,of apparatus, chemicals, animals and their food, postage (a heavy item), stationery, books, &c., &c. At present, the Laboratory is being run at an annual loss of about £250, which has to be met by contributions from private sources.
Owing to the fact that various investigations have been undertaken by, the Laboratory for the Local Government Board, the Department of Agriculture and the Union of South Africa, the Laboratory has been able to float along by investi- gating problems for which specific grants have been made. By this means the Laboratory has been able to exist. We also received a grant of £100 for 1913 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, for a special investiga- tion in protozoology. Grants which have been continued from the Royal Society for a number of years have now necessarily ceased, owing to limitations which apply to such grants. In any case, all of these grants, derived from extraneous sources for special researches, should properly be excluded from the statement of the Labora tory expenses when strictly considered, because all the expenditure connected there- with has to be separately reported upon and vouchers sent in giving details of how the money was spent.
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I submit that the condition outlined above is very unsatisfactory, and that it in propose 'is eminently desirable to place the Laboratory upon a better footing. the year 1914 to apply to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for an increase of grant in the hope of obtaining it, but in the meantime it is necessary to bridge over a period during which any aid that may be obtained will be of the greatest nee. The audited accounts of the Laboratory are submitted annually to the managers of the Quick Bequest, and are published in the University Reporter.
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No. 7.
VISCOUNT KITCHENER to Mk. L. HARCOURT, M.P.
(Received 28th January, 1914.) [Answered by No. 21.]
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the many students of these subjects. At the same time it would not, in my opinion, be necessary to continue these publications in the same expensive and elaborate manner that has hitherto been done by Mr. Wellcome.
The Sudan Government are unable to provide funds for this purpose, and I would therefore ask you to be good enough to lay before your Committee this request for a grant to enable these reports to be published in an economical form.
Should the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Disease Research Fund approve of this request for assistance, they might, perhaps, wish themselves to undertake the publication of the reporte sent them from Khartoum.
I have, &c.,
The President
of the Advisory Committee,
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Tropical Disease Research Fund.
(No. 22.)
SIR,
No. 8.
REGINALD WINGATE,
General,
Governor-General of the Sudan.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 2nd February, 1914.)
191 [Answered by No. 14.]
Government House, Nairobi,
British East Africa, 6th January, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 991 of the 18th of November,* respecting a contribution by this Protectorate to the Tropi- -cal Disanons Research Fund.
A. The Estimates for the ensuing year were prepared before the receipt of your despatch, but I trust that it will be found possible to provide a sum of £900 from savings.
I have, o.,
H. CONWAY BELFIELD,
Governor.
MY DEAR HARCOURT,
The Palace, Khartoum, 15th January, 1914: I HOPE that you will support the request that is being sent by the Governor General of the Sudan, to obtain a grant from the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Disease Fund, to enable him to continue the publication of the reports of the Gordon College Research Laboratories.
Dr. Chalmers, who is now head of these laboratories, has a world-wide reputa- tion, and the publication of the work done under Dr. Balfour-his predecessor-has been so valuable to students of tropical diseases that I feel no hesitation in asking you to do your best to obtain this necessary assistance to enable the publications to continue.
The Colonial Office have, at various times, sent students to study in these laboratories, and we are always anxious and ready to afford them every assistance. A small grant-in-aid from the Tropical Research Funds would, I am sure, be well expended in enabling us to continue the recording of the valuable work that is being done in the Gordon College.
Yours very sincerely,
KITCHENER.
Enclosure in No. 7.
SIB,
Governor-General's Office, Khartoum, 15th January, 1914. THE value of the volumes published in recent years containing the reports of the Research Laboratories of the Gordon College at Khartoum has probably not escaped your attention in dealing with the prevention and cure of tropical diseases. Up to the present time these reports have been bi-annually published through the liberality of Mr. Wellcome, who was the founder of the Research Laboratories In Khartoum. Owing, however, to private considerations, Mr. Wellcome finds him- self no longer able to supply the necessary funds for the publication of these reports. It would, in my opinion, be a great loss to the growing knowledge of tropical medicine and the study of tropical disease if these reports ceased to be available for
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No. 9.
MINUTES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 11TH OF FEBRUARY, 1914, AT 4.30 P.M.
Present:
Sir J. WEST RIDGEWAY, in the Chair.
Sir THOMAS Barlow.
Sir HAVELOCK Charles.
MT, DRAKE.
Mr. READ.
Sir RONALD Ross.
Mr. KEITH, Secretary.
1. The minutest of the meeting of the 24th of October, 1913, were approved subject to certain verbal corrections.
2. The Committee considered the applications for further grants from the Fund.
(a) Sir Ronald Ross said that he did not wish to press the proposed grant for investigation into bilharziasis. The matter was of real importance to Egypt, but as the Egyptian Government were not disposed to provide funds, and Dr. Stephens was not specially anxious to take up the investigation, it was agreed that the matter might be dropped.
* No. 1.
† No. 109 in Miscellaneous No. 274.