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SIR,
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No. 47.
BRITISH GUIANA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 7th July, 1914.)
Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, 12th June, 1914. WITH reference to your Circular despatch of the 25th March last,* I have the honour to state that the proposed grant from British Guiana to the Tropical Disease Research Fund for the year 1914-15 has been already voted by the Ĉom- bined Court, and the Court will be asked later to vote the proportionate part for the balance of the financial year 1915 and the full sum for the financial year 1916. 2. In this connexion I beg to refer to my despatch No. 126 of the 22nd April † last, transmitting a resolution of the Combined Court approving of the financial year of this Colony commencing on the 1st of January and ending on the 31st December.
I have, &c.,
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No. 48. NYASALAND.
W. EGERTON.
RETURN OF MALARIAL FEVER, BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, FILARIASIS, AND DENGUE FROM 18T JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1913.
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(Received in Colonial Office, 7th July, 1914.)
[Published as No. 9 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 7796], April, 1915.]
No. 49.
JAMAICA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
(Sent 12.40 p.m., 11th July, 1914.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 50.]
YOUR despatch of 8th June, No. 222.‡ Am obtaining advice of Medical Meanwhile I reserve judgment as to Committee on Law No. 19 of 1914, Yaws. compulsory powers conferred by it. Telegraph whether Unofficial Members sup- ported compulsion.-HARCOURT.
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No. 50.
JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 10.30 p.m., 13th July, 1914.)
TELEGRAM.
YOUR telegram 11th July.§ Elected Members of Legislative Council sup- ported compulsion. Action under Law will be deferred pending further
instructions.—MANNING.
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No. 51.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 16th July, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 70.]
University of London, South Kensington, S.W.,
14th July, 1914.
I AM directed by the Senate to ask the Colonial Office to consider the question of adding to the grant for the Chair of Protozoology received through the Colonial Office (namely, £750 a year) an additional grant of £100 in respect of assistance.
The particular reason for making the present application to the Colonial Office is to increase the salary of Dr. H. M. Woodcock, Scientific Assistant. The Pro- fessor of Protozoology has written a letter about Dr. Woodcock, from which the following is an extract:—
Dr. Woodcock is a man of extraordinarily wide knowledge in his subject, and has acquired that knowledge partly by his patient and perse- vering devotion to both teaching work and research, partly by his having undertaken for the past ten years or so the laborious task of compiling the section dealing with protozoa in the amalgamated Zoological Record and International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, published annually. As an assistant he is simply invaluable to me, as in teaching work he is patient and painstaking in the highest degree, sparing himself no trouble in trying to help students to the best of his ability. When I require from him personal assistance in any matter, especially when it is a question of working up some point in the vast and scattered literature of the protozoa, he helps me as, I am sure, no other man alive could do. Speaking, therefore, as a professor reporting upon an assistant, in the first place, I am fully of opinion that he thoroughly deserves an increase of pay.
Dr. Woodcock stands in the front rank amongst protozoologists all over the world as an acknowledged authority upon protozoa and as an investi- gator who has added greatly to our knowledge, especially in certain groups. He is not the type of researcher who produces brilliant but short-lived theories, but the less showy, though more useful, type that by steady and sustained spade-work fortifies his positions until they are unassailable. In view of the position he now holds amongst protozoologists it is almost a scandal that he should be in so subordinate a post, a circumstance that I attribute partly to his shyness and want of "pushfulness," partly to a vein of faithfulness and loyalty which makes him reluctant to make efforts to better himself by going elsewhere.
It is clear that the services rendered by Dr. Woodcock to the Department are very great, and it is desirable. if possible, to retain them.
In this connexion I am to remind you that the Senate have allotted an annual grant of £200 which constitutes Dr. Woodcock's salary: that the Lister Institute makes an annual grant of £200 for the salary of the Professor's second assistant, Miss Muriel Robertson, M.Sc.; and that it also makes an annual money grant for apparatus. material, and laboratory assistance, amounting to £200, and provides laboratory accommodation with gas, water, service, &c., of which the annual value is estimated at £500. The total annual subvention by the Lister Institute thus amounts to £900.
asked for.
In view of the large contributions made from other sources the Senate trust that the Colonial Office may see their way to provide the additional aum now
I have, &c..
HENRY A. MIERS,
Principal.
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+17809: not printed.
† No. 46.
§ No. 49.
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