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Enclosure in No. 132.
Report of Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., on the work of the Quick Laboratory,
Cambridge.
31st October, 1915.
THE papers published from the Quick Laboratory during the year ending October, 1915 (list appended), relate to the experimental treatment of protozoal diseases, to the biology of Ixodida and to the morphology, etc., of Mallophaga. Two of the workers in the Laboratory (Dr. E. Hindle and Dr. A. Porter) have published books dealing with protozoal diseases and their carriers. Several papers are in press. Of the Laboratory staff at present engaged on military service, Lieutenant E. Hindle, R.E. (my Assistant), is about to proceed to the front as Divisional Signal Officer, 30th Division; Lieutenant T. Storrar Cave, R.A. (Helminthologist) is serving with the Artillery; Mr. E. S. Hay (Secretary), a first-class gunner, is now on active service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; Mr. B. G. Clarke (Senior Laboratory Assistant) is now serving as Sergeant-Major in the R.A.M.C.T., his laboratory training having proved of great use to him.
Mr. M. E. MacGregor, B.A. (Trinity), having taken up an appointment in London, was succeeded by D. Keilin (Sc.D., Paris) in the studentship in Medical Entomology, the stipend attached to the post having been augmented by a grant of £60, for the year 1915, from the Medical Grant Committee.
Mr. L. Harrison (Emmanuel, B.Sc., Sydney) has established himself in the Laboratory, with a view to carrying on his work for a research degree.
Mr. C. Warburton (M.A., Demonstrator to the Quick Professor) and Miss Annie Porter (D.Sc., London, holding a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship) are actively engaged in research in the Laboratory.
In addition to the members of the staff, the following gentlemen have carried out work at the Laboratory during the year:-Mr. L. Denton Sayers (B.A., Downing); Mr. J. Orozco Munoz (from Mexico, former student of medicine at Liége); Dr. de Blieck (Director of the Veterinary Department, Java); Mr. Y. Bogaerts (student of medicine, from Louvain).
In addition to the regular work of the Laboratory, Messrs. Keilin, Harrison, and myself have been engaged in researches on pediculosis, a subject of consider- able practical importance in the army, which the Local Government Board desired to have investigated.
The Laboratory is indebted to numerous gentlemen for gifts of specimens. We are, however, especially grateful to Mr. S. Gaselee, M.A. (Magdalene), who has generously presented a valuable microscope, some apparatus, and microscopic specimens in memory of his brother to whom they belonged-Lieutenant A. M. Gaselee has recently fallen in the war. A suitable inscription has been attached to the stand of the microscope.
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A short course of lectures with demonstration were given to students during year.
GEO. H. F. NUTTALL.
List of Publications for the Year 1915.
1. Hindle, E. (1914.) Flies in Relation to Disease: Blood-sucking Flies. XV., 398 pp., with eighty-three illustrations. Cambridge University Press. 2. Fantham, H. B., and Porter, A. (1914). Some minute Animal Parasites. XI., 319 pp., with frontispiece and fifty-six text figures. London: Methuen and Company, Limited.
3. Nuttall, G. H. F. (III., 1915). Observations on the Biology of Ixodidæ.
Parasitology, VII., 408-456.
4. Nuttall, G. H. F. (III., 1915). Artificial Parthenogenesis in Ticks.
Ibid., pp. 457-481.
5. Nuttall, G. H. F. (VI., 1915). Experimental Drug Treatment of East
Coast Fever Parasitology, VIII., 56-87, with one chart.
6. Harrison, L. (VI., 1915). Mallophaga from Apteryx, and their Signifi- cance; with a Note on the Genus Rallicola. Ibid., pp. 88-100, with six text figures.
7. Harrison, L. (VI., 1915). The Respiratory System of Mallophaga. Ibid..
pp. 101-127, with twenty-one text figures.
8. Nuttall, G. H. F., and Hindle, E. (IX., 1915). Experiments in the "Try: posafrol" Treatment of Trypanosomiasis (T. brucei) in Guinea-pigs and of Piroplasmosis in Dogs. Ibid., pp. 218-228.
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No. 133.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 12th November, 1915.)
SIR,
London School of Tropical Medicine (University of London),
Royal Albert Dock, E., 3rd November, 1915. HEREWITH I have the honour to submit the half-yearly reports of the Ento- mologist and the Helminthologist in this School.
Colonel A. Alcock, who, as already stated, has been on service in connexion with the Indian Hospital at Brighton, has returned to the School and resumed his duties as Entomologist. His assistant, Dr. J. W. Thomson, an officer seconded from the West African Medical Service, has been required to go back to the Coast, and, in the present unsettled conditions, no one has been appointed to succeed him.
Lieutenant-Colonel R. T. Leiper arrived from Egypt on the 21st July and con- tinued his research work at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank. During the month of October he was demobilized, but the War Office have permitted him to retain the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in an honorary capacity, together with the privileges thereof.
Acting on the recommendation of the Committee of the School, the remaining portion of the Wandsworth Scholarship, which was awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Leiper early in 1914, has been granted to him, and he returned to Egypt on the 25th October to continue his inquiry in regard to bilharziasis.
Dr. J. G. Thomson, the Protozoologist, who accompanied Lieutenant-Colonel R. T. Leiper to Egypt in January, remained behind, and has been transferred to the regular service of the Royal Army Medical Corps. In these circumstances there is no report submitted from the Protozoologist.
It is customary in the October report to give some figures showing the number of students under tuition during the academic year, but, as these figures were given in the last report, it only remains to be stated that there is a further falling off in the number of students. The consequence is that the receipts from students' fees The only are so reduced as to form but a negligible part of the School income. reliable receipts are those from endowments, which of themselves are not sufficient to maintain the School efficiently even with the reduced personnel.
I have been in communication with the Board of Education, and, at an inter- view with Sir William McCormick, I was informed that the Board wish to maintain a continuity of the instruction given in schools of the University of London, and are desirous that the remuneration of the teachers and others employed therein shall I have since received a com- not be materially curtailed in consequence of the war. munication announcing that the Board will continue its grant of £870 for the year without basing the award upon the number of students under ensuing academic tuition.
In these circumstances, and anticipating a continuance of the support from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, the Committee of the School have decided to retain the full curriculum, although there are now but nine students in attendance.
I am, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Enclosure 1 in No. 133.
Secretary
REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGist for the Half-Year ending 31st OctoBER, 1915.
THIS report covers the term from 1st June, when I returned to the School from the Indian Military Hospital at Brighton.
The ordinary courses of instruction in medical entomology and snake-toxicology were conducted in the summer session.
During my absence at Brighton the tabanid larvæ brought back from L. Mask They had remained quiescent (pide report dated 31st October, 1914) died.
all through the autumn and winter (six months), and it was some time in May, during the stage of revigoration, that probably because they were not fed regularly -they died. They were nearly full grown when they were found, at L. Mask, in
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