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viting the three experts who are about to visit Central Africa to a meeting at their Messrs. Stephens and Christophers are being offices at Glasgow on Wednesday next. communicated with through the Royal Society, but you may wish to communicate yourself with the Secretary to the African Lakes Corporation.
22349.
No. 72.
I am, &c.,
EDWARD WINGFIELD.
The AFRICAN LAKES CORPORATION, LIMITED, to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received October 5, 1898.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 78.]
45, Renfield Street, Glasgow, October 4, 1898. YOUR kind letter of 3rd October,* as to the experts selected to investigate malaria in Central Africa, has been duly received, for which kindly accept our thanks. We have this forenoon learned from the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society that the two gentlemen who were in this country have recently started for Italy.
With regard to your suggestion that this Corporation should arrange accommoda tion for the three investigators in Africa, we think it would be better that they make their own arrangements when they arrive on the spot as to where and how they can be best accommodated. On their arrival at Chinde, we shall be pleased to put them up, and on their reaching the Blantyre district we shall be happy to give them tem- porary accommodation until they decide what will be their best course to pursue, and we shall, further, instruct our manager in Africa to assist them in every way he our African Although the enquirers have already started for Italy, we are asking medical friends to meet here on Friday first, as we are most anxious to do everything we can to put at the disposal of the experts all information which we are able to collect and which may be of use to them.
We are, &c.,
can.
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SIR,
THE AFRICAN LAKES CORPORATION, LIMITED,
FRED. L. M. MOIR,
No. 73.
Secretary.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received October 6, 1898.)
Foreign Office, October 4, 1898. HER Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General for British Central Africa, who is at present on leave in this country, has already, as you are doubtless aware, been in communication with the officials of your Department with regard to the arrangements for the reception in that Protectorate of the three experts who have been selected to investigate the subject of malarial fever.
I am now directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to state to you, for the informa- tion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with reference to the further point dealt with in your letter of the 26th ultimo,† that instructions have been sent to the Acting Commissioner and Consul-General at Zomba to afford to the three gentle- men composing the committee every possible assistance in prosecuting the investiga- tion with which they have been charged.
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I am, &c.,
† No. 65.
T. H. SANDERSON.
22575.
SIR,
No. 74.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received October 10, 1898.)
Foreign Office, October 7, 1898. WITH reference to your letter of the 26th ultimo,* respecting the Commission which has recently been appointed to enquire into the subject of malaria, I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a letter on the subject from the African Lakes Čor- poration.
The Corporation have been thanked for the useful consideration which they have given to the question and for their offer of free passages for the members of the Com- mission. They have been told that the Commission is under the direction of your Department and that their letter has been forwarded to it.
DEAR SIR,
Enclosure in No. 74.
[Answered by No. 69.]
I am, &c.,
T. H. SANDERSON.
45, Renfield Street, Glasgow, September 29, 1898. MR. EWING has put before us the details of the very interesting and satisfactory interview which the Nyasa Deputation had the pleasure recently to have with you re- specting the appointment of a Commission to proceed to Nyasaland to study the question of malarial fevers, and we beg to tender you our sincerest thanks for your kind consideration and active interest in this important matter, which we feel sure will be greatly appreciated throughout British Central Africa, and earn the gratitude of our countrymen there.
Wishing to co-operate with and to assist the Commission as far as we here can, we have thought it well to call together here three medical missionaries from Nyasa- land, who are at present in Scotland, in order to get them to state their views and lay out all the data and experience which they have been able to accumulate, during their residence in British Central Africa. They have willingly agreed to meet at this office, and Wednesday of next week has been indicated to them as a suitable day.
To add to the usefulness of the Conference, we are similarly inviting the attend- ance of a Glasgow medical gentleman who was, a number of years ago, resident in British Central Africa, and who examines all our staff before they go out; and we are also asking three parties who recently spent a number of years in Nyasaland, who all suffered from the effects of blackwater fever, and whose experience would, no doubt, prove invaluable at such a Conference as that which we foreshadow. We may mention that one of the three medical missionaries bas had blackwater fever moro than once.
We think you will perceive the importance of this meeting, and our object in thus informing you of it is that should any of the three expert members of the Commission, or all of them, think it worthy of consideration for them to come here and take part in the deliberations, it will give us great pleasure to welcome them in every way, and to facilitate their presence we would be happy to defray the travelling expenses to Glasgow of each of the three gentlemen.
While on this point, we would take this opportunity to inform you that, with a view to lightening the expense of the Commission which is being sent out, we will be
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