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country to Calcutta by the steamer leaving London on the 18th instant, and to pay your salary up to the date of embarkation.
I am to request you to communicate as soon as possible with Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society, and to arrange for a personal interview with him.
I am, &c..
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No. 91.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL SOCIETY.
C. P. LUCAS.
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Downing Street, November 2, 1898.
SIR,
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to previous correspondence respecting the Commission appointed to investigate the sub- ject of malarial fever, that Dr. C. W. Daniels, of the British Guiana medical depart- ment, has arrived in this country, and will proceed to Calcutta by the steamer of the 18th instant.
Dr. Daniels has been instructed to place himself in communication with to arrange for a personal interview.
you and
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 93.
FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND to COLONIAL OFFICE.
RIGHT HON. SIR,
(Received November 5, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 100.]
Free Church of Scotland Offices, Edinburgh,
November 4, 1898.
IN continuation of my letter of 26th ultimo,* with papers to the Foreign Office, sent on, I now understand, to the Colonial Office, I beg to enclose-
1. Reportt by our medical missionary, on furlough, Dr. George Prentice, for sub- mission to the Malaria Commission appointed to visit British Central Africa.
2. Copy of our report † of the Livingstonia Mission, with new map, including the country above West Lake Nyasa, recently explored by Dr. Prentice.
May I add that our Committee trust that the Commission will, as already arranged
by the Foreign Office, make British Central Africa the scene of their investigations. I agree with Dr. Prentice that the best time to reach the Shiré highlands is the end of April, leaving London by the Union Line to Durban and Chinde towards the middle or end of February.
I hope to forward further communications for the Commission as they reach me.
I have, &c., GEORGE SMITH, C.I.E., LL.D.,
No. 92.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 4, 1898.)
Foreign Office, November 3, 1898. WITH reference to my letter of the 21st September last,* I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Foreign Missions Section of the Free Church of Scotland enclosing papers for the use of the Malaria Commission.
These papers should eventually be returned to the Secretary of the Foreign' Mis- sions Section of the Free Church.
SIR,
Enclosure in No. 92.
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS BERTIE.
Free Church of Scotland Offices, Edinburgh, October 26, 1898. In continuation of my letter of 26th September last, I have the honour to for- ward a list of the casualties in the Livingstonia Mission Staff, by death and invaliding, during the last 20 years. Also specimen schedules, for a male and a female missionary, as filled up by them and by Dr. Peden, our medical examiner, before being accepted and sent out.
These papers may be of use to the medical experts whom Her Majesty's Govern- ment has so wisely appointed to report on fever, &c., in British Central Africa.
The Assistant Under Secretary,
Foreign Office.
I have, &c.,
GEORGE SMITH,
Secretary.
We send out our missionaries to Lake Nyasa between February and June, the earliest and latest months for sailing. March or April is the best time to start for Chinde and Blantyre.
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SIR,
No. 94.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 9, 1898.)
[See No. 115.]
Foreign Office, November 8, 1898. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the Malaria Com- mission, I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a despatch from the Acting Commis- sioner and Consul-General in British Central Africa respecting the steps which have been taken in the Protectorate with a view to collecting medical information, and es- pecially information on malaria and blackwater fever.
Lord Salisbury would be glad to be furnished with any observations which Mr. Chamberlain, may have to make on this despatch in connection either with the ap- proaching visit of the Malaria Commission to British Central Africa or with the establishment of a School of Tropical Medicine at Greenwich.
Enclosure in No. 94.
(Central Africa. No. 142.)
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MY LORD,
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS BERTIE.
The Residency, Zomba, British Central Africa.
September 9, 1898.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, No. 94. dated July 8, 1898, together with enclosures.
Previous to the receipt of this despatch I had already in conjunction with Dr. Gray, the acting Principal Medical Officer, taken steps for the formation of what might be called a " Medical Intelligence Department" in this Protectorate.
Now that we have a considerable number of officers on the Staff of the Medical Department I consider, and Dr. Gray agrees with me, that we shall be able to do a great deal as regards collecting information with reference to malarial and, especially,
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Enclosure in No. 92.
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