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No. 209.
CEYLON.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SIR E. N. WALKER to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received 9.15 a.m., June 10, 1899.)
TELEGRAM.
Your telegram of June
Yes.
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No. 210.
JAMAICA.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR A. W. L. HEMMING.
(No. 198.) SIR,
[Answered by No. 236.]
Downing Street, June 12, 1899.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 241 of the 10th of May,† reporting that the Legislative Council of Jamaica have refused to vote the sum of £250 which it was proposed should be contributed this year by the Colony towards the expenses of the School of Tropical Medicine, and the Commission appointed for the investigation of tropical malaria, and enclosing a copy of the debate on the matter.
2. I regret that the Council declined to make provision for this expenditure, as I feel no doubt that Jamaica will gain at least as much as other Colonies by the investiga- tion of malaria fevers and study of tropical medicine.
3. I recognise that there may be some reason for the opposition to the vote as the finances stand at present, but I trust that you may hereafter see your way to raising the matter again should a suitable opportunity occur.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
No. 212.
SIERRA LEONE.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL DISEASES to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received June 16, 1899.)
[Answered by No. 227.]
The Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases, B 10, Exchange Buildings,
Liverpool, June 14, 1899.
I AM directed by the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases to inform you that a Research Expedition organised by the School will proceed to Sierra Leone in August next for the purpose of investigating the causes of Malaria and other Tropical Diseases.
The expedition will consist, as at present arranged, of the Lecturer in Tropical Diseases to the Liverpool School, Major Ross, late I.M.S., and the Demonstrator, Dr. Annett.
The Liverpool School, which will bear the cost of the expedition, is anxious to ex- tend the scope thereof by authorising Major Ross to take with him assistants who could remain in Africa after his return to continue his experiments. At the same time the School is most anxious that the remuneration to the members of the expedition should be as high as possible in view of the undoubted risks of the climate.
The School therefore earnestly appeals to you to sanction a special grant of a sum of money from the Colonial Office to be applied solely to the expenses of this and other expeditions of a similar nature, in view of the fact that the results of such an expedition, if successful, will be of the greatest value to the Colonial Office.
Lord Lister, Professor Ray Lankester, and Dr. Patrick Manson (of the Colonial Office) have kindly consented to answer any enquiries as to the capabilities of Major Ross for the undertaking and as to the probabilities of the success of the expedition.
I enclose copy of a letter on the subject from Major Ross to the Committee of the School.
:
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE,
Hon. Secretary.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Dear Mr. Lucas,
No. 211.
The ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received June 13, 1899.)
[See No. 208: Answered by No. 229.]
The Royal Society, Burlington House,
London, W., June 13, 1899.
I Do not think that we need call the Committee to consider Daniels' letter. We may take for granted that the Committee will approve of your proposal.
But I am much exercised about their staying in British Central Africa. As soon as we get Daniels' report or letter of which he speaks, the Committee ought to meet, and seriously consider whether we ought not to recall them at once, and send them straight to West Africa. The Liverpool people are sending Ross and his man to West Africa in September! and Koch will be there directly too.
Yours, &c.,
M. FOSTER.
Mr. Harrison will take steps to send you the cheque, the money has only just been voted by the Grant Committee.
We did not understand that the Reports sent to us were to be forwarded to Blantyre.
• No. 206.
↑ No. 205.
Enclosure in No. 212.
From Major RONALD Ross, D.Ph., M.R.C.S., Lecturer in Tropical Medicine, University College, to the HONORARY SECRETARY, Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases. PROPOSALS for an EXPEDITION to AFRICA for the purpose of making Experiments towards extirpating Malaria.
SIR,
Liverpool, May 23, 1899.
I BEG to submit, for the consideration of the Committee of the School of Tropical Diseases, the following proposals regarding an expedition to Africa, which I suggest may be sent there, in connection with the, School, for the purpose of initiating experiments toward the extirpation of malaria, according to the method prescribed by recent discoveries.
2. At the beginning of last year I was placed on special duty by the Government of India for the purpose of ascertaining the exact mode in which malarial infection takes place. I found, beyond all possibility of doubt, that the parasite which causes the disease is introduced into the body by the bites of certain species of mosquito.
3. My investigations have been accepted by Dr. Laveran, who discovered the parasite of malaria; by Dr. Manson, who originated the mosquito theory of malaria; by the Staff of the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and by the leading men of science who have studied the subject; and my experiments have been repeated and confirmed by Professor Koch, of Germany, by Professors Grassi, Bignami, and Bastianelli, of Rome, and by Dr. Daniels, of the Malaria Commission.
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