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No. 244.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL DISEASES.
[Answered by No. 248,]
SIR,
Downing Street, August 25, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, stating that a telegram had been received from Major Ross, in which he reports the discovery at Sierra Leone of a malaria-bearing species of mos- quito.
Mr. Chamberlain has received this announcement with pleasure, and desires me to enquire whether Major Ross's expedition will remain at Sierra Leone during the whole of its stay abroad, or whether it proposes to go on to the Gold Coast.
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No. 247.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
SIR,
Downing Street, August 28, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Malaria Investigation Committee, the accompanying copy of correspond- ence* with the British South Africa Company.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 248.
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No. 245.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, August 26, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Malaria Investigation Committee, a copy of a letter† from Dr. C.-W. Daniels, dated the 27th of June last.
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SIR,
No. 2.16.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA,
I am,
&c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.
Downing Street, August 28, 1899.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, and to inform you that a copy of it will be sent to the -Malaria Investigation Committee of the Royal Society.
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2. I am, however, to observe that two members of the Malaria Commission are returning to this country for the purpose of proceeding to West Africa, and that it has been decided to retain the third member for the present in the British Central Africa Protectorate.
3. Mr. Chamberlain desires me to convey his thanks to the Directors of the British South Africa Company for the assistance which they are giving towards the study of malarial fever by causing instructions to be issued to Medical Officers through- out Southern Rhodesia for the collection and preparation of mosquitoes for the School of Tropical Medicine in London.
I am,
&c.,
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↑ No. 242.
C. P. LUCAS.
‡ No. 238.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL DISEASES to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received August 31, 1899.)
The Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, August 30, 1899.
I HAVE to acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 25th,† which has been submitted to the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases.
In reply to your enquiry in paragraph 2, I have to inform you that until further information has been received by mail from Major Ronald Ross, it is not possible to speak definitely as to the future movements of the expedition.
The instructions given to the expedition authorise them, if necessary, to go to the Gold Coast and Lagos, and no doubt if Major Ross considers such a step advisable the expedition will proceed to Accra.
I am directed to inform you that the following resolution of congratulation to the expedition has been passed by the Committee, and transmitted to Major Ross by tele- graph, viz. :---
Resolved:-"That the School regards with very great satisfaction the success of the Liverpool Expedition in discovering the malaria mosquito at Sierra Leone in so short a time, and desires that its warmest congratulations be cabled to Major Ross and the other members of the expedition."
With reference to the request received by telegram from Major Ross for additional assistance, I have the honour to inform you that the School is sending out Dr. R. Field- ing-Ould, M.A., M.B. Oxon, Medallist in Pathology, to join the expedition, and to remain after its return, with a view to continuing the work of the expedition in West I enclose for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies an extract from a letter received from Major Ross written prior to his telegram announcing the discovery of the malaria mosquito.
Africa.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE,
Hon. Secretary.
Enclosure in No. 248.
Sierra Leone, August 13, 1899.
MY DEAR MILNE,
JUST a line to tell you that we arrived on the 10th after a most pleasant voyage, and that we have probably found our malaria-bearing species of mosquito already, though we can't announce it until after some more definite experiments,
A small outbreak of fever has recently occurred in an asylum here. We found the place full of mosquitos of the genus Anopheles, which I expect to be the malaria- bearing kind. I dissected five of these to-day, and in one found the parasite of malaria.
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