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Medicine, to be laid out during the year beginning on the 1st of January next on some definite and specific object to be approved by the Board.
The Board will require to be furnished with evidence, in the form of half-yearly reports, showing that work has been steadily carried on in pursuance of the object of the grant; and, subject to these reports being satisfactory, it is probable that the Board will recommend to the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State will consent to, the continuation of the grant at the same annual rate for a further period of four years, making five years in all.
I am to request that you will inform me whether the authorities of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine accept the grant on these conditions, and, if so, that you will communicate with the Secretary to the Board, at the Colonial Office, as to the object to which they propose to devote it, and the manner in which they propose to spend the sum allotted for the
year 1905.
I am to ask for a reply to this letter as early as possible.
I am,
&c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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in, which; it is stated that on the recommendation of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund, the Secretary of State for the Colonies proposes to grant a sum of £500 from that fund to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, to be laid out, during the year beginning on the 1st of January next, on some definite and specific object to be approved by the Board, was laid before the Committee of the School.
I am to express the thanks of the School to His Majesty's Government for the offer, which is much appreciated, and to say that the School accepts the same on the conditions named in your letter.
As soon as I am in a position to do so I shall submit, for the approval of the Advisory Board, an outline of the manner in which the School suggests that the money should be expended.
I have, &c.,
A. H. MILNE,
Honorary Secretary.
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37783
No. 8.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY. [Answered by Nos. 11 and 22.]
SIR,
Downing Street, November 5, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that a "Tropical Diseases Research Fund" has been formed, consisting of contributions from the Governments of the tropical Colonies and India and from the Imperial Government on behalf of the State-aided Protectorates, and that an Advisory Board has been constituted for this Fund, on which the Royal Society is represented by Sir Michael Foster.
It is expected that certain sums will be available from the income of the fund each year for the next five years, for general expenditure on research in connection with tropical diseases, in addition to grants made to specific institutions like the Schools of Tropical Medicine; and the Board have expressed a hope, in which the Secretary of State cordially joins, that the Tropical Disease Committee of the Royal Society will be so good as to advise them from time to time as to the manner in which such sums could best be laid out and undertake the supervision of the work carried out with the money. The Board propose to present to the Secretary of State yearly reports on the administration of the fund, and desire to receive half-yearly reports on the progress of the work performed.
The sum available for this purpose during the year beginning on the 1st of January next will probably be rather less than £1,000; and, if the Royal Society can see their way to meeting the wishes of the Board, I am to ask that they may be good enough to suggest how this sum may be best allotted for purposes of research, bearing in mind that it is desirable that it should be devoted to some specific object germane to India and the other British possessions in the tropics. I am to ask that the answer to this letter may be addressed to the Secretary to the Board at the Colonial Office.
SIR,
No. 10.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 10, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 14.]
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., November 10, 1904.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to reply to your letter, No. 28181, dated 8th June,* on the subject of the establishment of a fund for the promotion of further research into the origin and propagation of tropical
diseases.
I am to say that, after communicating with the Government of India, Mr. Secretary Brodrick has decided to contribute from Indian revenues the sum of £500 a year for five years to the general fund which the Colonial Office has established.
In paragraph 5 of your letter above referred to, it was stated that the constitu- tion of the Board to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to the disposal of the fund was under consideration. I am to suggest that in view of the interest which India has in the investigations proposed to be undertaken, and of the import- ance of preventing the researches conducted in India from overlapping those investigations, one, if not two, representatives of that country should, if Mr. Secre- tary Lyttelton has no objection, be added to the Board. If two representatives were given to India, one of them might be a medical officer, and the other a man of Indian administrative experience.
It has been suggested that, in order to indicate that India is interested in the objects of the fund, the fund might be styled "The Colonial and Indian Tropical Diseases Research Fund." Mr. Secretary Brodrick, however, does not wish to press this suggestion, as there may be objections to it of which he is unaware.
I have, &c.,
HORACE WALPOLE.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
38272
No. 9.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
OFFICE.
(Received November 9, 1904.)
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No. 11.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 12, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 15.]
The Royal Society, Burlington House,
London, W., November 11, 1904. MR. LUCAS's letter of the 5th instant (37783/1904)† was yesterday brought before a specially summoned meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society. While the Committee fully recognised the importance of the aid
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, November 8, 1904.
Grant to the School.
SIR,
SIR,
I AM requested to-inform you that your letter of November 4th, No. 37783,*
• No. 7.
• No. 99A in Miscellaneous No. 170.
† No. 8.
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