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No. 14.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 18.]
SIR,
Downing Street, November 16, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th of November,* and to ask you to convey his thanks to Mr. Secretary Brodrick for the contribution of £500 a year for five years which he has decided to make from Indian revenues to the general fund for the promotion of further research into the origin and propagation of tropical diseases.
2. Mr. Lyttelton ready concurs in Mr. Brodrick's suggestion that two repre- sentatives of India should be added to the Board which is being formed for the purpose of advising him as to the disposal of the fund. The other members of the Board are:-
3.
The Right Honourable Sir J. West Ridgeway, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.S.I.
(Chairman).
Sir R. Moor, K.C.M.G. (late High Commissioner of Southern Nigeria). Sir T. Barlow, Bt., M.D., K.C.V.O.
Sir M. Foster, M.P., K.C.B., F.R.S. (representing the Royal Society).
Sir P. Manson, M.D., K.C.M.G., FR.S. (Medical Adviser to the Colonial
Office).
Mr. C. P. Lucas, C.B.
Mr. H. J. Read
(representing the Colonial Office).
With regard to the last paragraph of your letter, the question of the title of the fund was discussed at the preliminary meeting, which was held on the 1st of November, and at which a representative of the India Office was provisionally present, and it was considered that on the whole it would be more convenient to use the short title, "Tropical Diseases Research Fund." As Mr. Brodrick does not wish to urge the adoption of the title suggested in your letter, Mr. Lyttelton, who had already given his approval to the above title, proposes to let matters stand as they are at present.
I am, &c.,
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No. 15.
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
[Answered by No. 22.]
GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, November 17, 1904. WITH reference to my letter of the 5th instant, and to Sir Archibald Geikie's reply of the 11th instant † relative to the proposed expenditure of a sum not exceed- ing £1,000 out of the Tropical Disease Research Fund during next year, and other sums in subsequent years on general objects of research under the supervision of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that the question of allotting £500 a year out of another part of the fund to the London Tropical School for the study of protozoology, has been under the consideration of the Advisory Board in the form of the enclosed schemet drawn up by Sir Patrick Manson. Sir M. Foster, the representative of the Royal Society on the Board, is disposed to think that Sir P. Manson's proposal should be expanded into the form of a professorship of the University of London, whose work would be carried on at the London Tropical School; and whatever may be the merits of the alternative proposals, as to which the Board have not yet made any definite recommendation to the Secretary of State, they are all agreed that it would be of great advantage, and would recommend itself to the Colonies, that the London School of Tropical Medicine should be brought into closer connexion with the University of London. For this particular study, however, the Board have at their disposal, out of the balance of the fund, no more money than the £500 a year for five years referred to above and in Sir P. Manson's scheme; while they
• No. 10.
† Nos. 8 and 11.
↑ See No. 4.
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gather from Sir M. Foster that to endow a University professorship of protozoology a minimum sum of about £750 a year would be required.
It would seem that the extra £250 a year could only be obtained by a corre- sponding reduction of the sum of which the Royal Society has been asked to direct the expenditure. Sir M. Foster seemed to think that the Tropical Diseases Com- mittee would agree with him in considering this a good appropriation of the money, on the ground that it is of vital importance in the interests of research, for which the sum was intended, to establish a chair for protozoology; but, before taking any steps in the matter, the Board would be greatly indebted to the Royal Society if they would favour them with the full expression of their views.
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SIR,
No. 16.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. [Answered by No. 20.]
Downing Street, November 17, 1904. WITH reference to your letter of the 12th instant,* I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that the question of the protozoologist has been further considered by the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund. It is possible that the matter may be decided ultimately by the appointment of a professor of the University of London; but it will be necessary to await the views of the Royal Society as regards the availability of certain additional funds required for the purpose, and also to obtain the consent of the University and negotiate with them the conditions of the appointment, before coming to any definite conclusion. If the professor is appointed, however, it will be stipulated that his sphere of work should be the London School of Tropical Medicine, so that it is hoped that the School will thus have the value of more than the £500 originally intended.
For the purpose of framing the basis of the negotiations with the University of London, the Board would be glad to know whether there would be any objection to the appointment of a University professor at the School, either on account of the constitution of the Seamen's Hospital Society or on the ground of difficulties in connexion with discipline and teaching at the School; and, as regards the latter point, what conditions the Society would consider it necessary or desirable to attach to the appointment in order to meet such difficulties.
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SIR,
No. 17.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 22, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 21.]
Burlington House, London, W., November 21, 1904. As Sir Michael Foster intends to be absent abroad for some time, the President
of the Royal Society desires me to inform you that he has nominated Colonel Bruce, M.B., F.R.S., of the Army Medical Department, 68, Victoria Street, Westminster, as the representative of the Royal Society on the Advisory Board for Tropical Disease during Sir Michael's absence.
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I am, &c.,
ARCH. GEIKIE, Secretary, Royal Society.
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