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SIR,
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No. 18.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 23, 1904.)
[Acknowledged by 39931, November 28, 1904: not printed.]
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., November 23, 1904. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 38409/1904, of the 16th November last,* and to
Mr. T. W. Holderness, 0.8.I. Surgeon-General A. M. Branfoot, C.I.E.
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SIR,
inform you that he has nominated the two gentlemen whose names are given in the margin to represent India on the Board of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
No. 19.
I have, &c.,
A. GODLEY.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
MEDICINE.
[Answered by No. 23.]
Downing Street, November 23, 1904.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you. that your letter to him of the 14th instant, in which you ask that the grant to be made to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from the Tropical Disease Research Fund may be increased from £500 to £750 per annum, has been considered by the Advisory Board for the fund.
The Board state that they would have been glad to recommend this request for Mr. Lyttelton's approval if it had been possible to do so; but the amount of the funds available does not, unfortunately, admit of the recurrent grant of £500 being increased. The Board have, however, made a recommendation, of which Mr. Lyttelton approves, that for next year, and next year only, an additional sum of £250 should be granted out of a balance which will not recur. This additional sum
will, therefore, be granted for the year 1905, and will be available to meet any initial outlay that may be necessary on such matters as the equipment of a laboratory; but it should be distinctly understood that it will not be recurrent.
The Secretary to the Board should be informed at the earliest convenient date as to the exact method in which the sums of £500 and £250 granted for next year will be applied.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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In connection with the immediate duties of the teacher in the school the Society would suggest that he should give the whole of his time to the service of the school, be in attendance daily during session so as to be available for teaching purposes at any time, and be prepared to devote in the aggregate at least one hour per diem to teaching in the general laboratory if called upon to do so.
As regards the details of his teaching, he should conform to the general plan for laboratory work laid down by the Superintendent. The remainder of his time he should devote to research work in his own laboratory. He should not hold any other appointment without the sanction of the Society. In other respects he should regard himself as an integral part of the teaching staff of the London School of Tropical Medicine and, with the other teachers, be loyal to its interests.
The Society would prefer, if possible, that the holder of the chair should be a medical man and that he should pass through a course of instruction at the school so as to familiarize himself with the scheme of teaching there pursued.
The Society would desire to point out:—
(1) That if the whole of the sum of money available be allocated as salary the school at present has no funds at its disposal for the payment of the wages of a laboratory servant and for scientific appliances and incidental expenses in connection with the laboratory which, at the least, must be estimated at £100 per annum. (2) It is considered probable that a senior man would require a laboratory of his own and be unwilling to share with the helminthologist the accom- modation that is at present available and which he may consider in- adequate.
(3) In this event it would be necessary to build an additional laboratory. The school has no funds for this purpose; in fact at present a debt of £6,000 exists, incurred in the recent additions to the premises.
(4) It is doubtful if a senior man would be willing to give up any appointment he may at present hold for an appointment the tenure of which can only be guaranteed for five years.
(5) The appointment of a Senior Protozoologist would entail a salary of at least £500 per annum; laboratory expenses £100 per annum as a mini- mum, and the erection of a special laboratory at least £350.
(6) This would give an expenditure for five years as follows:-
Salary of Protozoologist
Laboratory expenses, at least
Repairs, rent, rates, taxes, heating, lighting, &c., say Erection of temporary laboratory
Total, say
£2,500
500
500
350
£3,850
(7) If the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund sees its way to this expenditure and to giving some guarantee that the appoint- ment of the Protozoologist is not a temporary one, the Seamen's Hospital Society will have much pleasure in carrying out the wishes of the Secre- tary of State to the best of their ability.
(8) Failing this the Society would recommend the adoption of the scheme originally suggested by Sir Patrick Manson, which would guarantee a Protozoologist and Helminthologist at the school for six years for a total expenditure, including upkeep, of £5,000.
40233
SIR,
No. 20.
THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 28, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 31.]
Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E., November 25, 1904.
IN further reference to your letter of the 17th instant, No. 39271/1904, I have the honour to inform you that your communication has been duly considered. I am instructed to state that so far as the Seamen's Hospital Society's Act of Parliament, 3° Gul. IV., cap. ix., and the byelaws and regulations founded thereon are concerned, there would be no obstacle to the appointment of a University Professor at the London School of Tropical Medicine provided that he is nominated by the University and appointed by the Society.
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No. 16.
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 21.
I am, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, November 25, 1904.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of Sir