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No. 37.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
GOVERNOR SIR G. LE HUNTE to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received March 11, 1905.)
Government House, Adelaide, February 7, 1905. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 12, of 31st August last,* and to previous correspondence on the subject of contributions to the funds for the investigation of tropical diseases, I have the honour to inform you that I am advised by my Ministers that, having communicated with the other States in order to ascertain what, if any, action they would take in the matter, and finding that the majority of them have declined to contribute to the object in question, they regret that this Government is unable to provide any funds for the purpose.
I have, &c.,
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GEORGE R. LE HUNTE.
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particular fund which has lately been formed under the name of the Tropical Disease Research Fund. Some years ago they contributed nearly £9,000 towards the estab- lishment of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the expenses of sending out a special Commission for the investigation of malaria; they now subscribe about £400 a year towards the maintenance of the London School; the expenses which they incur in giving special training to their medical officers at the London and Liverpool Schools probably amount to £1,500 or £2,000 a year; and special labora- tories for the investigation of tropical diseases have been established in the Malay Peninsula at Kuala Lumpor, in Ceylon, Mauritius, Hong Kong, and West Africa, and elsewhere, the first-mentioned alone costing nearly £2,500 a year.
It will thus be seen that the tropical Colonies have already paid and continue to pay considerable sums directly in connexion with education and research in tropical medicine; and it was because a permanent endowment was required in the particular instance of the professorship of protozoology rather than a subscription for a fixed term of years, which alone is within the ordinary compass of the revenues of the Crown Colonies, that the Trustees were approached in the matter.
Mr. Lyttelton thinks it right to offer these explanations. He, however, fully appreciates the difficulty of the Trustees in contributing so large a sum and grate fully acknowledges and accepts the assistance which they have promised.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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GENTLEMEN,
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, March 20, 1905.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that he approves of your paying from Jamaica funds the sum of £75 to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
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I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
No. 39.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE RHODES TRUST.
Downing Street, March 22, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 10th instant and to request you to convey to the Rhodes Trustees his acknowledgments and thanks for their promise to contribute £200 a year for five years in response to the appeal made in his letter to the Earl of Rosebery of the 30th of December last.‡
Mr. Lyttelton thinks it right to point out, however, that the object of his appeal was to obtain funds, not for the establishment of a School of Tropical Medi- cine, which is an accomplished fact, but for the endowment of a particular professor- ship in connexion with the University of London and the London School of Tropical Medicine. The London School was founded some six years ago with funds derived mainly from contributions by the tropical Colonies; and within the last few days, simultaneously with the addition of tropical medicine as a new branch of study in which the degree of M.D. of London University can be obtained, the London School has been admitted as a school of the University.
The object for which money is now sought is, as explained in Mr. Lyttelton's letter of 30th of December, the endowment of a professorship in protozoology, which is regarded by experts as the special branch of science in which further re- search and teaching are most urgently needed for the advancement of the study of tropical disease; and this object, being educational as well as medical, seemed to the Secretary of State to be specially one which might commend itself to the Rhodes Trustees as coming within their proper scope.
In your letter you allude to the fact that the Colonies combined have only pro- mised contributions amounting to about £1,600 a year for five years; but I am to explain that this is only the amount which the tropical Colonies have given to a
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‡ No. 32.
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No. 40.
MINUTES OF FOURTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY BOARD, 27TH MARCH, 1905. Agenda Paper.
I. To pass the minutes of the last meeting (draft attached).
II. To discuss further the question of the chair of protozoology, with reference
to the attached correspondence with the Rhodes Trustees:-
Mr. Lyttelton to the Earl of Rosebery, 30th December, 1904. Rhodes Trust to Colonial Office, 10th March, 1905. Colonial Office to Rhodes Trust, 22nd March, 1905.
Minutes of Meeting.
PRESENT:
Sir J. West Ridgeway (Chairman).
Sir T. Barlow.
Surgeon-General A. Branfoot.
Colonel D. Bruce.. Sir R. Moor.
Mr. C. P. Lucas.
Mr. T. Holderness.
Mr. H. J. Read.
I. The minutes of the last meeting were passed; and, with reference to the last paragraph, Colonel Bruce stated that a visit had been paid to the London School by several members of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, including Surgeon-General Branfoot and himself, who were very pleased with the hospital and other arrangements which they saw. In reply to a question from the Chairman, he suggested that the direction in which development was most needed was the provision of further laboratory accommodation.
II. It was decided that the members of the Committee would make such personal efforts as they could find opportunity for, to induce the Rhodes Trustees to reconsider their decision to grant only £200 a year for five years; but that it would be best to proceed on the assumption that that decision was final.
Mr. Lucas pointed out that the Royal Society had not yet intimated to the Board how they proposed to spend the money allotted to them from the Tropical Disease Research Fund (viz., a sum not exceeding† £1,000 a year for five years); and
* Nos. 32, 36 and 39.
↑ Colonel Bruce mentioned that £500 had been allotted to a mission in Uganda.
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