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2. Of this sum £200 will be contributed by the Rhodes Trustees and £500 represents a moiety of a grant originally made from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund established under the auspices of this office to the Royal Society for research work. In view of the Royal Society having consented to surrender this sum for the purpose of endowing the chair, the Senate will, no doubt, be prepared, in the event of the present offer being accepted, to consult the Royal Society with regard to the person to be appointed to the post.
3. The Royal Society, when intimating their readiness to surrender the sum of £500 a year, stipulated that "if the University of London is willing to establish the professorship on the required conditions, the professorship be not assigned to any particular school, that the principal object of the professorship shall be research work, and that the professor be not required to devote his time to routine teaching."
A copy of their letter* is enclosed.
Mr. Lyttelton presumes that the University would offer no objection to this stipulation, and that the wishes of the Royal Society are not incompatible with the delivery by the professor of a certain number of lectures on protozoology in the course of each year dealing with his work and the progress made in the subject.
Mr. Lyttelton is of opinion that some lectures of the kind should be delivered and he would also ask that in some form or other a report upon the results of each year's work should be communicated to him in order that the Colonies and India, which have contributed to the Research Fund, may maintain an interest in the objects to the promotion of which their contributions are being allotted.
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3. Mr. Lyttelton would, however, be glad if, for convenience of record and of reporting to the Colonial Governments the progress of the work, the School could see its way to arranging future reports under the following heads:-
(1) Papers published-giving a full statement of the titles of the papers,
with the names of the publishers.
(2) Nature of object or objects on which the grant from the Tropical Diseases
Research Fund has been expended.
(3) Any definite progress made in the particular branch of study to which
the grant has been devoted.
(4) Summary of the general work of the School for the period under review. The managers of the School will no doubt understand that it is not desired to burden them with the preparation of elaborate reports and returns, but in Mr. Lyttelton's opinion it is desirable that such information should be forthcoming as will enable the Colonial Governments to appreciate the good use to which their contributions are being applied and the valuable work which is in progress.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
17500
No. 52.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE RHODES TRUST.
[Answered by No. 57.]
GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, July 8, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th of March, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to request you to inform the Rhodes Trustees that he is in communication with the University of London with a view to the foundation, for a period of five years in the first instance, of a Professorship of Protozoology.
2. Mr. Lyttelton would accordingly be glad if the Rhodes Trustees would be so good as to cause the sum of £200, being the first annual contribution from the Rhodes Trust, to be placed to the credit of the Crown Agents for the Colonies at the Bank of England.
3. It is proposed that the Professor appointed shall receive a salary of £700 a year, of which £500 will be paid from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund and £200 from the grant made by the Rhodes Trustees.
No. 54.
MEMORANDUM. [See No. 59.]
Mr. Read and Mr. Lucas saw Mr. Andrew Clark and the Secretary of the British Medical Association on 11th July and agreed to send to the Association a Memorandum subsequently drafted in the following terms, together with Mr. Chamberlain's circular despatch of 28th May, 1903,* and Mr. Lyttelton's letter to Lord Rosebery of December 30th, 1904+
£700 for five years having been allotted from the Tropical Disease Research Fund to the University of London for the purpose of establishing a Professorship in Protozoology, it is submitted that the British Medical Association would give very welcome and timely support to this scheme if the proposed scholarship were attached to the Professorship, so that the scholar would be an assistant to the Professor. It would not be possible to supplement the proposed £200 from the Tropical Disease Research Fund during this calendar year, but the Advisory Board of the Fund would gladly consider after January next whether money for the purpose would be forthcoming in the event of the British Medical Association being good enough to hold to their offer.
It was understood that the British Medical Association were likely to view the proposal favourably, and would write again in the autumn.
C. P. LUCAS. July 11, 1905.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 55.
18687
No. 53.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE and THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
SIR,
[Answered by Nos. 64 and 63.]
Downing Street, July 8, 1905.
31st of May, forwarding a report on the work done by the- Liverpool
London
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
6th of May,§ School of Tropical Medicine for the half-year ended the 30th of June, 1905.
2. These reports have been laid before the Advisory Board of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and have been perused with interest.
SIR,
THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received July 12, 1905.)
[Answered by No. 56.]
University of London, South Kensington, S.W., July 11, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of the 7th July, I am directed to inform you that the University Authorities have received with great gratification the offer of the Colonial Office and the Royal Society to co-operate in establishing a Professorship of £700 a year in Protozoology.
At this late period of the session it would be a little difficult for the Senate to give a formal reply unless every pains is taken to obtain full information to lay before them. They would, for instance, certainly desire the opinion of the Finance Committee, which meets for the last time this session on Friday next.I am. therefore, anxious to be informed at your early convenience whether it is proposed
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