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to make any provision for the expenses of the Chair. I need not inform you that. expenditure will be necessary to provide apparatus and other essentials for the conduct of the researches which it is proposed that the Professor should undertake. and it will be necessary for the Finance Committee to be clearly informed as to how it is proposed that this should be provided.
hope, therefore, that you will not consider me unreasonable if, in spite of the very short notice, I ask you to give me an answer by Friday morning.
H. Bertram Cox, Esq., C.B.,
Assistant Under-Secretary,
Colonial Office, S.W.
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I am, &c.,
ARTHUR W. RÜCKER,
Principal.
No. 56.
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to the bodies ultimately responsible for the provision of the funds requisite for the endowment of a Chair of Protozoology for five years in the University. The Senate gratefully accepts the offer and will be willing to do all in its power to promote the objects which you and those interested in the foundation of the Chair desire to attain. I am, however, also to state that the Senate believes that it would probably be easier to secure the services of a professor of the high scientific rank required if the salary were £750 instead of £700 a year, and to ask whether it would be possible for you to increase the subvention you are good enough to offer to £750 a year for five years.
The Senate has appointed a Board of Advisors to suggest who the occupant of the Chair should be, but at the present period of the year, and especially owing to the absence of some of them with the British Association in South Africa, it is impos- sible to secure the attendance of the gentlemen whose services are desired. The matter must, therefore, stand over until after the Long Vacation when no time will be lost in dealing with it.
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It is also hoped that funds will be forthcoming to provide the equipment and assistance necessary for the satisfactory working of the Chair, and, though the Senate is unable to contribute the whole amount which may probably be required, it would be willing to contribute as far as its means allow for these purposes.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
Downing Street, July 12, 1905. In answer to your letter of the 11th instant,* I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that at the present time he is not in a position to offer the University of London any larger sum than £700 for five years for the salary of a Professor in Protozoology.
A grant was made a short time ago from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for laboratory equipment in special connexion with this subject at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and though it is not desired that the professorship should be assigned to any particular school, the Senate may be of opinion that he shall carry on his research work for a time at that school if suitable arrangements could be made.
The Lister Institute has also been suggested as a possible sphere of work.
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SIR,
No. 57.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE RHODES TRUST to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received July 14, 1905.)
The Rhodes Trust, 171-3, Temple Chambers,
Temple Avenue, E.C., July 13, 1905. I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have this day paid into the account of the Crown Agents for the Colonies a cheque for £200 from the Rhodes Trustees, being the first of five annual contributions of £200 to the London School of Tropical Medicine.
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I am, &c.,
ARTHUR W. RÜCKER,
Principal.
No. 58.
AUSTRALIA.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL LORD NORTHCOTE to MR. LYTTELTON.
(No. 144.)
SIR,
(Received July 31, 1905.) [Answered by No. 61.]
Commonwealth of Australia, Governor-General's Office,
Melbourne, June 23, 1905.
REFERRING to circular despatch, dated 28th May, 1903,* on the subject of
your the establishment of a Speciál Training School in Tropical Medicine, I have the honour to inform you that I am advised by my Prime Minister that a resolution was adopted at the Conference held in Hobart in February last that the Federal Govern- ment be requested to provide an annual grant of £200, for a period of five years, towards scientific inquiry by the Imperial authorities into tropical diseases.
My Prime Minister advises me that the above-mentioned sum has now been placed on the Estimates of the Commonwealth Government for the year 1905-6, to be submitted to Parliament during the forthcoming session.
I am, &c.,
CHARLES W. BOYD,
Joint Secretary.
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I have, &c.,
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
No. 59.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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SIR,
No. 57A.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received July 28, 1905.)
[Answered by No. 60.]
University of London, South Kensington, S.W., July 27, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of July 7th, 1905,† I am directed to convey to you the cordial thanks of the Senate of the University of London and, through you,
* No. 55.
† No. 51.
SIR,
THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received August 2, 1905.)
[Answered by No. 62.]
British Medical Association, General Secretary's Office,
429, Strand, London, W.C., August 1, 1905, ADVERTING to our correspondencet and our interviewt relative to the contribu- tion of £200 from the funds of the British Medical Association towards estab- lishment of a scholarship for special research in tropical medicine, I have now ha'l
+ See No. 54.
* [Cd. 1598], June, 1903.
† Nos. 47 and 48.