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an opportunity of reporting to the Council the direction in which the Colonial Office would suggest that such a contribution should be used.
As a result I have to transmit you the following resolution :-
'That Mr. Andrew Clark be instructed to inform His Majesty's Government that the British Medical Association cannot allocate any of its funds towards the support of any teaching appointment in a University or Medical School."
My terin of office of Chairman of Council having now expired, I shall be obliged if any further correspondence will be addressed to my successor, Dr. Langley Browne.
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SIR,
No. 60.
I am, &c.,
ANDREW CLARK.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
Downing Street, August 4, 1905.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th of July,* from which he has learnt with great satisfaction that the Senate of the University of London accept the proposal to endow for a period of five years a Chair of Protozoology in the University.
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With reference to the second paragraph of your letter under acknowledg- ment, I am to state that funds for further expenditure in connection with the Chair are not at present available, but that, should the conditions be more favourable a little later, the matter will be further considered by the Advisory Board of the Tropical Disease Research Fund.
I am, &c.,
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No. 61. AUSTRALIA.
C. P. LUCAS,
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR-GENERAL LORD NORTHCOTE.
[Answered by No. 77.]
(General.) MY LORD,
Downing Street, August 10, 1905. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, No. 144, of the 23rd June last,† from which I have learnt with much satisfaction that at the Conference of State Premiers, held at Hobart in February last, a Resolu- tion was adopted that the Federal Government should be requested to provide an annual grant of £200 for a period of five years towards the fund for providing scientific inquiry into tropical diseases.
I shall be glad to be informed when the first annual instalment of the grant has been voted.
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SIR,
No. 62.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, [Answered by No. 80.]
Downing Street, August 11, 1905.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Andrew Clark's letter of the 1st instant, conveying a resolution of the Council of the British Medical Association to the effect that it cannot allocate any of its funds towards the support of any teaching appointment in a University or Medical
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School, and to inform you that this decision will be brought before the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund when it insets in November next.
I am to add, however, that at present no funds are available from which a sum of £200 could be allocated to supplement the grant of a similar amount by the Association in case it was decided to proceed with the original proposal.
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No. 63.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 1, 1905.)
SIR,
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Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E., October 31, 1905. In accordance with the arrangement entered into between the Colonial Office and the London School of Tropical Medicine* in regard to the teaching of helminthology and protozoology, I have the honour to enclose herewith reports of the work done in these departments during the last six months.
SIR,
I have, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
Enclosure 1 in No. 63.
Helminthological Department, School of Tropical Medicine,
Royal Albert Dock, London, E., August 10, 1905.
I HAVE the honour to submit my second half-yearly report as Helminthologist at the London School of Tropical Medicine.
In connection with the Branch Seamen's Hospital attached to the School, I have continued to examine and report to the Consulting Physician upon material received for helminthological investigation. None of the cases presented features sufficiently unique to call for detailed remark, but the following points are of interest :-
1. The case of Filaria diurna, which had been under continuous observation for more than two months at the beginning of the present year, and to which reference was made in my first report, was again examined in June, and it was found that the number of blood parasites per centimetre at noon had undergone practically no change during the four months which has elapsed since the first enumeration. As this patient has now become resident in England, it is hoped that by periodic examinations of the blood considerable light may eventually be thrown on the duration of a filarial infection.
2. In one of the cases of Ankylostomiasis treated with thymol it was noted that, contrary to the usual result, the drug failed to dislodge the parasites, only one, a female worm, being found, though all the stools passed under treatment were carefully examined by sifting through fine muslin screens. Previous to the adminis- tration of the thymol the ova of ankylostomes were seen in considerable numbers, and within two days afterwards they appeared again, apparently undiminished.
The following are the noteworthy features of material sent to me for identification :-
By the courtesy of Dr. Leslie an opportunity was afforded me, at Whitsuntide, of examining the Pygmies brought from the Ituri Forest, Central Africa, by Colonel Harrison.
Owing to various circumstances, not the least insurmountable being the extreme modesty of these little people, no little difficulty was experienced in obtaining uncontaminated samples of excreta.
The results I am able to report were obtained from two of the males and the elder female of the party of six.
Firstly, it is a little surprising to find that, as far as the examination of the fæces reveals information of internal parasites, they do not appear to be subject in great measure to helminthic infections.
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