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2. Report on the collection of biting flies, &c., made during the recent expe-
dition to the Congo Free State :-
Identification of exotic biting flies, ticks, &c., 16 species from various parts of the world.
Identification of exotic insects affecting economic plants cacao, cotton, &c., 36 species, including six species and one genera new to science. Descriptions of these will appear in due course.
Identification of British insects and acari affecting agriculture, horticultural and other economic products, 68 species. Advice was also given as to methods of prevention and remedies.
Museum work:-
1. Preparation of five life-history groups of pathogenic insects and ticks. 2. Collected material representing the life-cycle of three species of Culicidæ.
APPENDIX C.
1. The general work of the School in the past year has consisted in carrying out the programme laid down in the prospectus, copy of which is enclosed herewith as Appendix D. In addition to the teaching outlined in the prospectus, lectures have been delivered in meteorology.
2. Publications.-A large amount of money has been spent on issuing publica- tions of the School. A list of those published since January 1st to October, 1905, is down in Appendix A. of this Report.
3. Expeditions.-A large amount of money has been expended in despatching expeditions. Since January 1st of the present year the following expeditions have returned, viz. :-
(A) The Thirteenth (Sanitation) Expedition, consisting of Professor Boyce, Dr. Arthur Evans, and Dr. H. H. Clarke, despatched to Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Conakry,
(B) The Fourteenth (Sanitation) Expedition, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel
G. M. Giles and Dr. R. E. McConnell, despatched to the Gold Coast. (c) Dr. J. L. Todd, of the Twelfth (Trypanosomiasis) Expedition, despatched
to the Congo Free State.
The following new expeditions have been despatched, viz. :—-
(A) On the 19th April, 1905, the Fifteenth (Yellow Fever) Expedition, despatched to Manaos, in Brazil, consisting of Dr. H. Wolferstan Thomas and Dr. Anton Breinl. The expedition is still in Brazil.
(B) On the 12th August, 1905, Professor Boyce left for New Orleans, to observe the outbreak there of yellow fever, and subsequently, at the request of the Colonial Office, to British Honduras, to report on the preventative measures to be taken in case of an outbreak of yellow fever there. Professor Boyce is still in Central America.
NOTE. Dr. J. E. Dutton, one of the members of the Twelfth (Trypanosomiasis) Expedition, died during the year of disease contracted in the course of his work. Both members of the Fifteenth (Yellow Fever) Expedition contracted yellow fever.
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No. 65.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received December 6, 1905.) [Answered by No. 70.]
University of London, South Kensington, S.W., December 5, 1905.
I AM directed to forward to you the enclosed document* containing particulars with regard to the chair in protozoology founded in the University by means of funds offered through the Colonial Office.
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I am to express regret that the publication of the announcement with regard to the chair should have been so long delayed and to say that this delay is due (1) to the fact that certain members of the expert Board of Advisors appointed to recom- mend to the Senate the name of a candidate for the chair were in South Africa with the British Association and did not return till late in October, and (2) that after the first meeting of the Board one of the members himself decided to become a candidate, thereby causing a vacancy which it was necessary to fill before further action could be taken.
I am, &c.,
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No. 66.
ARTHUR W. RÜCKER,
Principal.
MINUTES OF SECOND ORDINARY MEETING FOR 1905 OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, DECEMBER 12TH.
I. Minutes of last meeting.
AGENDA.
II. Allotment of funds for the coming year. See annexed statement.
III. Consideration of draft annual report on the results of 1905, together with subsidiary reports from London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, to be submitted for Secretary of State's approval and subsequently circulated to the con- tributories to the fund.
IV. Report as to the chair of protozoology.
V. Correspondence as to the proposed endowment of scholarship by British Medical Association.
PRESENT:
Sir J. WEST RIDGEWAY (Chairman).
Sir R. MOOR.
Sir M. FOSTER.
Sir P. MANSON.
Sir T. BARLOW.
Mr. C. P. Lucas.
Mr. T. W. HOLDERNESS. Surgeon-General A. M. BRANFOOT.
Mr. H. J. READ.
I. The minutes of the last meeting were passed.
II. (1) The allocation of £1,000 to the London School of Tropical Medicine was approved.
(2) The allocation of £500 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was approved. Sir R. Moor stated that the school was anxious to obtain a repetition of the grant of £250 made in 1905 for the purchase of laboratory equipment. The school was engaged in important research work, the cost of the publication of the results of which was very heavy, and was eager to extend its operations. If £250 could again be granted, it would be spent entirely on research, and the renewal of the grant would tend to lessen the chance of the Liverpool School considering itself less favourably treated than the London School. It was, however, generally held that it would not be advisable for this purpose to break upon the small capital sum available and it was agreed not to increase the grant.
(3) The grant of £500 to the Royal Society for research work was approved. (4) Mr. Lucas proposed that the request of the University of London that the grant for the salary of a Professor of Protozoology should be increased from £700 to £750, should be acceded to. Sir T. Barlow suggested that the University of London might endeavour, through Lord Rosebery, to induce the Rhodes Trustees to increase their contribution to £250, and thus secure £750 for the chair. Sir West Ridgeway objected that the University had no locus standi as regards the Rhodes Trustees.
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