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Sir M. Foster considered the increase desirable and, as the total sum involved was only £250 in all, it was agreed to increase the grant to £750.
III. The draft report was considered, and it was decided, on the advice of Sir M. Foster, Sir P. Manson and Sir T. Barlow, that the reports of the Liverpool and London Schools contained nothing of sufficient value to justify their being sent to the Colonies or published in a Blue Book. Mr. Lucas thought that the letter to the Rhodes Trustees had better not be published and this was agreed to. It was accordingly decided that the draft report should be approved, subject to verbal modi- fications rendered necessary by the omission of the appendices and the resolution to grant £750 to the University of London, and then presented to the Secretary of State. If approved by him, it should be sent to the India Office and the Colonial Governments, but should not be published as a Blue Book.
IV. The report as to the chair of protozoology was laid before the Board for information, and a letter of the 5th December from the University of London was read showing that steps were being taken to secure the services of a professor.
V. The correspondence with the British Medical Association as to the proposed endowment of a scholarship was considered. Sir W. Ridgeway considered that no further communication need be sent to the Association since it was not prepared to consent to the scholar acting as an assistant to the Professor of Protozoology; and since no funds could be spared for the purpose. This was agreed to. Sir T. Barlow pointed out that it was very necessary that the Professor should have an assistant, but it was agreed not to raise the question until the Professor had actually been appointed and had represented the need for an assistant,
VI. Mr. Lucas raised the question of the nature of the annual report of the Committee and of the reports to be obtained from the schools and the Royal Society. Sir M. Foster thought that the annual report should summarize from the point of view of the Committee the work done by the schools and Royal Society for the year, and that the reports of these bodies should not be published as appendices. Sir W. Ridge- way thought they should be published as appendices and also summarized by the Committee in their report.
It was also considered whether it would not be better to substitute one annual report by the bodies in receipt of grants for two six-monthly reports. It was decided that there should still be two reports, but that the first one should state only what was actually being done in that period, while the second should summarize the work of the year and contain details of papers published, &c.
It was also agreed that Mr. Lucas should communicate with the schools and the Royal Society, announcing the grants for 1906, and suggesting that the reports should be so framed as to show clearly the results obtained by the Colonial Govern- ments and India for their contributions.
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No. 67.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND.
The Advisory Committee for the Tropical Disease Research Fund was consti- tuted by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in July, 1904, and its first meeting was held on the 1st of November following.
The main object of the appointment of the Committee was to secure the co-operation of the various agencies at work for the improvement of health and sani- tation in the Tropical Colonies and Protectorates, and to ensure that full value was obtained for the contributions, which had been, or were to be, received from the Colonies and other sources.
These contributions form a fund, the annual allotment of which is recommended by the Committee to the Secretary of State. The fund includes £1,500 a year for five years contributed in various sums by the Colonies and Protectorates of the Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria, Lagos, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Grenada; £500 a year from the Government of India, and £500 a year from Imperial Funds. A further sum of £100 a year for three years is available from British Guiana Funds,
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and a grant of £200 for five years from the Rhodes Trustees. The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia has also promised a contribution of £200 for five years. In addition there is a sum of £527 approximately, representing miscellaneous grants.
Composition of Board.
The composition of the Board is as follows:-
Rt. Hon. Sir J. West Ridgeway, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.S.I., P.C.
(Chairman).
Sir R. Moor, K.C.M.G.
Sir M. Foster, M.P., K.C.B., F.R.S.
Sir P. Manson, K.C.M.G., F.R.S.
Sir T. Barlow, Bart., M.D., K.C.V.O. Mr. C. P. Lucas, C.B.
Mr. T. W. Holderness, C.S.I.
Surgeon-General A. M. Branfoot, C.I.E. Mr. H. J. Read.
Owing to ill-health Sir M. Foster was only able to attend the first two meetings, and the Royal Society nominated to fill his place temporarily Colonel D. Bruce, C.B., M.B., F.R.S. Mr. P. H. Ezechiel, of the Colonial Office, acted as Secretary up to May, 1905, when he was succeeded by Mr. A. B. Keith.
Allotment of Funds for 1905.
A. At the first meeting of the Committee, and at a subsequent meeting held on 13th December, 1904, a grant of £1,000 was made to the London School of Tropical Medicine. It was understood that the School should provide for the year 1905 a salary for a combined teacher and investigator of protozoology, a salary for a combined teacher and investigator of helminthology, and suitable laboratories and apparatus for investigating and teaching these subjects. The grant was to be renewed annually for four years more should the Committee be satisfied with the work done. A single payment of £250 was also made to assist the London School in providing suitable laboratories.
The Committee in making these grants expressed the hope that means could be found for the affiliation of the London School of Tropical Medicine with the University of London. The affiliation has now taken place.
The London School appointed Mr. R. T. Leiper to be helminthologist in Febru- ary, 1905, and Mr. C. M. Wenyon to be protozoologist in May, 1905.
B. At the first meeting of the Committee on the 1st of November, 1904, a grant of £500 was made, to be renewed annually for four years more if satisfactory work were done, to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. At the second meeting on the 15th November a further grant of £250 was made for one year only to assist the School in the purchase of equipment for a laboratory. The Liverpool School with the approval of the Committee allotted £250 towards the establishment of a lectureship in parasitology, for which it was represented that there was urgent need, and £250 towards the salary of the lecturer in tropical medicine, for which only £100 a year could then be guaranteed by the School. The sum of £250 was to be employed in the purchase of instruments and drugs for teaching purposes, and especially for the expensive trypanosomiasis research being carried out by the School.
Mr. R. Newstead, F.S.A., for nineteen years Curator of the Chester Grosvenor Museum, was appointed lecturer in economic entomology and parasitology, and a contribution was made to Dr. J. W. W. Stephens's salary as lecturer in tropical medicine.
C. At the first meeting of the Committee it was agreed to reserve a sum not exceeding £1,000 from the income for 1905 for general purposes of research, and to ask the Tropical Disease Committee of the Royal Society for advice as to how that amount could best be spent. The Royal Society expressed its readiness to advise in this and future cases, and eventually allocated a sum of £500 towards the expenses connected with the despatch of Professor Minchin to Uganda for the prosecution of further researches into sleeping sickness. The balance of the expense, of the Commission was to be met by a contribution of £500 from Imperial Funds.
D. In the discussion on the grant of £500 to the London School for the teaching of protozoology it was strongly held by some members of the Committee that the
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