scientific members), would hold a meeting at an early date for the purpose of dis- cussing and reporting on the scheme.
These despatches raise the further question of what steps should be taken in the future for advising the Secretary of State with regard to administrative measures of the kind, which are avowedly outside the work of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, which deals only with the purely scientific side of tropical disease.
It is suggested that this matter might with advantage be considered by the Advisory Committee at their next meeting. Possibly a solution might be found and recommended to the Secretary of State on the following lines:-That, when any question arises, involving not so much research as practical medical handling and administration within a particular Colony or group of Colonies and Protectorates, the Advisory Committee should appoint a purely scientific and medical sub-com- mittee, ad hoc, consisting of some, at any rate, of their scientific members, supple- mented, if possible, by local medical officers or officials whose experience and advice would be of use in the special matter under discussion, and that this sub-committee should report to the Advisory Committee, and through them to the Secretary of State. As the work of such a sub-committee might be considerable, it would seem to be only reasonable that they should be paid by fees from the funds of the Colonies or Protectorates concerned.
February 6, 1907.
C. P. L.
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No. 8.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
SIR,
OFFICE.
(Received February 9, 1907.)
[See No. 9.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, February 8, 1907. Report of Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee.
I AM requested by the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies copy of a letter they have addressed to the Advisory Committee, and of the enclosure referred to therein.
I am,
&c.,
A. H. MILNE,
Secretary.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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SIR,
No. 6.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL.
[Answered by No. 18.]
Downing Street, February 7, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to inform you that he has had under his consideration your letter to Sir Patrick Manson of the 24th ultimo,* in which you suggest the grant of a sum of £100 a year from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund towards the establishment of a Research Studentship in Medical Entomology at Cambridge.
2. Lord Elgin is of opinion that this suggestion could most conveniently be discussed at the meeting of the Advisory Board of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund which is to be held in May next, and a further communication will be sent to you in due course.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
SIR,
Enclosure in No. 8.
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, February 8, 1907. Report of Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee.
I AM requested by the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to enclose the accompanying copy of a letter addressed to them by Professor Ronald Ross, C.B., Professor of Tropical Medicine in the School, on the subject of the Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1906. I am to ask whether the School may be furnished, as suggested by Pro- fessor Ross, with a ruling as to the amount of detail which should be given in reporting their work to the Advisory Committee in future.
The Committee of the School wish to publish Professor Ross's letter for the information of subscribers, but would be glad to know, first, whether the Advisory Committee has any objection to this step.
A copy of this letter and enclosure has been sent to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Secretary to
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE
Secretary.
The Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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No. 7.
COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR P. MANSON.
SIR,
Downing Street, February 7, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit, for your information, a copy of a lettert which has been sent to Dr. George Nuttall, F.R.S., with reference to the letter which he addressed to you on the 24th ultimo, suggesting the grant of £100 a year from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund towards the establishment at Cambridge of a Research Studentship in Medical Entomology.
• No. 3.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
† No. 6.
SIR,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, January 30, 1907.
I FIND it necessary to write a letter on behalf of the Scientific Staff of this School to the Committee of the School regarding certain points in the Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1906.
On reading this Report we are struck by the fact that the work done by this School and by the Royal Society appears to bulk in it much less largely than the work done by the London School of Tropical Medicine. Although it is obvious from pages 25, 26, 27, 31 and 32 that this School has employed no less than ten different workers, who have published a large number of papers on the results reached by them; while the Royal Society (page 55) has also done considerable work, yet, from the Report, it would appear as if the researches of the two workers of the London School were much more extensive than those of our School and of the Royal Society put together. While the work of this School is described in ten pages in the Report, and that of the Royal Society in only one
examining the Report I find School of Tropical Medicine occupies twenty pages. page; the work of the London that this is due simply to the fact that while the Royal Society and our workers
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