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a certain relative space in the report which gives an account of how the money in any one year has been spent. Professor Ross apparently speaks on behalf of the Royal Society as well as the Liverpool School, but the late Sir Michael Foster was the official representative of the Royal Society on the Committee, and, with the other members, arranged. and decided on the report. No Committee or Board could possibly admit the claim which is now put forward. One year there may be ground for giving more pages to the work of one agency and another to another, and any ruling of the kind asked for would only lead to further misunderstandings, but the most unfortunate element in the request to my mind is the suggestion implied in it that the Advisory Committee are to be brought into the position of recognising rival and competing claims instead of helping on kindred work, and reporting on it in a way that a Board partly lay and partly scientific, representing no particular pre- judices or interests and responsible to the Secretary of State, is fully qualified to do. I must confess that very much regret, as a friend of the Liverpool School, that the letter was written, and I must add that I think the reference to Sir P. Manson might well have been omitted.
Will you, in the first instance, show this to Sir Alfred Jones? to whom I have spoken on the subject.
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GENTLEMEN,
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No. 12.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
[Answered by No. 13.]
Downing Street, February 26, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to ask that the Royal Society will be so good as to select a representative to fill the vacancy on the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund caused by the death of Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., F.R.S.
2. Lord Elgin desires to take this opportunity of expressing his sense of the valuable services rendered by Sir M. Foster to this Department, not only by his work on the Advisory Committee, but also by the active support given by him to measures for the improvement of the sanitary condition of the Colonies from the time when the Royal Society, at Mr. Chamberlain's invitation, first took up the matter in connexion with the investigation of malaria and blackwater fever.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 13.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
(Private.)
DEAR MR. Lucas,
No. 10.
MR. A. H. MILNE to MR. C. P. LUCAS.
[See No. 15.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, February 19, 1907. I HAVE to thank you for your most courteous and kindly letter.* I shall take an early opportunity of placing before the Committee the points you bring out, and have not the least doubt that they will see things in the same light as you do.
In the meantime, would you kindly withhold the letter I sent to you on the 8th of February, and ask the Secretary of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee to withhold the original sent to him, until I have had an opportunity of laying the matter before the Committee?
Personally, I quite agree with you, and shall take an early opportunity of show- ing your letter to Sir Alfred Jones, as you suggest.
Yours, &c.,
A. H. MILNE
SIR,
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 2, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 14.]
Burlington House, London, W., March 1, 1907. In reply to Mr. Lucas's letter of the 26th ultimo (6837/1907),* I have to inform you that the Royal Society has nominated Dr. John Rose Bradford, F.R.S., as the Society's representative on the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund in place of the late Sir Michael Foster.
The President and Council desire to express their gratification that Sir Michael Foster's services are so fully recognised by Lord Elgin. To the enlightened initia- tion of their late deeply-regretted colleague the Royal Society is indebted for the share it has taken, and still continues to take with undiminished interest, in the prosecution of researches having for their ultimate end the diminution or extirpa- tion of disease in our Colonies and Dependencies.
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I am, &c.,
ARCH, GEIKIE,
Secretary, Royal Society.
SIR,
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c.‡ (Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, February 26, 1907. WITH reference to my circular despatch of the 19th ultimo,§ I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of the first number of the New Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.||
I have to inform you that arrangements have been made to forward copies of these publications to all the Colonial Governments which contribute to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and that future issues will be forwarded without covering despatches.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 14.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, March 5, 1907.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st of Marcht reporting that the Royal Society has nominated Dr. John Rose Bradford, F.R.S., as their representative on the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
2. Dr. Bradford will receive in due course notification of the meetings of the Committee.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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