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requesting them to continue for a period of five years the grants hitherto made to the Research Fund.

3. Lord Crewe has no hesitation in recommending to their Lordships, for favourable consideration, that the grant of £1,000 a year now made from Imperial funds to the Research Fund should be extended for a period of five years from the 1st of April, 1910, when the present grant will cease.

4. Their Lordships will observe that very considerable grants in proportion to their resources are already made by the Colonies and Protectorates, and Lord Crewe has no hesitation saying that it would be a calamity if the admirable work now being done by the Research Fund should have to be curtailed or discontinued as a result of the reduction of the Imperial contribution.

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I should be obliged if you would endeavour to secure that in the next annual report from your Government somewhat fuller information can be supplied.

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No. 25.

AUSTRALIA.

I have, &c.,

CREWE.

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No. 22.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

(No. 23.)

MY LORD,

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

SIR,

Downing Street, 11 March, 1909. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, the accompanying copies of a report* of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1908, which has been presented to Parliament.

2. I am to suggest that a copy of the report might be communicated to the Government of Egypt and to the Consul-General at Zanzibar.

(Received 15 March, 1909.)

Governor-General's Office,

Adelaide, 5 February, 1909. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 426, dated 16 December last, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that His Majesty's Ministers for the Commonwealth have learned with much satisfaction that the Imperial Govern- ment have determined to make a grant of £400 towards the expenses of an Australian Institute of Medical Research.

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I have, &c.,

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

No. 26.

AUSTRALIA.

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SIR,

No. 23.

MEDICINE.†

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL

Downing Street, 11 March, 1909. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, for the information of the London School of Tropical Medicine, and for communication to the authors of the reports included in it, the accompanying copies of the report* of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1908, which has been laid before Parliament.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

(No. 118.)

MY LORD,

Downing Street, 24 March, 1909. IN my despatch, No. 98 A, of the 11th of March,† I transmitted to Your Excellency copies of the Report of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee for 1908.

2. It will be seen that in the report there is no statement of anti-malarial measures carried out in Papua such as was inserted in the Report for 1907, and I should be grateful to your Ministers if they would, if possible, ask the Administra- tion of Papua to supply such a report for 1909.

I have, &c.,

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No. 24.

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CREWE.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c‡ (Circular.)

Downing Street, 12 March, 1909.

SIR,

IN my Circular despatch of the 11th of March§ I transmitted to you a copy of the Report of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee for

1908.

2. I observe that in some cases the report on anti-malarial measures asked for in my predecessor's Circular despatch of the 6th of June, 1906,|| has not been furnished at all, and that in others the information supplied is somewhat meagre.

3. I am well aware of the many duties thrown on medical officers in the tropical Colonies of the Empire, and in no way do I wish to add to their burden. But the interest felt in this country in anti-malarial measures is very great, and

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↑ Identical letters, mulatis mutandis, were also sent to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the University of London, the Royal Society, the Rhodes Trustees, and Professor Nuttall.

+ See No. 16. Appendix VIII. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.

| In [Cd. 3992].

No. 27.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c.‡

(Circular.)

Downing Street, 31st March, 1909.

[Published as No. 1 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

† No. 17.

• No. 82 in Miscellaneous No. 221. Somaliland, Barbados, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Gold Coast, British Honduras, Windward Islands, Southern Nigeria, East Africa Protectorate, Ceylon, South Africa, Northern Nigeria, Uganda, Nyasaland, Mauritius, Jamaica, British Guiana, Bahamas, Bermuda, Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Australia (for Papua).

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