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scheme for placing an entire branch of science on a proper basis who would not give money to a smaller scheme relating to one particular institution or field of work. I would suggest, therefore, that we should ask for £1,000,000. But, in making an appeal of this kind, we should have to indicate how the fund would be administered, and, so far as I can see, the following is the best scheme. The funds at present at the disposal of the four Committees and any further funds collected from the public to be merged into one general fund called (say) the Tropical Medicine Fund. to be administered by a Council composed of
This fund
The Secretary of State for the Colonies (President), Lord Cromer, Chairman of Committee (d),
Sir West Ridgeway, Chairman of Committees
(b) and (c),
The President of the Royal Society, representing
Committee (a),
and
The President of the Royal College of Physicians, at present Sir T. Barlow, who is a member of Committee (b).
This is a Council which would carry weight with everyone and it would only be necessary for it to meet once a year to settle the Annual Budget. Each of the four Committees would draw up and submit to the Coun- cil its estimates for the year, and as each of them would be represented on the Council there would be fair play for all. With one fund and one general budget there would be much more flexibility and co-ordination than there is at present. At one time it might be advisable to push the work of one Committee, at another time the work of another, as circumstances demanded, and it would be possible to insure against the overlapping of the work of the different Committees.
It is unnecessary to enlarge on the extent to which the development of our tropical possessions is bound up with the development of tropical medicine, as we are receiving perpetual reminders in a very concrete form. Most of the discoveries in tropical medicine which have marked the last quarter of a century have emanated from British workers. and with additional endowment and closer co-operation among the different Services we ought to increase still further the lead which this country has taken in one of the most important fields of modern science.
13th April, 1910.
H. J. R.
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APPENDIX I.
The Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society.
Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., &c. (President),
ex officio Alfred Bray Kempe, M.A., D.C.L. (Vice-President), Professor John Rose Bradford, M.D., D.Sc.,
Sir Clifford Allbutt,
Sir Rubert Boyce,
Colonel Sir D. Bruce,
Dr. A. Harden,
Sir J. Kirk,
Dr. Klein,
Sir Ray Lankester,
Lord Lister,
Dr. C. J. Martin,
Professor Sidney Martin,
Dr. Mott,
Professor Nuttall,
Major R. Ross,
with Surgeon-General Branfoot,
Sir C. P. Lucas (of the Colonial Office),
Sir J. McFadyean,
Dr. Moffat,
Mr. H. G. Plimmer.
The Advisory Board for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
Sir J. West Ridgeway (Chairman),
Sir T. Barlow,
Professor J. Rose Bradford,
Surgeon-General Branfoot (representing India Office),
Colonel Sir D. Bruce,
Sir T. Holderness (representing India Office),
Sir C. Lucas (representing Colonial Office),
Sir P. Manson,
Mr. H. J. Read (representing Colonial Office), Professor Ronald Ross,
Mr. Berriedale Keith (Secretary).
The Managing Committee of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau.
Sir J. West Ridgeway (Chairman),
Sir R. Boyce,
Professor J. Rose Bradford,
Colonel Sir D. Bruce,
Mr. H. J. Read (representing Colonial Office),
Mr. J. A. C. Tilley (representing Foreign Office),
Mr. Berriedale Keith (Secretary),
Dr. A. G. Bagshawe (Director of the Bureau,)
Mr. E. E.. Austen (British Museum), Honorary Consulting Ento-
mologist.
The Entomological Research Committee,
The Earl of Cromer (Chairman),
Colonel A. Alcock,
Mr. E. E. Austen,
Dr. A. G. Bagshawe,
Professor J. Rose Bradford,
Colonel Sir D. Bruce,
Dr. S. F. Harmer,
Dr. R. S. MacDougall,
Sir J. McFadyean, Sir P. Manson,
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