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of £150 should be made from the fuud on the condition that the balance of £450 should be raised from other sources. The grant should be made to the committee formed to deal with the question, and the committee should be left to decide as to the details of the investigation. At the same time, the committee would be expected to supply a report to the Advisory Committee on the work done for publication, if thought fit, in the Advisory Committee's annual report.

The motion was accepted by Sir T. Holderness and the other members of the Committee, General Branfoot not voting.

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No. 7.

WINDWARD ISLANDS (ST. LUCIA).

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(No. 172.)

3323

SIR,

(Received 27 January, 1910.)

Grenada, 31st December, 1909. [ Published as No. 6 in Appendix L. to [4d. 5514], February, 1911.]

No. 8.

COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR P. MANSON.

Downing Street, 31 January, 1910.

I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that, as you are aware, at an Extraordinary Meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, held on the 21st of January, the Advisory Committee recom- mended that a grant of £150 should be made from the fund to the Committee which is being formed to arrange for the sending of Dr. Sambon to Italy to carry out researches with regard to Pellagra.

2. The recommendation of the Advisory Committee is conditional on a sum

of £450 being raised from other sources by the Committee.

3. Lord Crewe has approved the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, and the sum of £150 will be placed at your disposal on behalf of the Committee on his receiving an assurance from you that the sum of £450 has been obtained.

4. Lord Crewe will be glad to receive in due course a report on the work done by Dr. Sambon with a view to its publication in the Annual Report of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.

I am, &c.,

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No. 9.

FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD.

MINUTES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY BOARD, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 4TH FEBRUARY, 1910, AT 4.30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Sir WEST RIDGEWAY (in the chair).

Sir THOMAS BARLOW.

Sir THOMAS HOLDERNESS.

Sir PATRICK MANSON.

Dr. ROSE BRADFORD.

Surgeon-General BRANFOOT.

Mr. READ.

Professor Ross.

Mr. KEITH (Secretary).

1. The minutes of the meetings of the 24th November, the 9th December, 1909, and the 21st January, 1910,† were approved, subject to slight alterations.

• See No. 6.

† Nos. 102 and 107 in Miscellaneous No. 227 and No. 6.

2. The letter from the University of London, forwarding Professor Minchin's comments on the discrepancy in the results obtained by himself and Dr. Breinl in experiments on the transmission of Trypanosoma lewisi, was considered, and it was agreed that it should not be published in the Report for 1909, as it was desirable that Dr. Breinl's views should be obtained before further mention of the subject was made.

3. In connection with the Report for 1909, Sir Thomas Holderness called attention to the Report of the Congress at Simla, which has been published and which deals with the matters referred to in the article in the "Times" of the 16th March, 1909, which formed the second enclosure to the Secretary of State's despatch of the 31st March, 1909, printed as Appendix 1 to the Advisory Committee's Report.t Sir Thomas Holderness raised the question whether it would not be desirable to consider the results attained in that Report, and if they were found to be in accord with the views of the Committee to call the attention of the Colonial Governments to the Report.

He laid stress on the desirability of informing Colonial Governments of work done in India. As some of the members of the Committee had not seen the Report in question, it was agreed that Professor Ross should be asked to consider it when drawing up the memorandum on the work done in the Colonies with regard to malaria which he had agreed, at the meeting of the Committee of the 24th November, to supply. Sir Thomas Holderness undertook to supply, if possible, spare copies of the Report for the use of the Committee.

Professor Ross drew attention to the fact that in the Ceylon Report on malaria alone was any estimate given of the degree to which malaria prevailed among the people. He also pointed out that the Mauritius Report showed how comparatively simple it was to collect such statistics, and the Committee agreed, on his motion, to amend the draft report by adding some words calling attention to these facts.

Sir Patrick Manson mentioned that the Report of the Committee appears to him very unattractive in form. He enquired whether it was not possible to issue it in less repulsive shape. Dr. Rose Bradford was also of opinion that the pub lication of the Report was not of great scientific value, inasmuch as it was hardly known to scientists; as an illustration of this fact he mentioned that the Royal Society had found it necessary to reprint a paper which was published in the Advisory Committee's Report for 1908 on the ground that otherwise it would be com- pletely overlooked.

Sir West Ridgeway, however, pointed out that the Report served a definite purpose because it was circulated to the Colonies and indirectly pressure was brought to bear on Colonial Medical Officers to be diligent in carrying out their duties of research.

In order to obviate, as far as possible, the existing disadvantages as to the overlooking of the Report by scientific men, it was agreed that copies should be sent to the Editors of the " British Medical Journal," "Lancet," and " Nature," with a request, in the name of the Secretary of State, that notice should be taken of it.

Sir West Ridgeway raised the question whether it would not be possible to publish some part of the material in the Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletins, but it was pointed out that it would be difficult to do this satisfactorily pending some decision as to the possible extension of the activities of that Bureau.

It was suggested by Professor Ross that it would be desirable to endeavour to obtain a subscription to the Fund from the trustee of Sir Alfred Jones. Dr. Rose Bradford pointed out that primarily the trustee would probably feel inclined to confine any grant for research purposes to the Liverpool School, but it was agreed that the trustee should be asked whether a contribution could not be made to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.

Finally the draft Report, as amended, was accepted. Sir Patrick Manson, who had been asked to give his opinion on certain reports from Mauritius which had just been received, stated that they contained nothing which it was worth while to incorporate in the Advisory Committee's Report.

• No. 5.

† [Ca. 4999].

COLONIAL OFFICE NOTE.-This has since been done.