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5. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to pay the sum of £600 to you on application at any time after the 1st of January, 1913.

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SIR,

No. 53.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL.

Downing Street, 18 December, 1912.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of November,* and to inform you that your report on the work of the Quick Laboratory for 1912 was laid before the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting on the 29th of November,† and was read with interest.

2. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, the continuation for the year 1913 of the following grants :—

For the Research Student in Entomology

£100

For an Assistant to the Quick Laboratory

100

For the salary for a Consulting Entomologist

-50

To aid and defray the general expenses of the Quick Laboratory

100

Total

£350

3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to pay this sum to you on application at any date after the 1st of July, 1913.

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GENTLEMEN,

No. 54.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 18 December, 1912.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that he approves of your making the following payments from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund :—

£600 to the London School of Tropical Medicine:

£600 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine :

These payments to be made at any time after the 1st January, 1913.

£350 to I'rofessor G. H. F. Nuttall, in connection with the work done at the

Quick Laboratory at Cambridge:

£750 to the 'niversity of London in respect of the salary for the Professor of

Protozoology: These payments to be made at any time after the 1st of July, 1913.

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No. 55.

MALAY STATES.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 21 December, 1912.)

(No. 571.)

Government House, Singapore, 25th November, 1912. [Published as No. 6 in Appendir VI, to [Cd. 6669), March, 1913.]

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No. 56.

LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received 15 January, 1913.) [Answered by No. 59.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool,

14th January, 1913.

WITH reference to your letter, dated 18th ultimo (No. 34504/1912),* on the subject of the grant from the funds of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for the year 1913, I am directed by the Committee of the School to convey their thanks to the Government for the grant of £600 promised from those funds to the School for research during the year 1913, being the same amount as that assigned to the London School of Tropical Medicine.

I am respectfully to call your attention to the following points in connection with the proposed reduction in the grant from the funds of the Advisory Com- mittee:-

(1) In paragraph 3 of your letter it is explained that the reduction is due to the fact that the School is likely to benefit largely at an carly date under the terms of the will of the late Sir Alfred Jones, and that in these circumstances the Advisory Committee do not feel able to recommend a continuation of grants on the same scale as those given in former years.

I am to say, with regard to the above statement, that the School expects to receive in the immediate future a sum of money from the estate of the late Sir Alfred Jones. I enclose extract from letter received from the executor of the estate, giving particulars as to the allocation of the money in question, from which you will see that it has been specifically carmarked for building purposes, as the accommodation of the School now requires enlargement, and the exccutor is anxious that a suitable building scheme should be proceeded with, to be specially connected with the name of Sir Alfred Jones. So far, therefore, from the current administra- tive expenses of the School being relieved by the grant from the estate, they will be increased.

(2) On the strength of an assurance of Sir Ronald Ross, a member of the Advisory Committee, that the grant to the School was to be increased from £1,000 to £1,200, the School, with the full consent and hearty co-operation of your Depart- ment, despatched Dr. Seidelin on an expedition to Jamaica to study vomiting sickness and other diseases, and out of its general funds voted the sum of 200 guineas towards defraying the expenses of the expedition, and also made arrangements for defraying the passage of Dr. Seidelin. They would not have been in a position to do this if they had known that the grant from the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee was to be reduced from £1,000 to £600, instead of being increased to £1,200, as they had heen led to expect.

In view of the expense incurred by Dr. Seidelin's expedition, and also in view of the fact that the School will be committed to a very much larger expenditure on the upkeep of the various buildings which are to be provided out of the Sir Alfred Jones bequest, I am to ask whether the Advisory Committee can see their way to reconsider their decision to reduce the annual grant given to the School out of the funds at their disposal.

The School ventures to suggest that the funds in question should not be allowed to accumulate, as the necessity for encouraging research work is urgent, and the funds are understood to be considerably larger than the £1,200 allotted in equal shares to the London and Liverpool Schools.

I note that the grant is made solely for research work, and not for teaching.

I am, &c.,

A. H. MILNE,

Secretary.

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