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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Borial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch
Date,
No., &c.
1
Foreign Office
1912.
December 13
Subject.
12
To the Governors...
Gold Coast,
March 11
1
148;
Sierra
Leone, 92;
Subject.
Page.
Surist!
From or to whom.
Daspatch
Date.
Ko,
No., ko.
11
The
Tropical Diseases Bureau.
Nyasa- land.
1913.
March 7
Payc.
2
To Foreign Office...
December 24
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Forwards a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Brussels enclosing a Congo Bulletin containing decree under which all elephants may be shot whose tusks are heavier than two kilogrammes.
Considers that so low a minimum as two kilogrammes must involve the eventual extinction of the elephant in the Congo, and anggests that it should be ascertained from the Belgian Government on what grounds the minimum weight has been reduced.
Gambia,
55.
Submits observations on Dr. Prentice's letter enclosed in No. 7 and expresses the hope that Sir D. Bruce's experi- ment may be put in hand without delay.
Requests that the question may receive consideration of the formation of Reserves with view to the preven tion of the extinction of species of wild life of all kinds, with the excep- tion of animals which are noxious to mankind.
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10
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13
Dr. A. G. Bagshawe
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March 13
(Tropical Diseases Bureau).
Makes observations on Dr. Yorke's lec-
ture before the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on sleeping sickness and game.
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11
Ditto
March 19
Memorandum on domestic animals as
reservoirs of trypanosomes.
12
1913.
15
3
Foreign Office
January 3
4
To the Governor
Uganda, 34.
January 20
Forwards, in reply to No. 2, a copy of a despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Erussels, enquiring the reasons for the reduction in the minimum weight.
Approves of the draft Game Ordinance,
1912, subject to observations.
1
To the British South
Africa Company.
March 27
14
2
16
To the Royal Society
Xyasa- land.
March 27
15
Sir W. II. Manning
Nyasa- land.
January 26
Memorandum deprecating the attempt to exterminate game and suggesting the formation of an Entomological Commission to carry on investigation of the problem of dealing with the tsetse fly.
3
1
17
To the Livingstonia
Mission.
Nyasa- land.
March 27
13
The Acting Govern-
or.
Nyasa- land, 68.
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The
Livingstonia
Mission.
Nyasa- land.
February 7
Transmits a copy of a letter from Dr. Prentice traversing statements made in Colonial Office letter of 17th July, 1912, and Dr. Bagshawe's letter of the 14th May, 1912; enquires when a report from Sir David Bruce is expected and whether any decision has been come to with regard to the measures to be taken.
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7
Το the Tropical
Discases Bureau.
8
The Commissioner
Dr. A. G. Bagshawe
Nyasa- land.
Somali- February 3 land, 12(Rec. Feb. 22.)
March 3
February 14
Transmits copy of No. 6
G
19
The British South
Transmite return of game killed in
Somaliland during 1912.
0
Africa Company.
(Tropical Diseases Bureau).
Memorandum respecting animals which have been proved to harbour disease- producing trypanosomes.
7
10
The Royal Society
Nyasa- land.
March 4
Considers that the "proclaimed area" experiment proposed by Sir D. Bruce offers the only practical solution of the problem of the supposed con- nexion of sleeping sickness with game, and suggests that it be carried out with as little delay as possible; expresses opinion that the suggested special investigation into the bionomica of tsetse flies should be made in col- laboration with Sir D. Bruce's mission and proposes to consult him on the matter.
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20
Foreign Office
February 22 (Rec. Mar. 29.)
April 8
April 10
(36480-2.) Wt. 33243-831. 30. 5/15. D & 3.
Enquires what steps, if any, are being taken by the Directors to carry out an experiment in Rhodesia of game destruction on a large scale within tsetse fly areas.
Concurs in the proposal in No. 10 to consult Sir David Bruce as to the renewal of the entomological side of the enquiry now in progress in Nyasa- land and requests that this may be done by telegraph.
States, in reply to No. 6, that Dr. Prentice's observations have been very fully dealt with by Dr. Bag- shawe, but that no useful purpose will be served by continuing the lisenssion; the Royal Society and Sir David Bruce are being consulted with a view to obtaining conclusive evidence on one side or the other.
Transmits the Nyasaland Game Amend- ment Ordinance, 1913, together with the Acting Attorney-General's certifi- cate and memorandum.
States, in reply to No. 15, that no steps of the nature indicated have been taken by the Directors, except that the question of the advisability of destroying game in certain specified areas has been left to the discretion of the Administrator of Northern Rhodesia, and enquiries will be made as to the extent to which he has used this power and the result; forwards a copy of a paper on the results of investigations made by Dr. Warrington Yorke.
Forwards, for observations, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo enclosing a memorandum by the Superinten- dent of the Game Preservation De- partment, Soudan, submitting pro- posals in regard to regulations for preventing illicit trade in ivory.
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