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two; British Guiana, one; Australia, one. The examination of these necessitated the preparation of over four hundred specimens for microscopical examination and study.

Research: Grain Pests.-In June last, at the request of the Board of Agri- culture and Fisheries, the President and Council of the Royal Society appointed a committee to consider and report upon the bionomics and economic importance of grain-infesting insects. I was appointed a member of this committee, and also elected Chairman of the small sub-committee. Certain preliminary investiga- tions have been made, and the sub-committee have presented a progress report The Council of the University of Liverpool have kindly provided free of cost a separate room, fully equipped with the necessary apparatus and instruments, for carrying on the research work in this centre.

Papers awaiting publication.—

(1) R. Newstead, F.R.S.- "On the genus Phlebotomus" (Part III).

the press.

In

(2) R. Newstead, F.R.S.-" Observation on Scale Insect Coccida" (No. 4). This paper deals with the new and undescribed species (forty-eight), being a portion of the collections submitted for examination and report by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology since December, 1915.

Paper in course of preparation for Belgian Government.--

(1)

"A Guide to the Study of the injurious Scale Insects (Coccida) of the

Congo Free State."

The services of Mr. H. F. Carter, Assistant Lecturer in this Department, have been put at the disposal of this School for the purposes of the examinations for dysenteric ambæ among the dysentery cases in the various hospitals in the Western Command.

The Secretary,

I have, &c..

ROBERT NEWSTEAD,

Professor of Entomology.

Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool.

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THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL

SIR,

OFFICE.

(Received 23rd November, 1918.)

[Answered by No. 10.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 22nd November, 1916.

I BEG to make formal application for the renewal of the grant of £1,000 from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for the year 1917.

The School continues to carry on its teaching and research work, and the services of Professor Warrington Yorke (Walter Myers Professor of Parasitology) and Dr. B. Blacklock (Director of the Research Laboratory) are again available.

Early this year, owing to the fact that a large number of military patients suffering from dysentery were sent to the Tropical School Auxiliary Military Hospital (which is in charge of Professor J. W. W. Stephens, Sir Alfred Jones, Professor of Tropical Medicine at the School) and to other hospitals in the district, it was decided that research work should be undertaken in connexion with this disease.

In addition to the members of the staff of the School available for this research, the services of Mr. J. Malins Smith and Mr. J. R. Matthews were obtained, and several ladies have been assisting at the routine work.

This research and routine work has become very heavy, and the School is negotiating for further assistance.

It has entailed large additional expenditure from the funds of the School.

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Also, although the teaching has been carried on as usual, there have been very few students attending the courses of instruction, and a considerable amount has been lost to the School in fees.

It is hoped, therefore, that the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee will see its way to renew the grant for 1917.

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No. 5.

I am, &c.,

F. C. DANSON,

Chairman.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, HELD ON 6TH DECEMBER, 1916.

Present:

SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY (Chairman).

SIR PATRICK MANSON.

SIR DAVID Bruce.

MR. READ.

MR. BLECH.

MR. FIDDIAN (Acting Secretary).

THE minutes of the meeting of the 18th of February, 1916,* were confirmed, subject to an omission desired by Sir David Bruce.

The reportet from the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine for the half-year ended the 31st of October, 1916, were received, with a letter from the Liverpool School asking for the renewal of the grant to the School from the Fund.

Sir Patrick Manson thought that there was some risk lest contributors to the Fund might take exception to the extent to which the work of the Professor of Entomology at Liverpool had been devoted to agricultural questions; but it was pointed out that the reports would not be published.

The Acting Secretary read Professor Nuttall's reports on the work of the Quick Laboratory during the year ended the 31st of October, 1916, which was received by the Committee.

The financial position of the Fund was considered. The Acting Secretary informed the Committee that certain Colonial Administrations had pledged themselves to continue their contributions for five years from 1914 (or 1914-15) inclusive, the total being £2,025 a year; and certain others, though not definitely pledged to contribute for the whole period, would apparently do so, their contribu- tions amounting to £220 a year. The Treasury contribution of £1,000 a year came to an end, unless it was renewed, on the 31st of March next; and the contribution of £500 from the Government of India was conditional on the maintenance of the Treasury and Colonial contributions at the same level as hitherto.

The Fund had a sum of £1,500 on deposit, and on the 30th of September last there was a balance of £304 4s. 11d, in hand. There was a sum of £500 still to be paid to the Fund, being the balance of the Treasury contribution; and so far as he could ascertain there were no further liabilities. He understood from Mr. Hartog that the University of London did not propose to make any claim on the Fund in respect of the grant of £700 conditionally promised for 1916. might be assumed, therefore, that there would be a balance of upwards of £2,300 to the credit of the Fund on the 31st of March next.

It

After discussion, it was decided that in these circumstances the contributions payable to the Fund could safely be reduced by fifty per cent. for the next two years, and that the Treasury should accordingly be asked to grant £500 and the India Office £250 a year for that period. It was provisionally decided to recom- mend grants of £1,000 each to the London and the Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and £290 to the University of Cambridge, for 1917: the last-named-grant to be reduced, however, by the amount of the saving (£150) effected by Professor Nuttall in 1915.

The Committee recommended the investment in six per cent. Exchequer Bonds of the sum of £1,500 now on deposit.

* No. 1.

Nos. 2 and 3.

‡ No. 4.

$ 57920.