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No. 15.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON 13TH DECEMBER, 1917.

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 6th of December, 1916,* were confirmed. The reports from the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine and the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge, on the work done since their last reports, with the assistance of the grants from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, were read with interest.

Sir Patrick Manson said that the activities of the London School had been very much curtailed owing to the War. Mr. Read remarked that the development of the new School Museum was a good piece of work. The question whether Dr. Leiper's services in particular could not be utilized on research work in connexion with the War was discussed, and it was decided not to raise it officially. Sir David Bruce undertook to see what could be done.

It was decided to recommend that the applications of the two Schools of Tropical Medicine for grants of £1,000 each from the fund during 1917, and Professor Nuttall's application§ for a grant of £190 to the Quick Laboratory, should be acceded to. It was further recommended that the grants to the two Schools should be paid quarterly instead of half-yearly.

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No. 17.

PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL to THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND.

SIRS,

(Received 24th October, 1918.)

Longfield, Madingley Road, Cambridge, 23rd October, 1918. IN connexion with the enclosed report, I beg to state that the grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund continues to be invaluable in rendering the work of the Quick Laboratory efficient.

The sum of £190, granted this year, has been applied as follows:-

£140 to D. Keilin, Sc.D., holder of the Research Studentship in Medical

Entomology.

£50 to C. Warburton, M.A., Demonstrator in Medical Entomology. In the absence of Captain E. Hindle, Royal Engineers (iny Assistant), on military service, Dr. Keilin has acted as his substitute, but, in view of his eminent abilities, I desire to place him on the footing of Assistant in Parasitology, with a stipend upon

which he can live, having regard to his financial circumstances and the increased cost of living consequent upon the War. Dr. Keilin has been collaborating with me and has several important papers of his own in preparation.

I would therefore ask for an increased grant amounting to a total of £500 for

next year, the proposed grant to be expended as follows:-

£300 for payment of Assistant in Parasitology.

£100 for Studentship in Medical Entomology (a selected candidate to be

appointed shortly).

£50 for Demonstrator in Medical Entomology.

£50 toward the general expenses of the Quick Laboratory.

I trust that the Advisory Committee will see their way to give favourable consideration to this application, which I have framed in accordance with the necessities of the situation as it stands to-day.

I am, &c.,

GEORGE H. F. NUTTALL,

Quick Professor

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No. 16.

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON 9TH OCTOBER, 1918.

Present:

SIR H. J. READ.

SIR R. HAVELOCK CHARLES.

MR. FIDDIAN (Acting Secretary).

THE minutes of the meeting of the 13th of December, 1917,|| were confirmed. The Committee discussed the financial position of the Fund, as to which a statement was submitted by the Acting Secretary. It was decided to recommend that the contributing Governments should be asked to renew their contributions at the present rates (that is, half the rates promised in 1914-15) for two years from 1st January or 1st April, 1919, as the case might be.

The Committee further decided that grants of £250 each should be made to the London and the Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine in respect of the first quarter of 1919; payment to be due on or after the 1st of January next.

Various reports which had been circulated to the scientific members of the Committee since the last meeting were laid on the table.

* No. 5.

No. 12, 14, and 18.

No. 12 and 59797.

§ No. 18.

No. 15.

Enclosure in No. 17.

REPORT OF PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL, F.R.S., ON THE WORK OF THE QUICK LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

THE work of the Laboratory during the year has been concerned, almost exclusively, with problems connected with the War.

The

The subjoined list of publications shows that much attention has been given to the louse, which is such an important carrier of disease (trench, typhus, and relapsing fevers, etc.), apart from being a potent cause of misery among soldiers. facilities of the Laboratory have been placed at the disposal of the War Office for investigations on scabies (itch), which Captain Munro, Royal Army Medical Corps, is now conducting with us, Captain Grant, Royal Army Medical Corps, having been here for a time with the same object. Scabies is extraordinarily prevalent among soldiers and civilians, causing much hospitalism, especially through its sequelæ. The Laboratory has also aided in malaria diagnosis work for several military hospitals.

Experiments on the freezing of fish by the brine method, with a view to their preservation and storage, were carried out in conjunction with Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S. The results proved of considerable practical importance.

There have been no changes in the staff since last year. Of our absent members we would note that Captain E. Hindle, Royal Engineers, is now in Palestine, and Lieutenant E. S. Hay, Machine Gun Corps (Secretary), is a prisoner of war in Germany.

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