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No. 21.

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

SIRS,

Longfield, Madingley Road, Cambridge, 11th November, 1919.

would state that the grant of £190 IN connexion with the enclosed report from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1919 was applied in paying the stipend of my Demonstrator in Medical Entomology (£50 to C. Warburton, M.A.) and part of the stipend of my assistant (£140 to D. Keilin, Sc.D.). I hope that it will be possible for the Advisory Committee to increase this year's grant to the amount received before the War (£450), with the addition of £50 as proposed in my application of October, 1918.

The grant of £450 received in 1914 was applied as follows:

Stipend of Demonstrator

£50

Stipend of Assistant

100

Stipend of Helminthologist

100

Stipend of Research Student in Medical

Entomology

100

Laboratory expenses

100

$450

Stipend of Demonstrator

If a grant of £500 were obtainable for 1920 I would propose to apply it as follows :---

£50

Stipend of Assistant

300

Stipend of Research Student in Parasitology Laboratory expenses

100

50

£500

My efforts to raise money wherewith to render the work of the Laboratory more efficient have been crowned with success in respect to the splendid benefac This benefac tion conferred upon the University by Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Molteno. tion came in response to a printed appeal of mine (see enclosures A and B*) in the form of a letter to me, which I laid before the Vice-Chancellor. The letter was published in the Cambridge University Reporter, and the benefaction was grate- fully accepted by the University on 9th November through a grace of the Senate (see enclosure C*).

The enclosures A and C show that £20,000 is destined for the erection of an Institute for Parasitological Research in Cambridge, an additional £10,000 serving as a maintenance fund for the building.

In the absence of any endowment fund providing for the stipends of research workers and the current expenses entailed by research, I am forced to rely on annual grants from various sources wherewith to maintain the efficiency of the Laboratory. As will be seen from the officially audited accounts of the Quick Laboratory that are published annually in the University Reporter, a sum of £300 is available for defraying a part of the expenses of that Laboratory, but I have had to raise con siderably more to carry on our work-at times as much as £1,400 had to be expended annually. The sum of £300 does not even suffice to pay Laboratory attendants' wages. I hope with time to raise an endowment fund, but, pending the acquisition of such a fund, I hope that the Advisory Committee will help me in my continued efforts to promote the efficiency of the work we are doing. The grants made hitherto by the Advisory Committee have contributed largely to our success, and I hope very much that they will be continued.

I am, &c.,

GEO. H. F. NUTTALL, Quick Professor of Biology, Cambridge.

Enclosure in No. 21.

REPORT ON THE Work of the Quick LaborATORY AT CAMBRIDGE FOR THE YEAR 1919.

THE subjoined list of publications relates to but a part of the work that has been carried out in the Laboratory during the year.

The practical results of investigations on Pediculus and Sarcoptes were incor- porated in Army Council Instructions dealing with lousiness and scabies respec- tively, which were issued by the War Office. Further research on Pediculus will form the subject of papers appearing shortly.

A course on parasitology, consisting of lectures and demonstrations, was given during the Long Vacation by me, in conjunction with members of the staff, the course being attended by some thirty-five students.

Mr. Warburton has continued his work on ticks. Dr. Keilin has discovered a number of interesting parasitic protozoa, worms, and fungi, besides studying the life history and structure of various insects of which some species attack man. Captain E. Hindle, R.E., immediately upon his return and demobilization from service abroad, in February, 1919, took up his former work on spirochetes in ticks, and, at my suggestion, studied the minute bodies termed Rickettsia that have been found in trench fever-infected pediculi; he will shortly report upon the results of his work. Captain J. W. Munro, R.A.M.C., now demobilized, published an account of his valuable work on scabies in the army; his researches, of which a fuller account is in preparation, were carried out for the War Office during 1917-19 in our Laboratory. Major Boyd, M.C., R.A.M.C., has recently joined the Laboratory for a period, at the instance of the War Office, with a view to further preparing himself to teach medical entomology to officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps,

Dr. D. Keilin was appointed Assistant to the Quick Professor (Cambridge University Reporter, 17th March, 1917, page 615) owing to Dr. E. Hindle's pro- longed absence on military service, but, on the latter's return, he was reinstated as Assistant (Reporter, 16th May, 1919, page 750) by a grace of the Senate, wherein two Assistants to the Quick Professor were recognized. Dr. Hindle has since been elected to the Chair of Biology in the Cairo School of Medicine, Egypt, where he will have exceptional facilities for carrying on original work; he left Cambridge for Cairo on 9th October. Lieutenant E. S. Hay, M.G.C., late Secretary, who was a prisoner of war in Germany, upon his release, joined the Expeditionary Force that was sent to Northern Russia.

The value of our parasitological work in connexion with the War has been recognized by my being appointed recently to be a member of the Advisory Com- mittee for Pathology at the War Office. Moreover, His Majesty the King of the Belgians has bestowed upon me the Commandership of the Order of Leopold II. for services rendered to the Belgian Department of Colonial Agriculture in the Congo.

Owing to the very inadequate accommodation afforded by the present Laboratory, I drew up a detailed statement of our need of an Institute for Parasitological Research in Cambridge, and had the statement privately printed (University Press, May, 1919). This statement aroused the interest of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Molteno, with the result that they have conferred a great benefaction by presenting the necessary funds wherewith to build, equip, and maintain an institute of the kind mentioned (see Cambridge University Reporter, 4th November, 1919, page 206). In consequence of this noble gift we may look forward with con- fidence to doing better work in the future, for, after many years of being cramped for room and facilities, we shall find ourselves suitably housed.

GEO. H. F. NUTTALL,

11th November, 1919.

Quick Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge.

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