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No. 60.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL SOCIETY.
[Answered by No. 61.]
Downing Street, September 9, 1898. SIR,
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter of the 3rd September,* expressing the concurrence of the Royal Society in the proposals for the conduct of the investigation of malaria formulated in my letter of the 30th ultimo.†
any de-
I am to ask to be informed of the names of the two investigators appointed by the Royal Society.
I am, &c.,
I shall be prepared, at any time and place convenient to yourself, to discuss tails which it may be necessary to settle before the Committee can meet.
C. P. LUCAS.
DEAR MR. Lucas,
*-
No. 63.
The ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received September 19, 1898.) [Answered privately, September 28, 1898.]
Shelford, September 18.
I HAVE this morning a letter from Sir J. Kirk. He is still of opinion that Blan- tyre is the place where observations should be made in the first instance at least. He says that Mr. Sharpe, Her Majesty's Commissioner for the district, is now in Eng- land, and that it would be well to enter into communication with him, especially with the view of the observers being sent up to the highlands with the smallest delay, so as
to avoid the danger of fever being contracted on the route.
You will, I suppose, communicate with Mr. Sharpe.
20647.
No. 61.
I am, &c.,
M. FOSTER.
SIR,
ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 14, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 21367.]
The Royal Society, Burlington House, W., September 12, 1898.
In reply to Mr. Lucas's letter of September 91 (20045/98), I beg leave to say that the investigators nominated by the Royal Society are:-
J. W. W. Stephens, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), at present John Lucas Walker Student in the University of Cambridge; and
S. R. Christophers, M.B. (Vict.), at present of University College, Liverpool.
I am, &c.,
M. FOSTER,
Secretary, R.S.
21400.
SIR,
No. 64.
ROYAL COLLEGES, EDINBURGH, to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 23, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 68.]
Secretary and Treasurer's Office, 24, Forrest Road, Edinburgh,
September 22, 1898.
REFERRING to my letter of 14th July,* I have now the pleasure to enclose a copy
your
of the calendart of this school for 1898-99, and to direct attention to pages 17 and 21, containing notices of the classes of Dr. Davidson, who will lecture on tropical dis- eases and climatology.
I am, &c.,
R. N. RUMSAY,
Secretary.
20045.
No. 62.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
21367.
Downing Street, September 12, 1898.
SIB,
WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 7th September, § I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Balfour, that two experts in bacteriological science, nominated by the Royal Society, are, prior to leaving for Central Africa, proceeding at an early date to Italy in connection with an investigation into the causes of malaria, which is being under- taken at the joint charges of the Royal Society and the Crown Colonies. A third in- vestigator, who is a member of the Colonial Medical Service, will proceed to India to study under Surgeon-Major Ross for a short time, and will subsequently join these two gentlemen-probably at Blantyre.
2. The names of the latter are J. W. W. Stephens, B.A., M.B., B.C., and S. R. Christophers, M.B., and the Secretary of State for the Colonies would be very glad if they could be furnished, through this Office, at your earliest convenience, with such introductions to Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome as will facilitate their work.
3. I need hardly add that the results of the proposed investigation are likely to be as beneficial to the African Protectorates administered by the Foreign Office as to the Colonies on which the bulk of the expense will fall.
I am, &c.,
• No. 57.
† No. 56.
No. 60.
C. P. LUCAS.
§ No. 59.
SIR,
No. 65.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 73.]
Downing Street, September 26, 1898.
IN the letter from this Department of the 12th instant, it was stated that three experts are being selected by the Secretary of State and the Royal Society to investigate the causes of malaria; that it is proposed that they shall in due course proceed to Central Africa; and that they will probably pursue their investigations at Blantyre in the British Central Africa Protectorate.
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2. Blantyre was suggested by the Committee of the Royal Society, which is dealing with this subject, and of which Sir John Kirk is a member, as being a com- paratively healthy place on the edge of the malarious zone, and as possessing facilities
It for the desired investigation, such as a hospital and hospital appliances. appears be a place where young Englishmen engaged in hard scientific study and within reach of the actual data necessary for first-hand investigation will at the same time be likely to retain their vigour for (say) a period of two years, and where they will find a cer- tain amount of facilities for their work.
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