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of their present populations would be attended with most serious results. There is every reason then philanthropic, economic, and scien tific-for finding money for the investigation of trophical; diseases, and it seems clifficult to find a more remunerative investment from the peint of view of the tropical Colonies.

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In order to carry out this much-needed research work, it is desired to found two Travelling Scholarships with a salary of £300 a year each, so that investigations can be carried on continuously. The only endowment of this kind possessed by the school at present is the Craggs Travelling Scholarship, which founded by Mr. Craggs in 1899 for three years from the 1st of January, 1900. The scholar. ship, therefore, comes to an end on the 1st of January next. During this short period, how- ever, much good work has been done. Dr. Low was awarded the scholarship in 1900. He spent the first six months of his scholarship in the Campagna and assisted in carrying out a very important experiment bearing on the pre- vention of Malaria, He then went to the West Indies to carry out some much-needed research work with regard to filariasis. (See what has been said above with regard to Dr. Low's dis- covery respecting filaria nocturna,) He is now in Uganda in charge of a scientific expedition, arranged jointly by the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, and the School, for the purpose of studying sleeping sickness, which as I mentioned above" has

found its way from the Congo basin into the Nile Valley; and I understand that he is doing excellent work.

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Dr. Durham, another of the doctors from the school, is engaged in investigating beri-beri in Christmas Island, and is also doing excellent work. In this case sum of £1,569 was originally provided by the Christinas Island Company, Sir J. Murray, and an anonymous donor, and there is sufficient money left to enable the work to be carried on for about two years longer.

It is clear that, if we wish to obtain good results, matters must be placed on a broader and more permanent basis, but before consillering how the necessary money is to be raised, it will be more convenient to consider the remaining matters to which I wish to draw attention.

* School Staff,

This is the staff required for the ordinary upkeep of the school and is exclusive of the nine lecturers, who lecture once or twice a week during the first eight weeks of each

term.