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to the investigation of disease offered by the scheme of the Colonial Office, they felt that before any action is taken in regard to it the proposed arrangement is one which should first be considered by the President and Council of the Society.

38772A

No. 12.

I am, &c.,

ARCH. GEIKIE,

Secretary, Royal Society.

THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received November 14, 1904.)

[Answered y No. 16.]

Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E.,

November 12, 1904.

SIR,

IN reference to a letter from the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 4th instant, No. 37733/1904,* the Seamen's Hospital Society has pleasure in informing you that arrangements shall be made for the teaching of helminthology in the London School of Tropical Medicine, in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund. It is understood that under certain conditions a sum of £500 will be paid annually to the School for five years, together with a sum of £250 for fitting up a laboratory, and that half- yearly reports upon the work of this department shall be made to the Secretary of State.

In reference to the teaching of protozoology, I am to inform you that, acting upon the recommendation of the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine, the Seamen's Hospital Society, while most desirous of being associated with, and affiliated to, the University of London, and of meeting in every way the wishes of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, desire to express the following views on the recommendations set forth in the letter from the Under-Secretary of State :--

It is considered that for the efficient working of the School it is desirable that the general scheme of teaching shall be as follows:-

That the tutor or director shall allot their respective teaching work to the demonstrator, the protozoologist, and the helminthologist, and himself, besides exercising a general supervision of the School, teach in the laboratory for a certain number of hours each day, and be convenient for reference at other times.

The demonstrator to spend his whole time in the laboratory and wards. The protozoologist to teach in the general laboratory the methods for finding and studying the protozoa, say for one hour a day for a certain number of days each session to be ready to teach higher protozoology in his own laboratory: to work out any current protozoological problems, and to advance the science especially in its bearings on tropical medicine.

The helminthologist to do similar work in his own subject.

The lecturers to spare the students details of natural history such as can be better taught in the laboratories by the special teachers, confining themselves as far as possible to more purely medical matters.

It is considered essential that the proposed protozoologist and helminthologist shall be medical men, and that before they assume teaching duties they shall them- selves have passed through a course of instruction at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and so have acquired a knowledge of the system and the requirements of the School.

It is also considered essential that the protozoologist and helminthologist shall take an active part in teaching ordinary elementary medical protozoology and helminthology. That they shall be available to students desiring to study advanced protozoology and helminthology: be ready to assist.in clearing up matters in con- nection with their special subjects, and to employ the balance of their time in research.

It is considered of importance that the tutor or director, the demonstrator, the protozoologist, and the helminthologist shall regard themselves as primarily belong-

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ing to the Tropical School, as part of the teaching staff, and that they shall agree to regulate in a general way their respective systems of teaching according to the views of the School Committee.

It is felt that efficient teaching must be the best claim that such an educational centre as the London School of Tropical Medicine can have upon so important a body as the Senate of the University of London; it is suggested that this can only be attained by all the teachers in the School being under one definite administra- tion so far as discipline and teaching are concerned.

In the course of the last four years much experience has been gained in the methods necessary to obtain success in teaching and in meeting the requirements of medical officers in the Government service and of private practitioners. The fore- going view as to the functions of the various members of the teaching staff is the outcome of this experience.

The Seamen's Hospital Society beg, therefore, to make the following suggestions for the consideration of the Advisory Board of the Tropical Disease Research Fund :-

(1) That the teacher in protozoology be nominated by the Seamen's Hospital Society, acting on the recommendation of the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine, and subject to the approval of the Senate of the University of London; or

(2) That in the event of the London School of Tropical Medicine being admittel as a School of the University of London, the appointment of the teacher in protozoology be made by a joint Committee of the University and the London School of Tropical Medicine.

To the Secretary,

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Advisory Board for the

Tropical Disease Research Fund, Colonial Office, S.W.

No. 13.

I am, &c.,

P. MICHELLI,

Secretary.

THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL

SIR,

OFFICE.

(Received November 15, 1904.)

[Answered by No. 19.]

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,

The University of Liverpool, November 14, 1904. WITH reference to the grant which the Colonial Office are about to give to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, I have received an urgent appeal from Major Ross and the Dean of the School pointing out the necessity of engaging the services of a skilled parasitologist in order to keep pace with the very rapid advances in this important branch of knowledge, and so to increase the sphere of usefulness and the teaching capacity of the School. I am informed that a sum of at least £750 per annum will be necessary to secure the services of a competent teacher and to maintain a Department of Parasitology.

I, therefore, beg to appeal to the Committee to accede to increasing the grant from £500 to £750. In doing so, I may point out to the Committee that £7,500 has already been expended by our School on expeditions abroad in the interests of British Colonies and British trade, and that a further sum of £2,000 has been allocated for expeditions for the year 1904, making a total of £9,500. This large sum of money has been spent directly on expedition work, and in improving the health of West African towns.

A sum of £1,500 has been spent on publishing and distributing literature. In return for this large expenditure we can point to a distinct improvement of health on the West Coast of Africa and in other of our possessions, and to the education of the public to the importance of anti-malarial measures. The most recent researches of our expedition at present in West Africa have brought to light

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