CO885-9 — Page 210

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

PHILCO 885

| || | | | | |

9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT, PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

22

A. Geikie's letter of the 21st instant,* notifying the selection of Colonel Bruce, M.B., F.R.S., as the representative of the Royal Society on the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund, during Sir M. Foster's absence; and I am to say that Colonel Bruce will be informed of the date of the next meeting of the Board.

41759

SIR,

No. 22.

I am,

&c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received December 10, 1904.)

[Answered by No. 25.]

Burlington House, London, W., December 9, 1904. THE President and Council of the Royal Society at their meeting yesterday had under consideration your letters of the 5th and 17th November last (Nos. 37783/ 1904, 39271/1904)† in reference to the proposed allocation of a sum not exceeding £1,000 a year to the Royal Society for the researches in tropical disease during the next five years, and I have now to report their resolutions on the subject.

They welcome the successful efforts made by the Colonial Office for the further prosecution of the study of tropical disease, and they accept the offer to provide a sum not exceeding £1,000 a year for five years with this object in view, on the under- standing that the responsibility for the selection and direction of the lines of research shall remain as hitherto entirely with the Royal Society.

They further assent to the subsequent proposal of the Colonial Office that a sum of about £250, out of the £1,000 above referred to, be retained by the Advisory Board for the purpose of supplementing the salary to be attached to a projected professor- ship of protozoology. While heartily approving of the institution of such a professor- ship, as an important step in the investigation of tropical disease, they are impressed with the great difficulty that will be found in obtaining the services of an experienced zoologist, if the post should be merely temporary. They would, therefore, urge upon the Colonial Office to take steps towards ensuring that the professorship be made a permanent institution.

The President and Council are in favour of the adoption of the proposal of their representative on the Advisory Board, Sir Michael Foster, that the professorship should be in connection with the University of London. They are further of opinion that the study of tropical disease would be best promoted if the professor were required to give a definite but strictly limited course of instruction at the Tropical School of Medicine, and were to devote the main part of his time to research in such laboratories, &c., in this country or abroad as might be prescribed.

42059

No. 23.

I am, &c.,

ARCH. GEIKIE,

Secretary, Royal Society.

THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND.

(Received December 13, 1904.)

[Answered by No. 27.]

Liverpool, December 12, 1904.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to refer to the letters from the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 4th and 23rd November, 1904, to the effect that the Advisory Board of the Tropical Disease Research Fund have recommended the Secretary of State for the Colonies to grant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine a sum of £500 for five years, from the year beginning January 1st, 1905, and an additional

• No. 17.

† Nos. 8 and 15.

Nos. 7 and 19.

23

sum of £250 for the first year of that period, viz., 1905, to be expended in a manner approved of by the Advisory Board.

I duly submitted your letter to the Committee of the school at a meeting this afternoon, and am requested to say that the Committee suggest that, with the Board's approval, the money should be spent in the following manner, viz. :——

(1) A sum of £250 a year (out of the annual grant of £500) towards the

establishment of a lectureship in parasitology.

It is felt that there is urgent need for such a lectureship.

(2) A sum of £250 a year (also out of the grant of £500) towards the salary

of the Lecturer in tropical medicine.

At present the School are only able to guarantee

a sum of £100 a year for this post. To enable the school to continue a high standard of teaching, it is most neces- sary that the lectureship in question should be placed on a sounder financial footing.

(3) A sum of £250 (being the extra sum granted for the year 1905) towards the purchase of instruments, drugs, and animals for teaching purposes and especially for the expensive trypanosomiasis research at present being carried on

at the School.

Total

£750

I trust that this letter will reach you in time to lay before your meeting to-morrow, and hope that the Advisory Board will approve of the proposed items of expenditure.

I am, &c.,

The Secretary,

A. H. MILNE,

Hon. Secretary to the School.

Advisory Board of Tropical Disease Research Fund, Colonial Office, London.

No. 24.

MINUTES OF THIRD MEETING OF THE ADVISORY BOARD,

13TH DECEMBER, 1904.

AGENDA PAPER.

To pass the minutes of the last meeting (draft attached). To consider attached correspondence* with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine:-

Colonial Office to Liverpool School, 23rd November. Liverpool School to Colonial Office, 12th December.

To consider attached correspondence† relative to the London School of Tropical Medicine:-

Colonial Office to London School, 17th November. Colonial Office to Royal Society, 17th November. London School to Colonial Office, 25th November.

Royal Society to Colonial Office, 9th December (last two paragraphs). Mr. Lucas will move that £500 be allotted in the coming year to the London School of Tropical Medicine for the furtherance of the study of protozoology on the lines laid down by Sir P. Manson, on the understanding that efforts will continue to be made to obtain a sufficient sum to permanently endow a professor of protozoology at the University of London, whose services will be available for teaching at the London School of Tropical Medicine."

To consider:-

(a) the method of payment of money allotted by the Board;

Nos. 19 and 23.

1.

II.

III.

IV.

† Nos. 16, 15, 20 and 22.

Page 210V.