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the nature of the half-yearly reports to be furnished to the Board;

the nature and frequency of the accounts of expenditure to be furnished

to the Board.

To consider attached letter from the Royal Society* :-

Royal Society to Colonial Office, 9th December.

Sir J. WEST RIDGEWAY

(Chairman).

Sir T. BARLOW.

Sir P. MANSON.

Minutes of Meeting.

Surgeon-General A. BRAMFORT.

PRESENT:

Sir R. MOOR. Mr. C. P. LUCAS. Mr. T. HOLDERNESS. Mr. H. J. READ.

Colonel D. BRUCE (representing

Royal Society in absence of

Sir M. Foster).

The minutes of the last meeting were passed.

The proposals contained in the letter from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine of the 12th of December for the expenditure of the grants offered to them

· were approved.

Mr. Lucas explained, in connexion with his motion (see Agenda Paper), that the temporary character of any endowment from the Fund was a very great difficulty in the way of establishing a University Professorship of Protozoology, and obtaining a competent man for the appointment; that the only solution of the difficulty appeared to be to accept Sir P. Manson's original proposal, and to make an effort to obtain from other sources enough money to endow a professorship permanently; that in view of the importance of the subject, there was no doubt room for both a teacher at the London School, as proposed by Sir P. Manson, and a university professor; and that Mr. Lyttelton had personally seen Professor Ray Lankester and Sir P. Manson about the matter, and proposed, in the first instance, to ask the Rhodes Trustees for a grant of the requisite amount.

Sir T. Barlow agreed that there was room for both the professor and the teacher (or rather lecturer), and seconded the motion, which was finally adopted in the following form: ---

Resolved: "that £500 be allotted in the coming year to the London School of Tropical Medicine for the appointment of a lecturer in protozoology on the lines laid down by Sir P. Manson and on the same terms as the grant for helminthology, upon 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."

Sir T. Barlow suggested that it would probably be found the best plan that the professor should be installed at the Imperial Institute, from where he could easily go down to the London School to give lectures and demonstrations as required.

Sir T. Barlow also mentioned that the London School had been inspected by the London University Authorities, who were very pleased with it; and he thought that there was every hope that the School would soon be admitted as a School of the University.

As regards the £250 which the Royal Society in their letter of the 9th December agreed to surrender in order to supplement the funds available for the professorship, it was resolved that the Royal Society should be informed that this sum would not be required for the present.

Sir R. Moor suggested that one way of getting the necessary funds for the professorship (estimated-for a professor with an assistant-at £30,000) would be that members of the Committee should approach informally the chief firms engaged in trade with the tropical Colonies; and he said that he himself would be prepared

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to approach the West African firms. It was decided to postpone the consideration of this suggestion till the result of the appeal to the Rhodes Trustees was known, when another meeting should be held.

(a.) Mr. Lucas proposed that payment of the moneys allotted by the Board IV. should be made by the Crown Agents on instructions from the Colonial Office as soon as the Colonial Office were satisfied that the conditions required by the Board had been fulfilled. This was agreed to.

(b.) None of the members of the Board had any special wishes to express as to the nature of the half-yearly progress reports to be furnished to the Board.

(c.) It was resolved that brief yearly statements should be required of the expenditure incurred out of the grants.

It was resolved to inform the Secretary of State that the Board entirely concurred V. in the proposal in the Royal Society's letter that the Society should be given a free hand in the selection and direction of the lines of research to be followed with the money entrusted to them; and it was understood that they would not object to furnishing the yearly statements of expenditure, and the half-yearly progress reports required by the Board.

Colonel Bruce intimated that the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society wished to pay a visit to the London School of Tropical Medicine. Sir P. Manson said that the authorities of the School would be delighted to receive them, and it was arranged that the date and other particulars of the visit should be fixed by communication between the Secretaries of the Royal Society and the Secretary of the School.

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SIR,

No. 25.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY, [Answered by No. 42.]

Downing Street, December 14, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th of December* respecting the sum allotted to the Royal Society by the Advisory Board of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the investigation of tropical disease.

2. Mr. Lyttelton, with the concurrence of the Board, readily agrees to the pro- posal that the responsibility for the selection and direction of the lines of research shall remain as hitherto entirely with the Royal Society, and a sum, not exceeding £1,000, will be placed at their disposal at any date after the 1st of January next, but Mr. Lyttelton would be glad if, as suggested in my letter of the 5th of November,t the Society would specify in due course the purposes to which they propose to allot the sum and would undertake that half-yearly reports shall be supplied on the pro- gress of the work performed.

3. It is hoped that it may be possible to make similar grants in subsequent years, up to five years in all, but the Royal Society will understand that circumstances may arise which may render it desirable to vary the grant, and that it is only made for one year in the first instance.

4. As Mr. Lyttelton is endeavouring to obtain from outside sources a sufficient sum to provide for the permanent endowment of a professorship of protozoology at the University of London, the sum of £250, which the Royal Society have offered to surrender from their grant, will not, at present at any rate, be deducted from the sum to be placed at the disposal of the Royal Society.

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SIR,

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

No. 25A. JAMAICA.

MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR A. W. L. HEMMING.

[Answered by No. 34.] (No. 405.)

Downing Street, December 20, 1904. I HAVE the honour to inquire, with reference to Sir A. Hemming's despatch,

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