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No. 220, of the 5th of May, whether you are now in a position to state what part, if any, of the vote of £100 for the promotion and dissemination of knowledge in regard to the treatment of disease is available for payment to the general fund which has been established for the investigation of tropical diseases.

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of £500 to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., to be credited to the fund.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

39931

No. 29.

42059

No. 26.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

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GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, December 21, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to authorise you to pay to the Liver- pool School of Tropical Medicine on application, on or after the 1st of January next, the sum of £750 (seven hundred and fifty pounds) from the Tropical Disease Research Fund.

GENTLEMEN,

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, December 21, 1904.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that the Secretary of State for India has decided to contribute a sum of £500 a year for five years from Indian revenues to the Tropical Disease Research Fund, and that the India Office have been requested to pay the first year's contribution of £500 to you, to be credited to the fund in question.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

40233

No. 30.

42059

No. 27.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL

MEDICINE.

Downing Street, December 21, 1904.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant † regarding the method of expenditure of the grants offered to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from the Tropical Disease Research Fund

Your letter has been laid before the Advisory Board, who approve of the manner in which it is proposed to spend the sum of £750 during the year 1905; and the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., have accordingly been instructed to pay that sum to the Liverpool School on application on or after the 1st of January

next.

The half-yearly progress reports to be furnished to the Advisory Board, to which reference was made in the letter from this Department of the 4th of November, should be sent in on or before the 31st of May and 31st of October in each year, so that they At the may be laid before the Board at the meetings in June and November. meetings in November the Board propose to make recommendations for the allotment of grants from the fund for the following year; and it should, therefore, be stated before the end of October how the school propose to spend the next year's grant, if made.

The Board will also require, after the expiration of each year, a certified account of the expenditure during the year.

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SIR,

No. 28.

I am,

&c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.

Downing Street, December 21, 1904. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th of November,§ stating that Mr. Secretary Brodrick had decided to contribute from Indian revenues the sum of £500 a year for five years to the fund now known as the Tropical Disease Research Fund, and to the reply from this Department of the 16th of November, || I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to request that you will move Mr. Brodrick to give instructions for the payment at an early date of the first year's contribution

‡ No. 7. i No. 10. | No. 14.

• No. 84 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

↑ No.23.

GENTLEMEN,

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, December 22, 1904.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to authorise you to pay to the Seamen's Hospital Society, on application, on or after the 1st of January next, the sum of £1,250 (one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds) from the Tropical Disease Research Fund.

40233

SIR,

No. 31.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY,

[Answered by No. 33.]

Downing Street, December 22, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of November* in connexion with the appointment of a professor of protozoology, and to inform you that, on the recommendation of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund, he has decided to approve of the adoption of the scheme originally suggested by Sir Patrick Manson, and that a sum of £500 from the fund will therefore be granted to the London School of Tropical Medicine in respect of the year 1905, for the appointment of a lecturer in protozoology. The continuance of this grant will be subject to the terms of my letter of the 4th of Novem- ber last with regard to the kindred grant for helminthology.

The Crown Agents for the Colonies, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., have accordingly been instructed to pay to you, on application, on or after the 1st of January next, the sum of £1,250 from the Tropical Disease Research Fund, comprising the two grants of £500 each referred to above, and the additional grant of £250 referred to in the letter from this Department of the 4th of November.t

The half-yearly progress reports to be furnished to the Advisory Board should be sent in on or before the 31st of May and 31st of October in each year, so that they may be laid before the Board at the meetings in June and November. At the meetings in November the Board propose to make recommendations for the allotment of grants from the fund for the following year; and it should, therefore, be stated before the end of October how the school propose to spend the next year's grant.

The Board will also require, after the expiration of each year, a certified account of the expenditure during the year.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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