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£30,000) to permanently endow a professorship and the post of his assistant at the University of London.

24. If I am fortunate enough to find that you and your co-trustees are able and willing to provide the money required, I would then approach the University of London with a view to the preparation of a detailed scheme for submission to the Trustees; and I venture to hope that, as Chancellor of the University, you would extend your personal countenance and sympathy to such a scheme as being one of the most valuable develop. inents of post-graduate medical teaching with which the University could be associated."

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am,

dear Lord Rosebery,

Yours very sincerely,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

No. 33.

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No. 35.

VICTORIA.

(No. 7.)

SIR,

GOVERNOR SIR R. TALBOT to MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received February 25, 1905.)

State Government House, Melbourne, January 20, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you a copy of a memorandum by the Premier of this State, in reply to your despatch No. 29 of the 31st August, 1904, respecting the scheme for the investigation of tropical disease, &c.

I have, &c.,

R TALBOT.

SIR,

THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received January 9, 1905.)

Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E., January 7, 1905. IN further reference to your letter of the 22nd ultimo, No. 40233/1904,* I have the honour to inform you that the Seamen's Hospital Society has pleasure in arranging for the teaching of protozoology in the London School of Tropical Medicine in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund.

Half-yearly progress reports shall be furnished to the Advisory Board on or before the 31st of May and the 31st of October in each year, and a certified account of the expenditure during the year shall be submitted annually. I am, &c.,

Enclosure in No. 35.

MEMORANDUM FOR HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

This State is fortunately so situated as to have little or no direct concern in the matter of tropical diseases, and especially of malaria; and, while the question of making a contribution may well be considered by the Commonwealth Govern- ment, should it obtain control of exotic diseases for the whole continent, this State cannot at this juncture see its way to subscribe to the Fund.

T. BENT,

Premier.

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Premier's Office,

P. MICHELLI,

Melbourne, January 18, 1905.

Secretary.

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No. 36.

No. 34.

JAMAICA.

GOVERNOR SIR J. A. SWETTENHAM to MR. LYTTELTOŇ.

(No. 14.)

(Received January 31, 1905:)

[Acknowledged March 14, 1905, No. 92: 3194, not printëd.]

King's House, Jamaica, January 10, 1905.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 405, dated the 20th December, 1904, † and to inform you that I have approved of £75 of the vote of £100 for the promotion and dissemination of knowledge in regard to the treatment of disease being made available for payment to the general fund for the investigation of tropical diseases.

2. I have to ask you to be so good as to instruct the Crown Agents to make the payment to the proper authority.

I have, &c.,

J. A. SWETTENHAM,

Governor.

SIR,

THE RHODES TRUST to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received March 13, 1905.)

[Answered by No. 39.]

The Rhodes Trust, 171-3, Temple Chambers,

Temple Avenue, E.C., March 10, 1905.

In reply to Mr. Secretary Lyttelton's letter to Lord Rosebery of December 30th, 1904, asking the Rhodes Trustees to consider whether a grant might not be made, from the funds at their disposal, towards the establishment of a school of tropical medicine, I am directed by my Trustees to say that they are prepared to contribute £200 a year for five years to this object.

A contribution at this figure is, of course, very different from that suggested by the Secretary of State in his letter. But my Trustees, while sympathising with this object, feel that to make a large subsidy for the purpose does not come within their proper scope; and that, where the Colonies combined have promised contri- butions amounting to about £1,600 a year for five years, the sum I have named represents what may properly be expected of themselves, having regard to the funds at their disposal. and the demands made thereon.

I have, &c.,

CHARLES W. BOYD,

• No. 31.

† No. 25A.

No. 152 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

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Joint Secretary.

† No. 32.

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