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When money is required to meet charges on this account, an application shall be made to you for payment of the sum allotted from the Tropical Disease Research Fund.

I am, &c.,

ARCH. GEIKIE,

Secretary, Royal Society.

honour to enclose herewith a copy of the first half-yearly report on the work done in the Helminthological Department of the London School of Tropical Medicine.

I am,

&c.,

P. MICHELLI,

Secretary.

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OFFICE

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GENTLEMEN,

No. 43.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

[Answered by No. 45.]

Downing Street, April 29, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of Sir Archibald Geikie's letter of the 30th of March,* in which it was stated that of the sum not exceeding £1,000 placed at the disposal of the Royal Society from the Tropical Disease Research Fund after the 1st of January, 1905, £500 had been allo- cated towards the expenses of sending Professor Minchin to Uganda.

In my letter of the 14th of December last, † I informed you that Mr. Lyttelton was endeavouring to obtain from outside sources a sufficient sum to provide for the permanent endowment of the proposed professorship of protozoology, and that, con- sequently, the sum of £250 which the Royal Society offered to surrender from their grant would not at present be deducted. The appeal made to the Rhodes Trustees (to which the allusion referred), however, has not resulted in a larger grant than £200 a year for five years, which is manifestly inadequate by itself for the permanent or even the temporary endowment of the professorship.

A meeting of the Advisory Board, at which Colonel Bruce represented the Royal Society in Sir Michael Foster's absence, was, therefore, held last month to consider what further action could be taken in the matter.

The Board were of opinion that the present time was inopportune to make an appeal for funds to the public, and that the best course would be, if it was possible with the means available, to establish the professorship temporarily for five years, for which a minimum sum of £700 a year would be required, and to endeavour, before the end of that time, to obtain a sufficient capital sum to make the endowment permanent.

To make up the £700 a year for five years, it will be necessary to find £500 a year in addition to the grant made by the Rhodes Trustees; and, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board, Mr. Lyttelton wishes me to ask whether, in the event of the University of London consenting, as is hoped will be the case, to appoint a professor on the terms stated, the Royal Society will be willing to surrender the unallocated portion of their grant for the year 1905 for this purpose, and will agree to their grant for each of the four succeeding years being similarly reduced by £500. I am to add that if the matter is settled in this way, Mr. Lyttelton is of opinion that the Royal Society should be given a voice in the nomination of the pro- fessor, and that he will gladly express an opinion to this effect in communicating with the University.

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No. 44.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received May 8, 1905.)

[Answered by No. 53.]

Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E., May 6, 1905. In reference to your letter, No. 37783, of the 4th November, 1904, † and at the request of the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine, I have the

‡ No. 6.

* No. 42.

† No. 25.

Enclosure in No. 44.

Department of Helminthology,

London School of Tropical Medicine,

Royal Albert Dock, London, E., May 1, 1905.

I have the honour to present my first half-yearly report as Helminthologist to the London School of Tropical Medicine.

During the three months that have elapsed since I entered upon my duties I have, in accordance with the requirements of the School Committee, been engaged almost entirely in acquiring a practical knowledge of tropical diseases in their pathological and clinical aspects under Dr. Low in the General Laboratory, and in the clinics of the Consulting Physician at the Branch Hospital.

I have also attended the lectures given at the School, and the post-mortem examinations made during the session.

Advantage was taken of the opportunity afforded by a case in the wards to make a study of the histology of Filiaria embryos, and to verify for myself the main points in their periodic numerical variation in the peripheral blood.

Helminthological material has been received for examination from various quarters, but, although some progress has already been made, it is too early as yet

to offer an interim report.

To the Committee of the

London School of Tropical Medicine.

17500

SIR,

No. 45.

ROBERT THOMSON LEIPER.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received May 23, 1905.) [Answered by No. 69.]

The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W.,

May 22, 1905., THE President and Council of the Royal Society, having had under their consideration Mr. Cox's letter of the 29th ultimo (10264/1905), desire to express their acceptance of Mr. Lyttelton's proposal that the Royal Society should surrender £500 of the grant of £1,000 allocated to the Society from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for 1905, and should agree to a similar reduction for the four succeed- ing years, for the purpose of instituting a chair of Protozoology in connection with the University of London. But, in intimating their acquiescence, they wish to stipu- late that if the University of London is willing to establish the Professorship on the required conditions the Professorship be not assigned to any particular school, that the principal object of the Professorship shall be research work, and that the Professor be not required to devote his time to routine teaching.

Referring to my letter of December 9th, 1904,† I am desired to express once more the conviction of the President and Council that it will be a matter of great difficulty to secure an efficient Professor in a subject of research where the enquirers are so few in number. They would, therefore, urge that, while every effort should be used to make the Professorship a permanent post, it would be of advantage that the person first appointed should hold it only temporarily, and that before permanence

• No. 43.

† No. 22.