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medical and statistical enquiries which it recommended to be instituted, it expressed the hope that Dr. Moffat, if he accepted the charge, would be willing to furnish the Society with reports. After full consideration the Royal Society cannot agree to place the scientific researches of the Entebbe laboratory under any other control than that of its own Tropical Diseases Committee. I am desired, however, to repeat an expression of its hope that Dr. Moffat may be willing to take charge of the wide field of investigation indicated in the Memorandum above referred to, and to supply the Royal Society from time to time with reports of the progress made by his staff. The highest importance is attached to these enquiries as parts of the combined endeavour to understand and combat the disease of sleeping sickness.

3. The Royal Society observes with much satisfaction from the Commissioner's letter of the 19th September (No. 141),* and also from the communication received from Professor Minchin regarding the proposed removal of the laboratory at Entebbe from its present site, that a complete agreement has been come to on the subject between the authorities at Entebbe and the Society's observers. I am therefore to express the Society's concurrence in the removal of the laboratory to the site selected, on the understanding that all the buildings specified in Enclosure No. 3 in the Commissioner's letter of 19th September (No. 141) are erected.

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I am, &c.,

ARCH. GEIKIE,

Secretary, Royal Society.

No. 46.

UGANDA.

39083

No. 45.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received November 3, 1905.)

SIR,

Burlington House, London, W., November 2, 1905. THE letters from the Colonial Office of the 9th August (26622/1905), 24th August (30262/1905), and 6th October (36938),‡ have now been under the considera- tion of the Royal Society, and I am instructed to reply to them as follows:-

1. The Royal Society has much satisfaction in observing that steps have now been taken towards that considerable increase of the medical staff in Uganda recom- mended in my letter of 3rd April,§ for the purpose of undertaking the various inquiries described in the Memorandum accompanying that letter; and further, that the Society's suggestion that Dr. Moffat might be found willing to undertake the general charge of these enquiries has been favourably received in the Protectorate.

2. It is noticed, however, that in the telegram from the Commissioner of 1st June, and again in his letter of June 13th (No. 65),|| stress is laid on the import- ance of placing "the whole scheme of investigation, both purely scientific and other- wise, under the guidance and superintendence of one recognized head." And it would appear that Dr. Moffat's consent to undertake the proposed duty is condi- tional on his having the direction of the whole operations, including those in the laboratory. In the letter of 3rd April, above referred to, a distinction was drawn between the extended enquiries which required an increase in the medical staff and the special scientific researches carried on in the laboratory. These last are so distinct from the others and require to be conducted under such constant expert supervision of the Tropical Diseases Committee here, to whom the observers frequently report progress, that it was never contemplated to make any alteration of the present arrangement, which has been found efficient for the purpose required. As the Royal Society, however, could not undertake to supervise the more extended

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NOB. 25, 32, and 41.

COMMISSIONER SADLER to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received 8.30 p.m., November 21, 1905.)

TELEGRAM.

[Copy to Royal Society and Local Government Board, January 2, 1906. L.F.] [Answered by No. 50.]

No. 45. Referring to your despatch, No. 224,† have placed myself in commu- nication with Lord Cromer regarding co-ordination. Moffat unwilling take charge of scheme owing to ill-health. On this account very doubtful whether desirable that he should. On recommendation of Principal Medical Officer, am placing Hodges in charge. Not now of essential importance laboratory work to be placed under him, but we are all unanimously for early move laboratory from Entebbe for reasons given in paragraph No. 8 in my despatch No. 65, and also in interests of work itself. Consider it desirable that medical officers procure Swahili books study of language on voyage.

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SIR,

No. 47.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.

[Copy to Commissioner, Uganda, December 30, 1905. No. 285. L.F.; and to Royal Society and Local Government Board, January 2, 1906. F.]

[Answered by No. 48.]

WITH reference to the 4th paragraph of the letter from this Department of

Downing Street, November 30, 1905. the 18th of August,§ relating to sleeping-sickness in Uganda, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commis-

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Enclosure 3 in No. 44.