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SIR,

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SCHEDULE OF ENCLOSURES.

1. Colonial Office to Royal Society. June 13. (19824.)

2.

Local Government Board to Colonial Office. June 9. (20533.)

3. Governor, Gibraltar. 76. June 10. (21095.)

4. Colonial Office to Royal Society. June 21.*

5. War Office to Colonial Office. June 15. (21321.)

6. Admiralty to Colonial Office. June 17. (21517.)

7.

Colonial Office to Treasury. June 21.

8.

Royal Society to Colonial Office.

June 17. (21565.)

9.

Colonial Office to Royal Society. June 28. (21565.)

No. 117.

INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received June 30, 1904.)

India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., June 29, 1904.

In reply to your letter No. 28181/1903, dated 8th June, 1904, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that Mr. Secretary Brodrick will invite the Government of India to consider favourably the question of making a contribution from Indian revenues to the general fund which the Colonial Office pro- poses to establish for promoting researches into the origin and propagation of malari- ous diseases.

23225

No. 118.

I have, &c.,

A. GODLEY.

TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received July 1, 1904.)

SIR,

Treasury Chambers, June 30, 1904. IN the circumstances represented by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton in Mr. Lucas's letter of the 8th instant, the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are willing that a sum of £500 should be inserted for five years in the Colonial Services Vote, beginning with the year 1905-6, as a contribution on behalf of the Exchequer. aided Colonies and Protectorates to the proposed Fund for the investigation and pre- vention of malaria and other tropical diseases.

I am,

&c.,

G. H. MURRAY.

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Baker microscopes and an incubator. I understand that the other members of the Commission have been informed that any future requisition for apparatus or materials should come to the Royal Society through Colonel Bruce, and be endorsed by him.

I am to ask, however, with regard to the suggestion that such requisitions should be dealt with entirely by the Royal Society, whether that phrase implies that the accounts for articles purchased should be paid in detail from this office or whether, as was done in the case of the Malaria enquiry, the accounts duly certified should be sent on to the Crown Agents and the amounts reimbursed to them from the Royal Society Government Fund, within the limit specified, at the close of the enquiry.

We have received a letter from Colonel Bruce, dated June 25, on the subject of the allowances made by the War Office to Major W. H. Horrocks, who has been detailed for duty on the Mediterranean Fever Commission. From correspondence sent here by Colonel Bruce it appears that Major Horrocks receives only 10s. a day retention allowances, and since he is being put to a deal of expense in connection with his work on the Commission, and has to pay £7 10s. a month to a substitute in Gibraltar to carry on his sanitary work, Colonel Bruce strongly recommends that this officer be paid 15s. a day out of the Mediterranean Fever Commission Fund in order to pay for his substitute and to give him an extra 10s. a day subsistence allowance. I am to ask whether you agree to this allowance being made out of the fund.

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(No. 115.)

SIR,

No. 120.

MALTA.

I am, &c.,

ROBERT HARRISON, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society.

GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received July 6, 1904.)

The Palace, Valletta, June 30, 1904.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 79, of the 13th instant, forwarding a copy of further correspondence on the subject of the in- vestigation of Mediterranean fever, and to state that the Government of Malta concurs in the proposals made in paragraphs 9 and 10 of Mr. Antrobus's letter to the Admiralty and War Office of the 13th instant, with regard to the manner in which the expenses of the Commission are to be defrayed.

2. As there is no provision in this year's estimates to which the expenses in- curred in Malta can be charged, and as two-thirds of these expenses are recoverable from the Admiralty and War Office, I have issued a Warrant of Advance for £500, which will be adjusted at the end of the year.

3. Statements of the expenses incurred in the Colony will be forwarded to you quarterly, commencing from the 1st July, 1904. ·

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No. 119.

MALTA.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

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No. 121.

I have, &c.,

CHAS. M. CLARKE,

Governor.

SIR,

(Received July 2, 1904.)

[Answered by No. 125.]

Burlington House, London, W., July 1, 1904. I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June 28 § relating to certain requisitions and other matters connected with the enquiry into Mediter- ranean fever.

Since the Royal Society has undertaken to purchase scientific equipment for the enquiry to the extent of £200 out of the Government Grant Fund, it was decided that purchases on that account should be made only on the recommendation of Colonel Bruce, the Chairman of the Commission, who is at present in Malta. I have, therefore, telegraphed to Colonel Bruce to ask if he endorses Dr. Zammit's requisition for four

↑ No. 99A. ‡ No. 99. § No. 115.

• Not printed: transmitted a copy of No. 106.

SIR,

MALTA.

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.

[Copy to Governor, July 20, 1904. Confidential. L.F.]

Downing Street, July 7, 1904.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the Army Council with reference to your letter of the 15th of June and previous correspondence, the accompanying copies of further papers§ relating to the Mediter- ranean Fever Inquiry.

• No. 105A.

+ No. 101.

‡ No. 107.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

Nos. 111 and 114.

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