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AF 14/10/13

A. Fiddian Esquire

sir,

SUNNYBANK,

MOFFAT. 8th. October 1913

Secretary to the Royal Commission.

of Enquiry into causation of levers,

London

My attention was directed to a paragraph in the local papers of the appointment, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of a Royal Commission, to collect evidence of the causation of fevers. The paragraph mentions that its work is to study the nature and relative frequency of the fevera pccurring among the Europeana, natives, and others in West Africa, especially with regard to Yellow fever and its minor manifestations. am informed, on enquiry, by the Secretary of State, that the Commission will collect evidence as to the causation of fevera in such places as the Straits Settlements &o.

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I now have the honor to enclose the following papers for the use of your Commission:___

Copy letter to Major Marshall 18th. Octr. 1911. with Q&A.

i.

memos, dated 10th. Fely. and ist, March 1909

• Article on Hongkong 1839 to 1844

Extracts from Lecture by Dr. H. Martyn Clark, April 1892

Copy Article on osmium from 1901. Encyclopedia.

Copies letters between Sir-E, Maxwell and myself.

* Notes of late Dr. Livingstone and M. E. Kingsløy They will give the Commission an idea of my evidence if

I have the honor to come before them.

I appeared before the Royal Commission which sat in Hong

to enquire into an epidemic at that place about the year 1886.

I have the honor to be, sir,

Your obedient servant

"J. Grant Smith

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