| Description | Report on his attendance at the International Conference on Sleeping Sickness, organised by the Foreign Office, with a summary of the main resolutions. These fall under the main headings of: the creation of a Central Bureau, prophylactic measures against sleeping sickness, and a programme of researches. Certain proposals were formulated by Sir Patrick Manson on behalf of the medical sub-committee, the meeting of which Rose Bradford did not attend, since it was held before he was notified that he was a representative. These proposals were that definite questions relating to sleeping sickness would be entrusted to certain individuals for report and investigation. The plenary sitting of the conference did not accept the medical sub-committee report and the matter was dropped. He observes that the conclusions of the conference which were of most interest to the Royal Society lay in the creation of a Central Bureau in London. The drafting of a scheme for its administration were left to the British representatives and it is probable that the Bureau would be funded by grants from interested governments.
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