| Reference number | CMB/50/20 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Minutes, meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee |
| Date | 31 January 1905 |
| Description | Lists members present, with Ray Lankester in the Chair. Lists committee business -- 1. Signing of last meeting's minutes. 2. A letter stating that the Foreign Office is willing to contribute £500 toward the cost of sending a trained naturalist to Uganda for the study of sleeping sickness. 3. A letter from the Foreign Office forwarding Capt Greig's notes on the outbreak of sleeping sickness along the Nile. 4. Approval of a memo on topics to discuss at the conference between the committee and the Foreign and Colonial Offices. 5. Decision to forward the memo to the Foreign Office and Colonial Office, with a letter requesting that the Secretaries of State would be pleased to meet with the members of the Committee. 6. Decision to draw up an agreement of the conditions on which Professor Minchin would take up research in Uganda, and a decision to send letters to the medical officers currently working in Uganda outlining their relation to Professor Minchin. p26. |
| Extent | 2pp |
| Format | Typescript copy |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8247 | Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist | 1847 - 1929 |