| Description | Lists members present, with Mr Read in attendance on behalf of the Colonial Office, and Major J Will for Uganda. Lists Committee business - 1. The signing of the previous meeting's minutes. 2. Report from the Chariman on an interview held with the Commissioner for Uganda. 3. Letters from the Colonial Office reporting that Lieut Tulloch had been sent home, having contraced [sleeping sickness]. 4. Report that six months' leave with pay had been granted to Lieut Gray, with an additional allowance on days he attends to Lieut Tulloch. 5. A letter from the Colonial Office noting that the expenses incurred by the investigation into sleeping sickness would run over the estimate by £500, and suggesting that this be met from the grant the Royal Society received from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund -- also a draft response pointing out that in this case the Committee would have nothing left to continue its sleeping sickness study. 6. Consideration of letters from Robert Boyce and Dr Hodges, and a resolution to appoint a sub-committee to continue the sleeping sickness enquiry. 7. A letter from the Colonial Office with a report on the prevention of sleeping sickness spread, and a resolution by the Committee not to offer any observations on the administrative side. 8. A letter from Prof Minchin stating that an abstract of his work had been inserted in the Bulletin of the Pasteur Institute without his consent, and his suggestion that the report be immediately published by the Royal Society. 9. Agreement to enquire if the Colonial Office plans to undertake publication of the Commission's reports on sleeping sickness. p47-51. |