Description | Lists those present, with Lord Lister in the chair. Lists committee business, including correspondence from Dr C W Daniels on 'his establishment of a small black malaria-carrying mosquito in British Central Africa'; letters from the Colonial Office concerning funding of the researchers; letters from Dr Daniels, Stephenson and Christophers on their progress; a letter 'signed by various medical men, ship owners, colonial merchants and others' requesting that the Royal Society petition the government to take measures to destroy malaria-causing gnats; resolution to continue the investigation and communicate the results to date with the Colonial Office; resolution to draw up a memo for 'preventive operations and for a municipal experiment' on the West Coast of Africa. p40-42. |