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CMB - Committee minute books of the Royal Society
- 5 - Tsetse Fly Disease Committee

RefNo	CMB/5/5
Level	File
Title	Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee
Date	4 February 1897
Description	Lists among those present Michael Foster, Sir John Kirk and Ray Lankester, with the President in the chair. Lists committee business, including a Council decision to give a grant toward the investigations in England; a letter from the Secretary of the Zoological Society on 'the difficulties in the way of experimenting with the animals in the Society's Gardens', and the decision to have Mr Blandford arrange 'for the transfer of a buck to the Brown Institution' -- letters from the Colonial Office on contributions from the East African Protectorates, British South Africa Company, the Natal Government and Zululand; correspondence between [Sir David] Bruce and the Governor of Natal; Foster's report that he had written to Bruce on possible research directions; reports from British Central Africa, Bechuanaland Protectorate [Botswana], Mashonaland, and the Southern Zambesi Valley on tsetse fly distribution; a resolution to continue the investigations of Kanthack and Blandford. p15-17.
Extent	3pp
Format	Typescript copy
AccessStatus	Open

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NA8069	Lister; Joseph (1827 - 1912); 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis; surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery	1827 - 1912

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