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RefNoCMB/50/28
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TitleMinutes, meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee
Date25 October 1905
DescriptionLists those present, with E Ray Lankester in the Chair. Lists Committee business -- 1. The signing of the previous meeting's minutes. 2. Resolution to print and circulate committee minutes. 3. Consideration of a letter from Sir Patrick Mason, announcing his intention to resign, with some controversy over the way he reported on the role of the School of Tropical Medicine and the Royal Society in the sleeping sickness commission. 4. Correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Uganda Commissioner over the proposal to move the laboratory to an island, and a letter from Sir Vincent Corbett showing that the Egyptian Government does not consider the sleeping sickness a threat but will contribute £1000 per year toward its study. 5. A letter from the Colonial Office with various reports on sleeping sickness, reports from the Medical Officer in Northern Nigeria, a letter from Professor Minchin agreeing to the new laboratory site. 5. A resolution to approve of the new site. 6. Approval of the proposal to put Dr Moffat in charge of the distribution investigation. 7. Resolution to write to the Colonial Office about resolutions 5 and 6. 8. Referral of reports from P H Ross and Dr Hodges. 9. Resolution that the extension of Lieutenant Tulloch's commission is advantageous for the sleeping sickness commission. 10. Resolution to print Minchin's report on the tsetse fly anatomy as part of the Sleeping Sicknes Reports. 11. Referral of the proposal to publish these reports as a volume to the Secretaries of the Royal Society. 12. Report on further work done in Malta on Mediterranean fever. Signed by Clifford Allbutt. p36-39.
Extent4pp
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8247Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929)1847 - 1929
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