Record

RefNoCMB/50/30
LevelItem
TitleMinutes, meeting of the Tropical Diseases Sub-Committee
Date13 February 1906
DescriptionLists members present, with Professor Clifford Allbutt in the Chair. Gives committee business -- 1. The signing of the Council minutes re-appointing the committee. 2. The last meeting's minutes, taken as signed. 3. Dispatch of a letter to the Colonial Office. 4. Consideration of letters from the Colonial Office and War Office agreeing to extend Gray and Tulloch's leave. 5. Report of Minchin's work. 6. Consideration of a report in the Times that Prof Koch has been commissioned to go to Entebbe to study sleeping sickness, and a resolution that Sir Archibald Geikie communicate with the Colonial Office to ensure that every facility will continue to be offered to the Royal Society commission. 7. Consideration of correspondence from the Colonial Office. 8. Decision to print the reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. 9. A letter from the India Office concerning precautions to be taken against the introduction of Trypanosome into India. 10. Resolution to give Minchin a £75 grant. 11. Resolution that no claim should be made upon the Government Grant Council Fund for Dr Nabarro's experiments on sleeping sickness. 12. A letter from Major Ross with an enclosure from the Secretary of the Suez canal on the disapperance of malaria during 1905. Signed by E Ray Lankester. p40-44.
Extent5pp
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6496Allbutt; Sir; Thomas Clifford (1836 - 1925)1836 - 1925
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