Minutes, meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee J S K Boyd in the chair. Committee business, including a statement that Mr McClelland was to publish his report on snail hosts of schistosomes in the Journal of Parasitology or Helminthology; appointment of Brigadier J S K Boyd as chair 'in succession to the late Sir Edward Mellanby'; resolution that Dr Bray be asked to prove that he would be able to carry out six months of research in the tropics, before issuing the Tropical Research Fellowship; an offer from the Amoebiasis Research Unit in Durban to house and equip a candidate in parasitology. p59-60. 1 July 1955