| Description | He asks that his request for a microscope and other appliances, suitable for bacteriological work in British Central Africa, be placed before the Royal Society. There is an opportunity to research into malarial fevers, dysentry and parasitic diseases. He states that he stood first in the pathological group in the M.B. examination at Cambridge.
With a note verso, Michael Foster, n.d., to Herbert Rix, asking Rix to enquire of the London Office of the British Central African Protectorate how the Society could send a microscope and equipment to Poole as they are coming to the Royal Society soon, He supposes the London Office could pack and forward them. In a postscript, Foster notes that Friday 22nd suits him for audit.
Michael Foster, Senior Secretary at the Royal Society, was awarded a grant of £50 from the Royal Society's Donation Fund in October 1895, 'to purchase a microscope and other appliances in aid of the researches of Mr. W. Poole, the Medical Oficer of the British Central African Protectorate, stationed at Zomba [Malawi]'. |