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Abstract

IT has already been announced that in connection with the Royal Society the Colonial Office has instituted a Commission to investigate the subject of tropical malaria. We are now informed that the medical officers selected for the work in Africa are Dr. D. Daniels, of the Colonial Office Medical Service, Dr. Stevens, and Dr. Christopher. Dr. Daniels has sailed for India in order to make himself acquainted with the recent observations of Surgeon-Major Ronald Ross, of the Indian Medical Service, connecting the spread of malarial disease with certain species of mosquitoes. The two other gentlemen referred to will go direct to Nyasaland, in British Central Africa, to study malarial disease in that locality; and will eventually be joined by Dr. Daniels. With the knowledge acquired in a comparatively temperate climate, where, however, fever has of late years been peculiarly fatal, the three medical officers will, at a later date, visit West Africa, possibly on the Niger. The Royal Society proposes to contribute towards the expense of the investigation, the British Government, through the Foreign and Colonial Offices, finding the remainder. It is estimated that the investigations will occupy about two years, and reports will be submitted from time to time to a Committee nominated jointly by the Royal Society and the Secretary of State.