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Requiienienis of the uucessity of a iiBvv buikliug, iu this I will deal with the Scientific Staff as it 

 should be. Here is what we want, what we have iu part obtained, aud what I trust 

 will yet be forthcoming : — 



Scientific Staff: 



Director 

 Bureau of Micnihiolo(jij : 



Bacteriologist 



Pathologist 



Veteriuary Pathologist 



Protozoologist 



Helniinthologist 



Divmu/i (if Entinniiliiiiii : 



Two Ecououiic Eiitoiiiologists, one especially coucerned with medical entomology 



Division of Botany : 



Botanist 



Mycologist 



Bureau, of Chriaidri/ : 



Eesearch Chemist in Charge 

 Economic Chemist 

 Agricultural Chemist 

 Pharmacological Chemist, whose work would include toxicology 



In time, no doubt, it would also be well to have an Assistant Director, a 

 Haematologist to carry out serum tests such as Wassermanii's reaction, other complement 

 fixation and precipitant tests for blood, and such new developments in this impoi'tant 

 diagnostic branch of medicine and surgery as may ai'ise. An Anthropologist would also 

 pay his way, especially if his main work was in the direction of sociology. 



These then, with the necessary assistants including an artist, with an aileijuate 

 clerical staff, and more especially with a secretary who could also look after the library, 

 would supply a force which might wage a most successful war with disease in man and 

 animals and plants, which might make the most of such products as the Sudan yields 

 and indicate how they might be improved, which might point out along what lines 

 agriculture should develop, and aid those who will irrigate and till what is now a virgin 

 soil. They will cost money but they will save money, and indirectly they will make 

 ..-Tu c . monev. Money, however, is after all not everything. "The first Wealth is Health," 



1 he nrst ^ .1 ^ ' .. o 7 



Wealth and given health all other things may be added unto us, even in a country like the 



Sudan with its manifold drawbacks and disadvantages. When I asked Sir David Bruce 

 what he thought should be our annual contingent he straightway replied " ten thousand 

 pounds." We are a very long way off ten thousand pounds, but one is not without hope 

 for the future when one sees how everywhere Science leads the way. We have already 

 grown from small beginnings to a respectable stature, are, I think, secure against 

 extinction, and, so long as we proceed on practical lines which have a bearing on the 

 development and progress of the country, should not fail to receive that support and 

 consideration which the magnitude, scope and importance of the work that now falls to 

 our share amply justifies. 



