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with the Scientific Staif as it should be. liere is what we want, what we have in 

 part obtained, and what I trust will yet be forthcoming : — 



Scientific Staff: 

 Director 



Bicreati. of Microbioky// : 

 Bacteriologist 

 Pathologist 



Veterinary Pathologist 

 Prutozoologist 

 Helminthologist 



Division, of Entomology : 

 Two Economic Entomologists, one especially concerned with medical entomology 



Uioision of Botany : 

 Botanist 

 Mycologist 



Bureau of Chemistry : 



Research 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 

 Hsematologist to carry out serum tests such as Wassermann's reaction, other complement 

 fixation and precipitant tests for blood, and such new developments in this important 

 diagnostic branch of medicine and surgery as may arise. 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, witli an adequate 

 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 

 money. Money, however, is after all not everything. " The first Wealth is Health," ^ 7th'^' 

 and given health all other things may be added unto us, even in a country like the 's Health " 

 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. 



