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The Committee superintended the prosecution of researches into the causation 

 of this malady for some years. In July 1898 in response to a request from 

 the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 

 the President and Council appointed a Committee to confer with the Colonial 

 Office regarding researches into Malaria in Africa ; this Committee was known 

 as the Malaria Committee and for several years superintended researches carried 

 out by a number of observers both in Africa and India. The conclusions 

 arrived at were published in a series of Malaria Reports issued by the Society. 

 In 1902 the Tsetse Fly Committee and the Malaria Committee were amalga- 



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mated under the name of the Tropical Diseases Committee, and subsequently 

 to that date a number of important researches into the causation of Sleeping 

 Sickness and of Mediterranean Fever were carried out under the control of 

 the Committee with the aid of funds provided by the Colonial Office and 

 Treasury. The results of these investigations have been from time to time 

 published in the ' Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal 

 Society ' and the * Reports of the Mediterranean Fever Commission '. 



Tyndall Mining Bequest Committee, appointed to administer the bequest 

 of which the particulars are stated at p. 185. 



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