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terim Report. In this Interim Report 

 the work of the Committee up to August 

 1908 is described, and an indication of the 

 lines of inquiry which the Committee 

 further intended to prosecute is given. 



A scientific staff for such an inquiry 

 as this Committee was charged with was 

 of course an indispensable requirement, 

 and the Committee were fortunate in 

 obtaining the services of the following 

 eminent pathologists and observers : — 



A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., Lecturer on Advanced 

 Morphology of the Invertebrates to the 

 University of Cambridge, as Expert on the 

 subject of Parasites. 



C. G. Seligmann, M.B., as Bacteriologist and 

 Pathologist. 



E. A. Wilson, M.B., as Field Observer and 

 Pathologist. 



G. C. Muirhead, B.Sc, as Field Observer. 



J. C. Fryer, B.A., Cambridge, | 



A. Hill, Aberdeen, V as Entomologists. 



P. Grimshaw, Edinburgh, 



The Committee lost no time in setting 

 about their work. They felt that if the 

 true nature of the disease, its originating 

 cause, its liability to spread, and other 



