LIST OF COMMISSIONS AND EXPEDI- 

 TIONS SENT TO THE TROPICS TO 

 STUDY TROPICAL DISEASES 



ROYAL SOCIETY 

 Investigatioks into Tropical Diseases carried out uxder the 



DIRECTION OF CoMMirrEES OF THE RoYAL SoCIETY 



Tsetse Fly. — No expedition sent out, but investigations 

 carried on in Natal by Surgeon-Major (now Colonel Sir David) 

 Bruce more or less independently of the Committee, and by Dr. 

 W. H. F. Blandford, Dr. Kanthack, and Dr. H. E. Durham in 

 London under the direction of the Committee, in 1896 and 

 1897. 



Malaria and Blackwater Fever. — Dr. C. W. Daniels, Dr. 

 J, W. W. Stephens, and S. R. Christophers, M.B., sent to British 

 Central Africa in 1898. Daniels also to East Africa and Stephens 

 and Christophers to West Coast. Stephens and Christophers sent 

 to India in 1901 to carry out researches on Blackwater and 

 Malaria : returned to England in 1 902 ; work on Malaria con- 

 tinued by Captain James, LM.S. 



Sleeping Sickness. — Dr. G. C. Low, Dr. C. Christy, Dr. A. 

 Castellani, sent to Uganda in June 1902. In 1903, Colonel 

 Bruce and Dr. Nabarro joined the Commission. In 1904-5 the 

 work of the Commission was conducted by Captain Grieg and 

 Lieutenant Gray, R.A.IM.C. In 1908 Colonel Sir David Bruce 

 again left for Uganda in September, accompanied by Captains 

 A. E. liannnerton and H. R. Bateman, R.A.M.C. This Com- 

 mission is still in Uganda. 



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