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The Textii (Trypaxosomiasis) Expeditiox : Dr. J. E. Dntton 

 and Dr. J. L. Todd, despatched to the Gambia and French 

 Senegal on September 21, 1902. This Expedition received great 

 assistance from M. Roume, Governor-General of French West 

 Africa, and all the French oHicials with whom they came in contact. 

 Two valuable Reports in connection with the Expedition have been 

 issued by the School. 



The Eleventh (Sanitatiox) Expedition : Dr. M. Logan 

 Taylor, despatched to the Gold Coast from Sierra Leone on 

 October 11, 19U2. This Expedition was sent to the Gold Coast 

 in consequence of unsatisfactory rumours as to the health of 

 that district. The services of Dr. Taylor were utilised by the 

 Governor of the Colony, and his rcconnnendations for improving 

 the sanitary conditions of Cape Coast Castle carried out with 

 most successful results. 



The Twelfth (Trypanosomiasis) Expedition : Dr. J. E. 

 Dutton, Dr. J. L. Todd, and Dr. C. Christy, despatched to the 

 Congo Free State on September 23, 1903. This Expedition gives 

 promise of being the most important Expedition sent out by the 

 School since the Expedition in 1899, which discovered the presence 

 of the Anopheles Mosquito in West Africa. It was sent out as 

 a result of representations made to the School by H.M. the King 

 of the Belgians, who made the Expedition possible by granting 

 a handsome donation towards its expenses. 



The Thirteenth Expedition: Professor Rubert Boyce, M.B,, 

 F.R.S., Dr. Arthur Evans, M.R.C.S., and Dr. Herbert H. Clarke, 

 M.A., B.C. (Cantab.), were despatched to Bathurst, Conakry and 

 Freetown on November 14, 1904, to report on the Sanitation and 

 Antimalarial Measures in practice at the towns visited. The 

 members of the Expedition have di'awn up a valuable Report, 

 which has been issued by the School. 



The Fourteenth Expedition : Lieut.-Col. G. M. Giles, 

 M.B., F.R.S., Indian Medical Service (Rtd.), and Dr. R. Ernest 

 McConnell, M.D. (Canada), despatched to the Gold Coast on 

 December 31, 1904. Unfortunately, Col. Giles had to return to 

 England on February 8, 1905, through illness. Dr. McConnell 

 remained for several months on the Coast to carry on the work of 

 the Expedition. 



The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Expeditions were sent to West 

 Africa in appreciation of Sir William MacGregor's great services 

 to health and sanitation in West Africa. 



The Fifteenth (Yellow Fever) Expedition : Dr. H. Wol- 

 ferstan Thomas and Dr. Anton Brcinl, despatched to the Amazon 

 in April 1905. Both members of the Expedition contracted yellow 



