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Brevet Colonel Sir William Boog Leishman, 

 M.B., F.E.S., professor of pathology, Eoyal Army 

 Medical College. 



These first appointments are for three years 

 in each case; in and after 1916 three mem- 

 bers, to be selected in manner to be prescribed, 

 shall retire at intervals of two years, their 

 places being filled (whether by reappointment 

 or otherwise) by the minister responsible for 

 National Health Insurance. 



The duties of the committee will be to for- 

 mulate the general plan of research and in- 

 quiry at the outset and for each year, to make 

 arrangements for carrying it out, and to 

 supervise its conduct so far as may be neces- 

 sary, and in particular to secure adequate co- 

 ordination of the various parts of the scheme. 

 The committee will also deal with the collec- 

 tion and publication of information, and of 

 the results of statistical and other inquiries 

 so far as suitable or necessary. For this pur- 

 pose it will determine, subject to the assent of 

 the minister responsible for National Health 

 Insurance, the expenditure of the money avail- 

 able each year, the total of the sums available 

 under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of sec- 

 tion 16 of the Act being about £57,000 per 

 annum. Before the minister responsible for 

 National Health Insurance gives his final as- 

 sent to the Medical Eesearch Committee's 

 scheme for any year, he will receive criticisms 

 and suggestions in regard to it from the Ad- 

 visory Council for Medical Eesearch. 



This Advisory Council has been appointed 

 for the purpose by Mr. Lloyd George, as min- 

 ister responsible for National Health Insur- 

 ance, after receiving suggestions for suitable 

 names from each of the universities of the 

 United Kingdom, from the Eoyal Colleges of 

 Physicians and of Surgeons, from the Eoyal 

 Society, and from other important public bod- 

 ies interested in the question. It includes 

 medical representatives of the four National 

 Health Insurance Commissions, and the other 

 principal government departments concerned 

 in medical work. The first appointments are 

 for three years in each case ; in and after 1916 



one third of the members, to be selected in 

 manner to be prescribed, shall retire at inter- 

 vals of two years, their places being filled 

 (whether by reappointment or otherwise) by 

 the minister responsible for National Health 

 Insurance. 



The duty of the Advisory Council will be to 

 consider the scheme of the Medical Eesearch 

 Committee, when referred to them, as above 

 explained, and to afPord to the minister all 

 such criticisms and suggestions in regard to 

 it as they may think desirable to submit to 

 him from the point of view of securing that 

 adequate consideration is given to the different 

 problems arising and the various kinds of 

 research work going on in the different parts 

 of the United Kingdom and in other portions 

 of the empire, in America, and in foreign 

 countries, and also to the general scope of the 

 research work to be undertaken under the 

 committee's scheme. 



The membership of the Advisory Council 

 for Medical Eesearch is as follows : 



The Right Hon. Lord Moulton of Bank, LL.D., 

 F.E.S. (chairman), Miss L. B. Aldrich-Blake, M.D., 

 M.S., Sir W. Watson Cheyne, Bt., C.B., F.K.C.S., 

 E.E.S., Sir William S. Church, Bt., K.C.B., M.D., 

 Sidney Coupland, M.D., David Davies, M.P., Sheri- 

 dan Delgpine, M.B., Sir James Kingston Fowler, 

 K.C.V.O., M.D., Sir Eickman J. Godlee, Bt., 

 F.E.C.S., Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, K.C.V.O., 

 F.E.C.S., David Hepburn, M.D., Arthur Latham, 

 M.D., Sir John McFadyean, M.B., W. Leslie Mac- 

 kenzie, M.D., J. C. McVail, M.D., W. J. Maguire, 

 M.D., S. H. C. Martin, M.D., F.E.S., Eobert Mmr, 

 M.D., Alexander Napier, M.D., Sir George New- 

 man, M.D., Arthur Newsholme, C.B., M.D., J. M. 

 O'Connor, M.B., Sir William Osier, Bt., M.D., 

 F.E.S., A. C. 'Sullivan, M.B., Marcus S. Pater- 

 son, M.D., Sir Eobert W. Philip, M.D., Sir William 

 H. Power, K.C.B., F.E.C.S., F.E.S., H. Meredith 

 Eiehards, M.D., Lauriston E. Shaw, M.D., Albert 

 Smith, M.P., J. Lorrain Smith, M.D., F.E.S., T. J. 

 Stafford, C.B., F.E.C.S.I., T. H. C. Stevenson, 

 M.D., Harold J. Stiles, F.E.C.S., Edin., Sir 

 Stewart Stockman, M.E.C.V.S., W. St. Clair Sym- 

 mers, M.B., Miss Jane Walker, M.D., Norman 

 Walker, M.D., J. Smith Whitaker, M.E.C.S., 

 L.E.C.P., Sir Arthur Whitelegge, K.C.B., M.D., 

 G. Sims Woodhead, M.D. 



