Abstract
A TROPICAL Medical Research Committee has been appointed by the Medical Research Council in consultation with the Colonial Office. The new committee will advise and assist in the direction of such investigations as the Council may be able to promote, whether at home or abroad, into problems of health and disease in tropical climates, and make suggestions generally as to research in this field. The Committee is to be a purely scientific body. It will include representatives of the Colonial Office and of the Liverpool and London Schools of Tropical Medicine, with other members appointed as individual experts in tropical medicine or in different branches of medical science. The following will serve in the first instance: Prof. J. C. G. Ledingham (Chairman), Prof. A. J. Clark, Dr. N. Hamilton Fairley, Prof. W. W. Jameson, Dr. Edward Mellanby, Dr. Muriel Robertson, Sir Leonard Rogers, Dr. H. Harold Scott, Sir Thomas Stanton, Dr. C. M. Wenyon, Prof. Warrington Yorke, and Dr. A. Landsborough Thomson (Secretary).
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Research in Tropical Medicine. Nature 137, 394 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137394b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137394b0