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THE Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Medical Research Council have jointly created a Colonial Medical Research Committee to advise them on medical research for the benefit of Colonial territories. It is constituted as follows: Sir Edward Mellanby, secretary of the Medical Research Council (chairman); Colonel J. S. K. Boyd; Prof. P. A. Buxton, professor of entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. A. N. Drury, director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine; Brigadier N. Hamilton Fairley; Dr. W. H. Kauntze, chief medical adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Prof. B. G. Maegraith, professor of tropical medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Dr. B. S. Platt, director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit, Medical Research Council; and Major-General Sir John Taylor. The secretary of the Committee is Dr. F. Hawking, of the National Institute for Medical Research, London, N.W.3.
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Colonial Medical Research Committee. Nature 155, 421 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155421b0
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