The Kingdom of ManLankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
History
The Kingdom of Man
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
African trypanosomiasis; Human beings; Science -- History
[22] I had the honour and good fortune to found this association and
to collect the funds so generously given to it--then for many years
to act as its honorary secretary, to design and superintend the
erection of the laboratory and to organize, in conjunction with my
scientific colleagues, its staff, its scheme of work and government.
On the death of our beloved president, Professor Huxley, I was
elected as his successor, and still occupy that position.
[23] The disease has actually entered into the administrative area
known as British East Africa, but has not made any rapid progress
towards the coast. According to a report by Dr. Wiggins, the disease
is confined in British East Africa, as in Uganda, to those areas in
which _Glossina palpalis_ occurs.
[24] Only last year (1905) Lieut. Tulloch, of the Army Medical
Department, who with Professor Minchin was engaged in carrying on
further researches for the Royal Society on the sleeping sickness
at Entebbe in Uganda, became infected by the trypanosome, probably
through an unobserved bite by a tsetze fly, and died of the disease
soon after his return to England.
[25] Professor Minchin investigated this subject during 1905 in
Uganda whither he went on behalf of the Tropical Diseases Committee
of the Royal Society. He did not discover anything corresponding
to the development of the malarial parasite in the gnat, but his
investigations are not yet brought to a conclusion (December, 1906).
[26] Dr. Schaudinn died in 1906. He was only 35 years of age.
[27] Since this was written a professorship of Protozoology has
with the assistance of the Colonial Office been established in the
University of London. This is a first step towards a recognition of
the duty of the State in this matter.
[28] See footnote on p. 179.
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Transcriber’s note:
The repeated caption heading ‘Fig. x.’ has been removed in Figures
1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 44.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example,
sleeping sickness, sleeping-sickness; kosmos; acquirement; employés;
imbibition.
Pg 84 (Fig. 11): ‘at 3186 (Soddy)’ replaced by ‘at 318·6 (Soddy)’.
Pg 91 (Fig. 12): ‘the line A A)’ replaced by ‘the line A A,’.
Pg 95: ‘Brunettière and his’ replaced by ‘Brunetière and his’.
Pg 146 (Fig. 46): ‘T. Brucii’ replaced by ‘T. Brucei’.
Pg 148: ‘Spirocheta pallida’ replaced by ‘Spirochæta pallida’.
Pg 149: ‘of the commuity,’ replaced by ‘of the community,’.
Pg 177: ‘miscroscopic animals’ replaced by ‘microscopic animals’.
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