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could not get additional copies for circulation,
but Mr. Crowther had been very good in letting
him have a complete set of them. Mr. Sloss had
been able to go through a botany and zoology list
with his colleague Dr. Herklots whose criticism
he considered a sound one. Dr. Herklots' view is
that invoices are drawn up showing administrative
recondition by practice learnt in academic work
in the Far East. It will probably be necessary
to do as much work in the laboratory as would be
done at home. Mr. Sloss pointed cut that the
whole tendency of Chinese and of Indian education
is against using the hands to direct observation.
He proposed to submit the chemistry, physics and
engineering lists to his other colleague in this
country. Mr. Sloss said that cost was high but
that must be faced: cost had been kept down, for
example, he said it had been recommended that
only four microscopes should be allowed for a
class of 40 students for botany and zoology.
Where ordinarily students supplied their own it
was quite impossible to-day. Basing an estimate
on the list according to 1939 prices, Mr. Sloss
said the total cost for the basic sciences of
chemistry, zoology, botany, etc., is about £33,000
to which they suggest we should add at least fifty
per cent for the increase of prices. Engineering
would be about £28,000 and medicine with very
complete equipment for all sciences about another
£16/17,000, a total on their present £78,000 which
means, at their estimate of present-day prices,
something well over £100,000, which Mr. Sloss did
not think would be accepted as a very reasonable
charge against any reparations from the Chinese
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enn wondered whether Mr. Sloss had taken
into account Government surpluses at all.
Mr.