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like (if I may) to be allowed to put in a plea that Wales may not be overlooked. I think you will find that owing to the highly organized system of secondary education which now and for some years past has obtained in Wales as a result of the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889, the hundred or so secondary schools of the Principality at once forni a convenient, compact, and well- linked together series of centres in connection with which it might be possible to organize a scheme whereby the fullest possible use could be made of the pictures if Committee could see their way to appropriate for use in Wales a set of
your slides illustrating each lecture.
In making any arrangements on these lines which appear to me to offer most suitable openings for the effective furtherance of the aims of the Visual Instruction Committee perhaps the latter might be glad to utilize as far as pos- sible and I should certainly be pleased for them to do so-the goodwill and resources of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, which has the over- sight of, and is consequently in touch with, the 1,900 elementary and secondary schools in the Principality?
It is, perhaps, not unimportant to recall, as an evidence of the increased atten- tion now given to the subject in Wales, that owing to the generosity of a great benefactor of Welsh education (Mr. David Davies, M.P.), a Professor of Colonial History has recently been appointed at Aberystwyth, the pioneer of the University Colleges of Wales.
Sir Francis J. S. Hopwood, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Colonial Office.
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No. 87.
I am, &c.,
ALFRED T. DAVIES.
VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MR. A. T. DAVIES.
Downing Street, 8 June, 1909. SIR,
YOUR letter to Sir Francis Hopwood, of the 7th of June,* will be laid before the Committee on Visual Instruction at their next meeting.
I would explain, however, that it is not the intention of the Committee to allocate sets of lantern slides free of cost. The lectures as they are issued will be brought to the notice of education authorities and of those interested in education throughout the country, and the books, with the accompanying slides, will be avail- able for purchase.
I enclose for your information a copy of a pamphlet containing the preliminary matter to the set of lectures on the United Kingdom already issued for use in this country.
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Yours truly,
W. E. NOALL, (Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee.)
No. 88.
THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE ANGLO-INDIAN EMPIRE ASSOCIATION.
DEAR SIR,
Downing Street, London, S.W., 28 June, 1909.
In reply to your letter of the 29th of May,† I enclose, for your information, copies of a pamphlet and of the book of lectures on the United Kingdom issued for use in India.
The cost of a complete set of slides would be £35, exclusive of charges for freight and insurance.
With reference to your enquiry respecting the Victoria League and the League of the Empire, I have asked the Secretaries of those bodies to communicate with you direct.
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Yours truly,
W. E. NOALL, Secretary,
Visual Instruction Committee.
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SIR,
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No. 89.
CYPRUS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. (Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 12 July, 1909. WITH reference to my Miscellaneous despatch of the 22nd of January last,* I have the honour to transmit to you a set of prints of the photographs taken by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher in Cyprus.
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No. 90.
I have, &c.,
CREWE.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON FRIDAY, THE 16TH OF JULY, AT 4 P.M. PRESENT :-
The Earl of Meath (in the Chair).
Sir Cecil Clementi Smith.
Sir Philip Hutchins.
Sir Charles Holroyd
Mr. Mercer.
Mr. Struthers.
Dr. Heath.
Mr. Noall (Secretary).
The minutest of the last meeting, having been previously circulated, were adopted.
Mr. Mercer read three letters which he had received from Mr. Mackinder (Annexures 1, 2, and 3), and stated that Mr. Mackinder anticipated that a fund of about £5,000 would be raised for the purpose of placing the lectures on the United Kingdom before the people of Canada.
The Committee agreed to the expenditure of £150 on the renewal and improve- ment of Mr. Fisher's equipment, and approved Mr. Mackinder's proposal that Mr. Fisher should spend the next six weeks in testing his improved apparatus, and in taking photographs which could be used for the edition of lectures on the United Kingdom, which is in course of preparation for Canada.
It was agreed that Mr. Fisher should start about the middle of September on his third tour, and that he should visit Gibraltar, Malta, and Australasia.
It was understood that Sir Charles Lucas had already left the Australian Continent, and Sir Charles Holroyd promised to write, privately, with a view to securing the greatest possible consideration for Mr. Fisher.
Mr. Mercer then raised the question of the necessity for sending the artist to every part of the Empire. After discussion, the Committee were agreed that, for the present, the original scheme should be adhered to, but that in the meantime the available photographs of some of the African Colonies and Protectorates should be examined with a view to ascertaining to what extent they could be utilised.
The question of bioscope views was discussed, and Mr. Mercer gave his impres- sion of an exhibition in Germany of such views illustrating life in the German Colonies.
It was agreed that Mr. Mackinder should be asked to report as to the cost of providing Mr. Fisher with a bioscope camera in addition to his other equipment.
With reference to the delay in issuing the lectures on India, the Committee decided that a letter should be written to Mr. Mackinder asking him to expedite their production.
DEAR MR. MERCER,
Annexure 1.
2, Tanfield Court, Temple,
London, E.C., 13th July, 1909. FOR the benefit of the Committee, which I am sorry that I cannot attend- you will, I know, explain my absence-I think it would be well that I should put
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