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MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING OF SUB-COMMITTEE A. OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1909, AT 5 P.M.
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PRESENT:
Honourable N. C. ROTHSCHILD, Chairman.
Colonel ALCOCK.
Sir JOHN MCFADYEAN.
Mr. NEWSTEAD.
Mr. READ.
Mr. STOCKMAN.
Mr. MARSHALL, Scientific Secretary,
Mr. PARKINSON, Secretary.
1. The minutes* of the last meeting were approved.
2. With reference to the appointment of an Entomologist for the West African Colonies, the Chairman pointed out that it was not sufficient to have merely a trained zoologist: a knowledge of collecting and experience in travelling were both equally important. Mr. Marshall read the correspondence he had had with Dr. J. J. Simpson, which included a résumé of Dr. Simpson's record both in the field and in literary production. Colonel Alcock, who had originally put forward Dr. Simpson's name when invited to make suggestions, spoke very highly of this candidate's qualifications for the work, and Mr. Newstead was able to support Colonel Alcock's recommendation.
It was resolved that Dr. J. J. Simpson be offered the appointment of Entomo- logist in West Africa on the same terms as those attaching to Mr Neave's appoint- ment in East Africa.
3. On Mr. Read's suggestion it was resolved that, prior to the Entomologists taking up their appointments in Africa, they should receive half-pay during the period of their instruction at the various Schools of Tropical Medicine, and other
centres.
The length of this period of instruction and the nature of the course was briefly discussed. Mr. Newstead explained that no diploma could be taken as the result of this course at Liverpool, seeing that the Entomologists were not to undergo the ordinary instruction, but to receive special instruction required in connection with collecting, &c. It was resolved that the Entomologists should be allowed six weeks in which to visit the four centres where they are to obtain the necessary instruction.
4. Mr. Marshall referred to the question of camp equipment for the Entomo- logists, the point having been raised in a letter from Mr. Neave. Mr. Read said that the Entomologists would be treated in most respects like ordinary officials. receiving free transport and a certain amount of furniture and necessaries.
It was resolved that the travelling Entomologists be allowed to expend a sum not exceeding £30 each for supplying camp equipment in excess of that which will be supplied in the Colony or Protectorate.
5. A memorandumt drawn up by Dr. Bagshawe on Dr. Spillane's report to the British South Africa Company was read by Mr. Read. From this memorandum it appeared that the danger of the spread of sleeping sickness by means of the Transcontinental Railway to North-Western and Southern Rhodesia, when the palpalis areas of the Belgian Congo are reached, had been pointed out. in the 3rd Bulletin of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, and that Dr. Bagshawe had, as the result of a meeting of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau Committee, been authorised to write to the Secretary of the British South Africa Company, recommending the despatch of an entomologist or medical officer to search the Zambesi region for palpalis.
Two most important questions to be settled in this connection are (a) whether the fly now exists in this district, as apparently it did at one time; and (6) whether the track of the railway runs through the fly-belt.
It was resolved that a letter should be written to the British South Africa Company, emphasizing the desirability of their despatching an entomologist to the
† See Miscellaneous No. 224, p. 70.
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Zambesi, and suggesting that special attention should be paid to the two points
above mentioned.
6. Mr. Marshall submitted the list of institutions, as drawn up by the Special Sub-Committee, to which it is desirable that named insects should be sent by the Committee. The list was approved, the institutions being placed in order of preference.
British Museum.
London School of Tropical Medicine.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Quick Laboratory, Cambridge University. Entomologist at Lagos.
Entomologist at Nairobi.
Entomologist at Entebbe.
Army Medical College, Millbank.
Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar.
Royal Veterinary College, London. Oxford University.
Entomologist at Khartoum.
Gold Coast.
Sierra Leone.
Nyasaland.
Gambia.
When the requirements of the above have been satisfied the following might
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Salisbury Museum, Rhodesia.
Pretoria Museum. Maritzburg Museum.
Cape Town Museum. Edinburgh Museum. Dublin Museum.
Victoria University, Manchester. Birmingham University.
Leeds University.
Durham University.
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS.
(Gambia.) (Sierra Leone.) (Gold Coast.) (Southern Nigeria.) (Northern Nigeria.) (Miscellaneous.)
(Somaliland Protectorate.) (Uganda Protectorate.) (East Africa Protectorate.) (Nyasaland.)
Downing Street, 9th September, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to inform you, with reference to my despatch of the 23rd of April, that further progress has been made with the scheme of entomological investigation for the British Colonies and Protectorates in West and East Africa.
2. I enclose a statement containing a list of the members of the Committee of Management. Mr. Guy Marshall, the Scientific Secretary, has been provided by the kindness of the Trustees of the British Museum with a room at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and all correspondence on matters of scientific detail should, as far as possible, be carried on direct between him and the workers in the field
3. Arrangements are being made to send a trained entomologist to the east side of tropical Africa and another to the west for the purpose of interesting
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