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official and other residents in the collection and observation of noxious insects and affording instruction in the use of scientific methods.
4. Mr. S. A. Neave has been selected for work in East Africa and will leave this country at the beginning of next year. He will utilize the interval in making himself acquainted with the entomological research work which is being done in the different institutions in this country.
5. Another expert is being selected for West Africa, and it is proposed that he should be attached in the first instance to the Central Research Institute at Lagos, where he will be able to obtain valuable information and suggestions from the Director, Dr. Graham.
6. These gentlemen should be provided with free transport when travelling in the Colony or Protectorate under your administration and the scientific material collected by them should be sent home at Government expense.
7. With regard to the agricultural side of the scheme, there are already trained economic entomologists in Southern Nigeria, the East Africa Protectorate, and Uganda, and I should be glad if they could be instructed to transmit to the Scientific Secretary as soon as possible, for the information of the Committee, reports on the diseases of plants and crops within their respective districts which are believed to be of insect origin, such reports to be accompanied by specimens of the insects suspected in each case.
8. None of the British Colonies or Protectorates in East and West Africa at present employs special entomologists for the purpose of investigating the part played by insects in the spread of disease among human beings and animals, and the two experts referred to in the earlier part of this despatch will devote their time to this side of the scheme.
9. In view, however, of the importance and extent of this branch of the subject, it is essential that the local officials, especially those of the Medical and Veterinary Departments, should be associated with the two experts in their work, and it remains now to be considered how this can best be done.
10. The matter has already been taken up in my predecessor's circular despatch of the 24th of December, 1907,* and the present organisation admits of its being carried a stage further.
11. The first step to be taken is to ascertain which of the local officials are willing to co-operate, and I request that you will take steps to make it generally known that I attach great importance to the subject, and that in the case of the Medical and Veterinary Departments I expect as many of the members as possible to take it up as part of their ordinary duties.
12. But if this co-operation is to be effective it obvious that arrangements must be made for the proper instruction of the officials concerned. I have, accord- ingly, approached the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Natural History Museum, and the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, with a view to arranging for the instruction at one or the other of these places of any members of the East or West African services who may take part in the work. The last three institutions have expressed their readiness to make the desired arrangements, and I have no doubt that I shall receive in due course equally favour- able replies from the two Universities.
13. The course of instruction would not be a long one, the tuition fees (which would be small) would be paid by the Government, and the officials would receive during the period of instruction the same allowances as are granted to medical officers undergoing instruction during their leave of absence, at the Schools of Tropical Medicine. In those cases where it is decided that an official should go through the course, you should notify the fact to me when reporting the grant of his leave of absence.
14. In connexion with this scheme of instruction for the local officials, various matters of minor detail, such as the preparation of short printed directions for the collection of insects, the designing of an inexpensive set of collecting apparatus, I will &c., are being dealt with by a Sub-Committee of the General Committee. address a further despatch to you with regard to these matters in due course. I have, &c.,
CREWE.
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COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, 9 September, 1909. SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir E. Grey, with reference to the letter from this Department of the 5th of July, the accompanying copy of a despatch† which he has addressed to the Officers Administering the Governments of the British Colonies and Protec- torates in West and East Africa on the subject of entomological research in those countries.
2. Lord Crewe would be glad if copies of the despatch could be communicated to the Governments of Egypt and the Soudan, and if those Governments could be asked to make arrangements for supplying Mr. Guy Marshall, the Scientific Secre- tary of the Committee of Management, with any reports which they may receive with regard to entomological investigation in the countries under their adminis- tration.
3. Mr. Marshall's address is:-British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.
I am, &c.,
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No. 31.
G. V. FIDDES.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS [Answered by Nos. 12, 15, and 46.]
(1. Cape of Good Hope. No. 249.) (2. Transvaal. No. 285.)
(3. Orange River Colony. No. 156.) (4. Natal. No. 183.)
Downing Street, 10 September, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, in continuation of my despatch, No. [1. 212] [2. 239] [3. 130] [4, 153], of the 24th of July, the accompanying copy of a despatchf which I have addressed to the Officers Administering the Governments of the British Colonies and Protectorates in West and East Africa on the subject of entomological research in those countries.
2. I should be glad if your Ministers could make arrangements for supplying Mr. Guy Marshall, the Scientific Secretary of the Committee of Management, with any reports which they may receive with regard to entomological investigation in the [Cape] [Transvaal [Orange River Colony] [Natal].
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Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.
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NATAL
I have, &c.,
CREWE.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 18 September, 1909.)
(No. 144.) MY LORD,
Government House, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, 24th August, 1909. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 153, of the 24th July, 1909, requesting the co-operation of the Natal Government in the scheme of entomological research for the British Colonies and Protectorates in West and East Africa outlined in the correspondence enclosed therein, I have the honour to inform you that Ministers will be pleased to afford any information at their disposal which
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