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have kindly placed at our disposal will be ready for occupation within a week or In these circumstances it has seemed desirable to restrict the purchase of office requisites and entomological apparatus to such articles only as were required for immediate use. Of the sum of £50 entrusted to me, the amount actually disbursed to date is £15 6s. 9d., made up as follows:
Entomological apparatus (for distribution) Stationery
Postages
£14 2 11
0 9 11 0 12 10
but this does not include the goods obtained through the Stationery Office, for which no account has yet been received.
Collecting apparatus has been supplied to the following gentlemen, all of whom have been personally interviewed :-
Mr. L. A. King-Church, who has gone out to Southern Nigeria as Assistant
Forest Officer;
Dr. Wakeling, of Mona House, Cairo;
Dr. W. M. Hewetson, District Surgeon at Feira, on the Zambesi, North-
Western Rhodesia; and
Mr. J. H. J. Farquhar, Provincial Forest Officer, Southern Nigeria.
Mr. P. G. Graham, who is head of the Public Health Department in Egypt, was recently interviewed and expressed a desire that some of his officials should take up He stated that if the Committee would the study of disease-carrying insects.
supply the necessary equipment and instruction, any expense which they might incur He promised to supply in this connection would be refunded by his Department. more definite information at an early date.
With regard to the distribution of entomological apparatus in Tropical Africa, it is suggested that this should, for the most part, be left to the Travelling Entomo- logists, who will be in a better position to select the persons who are likely to be of If this method be adopted, will be necessary real assistance to the Committee.
to place immediately orders for over £100 worth of material to ensure that every- thing shall he ready before the Entomologists leave England.
Letters drawing attention to the objects and needs of the Committee have been sent to all the Government Entomologists and some medical men in Tropical Africa, as well as to a few entomologists in South Africa. There has hardly been sufficient time yet for reply.
A few contributions of insects have been received, and the thanks of the Com- mittee are due to the following donors :---
Mr. J. H. J. Farquhar, seven biting flies, comprising four species, from the
Cross River, Southern Nigeria.
Dr. Wakeling, some specimens from Cairo of the so-called "sand fly” (Phlebotomus papatasii), which he strongly suspects to be the carrier of the disease known as Egyptian fever.
Dr. Dunbar-Brunton (through Dr. A. G. Bagshawe), 25 Glossina palpalis
from Lake Mweru.
Hon. Walter Rothschild, 18 ticks off a giraffe, from Ogo, in Senegal.
All the foregoing species have already been identified-the flies by Mr. E. E. Austen, the ticks by Professor Nuttall.
The Special Sub-Committee appointed by Sub-Committee A have now prepared instructions with reference to the following subjects :-Apparatus and general in- structions, mosquitoes and small flies, the larger flies, ticks, fleas, scale insects, and beetles. It is of importance that these leaflets should be printed off as soon as possible, for there is little use in distributing collecting apparatus unless' proper instructions can be sent with it.
In order to set forth the financial position of the Committee more clearly, state- ments* are submitted herewith giving an approximate estimate of expenditure up From the former to 31st March, 1910, and a similar estimate for the year 1910-11.
it will be seen that there is likely to be a surplus of more than £800 above the current expenditure in the present year.
The question of camp and scientific equipment for the Travelling Entomologists
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Provisional lists* of gives rise to several points which appear open to discussion. such equipment are therefore submitted in order to ascertain the opinion of the Committee.
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No. 39.
TRANSVAAL.
THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 30 October, 1909.)
(No. 334.)
MY LORD,
Governor's Office, Johannesburg, October 9th, 1909. WITH reference to my despatch of the 28th August, No. 260,† I have the honour to enclose, for consideration, a copy of the following document on the subject of the publications of the African Entomological Research Committee:-8th October Minute 476 from Ministers.
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(Minute No. 476.)
I have, &c.,
METHUEN,
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Deputy Governor.
Enclosure in No. 39.
Prime Minister's Office, Pretoria, 8 October, 1909. Ministers have the honour to recommend that His Excellency the Deputy Governor may be pleased to ask the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can arrange for the despatch to the Colonial Secretary, Pretoria, of copies, in triplicate, of all reports, bulletins, and other papers issued by the African Entomological Research Committee, which it is understood has been appointed by His Majesty's Government to study and report upon the relations between insects and disease generally, and especially in Africa.
J. C. SMUTS.
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No. 40.
MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COM- MITTEE OF THE AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COM- MITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, ON WEDNESDAY, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1909, AT 4 P.M.
PRESENT:
Dr. HARMER (in the Chair).
Lieut.-Colonel PRAIN.
Mr. READ.
Mr. STOCKMAN.
Mr. MARSHALL (Scientific Secretary). Mr. PARKINSON. (Secretary).
The
Mr. Marshall raised the question of outfit allowance for the two Travelling Entomologists. A sum of £30 originally sanctioned for this purpose had proved inadequate. An estimate was furnished of the expenditure that might be required for general equipment, and several of the items were examined in detail. Sub-Committee approved the purchase of a tent, which would be additional to that A second item ordinarily provided by the Government in East and West Africa. approved was a medicine chest, as being a necessary part of a traveller's outfit in Tropical Africa, but the Sub-Committee was of opinion that it would be sufficient for the Entomologists to provide themselves with simple medical equipment on the lines laid down in the "Notes for Officers appointed to East Africa."
The purchase
of photographic material was discussed and approved. Mr. Stockman pointed out
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† No. 33.