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A general statement of the Committee's finances, as on the 31st March last, is submitted herewith, from which it will be seen that there was then a gross credit balance of £2,354. This leaves a clear net reserve of £1,235 after allowing for all The only unusual items of expenditure are in respect of outstanding liabilities. travelling expenses, Mr. Neave's journey across German East Africa and from Dar-es-Salaam to Mombasa having cost £75, while £23 was expended on the pas- sages of Mr. Simpson and his native assistant from Forcados to the Gambia.
The detailed expenditure in respect of the Carnegie Scholars has been shown The instalment of £1,000 for the current year has not yet in a separate statement.* been received from Mr. Carnegie.
The two first Scholars left England on the 21st January last, and spent a short time in Washington with Dr. L. O. Howard, who appears to have been very favour- ably impressed with them. Mr. Strickland then went to Harvard, whence he has Mr. Rutherford has been located at sent an interesting and appreciative letter. Cornell, but no news has been received from him as yet.
Mr. Neave is now travelling in British East Africa, where he has been for the past three or four months. He appears to be well satisfied with the results he has obtained so far, having found an encouraging number of men who are likely to interest themselves in the Committee's work.
Mr. Simpson reached the Gambia in February, but no recent news has been received from him. According to the last information, he should be arriving in England during the course of the present month.
ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE (TROPICAL AFRICA).
Statement of Revenue and Expenditure from 1st April, 1909, to 31st March, 1911.
Receipts.
Government grants Sales of scientific equip-
Payments.
£ s. d.
4,000 0
0
Salaries
General expenses
ments
17 15
4
Scientific equipments
Sales of publications
202 10 10
Camp equipments
Advertisements
19 14
6
Travelling expenses
Office furniture
£ s. d. 1,684 4 4 62 6 11 277 7 8 100 0 0 5 200 10
22 9 6
Grants receivable :
Publications
443 19
5
Andrew Carnegie
Government of Zanzibar
1,000 0 50
0
Commissions to booksellers
4 1 9
0 0
Specialists' fees
Advertising agent
Carnegie Scholars
Credit balance
25 13 5 6 0 6 109 4 6 2,354 2 3
£5,290 0 8
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No. 80.
MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING OF SUB-COMMITTEE B OF THE AFRICAN ENTOLOMOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON 17TH OF MAY, 1911.
PREBENT:
Lieutenant-Colonel PRAIN (Chairman).
Mr. AUSTEN.
Mr. NEWSTEAD.
Mr. READ.
Mr. THEOBald.
Mr. MARSHALL (Scientific Secretary). Mr. PARKINSON (Secretary).
Mr. H. Maxwell Lefroy, Imperial Entomologist to the Government of India, attended by invitation, but Mr. A. G. L. Rogers, who had also been invited to attend, was unavoidably absent.
1. The minutest of the last meeting of the Sub-Committee were approved.
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Colonel Prain reminded the Sub-Committee that by a tacit understanding arrived at when the Committee was instituted, the investigation of insect-borne diseases of plants had been set on one side, in order that full attention might be given to the investigation of noxious insects in relation to human beings and animals. The fact that the Committee had agreed that a meeting should be arranged with the Colonial Ministers to discuss imperial co-ordination in the prevention of the spread of disease in agriculture and horticulture involved a reversal of the under- standing on which the Committee had so far been working.
2. Colonel Praïn read the following extract from the minutes of the General Meeting held on the 5th of May:
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"Finally, Dr. Shipley moved that steps should be taken to approach the Colonial Office with a request that the Secretary of State should arrange a conference between the Committee and the Colonial Ministers during their coming visit to discuss the further development of the work of the Com- mittee. This motion was carried, and it was further agreed:
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'(1) That the Sub-Committee "B" should consider the memorandum and report, and then draft proposals to be put to the Conference.
(2) That in any case the memorandum should be amended by the
substitution of the word agreement" for the word 'convention in paragraph 7, and by the deletion of paragraph 15." The Sub-Committee proceeded to examine in detail the memorandum by Mr. Rogers and Mr. Lefroy. A copy of the memorandum as revised for submission to the Colonial Ministers is attached to these minutes.
3. Having disposed of the memorandum, the Sub-Committee proceeded to consider the Scientific Secretary's report. Mr. Marshall thought the scheme put forward by Mr. Rogers and Mr. Lefroy too restricted in its scope. Even though the less ambitious proposals might be more readily accepted, he considered that it would be useful to suggest to the Ministers at this stage some wider scheme; for, even if nothing came of the suggestion at the moment, the ground would be prepared for further development at the next Imperial Conference. Mr. Read was afraid that if too much were thrown upon the Committee at the outset its organisation would break down, and for this reason he was inclined to hasten slowly. Mr. Austen expressed the opinion that the case for extending the scope of the Committee's work on more general lines would be much strengthened if such a suggestion came from the Colonies themselves.
Returning to Mr. Lefroy's scheme, Mr. Read stated that the really important point was the expense. Mr. Lefroy was of opinion that very little expenditure would be involved by his scheme (as modified by the Committee), seeing that he proposed to deal with the specimens himself at the British Museum, while the information obtained could be published in journals or bulletins of various societies already in existence. To this Mr. Marshall objected that unless the information was published and circulated by the Committee there was no point in coming to the Committee at all-a view in which all present concurred. Mr. Marshall stated that he would almost certainly require further assistance, if any additional work were to devolve upon him. Bearing in mind this probability and the necessity for making provision for the cost of printing and publication, the Sub-Committee recom- mended that if the scheme in the revised memorandum, which the Secretary was authorised to treat as embodying the proposals that the Sub-Committee had been instructed to draft, were received with approval, a suggestion should be made to the Colonial Ministers that £500 per annum be contributed to meet the cost incident to the operations involved, i.e., the collection and identification of specimens and the publication of the results.
4. Colonel Prain conveyed the thanks of the Sub-Committee to Mr. Lefroy for attending the meeting.
Annexure 1 to No. 80.
IMPERIAL CO-ORDINATION IN THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF DISEASE IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.
The first memorandum attached has formed the basis of informal discussion and the explanatory memoranda in the different paragraphs have been added from time to time as it became necessary to go into greater detail. This accounts for the