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for these will often be hopelessly out of date. These considerations reduce the value of the Museum libraries as sources of material very considerably, and on a very moderate estimate at least 50 per cent. of the periodicals nominally in the Museum libraries must be regarded as non-existent possibly more than 50 per cent."
Outside sources of information.
These are at present as follows :—
(1) Library of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, S.W.;
contains over 200 periodicals which should be seen regularly. (2) Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, Basinghall Street, E.C.; contains a large number of foreign journals and reports, &c., collected by Consuls and others or received in exchange for the Board of Trade Journal, many of them of considerable importance, and very difficult to obtain elsewhere.
(3) The library of the British Association is said to contain a number of useful
periodicals not easily seen elsewhere.
(4) The library of the Imperial Institute.
(5) The library of the Tropical Diseases Committee at the Imperial Institute; contains, as might be expected, a large number of important periodicals -many of which are nominally in the Museum libraries---but are received more regularly by the Tropical Diseases Committee.
(6) The library of the Colonial Institute.
There remain some 500 periodicals which so far have not been located; it may be estimated that of these probably 100 will be found at the Imperial Institute or else- where, or are not of sufficient importance to warrant the consumption of time required to find and peruse them. But the number will be more than made up by other periodicals relating to agriculture, forestry, and veterinary medicine, especially Russian, which are known to exist, but the correct titles of which have not yet been obtained.
Papers dealing with the fruit-growing and wine industries of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and other (non-European) countries are very numerous, and fresh references are constantly being found.
Agricultural and experiment stations in the United States of America and Canada have been entirely omitted from these estimates of desirable exchanges. They will add seriously to the figure.
The total number of references to periodic literature more or less germane to the subject thus approaches 2,000, and of these a very large number will rarely contain any useful material. How far they may be ignored will be a matter for experience, but making every allowance on this score the balance remaining is somewhat formid- able. Nevertheless, provided the material be readily accessible, the papers requiring abstracts can be very rapidly sorted out, and a very fair digest made monthly."
4. The Sub-Committee requested Mr. Marshall to express to Mr. North their pleasure at the thorough and efficient way in which he had dealt with the matter under consideration.
N.B.-The question of the charge to be made for the new publication was raised subsequently at a meeting of the Finance Sub-Committee at which the Chairman of the Publication Sub-Committee was present, and it was then decided that, in view of information since obtained by Mr. Marshall as to the cost of production and the probable inequality in size between the two parts, the charges should be:-
A. Annual subscription:
1. For both parts taken together
2. For agricultural part only
3. For medical and veterinary part only
B. Separate copies:
1. Each agricultural part
2. Each medical and veterinary part
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No. 86.
MALAY STATES.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 546.)
(Received 30 November, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 107.]
Government House, Singapore, 7th November, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 401, of 3rd October, 1912, on the subject of the proposed formation of an Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, and to inform you that I share the view expressed by you that an institution of the kind proposed would be of great utility. The Federated Malay States Government will gladly participate in the facilities which will be afforded by this organisation.
I have, &c.,
ARTHUR YOUNG.
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SIR,
(No. 89.)
No. 87.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 30 November, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 133.]
Government House, St. John's, 15 November, 1912. REFERRING to your despatch, No. 199, of the 3rd October, 1912, and my telegram of the 8th November, in relation to the proposed scheme of Imperial co- operation in the investigation of noxious insect pests, have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter on the subject received from the Colonial Secretary.
SIR,
I have, &c.,
Enclosure in No. 87.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
RALPH WILLIAMS.
St. John's, Newfoundland, 31st October, 1912. REFERRING to despatch, No. 199, of date 3rd October, from the Right Honour- able the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in relation to the proposed scheme for Imperial co-operation in preventing the spread and furthering the investigation of noxious insect pests, I have the honour to intimate that Ministers will co-operate in this work and will contribute the sum of £50 annually for three years towards the cost of investigation, it being understood that the above is the maximum amount that the Colony will be responsible for.
Regarding representation, I would say that Ministers do not consider it neces- sary that this Colony be represented on the managing body of the Bureau.
I have, &c.,
R. WATSON,
His Excellency
Sir Ralph Williams, K.C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
Colonial Secretary.
No. 71.
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