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Committee should rent a room or rooms somewhere near the Museum in which Mr. North could carry on his editorial work.
So far as funds went. Mr. Marshall stated that after making allowance for all expenditure that could be foreseen, he anticipated that the Committee would have a balance of £750 on the 31st of March, 1913, apart from any sums paid this financial year by the self-governing Dominions or the West Indies, so that there would be money available for renting rooms. If this course were agreed on, there seemed to be two alternatives, either the Office of Works might be able to let the Committee have one or two rooms for a small rent in the large block of buildings near the Museum recently taken over for the Telephone Service, or they could hire rooms near the Museum in a private house. He understood that the Royal Geographical Society had obtained from the Office of Works accommodation in the building referred to, pending their removal to the new quarters which were being prepared for them. As, however, it was not clear that the Committee could obtain what they wanted from the Office of Works, he and Mr. North had made enquiries and found that there were three suitable rooms available in Elvaston Place which could probably be secured at a rental of £100 per annum. The Sub-Committee recommended
(1) That a letter should be written to the Imperial College of Science and Technology from the Colonial Office to express the thanks of the Com- mittee for the accommodation which had been offered, and to say that the situation had now changed, and that other arrangements were in contemplation:
(2) That the Office of Works should be approached by the Colonial Office as to the provision of temporary accommodation in the building now taken over for the Telephone Service:
(3) That, if it was not possible to obtain rooms in this building, Mr. Marshall should arrange for the renting of the rooms in Elvaston Place to which he had referred, or any other rooms which might be found more suitable, in the neighbourhood of the Museum :
(4) That the question of furnishings and fittings should stand over until it was known where the rooms would be, and whether or not they would be obtained through the Office of Works, but that the Scientific Secretary should have discretionary powers to make such arrangements as might be needful.
3. The Sub-Committee was asked to consider a despatch* from the Governor of Jamaica proposing that. before a Government Entomologist was appointed in the Island, an expert should he sent out for three years to make a preliminary survey of the Island from the point of view of economic entomology.
The Sub-Committee was favourably disposed towards the proposal, but there was the great difficulty of finding a man.
It was suggested that possibly Mr. E. E. Green, who had recently resigned the post of Government Entomologist in Ceylon, would be willing to undertake the work.
4. Mr. Marshall raised the question of making some alteration in the charges agreed on at a recent meeting of the Publication Sub-Committee for the Review of Applied Entomology about to be issued by the Committee. As the result of information received since the Publication Sub-Committee met, it was clear that the Agricultural Part of the Review would generally be larger than the Medical and Veterinary Part, and that the cost of distribution would be greater than the Publica- tion Sub-Committee had contemplated. The Sub-Committee agreed to the following charges in substitution of those accepted by the Publication Sub-Committee :-
Annual subscription for the two Parts together Annual subscription for the Agricultural Part alone Annual subscription for the Medical and Veterinary Part alone Selling price of each number of the Agricultural Part
12s.
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Selling price of each number of the Medical and Veterinary Part 6d.
5. Mr. Read informed the Sub-Committee that he had been in communication with Lord Cromer on the subject of Mr. Marshall's salary, and that Lord Cromer had stated that he was willing to anticipate the approval of the Committee in guaranteeing, a salary of £600 per annum as from the 1st of January next, if the
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Secretary of State concurred. The formal approval of the Colonial Office had been obtained. He was glad, therefore, that it was possible to offer Mr. Marshall salary at the rate of £600 per annum from the 1st of January, 1913, but he was bound to add that although the Colonial Office would do their best to secure the continuance of this salary, they could not, from the nature of things, give an absolute guarantee, and that they could not, of course, offer pension. Mr. Marshall stated that he was quite satisfied with the terms offered.
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No. 92.
SEYCHELLES.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 9 December, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 107.]
Government House, Seychelles,
5th November, 1912.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch, No. 87, of the 3rd ultimo,* setting out the steps taken towards the formation of an Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London.
2. I agree that an institution of this nature would be of the greatest utility This Government would desire to participate in the facilities which will be afforded by this organisation.
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No. 93.
I have, &c.,
W. E. DAVIDSON,
Governor.
HONG KONG.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 9 December, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 108.]
Government House, Hongkong,
14th November, 1912.
SIR,
In reply to your despatch, No. 301, of the 3rd ultimo,* I have the honour to inform you that I am prepared to ask the Legislative Council to vote a sum of £50 per annum as a contribution from this Colony towards the Imperial Bureau of Ento- mology in return for the privilege of entomological advice and assistance (which will principally take the form of the occasional identification of insects) from the Bureau.
I have, &c.,
F. H. MAY,
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Governor, &c.
THE EARL OF CROMER to MR. LEWIS HARCOURT.
(Received 13 December, 1912.)
DEAR MR. HARCOURT,
[Answered by No. 101.]
36, Wimpole Street, W., 12th December, 1912.
You will remember that in my recent report to you on the work done by the Entomological Research Committee, I drew attention to the fact that the scope of that work was soon likely to be extended, so that the Committee would becoine the central organisation in the British Empire for the collection and dissemination of all information bearing upon injurious insects.
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† See No. 1 in [Od. 6429].
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