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No. 119.
BRITISH HONDURAS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 27 January, 1913.)
Government House, Belize, 4th January, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Miscellaneous despatch of the 19th November last,* and to inform you that, after consulting such Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council as are in town, I have sent instructions to the Crown Agents to pay for this year the amount of the annual contribution approved of by the Legislative Council.
I have, &c.,
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No. 120.
E. J. E. SWAYNE, Colonel,
Governor.
MINUTES OF THE FOURTEENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE ENTO- MOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL Office At 12 NOON ON WEDNESDAY, 29TH JANUARY, 1913.
PRESENT:
The EARL OF CROMER (Chairman).
Colonel ALCOCK.
Mr. AUSTEN.
Sir J. ROSE BRADFORD.
Dr. HARMER.
Dr. MACDOUGALL.
Professor NEWSTEAD.
Professor NUTTALL.
Professor P'OULTON.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir D. PRAIN.
Mr. READ.
Mr. SCOTT.
Dr. SHIPLEY.
Sir S. STOCKMAN.
Mr. THEOBALD.
Mr. WARBURTON.
Mr. MARSHALL.
Mr. PARKINSON.
1. Before taking the business on the agenda, the Chairman expressed on behalf of the Committee the pleasure with which they had heard of the recent honour conferred on their colleague, Sir Stewart Stockman, in recognition of his services at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
2. The minutest of the thirteenth general meeting of the Committee were approved subject to the substitution of the words "would be merely abstracts or would attempt to summarise the existing state of knowledge" for the words" would be abstracts or merely a summary of results" in the last paragraph on page 2 of the minutes as printed.
3. A report was received from the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee (copy annexed). Mr. Read observed that the success of the scheme for the institution of an Imperial Bureau of Entomology was now assured, seeing that, although the Government of India would not at present support it, the self-governing Dominions and the Imperial Treasury had all agreed to contribute to the Bureau as proposed. Lord Cromer stated that he thought the results of the Committee's efforts in this direction were most satisfactory. As regards contributions from the Egyptian and Sudan Governments, he promised to write further to Lord Kitchener, so as to ensure that the matter should not be overlooked.
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Mr. Marshall presented his quarterly report to the Committee, prefacing it by an expression of his thanks for the generous way in which the question of his salary had been dealt with (copy of the report annexed).
Three matters arising out of the report were discussed:-
(i) Free copies of the Review. Mr. Marshall suggested that, as a working arrangement, the Governments which contributed to the Bureau should be sent one free copy of the Review for each £10 contributed. At this rate, Canada, whose requirements were placed by Dr. Gordon Hewitt at 40 free copies, would receive 50 copies; South Africa 35; the Australian Commonwealth 20; New Zealand 20; the Australian States 30; Newfoundland 5.
Dr. Shipley, as representing the Canadian Government, said that there was no doubt that free copies should be issued to the Governments which contributed, as in some cases, certainly in that of Canada, the Review was really the only part of the work of the Bureau which would be of value, and he proposed therefore that Mr. Marshall should be authorised to send out not more than one copy for each £10 contri- buted. Dr. Harmer having suggested that there was no need to send more copies than were really wanted, the Committec accepted Dr. Shipley's proposal that Mr. Marshall should distribute such number of free copies as he considered necessary within the limits indicated. any particular Colony should find the number insufficient for its needs, it was understood that Mr. Marshall would have a certain margin of discretion, but that he would refer to the Committee in the case of any application which departed far from the principle laid down above.
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(ii) Separation of the Bureau from the Committee. The Committee were unable to understand exactly on what grounds Dr. Gordon Hewitt took exception to the merging of the Committee in the Bureau. The obvious line of action was to substitute the Imperial Bureau of Entomology for the present Entomological Research Committee, and to let the Committee, as Managing Committee of the Bureau, deal with the whole of the work to which the new or the old organisation gave rise. If it was thought necessary, arrangements could be made for keeping separate (1) the sums contributed by, or on behalf of, the Tropical African Colonies and Protectorates, (2) the Carnegie Fund, (3) the funds of the Bureau. The funds of the Bureau would include the grant of £500 from the Treasury and the contributions from the self-govern- ing Dominions, the Eastern Colonies," the West Indies, Fiji, Zanzi- bar, Egypt, and the Sudan. It would not be necessary for Canada's contribution to be expended on tropical Africa nor for that of Southern Nigeria to be expended on Australía, as by a simple method of account- ing it would be possible to allocate all expenditure to the proper fund.
Incidentally, Mr. Marshall pointed out that the tropical African Colonies and Protectorates ought not perhaps to be given free copies of the Review, unless they paid something direct to the Bureau. Mr. Read thought that this difficulty could be met by deducting, say, 10 per cent. of their contributions and placing this sum to the credit of the Bureau. In any event the Committee were clearly of the opinion that it would be most undesirable to endeavour to confine the Bureau to any particular group or groups of Colonies. It was understood that Mr. Marshall had asked Dr. Hewitt to explain more fully what were the reasons which led him to think that there might be some objection to the merging of the Committee in the Bureau, and Mr. Marshall stated that he would communicate the reply to the Committee at their next meeting.
(iii) It was decided to accept the invitation for a representative of the Com- mittee to attend the International Congress of Zoology at Monaco in March. Professor Poulton consented to act in this capacity.
5. Copies of the correspondence* with Colonial Governments as to the forma-
tion of an Imperial Bureau of Entomology were received.
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6. A letter from the India Office notifying the unwillingness of the Indian
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