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No. 16.
MINUTES OF THE 13TH MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON MONDAY, 14TH JULY, 1913.
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PRESENT:
Dr. HARMER (Chairman).
Sir D. PRAIN.
Mr. READ.
Mr. MARSHALL.
Mr. PARKINSON.
The Minutes* of the 12th Meeting of the Sub-Committee were passed. 2. In accordance with the reference at the 15th General Meeting of the Com- mittee,† the Sub-Committee considered the question whether the sum of £708 stand- ing to the credit of the late Entomological Research Committee on the 1st of April, 1913, should be merged in the general funds of the Bureau or kept as a reserve to meet any special expenditure which may be found necessary in connexion with the work of the Bureau in Tropical Africa.
Mr. Marshall observed that the present allocation of expenditure between the different funds of the Bureau was really arbitrary, and that he would be glad to see all the funds merged into one. This being impracticable for the moment, he was inclined to set aside the surplus balance of £708 for meeting new expenditure in Tropical Africa, e.g., Mr. Neave's forthcoming visit to the East Africa Protectorate might involve extra expense for the building of a camp, or, again, the detailing of one of the Carnegie scholars to work under Mr. Fiske in Uganda and Nyasaland would probably necessitate unforeseen expenditure. The possibility of sending out another travelling entomologist was also mooted, but the opinion was expressed that an addition to the staff might be of greater value if it took the form of another assistant for the Director at home.
The prospects of Mr. Fiske's investigations of the bionomics of Glossina morsi- tans developing into a more widely organised "attack upon tsetse" throughout Africa also weighed heavily with the Sub-Committee.
It was finally decided to recommend that the surplus in question should, at any rate, for the present, be retained for meeting expenditure connected directly or indirectly with research work in Tropical Africa.
"Bulletin of Entomological
3. The question of sending free copies of the Research" to all the Colonial Governments which contribute to the Bureau was raised by Mr. Marshall, who explained that the Agent-General for New South Wales had asked for two free copies. In this particular case, he had, after consulting Mr. Read, sent the copies required, but the general question must now be considered. The principle followed in distributing free copies of the "Review of Applied Ento- mology was to give one free copy for cach £10 subscribed to the Bureau: thus Canada receives 50 copies, South Africa 35 copies, and so on.
It was suggested that two free copies might be sent to every contributing Govern- ment: but on the whole some arrangement parallel to that adopted in the case of the Review seemed preferable. Provisionally, the Sub-Committee recommended that it should be left to the discretion of the Director to send free copies of the Bulletin to all contributing Governments at the rate of not more than one copy for each £50 subscribed, but that for the current year no such copies should be sent free unless application were made for them. (N.B.-In the case of the Australian States, and possibly some of the West Indian Islands, this principle cannot be rigidly applied, and special arrangements will be necessary.)
The Sub-Committee further decided that before their next meeting a table should be drawn up showing exactly how this scheme would work out for all contri- buting Governments, including the Tropical African Colonies and Protectorates which at present pay for their copies.
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4. The payment of £12 18s. 6d. from the funds of the Bureau to the Govern- ment of Sierra Leone in respect of the passages of Mr. J. J. Simpson and his native assistant to Accra was approved.
5. Mr. Marshall informed the Sub-Committee that he found a certain difficulty in effecting exchanges with some entomological publications of an unofficial character which it was very desirable for the Bureau to review. In particular, the German forestry journal could not be obtained by exchange.
Among other publications which he had vainly endeavoured to exchange with were the Journal d'Agriculture Pratique, Journal d'Agriculture Tropicale, Progrès Agricole et Viticole, Revue de Viticulture, Il Coltivatore, L'Italia Agricola, Giornale d'Agricoltura Meridionale, Giornale Vinicolo Italiano, Chacaras e Quintaes and A Fazenda. The Sub-Committee recommended that the Director should be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £50 per annum in subscribing to journals of import- ance with which he was unable to effect exchanges.
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No. 17.
AUSTRALIA.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR AUSTRALIA to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 15 July, 1913.) [Answered by No. 20.]
SIR,
72, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.,
14th July, 1913.
I AM directed by the High Commissioner to ask that you will kindly inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that Professor F. V. Theobald, South- Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, will represent the Commonwealth Government on the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
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I am, &c.,
No. 18.
R. MUIRHEAD COLLINS.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 14 July, 1913.)
[Answered by No. 40.]
Government House, Adelaide, 9 June, 1913. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 34, of 28th March last,* I have the honour to report that my Ministers inform me that they concur in the proposal put forward therein as to the representation of the interests of Australia on the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology provided that the other States of Australia agree, in which case the necessary instructions will be sent to the Agent-General for South Australia.
I have, &c.,
DAY H. BOSANQUET,
Governor.
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