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he could be offered better terms. He had suggested the scale of £600- £25-£700 with £120 duty allowance, arguing that other West African officials served for a comparatively short time and then drew a pension, whereas he had no such prospect, and further, that the normal practice in West Africa was to grant to officers a duty allowance of 20 per cent. of the initial salary of their appointments. The Sub-Committee could not, however, see their way to accept his proposals, and decided to recommend that he be offered re-engagement for a period of three years at a commencing salary of £525 in the scale £500-£25-£600.
(b) The Sub-Committee recommended that Mr. North should be placed on an incremental scale of salary, and that he should be granted annual increments of £20 up to a maximum of £400.
(c) Mr. Marshall stated that he found considerable difficulty in retaining his Assistants at the present fixed salary of £150, and suggested that if increments could be offered they would probably be more satisfied with their prospects.
The Sub-Committee recommended that the
Assistants should be granted increments of £15 up to a maximum of
£200.
6. The Sub-Committee considered the question of reducing the issue of the Bulletin and the Review in connection with a notification received from Messrs. Dulau as to the need for increasing their charge for storing surplus stock. Out of 2,000 copies of the Review only 700 to 800 were at present disposed of, and the remainder had to be kept by Messrs. Dulau. The Sub-Committee were inclined to reduce the size of the issue, possibly by 500, but, at Sir David Prain's suggestion, it was decided to include this question in the agenda for the next general meeting, on the 6th of November.
7. The Sub-Committee agreed to the payment of a fee of £25 to Mr. C. War- burton for identification work done on behalf of the Bureau.
8. Mr. Marshall raised the question of payment for Russian translation and correspondence. The scale on which he was paying Mr. G. Hermer for this work was 4s. for a typewritten page of 400 words. Payment at this rate had amounted to over £30 in about four inonths, and there was no prospect of a decrease in the Russian work. The original arrangement suggested by Mr. Hermer was that he should be given a retaining fee of £60 per annum, for which he would undertake to attend two days a week at the Bureau. Mr. Marshall was authorised to ascertain whether such an arrangement would still be satisfactory to Mr. Hermer.
9. The Sub-Committee discussed at length the desirability of making a charge for the special index to the Review. It was stated that the index would be very full (probably 200 pages), and that there were several journals, for instance, the Zoologischer Anzeiger and the Bulletin of the Tropical Diseases Bureau, the sub- scription to which did not include the index. The Chairman enquired whether the Bureau might be thought to have committed a breach of faith with its subscribers if they treated the index as separate from the Review, at any rate, as regards the first volume. The Sub-Committee were of the opinion that no such suggestion could fairly be made, but that the best plan would be to issue as part of the ordinary volume, and paged consecutively with the last number, a short index, and to add a note to the effect that the full index could be obtained at whatever sum it may be decided to charge when the cost of its production is known.
Annexure to No. 45.
MEMORANDUM AS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF FREE COPIES OF THE BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND THE REVIEW OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY TO THE CONTRIBUTING COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS.
1. A provisional arrangement has been approved leaving it to the discretion of the Director of the Bureau to send to the contributing Governments (other than those in Tropical Africa) free copies of the Bulletin and Review at the rate of not more than one copy of the former for each £50 subscribed, and one copy of the latter for each £10 subscribed.
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2. The effect of this scheme of distribution, assuming that it is extended to the Tropical African Governments, and that the maximum number of copies is sent in each case, is shown in the following table :-
Government.
...
Six Australian States New Zealand Newfoundland West Indies Egypt Sudan
Free copies of
Review.
Annual Contribution.
Free copies of Bulletin.
£
India Canada...
500
10
500
South Africa ...
350
7
Australian Commonwealth
200
300
200
50
250
50
50
Ceylon
100
Malay States
100
50
50
50
25
50
1
500
10
350
7
Sierra Leone
100
2
10
Gambia
50
1
50(a)
1,000(6)
20
100
4,925
99
Hong Kong Straits... Mauritius Seychelles
Fiji Nigeria
**
Gold Coast
Zanzibar
East Africa Uganda Nyasaland Somaliland
Totals
(a) Subscription will probably be raised to £100 next year.
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(b) Paid by the Imperial Treasury.
As the annual subscription for the Bulletin is 10s. and that for the Review 12s., the nominal cost to the Bureau of free copies distributed as above would be £345 per annum.
3. It should be noted that this scheme is not strictly applicable in the case of the Australian States, the West Indies, and Seychelles. It will be seen from the following list that some of the contributions from these Governments are so small that the approved rate of reckoning free copies will not work :—.
Queensland (a)
4.
New South Wales (a)
Victoria (a)
South Australia (a) Western Australia (a) Tasmania (a)
Seychelles Antigua Barbados
British Guiana British Honduras Dominica Grenada
Jamaica
St. Kitts-Nevis St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Trinidad
£41
111
89
27
19
: 13
25
5 25
50 20
10
15
50
10
10
5
50
It may be mentioned that the Imperial Government, which contributes £500
per annum to the Bureau, does not receive in return free copies of the Bureau's
(a) The contribution of £300 from the Australian State Governments has been divided among the six States at their own request on a population basis.
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