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summer. If this suggestion is approved it would be advisable that Dr. Stanton should be informed of the fact as soon as possible.
3. With respect to Japan, I may mention that the Government of that country have at last appointed an entomologist to commence a mosquito survey, and we have already received a preliminary collection of the mosquitoes occurring in the vicinity of Tokio, but it is probable that it will be several years before the survey of the whole country is completed.
I have, &c.,
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GUY A. K. MARSHALL,
No. 70.
MALAY STATES.
Director.
COLONIAL OFFICE to IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Downing Street, 25th February, 1916.
SIR,
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant,* and to inform you that he concurs in the suggestion that the visit of Dr. A. T. Stanton to Chinese and Japanese ports, in connexion with the investigation into the mosquito-fauna of the principal ports in the Far East, should be postponed until next year.
I am, &c.,
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No. 71.
H. W. JUST.
MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTO- MOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLOnial Office at 3.0 p.m on the 15TH OF MAY, 1916.
Present:
MR. L. HARCOURT (Chairman).
DR. BAGSHAWE.
SIR DAVID BRUCE.
DR. HARMER.
SIR JOHN MCCALL,
PROFESSOR MACDOUGALL.
SIR DANIEL MORRIS.
PROFESSOR NUTTALL.
PROFESSOR POULTON.
SIR DAVID PRAIN.
MR. READ.
DR. SHIPLEY.
SIR STEWART STOCKMAN.
DR. MARSHALL.
MR. NEAVE.
MR. FIDDIAN (Acting Secretary).
THE minutest of the Twenty-Second General Meeting were approved. The Chairman explained that he had been unable to communicate with Mr. Carnegie on the subject of the renewal of the grant for studentships, as he had undertaken He said that if the Director would to do, owing to Mr. Carnegie's ill-health. ascertain the proper person to be approached he would gladly write to the Carnegie Trustees in this country on the subject, though he feared that their functions were limited by a specific trust. Sir Daniel Morris concurred in this opinion.
* No. 69.
+ No. 42 in Miscellaneous No. 814.
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The Half-Yearly Report* of the Director was received. Dr. Marshall explained various points arising out of the report. He said that the Bureau had been unable to get any reports from Dr. J. J. Simpson. The index to the Review of Applied Entomology would cost about £150. They had had one additional reply (an acceptance) to their circular inviting advertisements of insecticides for Russia; He considered this result the space taken up would be about eight pages. disappointing.
It was decided that Dr. Stanton's mosquito survey of the Japanese and northern Chinese ports should be deferred until the summer of 1917.
The Committee agreed to authorize the Director to make preliminary inquiries in regard to the necessary additional accommodation for the Bureau, and to refer the matter to the Finance Sub-Committee when he judged it desirable.
The minutest of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Finance Sub-Committee were received. Dr. Harmer explained various points arising out of the proceedings of the Sub-Committee.
The Committee received Mr. Fiske's final report on his investigations into Glossina in Uganda. The Chairman said that arrangements had been made for Mr. Fiske to attend the meeting, but, owing to some misunderstanding, Mr. Fiske had not arrived. Dr. Bagshawe said that, as a member of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, he had seen progress reports by Mr. Fiske and a report by Dr. Carpenter on his and Mr. Fiske's work. He did not know what had happened to these reports, but he thought the Committee should have them before them when considering the final report. The most important point established by Mr. Fiske's studies in the bionomics of Glossina was that man is only a casual host. The natural food of the fly was amphibious animals, and man was only utilized when those animals were driven out. He thought that Mr. Fiske had shown that complete extermination of the fly was unnecessary; as had been demonstrated in the case of Anopheles and Stegomyia, reduction below a certain proportion had the desired effect.
Professor Poulton thought that it would be a good thing to try the suggested experiment of allowing the natives to return to certain selected localities, but Mr. Neave said that he thought this involved administrative questions that concerned the local authorities. The Chairman supported this view.
Dr. Marshall said that Mr. Fiske approached the problem from a wider point of view than that of a pure and simple entomologist. He had conclusively shown that something had happened to make the islands safer and more habitable. He had had some hundreds of natives working for him, but no one had developed sleeping sickness. The most fertile part of Uganda had been depopulated, and It was useless to the problem was: how could the population be brought back? destroy the fly in an area unless that area was going to be occupied. For example, the Nyasaland policy of throwing open to the killing off of game a remote area, which is quite unsuitable for settlement, was futile.
Dr. Shipley thought they should wait for further information, but not neces- sarily until the next general meeting was held in the ordinary course, six months hence. If the material was available a special meeting could be called.
Sir David Bruce suggested that Mr. Fiske's report should be published as a Dr. Harmer thought that a number in the Sleeping Sickness Reports series. communication should be addressed to the Royal Society, and the Chairman suggested that the Director should ascertain whether the Sleeping Sickness Com- mittee was still in existence, and, if so, whether they wanted to take any part in nublishing the report; if not, it might be published at the expense of the Colonial Office.
The Committee received Dr. Lamborn's third report on his Glossina investi- gations in Nyasaland. Professor Poulton said that it was a very valuable addi- tion to the accumulated knowledge of the subject. Several members said that the time allowed them for the study of this and Mr. Fiske's reports had been inadequate.
The Committee received a report. § furnished by the Japanese Govern- ment, on the distribution of mosquitoes in the Far East.
* Annexure to these minutes.
+ No. 67. t Enclosure 7 in No. 88.
§ Enclosure in No. 66,
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