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of the Bureau to assist certain persons already engaged in important work of this character, but unable to carry it on at their own expense. The Sub-Committee agreed to give the Director authority to expend not more than £100 at his discretion on the purpose specified.
The Sub-Committee also authorized Dr. Marshall to spend a sum not exceeding £25 on the provision of wooden shelving to store the copies of the Review, which were at present stacked in the basement at 89, Queen's Gate.
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No. 81.
IMPERIAL
MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE
THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, held at tHE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 22ND OF NOVEMBER,
1917.
Present:
VISCOUNT HARCOURT (Chairman).
COLONEL ALCOCK.
DR. BAGSHAWE.
MR. BLECH.
SIR DAVID BRUCE.
MR. FRYER.
DR. HARMER.
PROFESSOR MACDOUGALL.
SIR DANIEL MORRIS.
PROFESSOR NEWSTEAD.
PROFESSOR NUTTALL.
SIR DAVID PRAIN.
MR. READ.
MR. SCOTT.
SIR STEWART STOCKMAN.
MR. THEOBAI.D.
DR. MARSHALL.
MR. NEAVE.
MR. FIDDIAN (Acting Secretary),
THE minutes of the Twenty-fifth Meeting* were confirmed.
The Half-Yearly Reportt of the Director was received. Dr. Marshall dealt with various points arising out of it. Since the report had been written a letter had been received from Dr. Trägardh and it was hoped to receive some Scandinavian abstracts from him shortly. The publication of Dr. Stanton's report was discussed, and it was decided to hold this question over until the report was received.
The minutes of the Twenty-first Meeting of the Finance Sub-Committee were received. Dr. Harmer said that they called for no special comment. With refer- ence to the sum voted to assist the anopheline survey in this country, Dr. Marshall explained the circumstances under which the proposed investigations had arisen. This question was discussed, and the Chairman, Sir Stewart Stockman, and Professor Newstead offered to render assistance in obtaining material.
Dr. J. J. Simpson's reports was received. Dr. Marshall commented on various points arising out of this, and said that he did not think it contained any very tangible results, with one or two exceptions, such as the breeding of some of the Glossina parasites in Sarcophaga. This might enable such parasites to be reared and transported to other parts of Africa in large numbers He thought there was considerable field for the development of this method in dealing with the Glossina problem.
Dr. Marshall stated that a request had been received from the Council of the Association of Economic Biologists for the loan of a room for their meetings at 89, Queen's Gate. This was approved of. It was also agreed that joint repre- sentations should be made by the Committee and the Council of the above Associa- tion to the Minister of Reconstruction, calling attention to the importance of economic biology and expressing the hope that this would not be lost sight of after the War.
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Annexure.
HALF-YEARLY REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. THE fact that we have had no travelling Entomologists working for us in Africa during the past six months has led to a very marked diminution in the number of insects received by the Bureau, the total being a little more than one- third of the lowest previous record. This reduction in the material to be dealt with has rendered it possible to carry on the identification work for the present with- out replacing either of the two Entomologists whose services we have lost. During the period referred to, fifty-nine collections of insects were received from thirty- one different correspondents, distributed thus: Europe, nine; Asia, three; Africa, twelve; and Tropical America, seven. These consignments contained some 3,800 insects, of which 1,100 were blood-suckers. So far as we have ascertained, only a single small parcel of insects from Jamaica has been lost through the efforts of German submarines, and there is no reason to suppose that any of our fairly numerous out-going parcels have suffered from this cause.
Staff. As mentioned in my last report, Mr. James Waterson applied for a commission in the London Sanitary Corps, and this he eventually received. Towards the end of June he was sent out to Salonika on special work in connexion with the malaria problem, and since his arrival we have received several consign- ments of mosquitoes and other insects from him. Dr. J. J. Simpson terminated his service with the Bureau on the 22nd of August last, and subsequently secured Before leaving for Africa he a commission in the West African Field Force. handed in his report on his recent work in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, and copies of this have been circulated to members of the Committee.
Towards the end of September the last of our attendants, E. A. Bateman, Another boy has been engaged arrived at military age, and has been called up. in his place. At the present time, therefore, four of our men are on active service, and two have been seconded for special work.
At our last meeting the Committee gave authority for the employment of additional assistants for the purpose of carrying on the compilation of the com- prehensive catalogue of plant pests. The first difficulty was to find a man having the requisite entomological knowledge to undertake the direct supervision of the work. After unduly protracted negotiations an arrangement was made with the officer in charge of the Hygiene Section of the London Sanitary Corps, whereby Mr. Hugh Scott, who was engaged on fly investigations for the Corps, was per- mitted to work for us nominally for half his time (actually it will work out at rather more) on the condition of our defraying one-half the salary of £200 a year paid to him by the War Office. This arrangement came into force only on the 1st October, but Mr. Scott has already made a very satisfactory start.
One of our abstractors, Mrs. Prouse, has shown some aptitude for this kind of work, and as the completion of the triennial and two annual indices has relieved the pressure in the Queen's Gate office, it has now been arranged that she shall give half her time to abstracting and half to the catalogue. When she has become more thoroughly conversant with the details of the work it is proposed to engage another woman assistant, whom she can train specially for the purpose.
The "Review of Applied Entomology." The distribution of this publication has now been going on sufficiently long for us to be able to satisfy ourselves that we are making an appreciable saving through having taken over the business from our publishers, and in several other respects the present arrangement is distinctly more satisfactory than the old one. Messrs. Dulau & Company's charges for com- mission, postage, and warehousing have been very uniform for the last three years, We estimate that the cost of distri- the average working out at £145 per annum, bution and book-keeping for the current year will amount to little more than £100. The material for review continues to come in steadily at a very uniform rate, and it is probable that the completed volume for 1917 will be not more than forty pages larger than that for last year. The arrival of our Russian publications is decidedly erratic, but we appear to be receiving everything that we should.
Unfortunately our hopes of securing abstracts from the Japanese have not yet materialized, A good many months after we had made our arrangement with Dr. Miyake I wrote to inquire how matters were progressing; in reply he informed me that he had had a number of abstracts made, but did not consider
* No. 79.
↑ Annexure to these minutes.
1 No. 80.
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