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able, and that the Secretary of State hoped that the Canadian and Australian Governments would also agree. A reply to this telegram had already been received from the Governor of New South Wales on behalf of the Australian States, to the effect that the State Governments were quite willing to double their contribution from next year onwards if the Commonwealth Government would do the same.
As regards the balance estimated at the 31st March, 1921, Dr. Marshall pointed out that, with the increased rates of contribution now anticipated, there would be no need to realize, at any rate for five years, the sum of £2,500 invested in Four per cent. Funding Stock, so that, although there would be a considerable loss of capital if that stock had to be realized, there was no need to treat this as a definite loss at present.
On the Directors' report, and the report of the Finance Sub-Committee, the following action was taken :—
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(a) The reports were approved generally.
(b) Satisfaction with the results of the appeal for increased contribu- tions was expressed.
(c) It was decided to meet the expenses of the Imperial Entomological Conference from the Carnegie Fund.
(d) The Director was authorized to spend up to £250 on expenses con- nected with moving, furnishing, installation of gas and electricity, etc.. in the new premises for the Publication Office.
(e) A rent of £250 per annum for the new premises was approved, on the understanding that the lease for twenty-one years could be broken after seven years, when the rent would be liable to reassessment.
(f) The Secretary was instructed to ascertain from the appropriate Government Department whether the Bureau could be exempted from the scientific or literary payment of rates under the Act of 1843 as being a society."
Dr. Marshall reported that the Belgian Government had produced a sum- mary of all information available as to tsetse flies up to 1915. Major Austen had read the greater part of the Belgian summary, and was prepared to translate it into English for publication by the Bureau.
Dr. Marshall thought that it would be a very useful publication, subject to certain improvements in some of the illustrations, and it was decided that he should arrange for translation by Major Austen, and publication by the Bureau; that a thousand copies should be printed, the estimated cost of printing being about £120; that a fee of £50 should be paid to Major Austen for the work, and that the cost of publication and translation should be met from the £1,000 reserve balance of the Tropical African Fund.
5. The question of taking advertisements for the Review of Applied Entomology was considered.
Dr. Marshall explained that originally Dr. Gordon Hewitt had been strongly opposed to advertisements in the Review. The Tropical Diseases Bulletin, how- ever, took advertisements, and advertisements were also taken in the Bulletin of Entomological Research.
In this connexion Dr. Bagshawe stated that he realized a sum of about £120 per annum on advertisements in The Tropical Diseases Bulletin.
As regards the nature of advertisements to be accepted, Professor Nuttall urged that all proprietary remedies, except those of known formulæ, should be refused; otherwise the Bureau might find itself in the very difficult position of lending its authority to advertisements of doubtful remedies."
It was decided, after some discussion, that the Director should be authorized to accept advertisements for the Review, provided that they did not interfere with the text and index, and subject to his being satisfied that they were advertisements of a kind which might properly be inserted, e.g., books and publications, scientific instruments, etc.
6. A copy of a lettert from the Colonial Office to the Director of the Bureau, with regard to the proposals made at the Imperial Entomological Conference, was received.
7. Copies of communications from the Secretary of State to the Union of South Africa, East and West African Governments, Foreign Office, and British South Africa Company, with regard to tsetse fly investigations, were received.
Nos. 108, 104, 105 and 108.
* 57724: not printed. + No. 111.
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Dr. Marshall read a summary, prepared by the Secretary, of the replies so far received. It was shown that these replies were for the most part very favour- able. The Committee agreed that, as soon as the outstanding replies from the Kenya Colony and Northern Rhodesia were received, the replies should be sub- mitted to the Glossina Sub-Committee for examination and report.
In this connexion Dr. Marshall mentioned the fact that, at a meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Diseases, the report of the Glossina Sub-Committee had been strongly criticized by Dr. Warrington Yorke. Sir John Bradford explained briefly that Dr. Yorke's criticisms were obviously due to a misconception, and he expressed the view, which the Committee accepted, that the attack might be ignored.
8. The report of the Imperial Entomological Conference* was received. Arising out of the report, Dr. Marshall brought forward the question whether arrangements should be made for the publication of systematic papers on entomology. At the Conference the point had been raised, and the opinion then expressed was that such papers should be published in other suitable journals rather than that a separate journal should be issued by the Bureau for this special purpose. Dr. Marshall had accordingly made inquiries, and he thought that he might be able to arrange for such papers to be published in the Transactions of the Entomological Society or in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. So far as he could judge, the Bureau would probably have to pay about £4 or £5 per sheet (sixteen pages) for the publication of such papers.
The Committee authorized Dr. Marshall to make full inquiries and to submit the matter for further consideration at the next meeting. In the meantime, he must inform the Editor of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History that he was not in a position to make any arrangement at present.
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Annexure 1.
HALF-YEARLY REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, THE Conference of the Economic Entomologists of the Empire that was held during the past half-year marks an important turning-point in the development of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology; for not only is there now some reasonable assurance of the permanence of the organization, but also its capacity for doing really useful work is likely to be materially enhanced.
The circular despatch issued by the Secretary of State to the Dominions and Colonies urging them to increase their annual grants to the Bureau in accordance with the recommendations made by the Conference has already received a very satisfactory response. Up to the present sixteen Governments have replied, all of them in the affirmative, and the amounts promised are as follows
Union of South Africa
Nigeria
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
£
700
1,000
700
200
Egypt
300
Southern Rhodesia
300
Northern Rhodesia
100
Federated Malay States
750 500
Ceylon
Hong Kong.
300
Straits Settlements
200
Fiji
200
British North Borneo
100
Mauritius
250
50
200
50
Seychelles Cyprus Malta
* [Cmd. 885.]