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The following is the estimate:—
Deficit on Printing and Publishing
Salaries
Translations
Total
1,295 50
£1,745
If we published in an existing journal we would only save on the first item, salaries and translations remaining the same.
APPENDIX II.
Proposed Budget Estimate for the Bureau.
Salaries (calculated for 3 years).
Average, £
Director £800-£25-£850 (in grade £800-£25.£1,000)
Pension contribution
825
200
One Scientific Assistant £530-20 570
550
One Clerk and Abstractor £300-10-320
310
One Typist £140-5-150
One Laboratory Attendant (? £2 per week)
Library Grant
Apparatus Grant
General Expenses (including postage, stationery,
travelling, petty expenses, etc.)
Total
Grant
Deficit
145
£175
80
50
100
£2,430
£2,000
£430
Remarks.
Scale proposed for Junior Assistants Imperial Bureau of Entomology (in- clusive of bonus) is £528 to £673 (aver- age £601) in 6 years. Scale proposed for Senior Clerk, Im- perial Bureau of Entomology is £383
to £528, for Ab- stractors is £303 to £456, and for Lady Clerks is £255 to
£383 (all inclusive
of bonus) in from
5 to 10 years. Scale proposed for Shorthand-typists, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (inclu- sive of bonus) is £138 to £223 in 9 years.
MY DEAR PARKINSON,
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No. 148.
DR. MARSHALL to MR. PARKINSON.
British Museum (Natural History),
Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 7, 5th November, 1920. I AM very sorry I have not found time before to read through Dr. Butler's memorandum on the Imperial Bureau of Mycology.*
I quite agree with him that with an income of only £2,000 a year he could not succeed in running a journal on the lines of our Review, and do identification work as well.
I have no more recent account from the Stationery Office than that for our June, 1919, part, and prices now are certainly higher. I should therefore estimate that a volume of 500 pages, with an issue of 1,500 copies, would cost £400 for print- ing and paper; and if an index is made on the same lines as ours, at least another £100 must be added. Moreover, the preparation of our two indices takes the whole time of one assistant. The figures given in Appendix I are not really applicable (except the last two items); they have been taken from the yearly or half-yearly statements of receipts and expenditure, but have no reference to the matter actually published during the period; they merely indicate that a Stationery Office account was paid during that half-year, and the account might cover more than a year's expenditure.
With the remainder of Appendix I. I entirely agree, except as regards the last paragraph, for it seems likely that an independent journal might well expect some financial contribution if it were asked to add a heavy item to its existing printing
costs.
With regard to Appendix II it is difficult to see how any reduction whatever can be made in the estimate.
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No. 149.
Yours sincerely,
GUY A. K. MARSHALL,
Director.
MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF MYCOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL. OFFICE ON
THE 12TH NOVEMBER, 1920, at 3.0 p.m.
Present:
PROFESSOR FARMER (in the chair). CAPTAIN HILL.
MR. RENDLE.
DR. BUTLER (Director).
MR. BECKETT (Secretary).
DR. MARSHALL, Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, also attended during a part of the time.
Dr. Butler's proposals for the working of the Bureau* were discussed, and some amendments made. The Committee considered that a separate publication in the form of an abstracting journal, published monthly, would be most important for the proper working of the Bureau, and that publication in some other journal would be less satisfactory and would not result in any great economy. In addition to the figures given in Dr. Butler's proposals, the cost of indexing and of printing an index (£100), of distribution (£60), would bring up the total cost of the publi cation to £2,100 per annum. This, together with the items specified in Enclosure 2, The present income of the would make a total annual expenditure of £4,530. Bureau being approximately £2,000 per annum, and the reserve fund £4,589 176. 1d., it would clearly be necessary, if this basis was adopted, to appeal for further funds at an early date. The Committee was inclined to think that this could best be done when the first number of the publication was sent out, as there would then be thing to show."
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* No. 147.