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IV. ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
No. 35.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
REPORT OF THE GLOSSINA SUB-COMMITTEE,
*
Ar the. Thirty-Third General Meeting of the Committee, copies of communi- cations from the Secretary of State to the Government of the Union of South Africa, the East and West African Governments, the Foreign Office and the British South Africa Company, relative to tsetse fly investigations, were circulated. At the same meeting the Director of the Bureau read a summary of the replies which had then been received, and it was decided that when the outstanding replies from the Government of Kenya and from Northern Rhodesia had been received, the replies should be submitted to the Glossina Sub-Committee for examination and report.
2. The conclusions at which the Sub-Committee arrived in April last, after examining all the correspondence, were as follows:—
(i) A statement of the investigations contemplated (with an estimate of expenditure) should be prepared for consideration at the Conference with repre- sentatives of the Rockefeller Institute which had been arranged by the Colonial Office for the month of June.
(ii) Meanwhile, the preliminary work begun by Mr. Swynnerton in the Tanganyika Territory should be continued, and steps taken to ascertain whether work might not be started in Nigeria as recommended in the despatch on the subject from the Government of Nigeria.
(iii) For any general scheme of investigation throughout Africa, the appoint- ment of one well-qualified man as Director or Inspector-General was necessary, in order to secure co-operation and co-ordination; but this work could not be combined with the actual work of investigation, as the whole time of the Director or Inspector- General would be occupied in visiting in turn the experimental stations in Africa and reporting to the Bureau.
(iv) The men appointed for the work of investigation must be offered good salaries, and, in view of the recognized danger of the work, they should be insured at the expense of the Bureau.
(v) No expenditure could be incurred by the Bureau out of its normal revenues in respect of the investigation.
3. A statement was accordingly prepared for the Rockefeller Conference, but the discussions at the Conference turned on more general questions of organiza- tion for training and research in public hygiene and sanitation; and the suggestion that a specific investigation should be taken up, such as that proposed by the Sub- Committee, was not proceeded with.
4. A definitè scheme of investigation has, however, been set on foot in Nigeria under Dr. W. B. Johnson, West African Medical Staff, and Mr. Ll. Lloyd, for which the Government of Nigeria is providing the necessary funds; and it is hoped that valuable results will be obtained from their work.
The Government of the Union of South Africa has already initiated experi mental work in Zululand; the Government of Uganda is utilizing the services of Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter and Mr. W. F. Fiske in connexion with sleeping sickness work and the reclamation of tsetse fly infected areas; the Government of the Tanganyika Territory has authorized Mr.. C. F. Swynnerton to conduct, certain inquiries, including a survey of the distribution of the different species of glossina, in the Territory; and it is understood that Dr. W. A. Lamborn will shortly return to Nyasaland as Medical Entomologist, when work of a similar nature should be practicable in that Protectorate.
5. In present circumstances it is unlikely that more than this can be done. The financial position both at home and in the Colonies is such that it would be useless to attempt to raise a large fund for extended investigations in different parts of Africa, on the lines contemplated by the Sub-Committee, and it is feared, therefore, that the general scheme must remain in abeyance. Consequently, the appointment of a Director or Inspector-General to co-ordinate the work, reference to which is made in the conclusions quoted above, does not now arise.
* No. 124 in Miscellaneous No. 821.
Nos. 103, 104, 105 and 108 in Miscellaneous No. 821. No. 116 in Miscellaneous No. 821.
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6. For the information of the Committee, a summary* of the replies received from the Governments with which the Secretary of State communicated on this subject in May, 1920, is circulated with this report.
H. J. READ.
1st November, 1921.
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No. 36.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Chairman.
MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE
MANAGING COMMITTEE, HELD ON 17TH NOVEMBER, 1921. ·
Present":
SIR DAVID PRAIN (Chairman).~*
MAJOR AUSTEN.
DR. BAGSHAWE.
SIR SIDNEY HARMER.
DR. MACDougall.
SIR DANIEL MORRIS. PROFESSOR POULTON.
SIR HERBERT READ
DR. SCOTT.
MR. THEOBALD.
DR. MARSHALL (Director).
DR. NEAVE (Assistant Director).
MR. PARKINSON (Secretary).
In the absence of Lord Harcourt, who wrote expressing his regret at being
unable to attend the meeting, Sir David Prain took the chair.
2. The minutes of the Thirty-fourth General Meetingt were approved.
3. The report of the Glossina Sub-Committee was received.
Sir Herbert Read stated that although a large scheme of tsetse fly investigation
in Africa was in present circumstances impracticable, owing to the impossibility of raising funds for the purpose, considerable work in connexion with tsetse fly investi- gations was actually now in progress in different parts of Africa, further details as to which were given in the Director's report. A general scheme such as the Sub- Committee had contemplated must therefore remain in abeyance for the present, but he hoped that at a later date, when conditions were more favourable, it might be revived.
The Committee accepted the report, and expressed their thanks to the members of the Sub-Committee.
4. The report of the Director for the half-year ended the 30th of September, 1921, was received:
Dr. Marshall amplified certain paragraphs in the report:-
(i) General. He called special attention to the valuable assistance received from Mr. G. E. Bryant, and to the extension of the identification work, especially in regard to grasshoppers, which the appointment of Dr. B. Uvarov had rendered practicable.
(ii) Finance.-Since the report had been prepared, a despatch had been received from the Governor of Jamaica to the effect that the Government would be asked to vote next year an additional sum of £50, as well as a contribution of £100 for the year, so as to bring the contribution for the years 1921 and 1922 up to a total of £200.
As regards the estimated balance shown in Appendix II, it must be borne in mind that provision had to be made this year for payment for twenty parts of the Review of Applied Entomology and for eight parts of the Bulletin of Entomological Research. This was practically double the normal expenditure in one year on these publications. Consequently, the balance estimated at the end of the financial year was considerably less than would usually be the case on the present basis of working.
Appendix to No. 188 in Miscellaneous No. 821.
↑ No. 35. § Annexure.
No. 185 in Miscellaneous No. 821. 49040: not printed.