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Major Austen has now completed his translation of M. Hegh's pamphlet on tsetse flies, and M. Hegh has recently paid a visit to this country in order to arrange about the additions that are necessary to bring the matter up to date from 1915. It is hoped that the manuscript will be ready for the printers by the end of the year. An outlay of £30 15s. 6d. has already been incurred in respect of systematic papers published in journals other than our own. So far, these have all appeared in the Annals & Magazine of Natural History, and comprise three papers on flies, by Mr. J. R. Malloch, and two on new Indian and South African grasshoppers by Mr. Uvarov-94 pages in all. In addition to the payment for printing of 58. a page, the charges include the cost of thirty author's reprints of each paper and a few illustrations.
Glossina Investigations.--As explained in the report of the Glossina Sub-Com- mittee, adverse financial conditions have made it impossible to organize entomo- logical investigations along the lines previously contemplated. But it is satisfactory to be able to report that, thanks to the cordial co-operation of the Governor of Nigeria, Sir Hugh Clifford, work of this nature has already been initiated in Northern Nigeria. Dr. LI. Lloyd has been appointed as Entomologist for the pur- pose, and left England early in September. Dr. W. B. Johnson has been specially seconded from the Medical Service to work in co-operation with Dr. Lloyd, and for the past three months he has been making a rough fly survey over a wide area, one of the main objects being to find a suitable place for a permanent camp for making observations and, experiments. In a recent report received from him, he thinks he has found such a spot in the Kwiambana Forest Reserve in Sokoto Province.
In Tanganyika. Territory, Mr. Swynnerton, the Game Warden, has begun a general fly survey, and an important experiment is actually in preparation to test the possibility of eradicating tsetse flies by grass fires, the idea being to institute simultaneous late burning over a wide area. It is quite likely that valuable prac- tical results may emerge from this experiment, and a copy of the official circular giving detailed instructions in regard to it has been sent on to Dr. Johnson, in Nigeria, in the hope that a similar attempt may be made there.
In Uganda, Mr. Fiske has been engaged for some time past in supervising the resettlement of the natives on the lake shore, and he is now beginning an experiment exactly converse to that of Mr. Swynnerton. That is to say, he considers that by effectively checking grass fires in certain areas, infested with Glossina pallidipes a dense growth of a valuable forest tree will result, which will render the area unsuitable for the tsetse fly. He is also making a preliminary investigation into the position of affairs in Ankole, where G. morsitans has been spreading considerably of late, owing probably to movements of the natives. Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter has been mainly occupied in a general survey of human trypanosomiasis.
In the Union of South Africa an entomologist, Mr. Harris, has been appointed in connexion with the trypanosomiasis investigations that have been in progress for some time in Zululand; and in Southern Rhodesia a man has been engaged specially for tsetse work under the supervision of Mr. R. W. Jack. Thus, despite financial difficulties, the entomological aspects of the tsetse problem åre now receiving far more attention than they were a year ago.
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Stegomyia Survey in the Far East. It will be remembered that Dr. W. A. Lamborn was requested recently to complete, during this summer, the search for Stegomyia fasciata in the principal Far Eastern ports initiated on our behalf by Dr. A. T. Stanton, who was unable to examine adequately the Chinese and Japanese ports. This has now been done by Dr. Lamborn, who has recently returned to this country and has just sent in an account of his observations. He was unable to find a single specimen of this species, thus confirming Dr. Stanton's surmise that it is unable to establish itself in these latitudes; for there has been ample opportunity for this to take place owing to the continuous stream of traffic coming to these ports from the south. As the main trade routes to the East from Panama all run by way of Japan and China, the possibility that yellow fever might be introduced thence into Asia by the carriage and establishment of infected mosquitoes may now reason- ably be regarded as very remote.
APPENDIX I.
STATEMENT OF Receipts and Expenditure for the HALF-Year Ended 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1921.
Government Grants Interest and dividends
Receipts. £ 8. d. 9,309 13 10 159 15 5
Expenditure. £ 8. d.
Bulletin of Entomological Research
138 16 5
558 0 7
Applied Entomology
111 14 9
583 4 4
3,935 9 2
Carnegie Fund
0
Review
Salaries
Library
Queen's Gate Office Travelling Expenses Office Furniture Translations General Expenses
Sundry Publications Provident Fund
4
485 0
150 0 11 302 3. F
3 17 71 5 2
8 14 0
64 19 7 15 16 6 685 11 5
£9,720 1 5
£6,870 2
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APPENDIX II.
GENERAL FINANCIAL POSITION as at 30th SePTEMBER, 1921.
Cash in hand:-
£
3. d.
£
8. d.
1
Invested in Four per cent. Funding Loan Cash on deposit
2,500 0 0 5,000 0
0
Government Grants unpaid Interest and dividends, say
0
100 0 0
Cash receivable:--
Estimated liabilities for remainder
financial year :—
Crown Agents, amount overpaid Salaries for seven months Review (20 parts and 2 indices)
Bulletin (8 parts and 2 indices)
Sundry Publications
Balance of Carnegie Fund
Queen's Gate Office Library
Provident Fund Travelling Expenses General Expenses
of
309 1 5 4,117 11 0
1,300 0 0
1,130 0 0
250 0 0 2,125 4 2
200 0 0
100 0 0
210 0 0
4,350 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
£9,861 16
7 £11,950
0
0
Balance of Tropical African Fund Balance of Bureau Fund
922 13 10
1,165 9 7
£11,950 0 0 £11,950 0
0
54503.
No. 37.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE AND BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.
SIR,
Downing Street, 20th December, 1921. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the [22nd of June, 1920*] [14th of May, 19201] and subsequent correspondence, I am directed by
*No. 108 in Miscellaneous No. 821.
No. 108 in Miscellaneous No. 821.
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