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The recommendation, which was subsequently adopted by the Committee, was as follows:--
The Sub-Committee are in sympathy with the proposal that five per cent. of pay issued to present members of the staff of the Bureau from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 31st of March, 1921, should be credited to their accounts in the Provident Fund; but they recommend that two and a half per cent, only should be credited forthwith, and that the question of credit- ing an additional two and a-half per cent. should be considered at the end of the financial year in the light of the financial position of the Bureau; and that of the sums so credited, the amounts in respect of service from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 30th of June, 1913, i.e., prior to the inception of the Bureau, should be debited to the Tropical African Fund."
The Sub-Committee having considered the general financial position of the Bureau as at the 31st March, 1922, decided that the additional two and a-half per cent. of such pay might now be credited to the accounts of the members concerned; the total amount, it was observed, would be about £525, of which approximately £70 would be debited to the Tropical African Fund.
It was decided that a recommendation to this effect should be submitted at the next General Meeting of the Committee.
(iii) The Secretary mentioned that the statement of the Fund for the year ending the 31st March, 1922, had just been received from the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and that if their recommendation were approved the rate of interest on deposits allowed for that year would be five and a-half per cent.
3. The Sub-Committee considered detailed proposals for revising the sub- stantive salaries of the staff of the Bureau, in order to bring them more closely into line with those recently approved for the British Museum. The financial effect of the proposals having been explained, and the general financial position of the Bureau considered, the Sub-Committee decided to recommend to the Committee the adoption of the proposals with retrospective effect to the 1st April, 1922. The proposals, as agreed to by the Sub-Committee are set out in the table annexed.*
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REPORT OF FINANCE SUB,COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
1. SINCE the last General Meeting of the Committee, the Finance Sub- Committee has held two meetings.‡
2. The general financial position is explained in the Director's half-yearly report. Although, for the reasons indicated by the Director, the expenditure for the year 1921-22 is larger, and the balance at the 31st March, 1922, smaller, than had been anticipated, the Sub-Committee consider the position quite satisfactory, as in normal circumstances the expenditure for the year would be considerably smaller and the balance proportionately larger.
3. The Sub-Committee has had under consideration the question of revising the substantive salaries of the members of the Bureau, in order to bring them more closely into line with those recently approved for the British Museum.
The table annexed shows in detail the present scales, the proposed scales, the corresponding British Museum scales (where such exist), actual salary in present scale, and proposed rate of pay in the new scale for the year commencing 1st April, 1922, and the appropriate cost of living bonus in each case.
It is estimated that the average annual expenditure on salaries at the new rates proposed, allowing for increments and the present cost of living bonus, for the years 1922-23 to 1925-26, inclusive (that is to say, up to the end of the period for which contributions at the existing rates are promised or may be reasonably anticipated), would be approximately £9,000, if all posts for which provision is made were filled: it is, however, probable that one of the two Senior Assistantships will not be filled in the immediate future, and that a junior appointment will be substituted tem- porarily for the other.
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The Sub-Committee are of opinion that this revision of the substantive salaries is justified, and that the finances of the Bureau permit of the revision; and they accordingly recommend the proposals for the approval of the Committee with effect from the 1st April, 1922.
4. At the Thirty-Fourth General Meeting of the Committee* the following recommendation of the Sub-Committee was adopted :-
"The Sub-Committee are in sympathy with the proposal that five per cent. of pay issued to present members of the staff of the Bureau from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 31st of March, 1921, should be credited to their accounts in the Provident Fund; but they recommend that two and a-half per cent. only should be credited forthwith, and that the question of credit- ing an additional two and a half per cent. should be considered at the end of the financial year in the light of the financial position of the Bureau; and that of the sums so credited, the amounts in respect of service from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 30th June, 1913, i.e., prior to the inception of the Bureau, should be debited to the Tropical African Fund."
The Sub-Committee have now given further consideration to the matter, and they desire to recommend that the accounts of contributors in the Provident Fund should be credited forthwith with an additional two and a-half per cent. of the pay issued from the 1st October, 1909, to the 31st March, 1921, thus bringing up the amount so credited from the funds of the Bureau to five per cent. It is estimated that this additional sum will amount to about £525, of which approximately £70 will be debited to the Tropical African Fund;
S. F. HARMER,
April, 1922,
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IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Chairman.
MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE, HELD ON 25TH May, 1922.
Present
EARL BUXTON (Chairman).
MAJOR AUSTEN.
DR. BAGSHAWE,
MR. FRYER.
SIR SIDNEY HARMER. DR. MACDOUGALL. PROFESSOR POULTON.
SIR DAVID TRAIN.
SIR HERBERT READ.
DR. SCOTT.
SIR STEWART STOCKMAN.
MR. WARBURTON.
DR. MARSHALL. (Director).
DR. NEAVE (Assistant Director).
MR. PARKINSON (Secretary).
1. BEFORE proceeding to the business on the Agenda, Lord Buxton referred to
the loss sustained by the Committee by the deaths of Lord Harcourt, the late Chairman, and Sir Patrick Manson, one of the original members of the Entomo- logical Research Committee, out of which the Bureau had been developed.
Referring to the excellent work of the Bureau, he stated that it had given him great pleasure to accept the invitation of the Secretary of State to become Chairman of the Committee which was responsible for the general management of so flourish- ing and valuable an Institution. During his term of office in South Africa he had heen brought into direct touch with problems connected with tsetse fly and trypanosomiasis, and he realized how useful the Bureau had been in relation to These matters. But he had been specially impressed by the admirable publications
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