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Annexure 2 to No. 43,
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY,
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st March, 1922.
(Received in Colonial Office 6th May, 1922.)
On the termination of the first year, during which we have received the largely increased Government grants that were agreed to as a result of the Entomological Conference in 1920, our accounts naturally reveal a much more satisfactory position that has been the case during the past two years when we were compelled by soaring prices to spend considerably more than our income in order to keep our organization going,
A statement showing the sums actually received and expended during the past financial year is given in Appendix I. The amount receivable in respect of Gov- ernment grants is £12,500, and the fact that this figure is exceeded in the statement is due partly to payments of arrears due for previous years, and partly to the fact that some Colonies paid their contribution for the current year before the 31st March last. Actually there was then a sum of £1.025 still owing in respect of last year, but at least £600 of this has since been received. The receipts from deposits and investments are £85 less than in the previous year, this being due partly to the reduction in the bank rate and partly to the reduction of our deposits owing to expenditure on Carnegie students; the balance remaining in the Carnegie Fund is now only £1,375, and this has all been allotted to various students, and will probably have to be paid out in the course of the current year.
As usual, the expenditure shown under the publications bears no relation to the liabilities incurred last year (dealt with below), because the Stationery Office accounts are nearly two years in arrear. Salaries have cost £1,907 more as a result of the new scales that came into force on the 1st April, 1921, which were agreed to at the Conference. The cost of the Queen's Gate Office was estimated at £500, but experi- ence shows that the charges are likely to average nearer £600; the sum of £728 in the account includes various non-recurrent items in connexion with the move from our previous premises and also payments for five quarters' rent instead of four. The amount shown against the Provident Fund also includes à non-recurrent item of about £400, being a contribution from the Bureau of 21 per cent. on salaries prior to the 1st April, 1921.
Appendix II shows the financial position on the 31st March last. Although the balance shown in the General Fund is only £826, it must not be supposed that this is all that is left out of £12,500 as the result of a year's working, for some of the liabilities indicated are really referable to the previous year. Thus, from the cost of the Review £550 must be deducted as pertaining to the vear before, in the case of the Bulletin £500; and finally in order to make our accounts balance last year we had provisionally to deduct £428 from the Tropical African Fund, which has now been restored to it. Therefore, the true surplus for the year is £1,478 higher than the amount shown, or £2,304 in all.
The cost assigned to the two publications is based on an estimate supplied by the Stationery Office in December last for the parts issued in November, and the
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charges work out rather higher than what we paid in 1920, although a fall in prices had been anticipated. The same parts were therefore submitted to Messrs. Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., who print the transactions of the Entomological Society, for a quotation; but their prices came out appreciably higher, even after allowing for the fact that we now have to pay a commission of 10 per cent. to the Stationery Office instead of 5 per cent. as heretofore.
It may be observed that our Funding Stock appears at cost price; the present selling price would be about £220 higher.
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In Appendix III will be found an estimate of the revenue and expenditure for the current financial year, from which it will be seen that the anticipated surplus of £2,224 coincides fairly closely with the true balance shown for last year. result of the quotations received from the Stationery Office the estimated deficit on the Review has been raised £200 as compared with last year's estimate in order to be on the safe side, and that for the Bulletin £50; the estimate for the Queen's Gate office is also £100 higher. The other items call for no special comment, with the exception of salaries. The estimate has been drawn up on the basis of the salaries payable on the present scales, but the Finance Sub-Committee is suggesting the adoption of slightly higher scales, so that the salaries shall be more in conformity with those paid to persons of similar grades on the staff of the British Museum. A footnote to the estimate shows what the result would be of adopting the proposed scales during the current year, namely, a reduction of the estimated surplus from £2,224 to £1,558. But as the amount payable will increase each year as a result of the annual increments, a further note has been added showing what would be the average annual cost of the proposed salaries throughout the next four years (after which the present Government grants will come up for reconsideration), allowing for both increments and the cost-of-living bonus; it must be borne in mind, however, that this sum is necessarily over-estimated because the bonus is taken at its present rate, as its progressivé diminution cannot well be allowed for.
Collections of Insects.--The number of insects received has shown a very marked increase, being 75 per cent. higher than for each of the last two fears; in fact, the figures are higher than for any year except the first two, during which we still had two collectors of our own in Africa, Dr. S. A. Neave and Dr. J. J. Simpson; but if the material received from independent correspondents is alone taken into con- sideration, the collections for last year constitute a record. In the following details the corresponding figures for the preceding year are given in brackets for comparison.
The collections received totalled 260 (187), and these were sent in by 82 (79) different correspondents, distributed as follows:-Africa, 39; Asia, 17; Tropical America, 11; Europe, 8; Australasia, 7. The collections contained nearly 53,000 (30,000) specimens, of which 8,000 (6,800) were blood-suckers. During the year 168 (99) lists of identifications were issued, comprising 4,248 (3,242) specific names.
Of named blood-sucking insects, or species of agricultural importance, 4,680 (1,940) were presented to the following institutions:-Bureau of Entomology, Washington; Cairo School of Medicine; Leyden School of Tropical Medicine; St. Andrew's University; South-west Polytechnic Institute, London; Sydney University; and Transvaal University College. The insects presented to the British Museum totalled 18,140 (12,500); of these 171 (176) were types of species new to science, and among the remainder were 257 named species not previously represented in the Museum collection.
Review of Applied Entomology. The most noticeable feature in connexion with the volumes of the Review for 1921 was the very marked increase in the number of abstracts published, the following being the totals for the two series:-1913-1919 (average), 1,521; 1920, 1,895; 1921, 2,271. That this increase seems likely to be maintained is shown by the fact that the number of abstracts in the first four parts of both series for 1922 is 855, which is equivalent to 2,565 for the whole year. Owing to the policy of outting down unimportant papers to a minimum and of reducing the size of abstracts by means of references to longer, or better accounts of the same subjects that have appeared in earlier volumes, the increase of bulk in the volumes for the year is not so marked, the number of pages of matter, exclusive of index, for 1921 being 832, as compared with 768 for 1920.
The subscriptions to the Review have been well maintained, though they do not show the marked increase that occurred in the years immediately following the War. The following statement shows the position for the last three years :-