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No. 55.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE
MANAGING COMMITTEE, HELD ON WEDNESDAY, 30th May, 1923.
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Present:
EARL BUXTON (Chairman).
MAJOR AUSTEN.
SIR DAVID BRUCE.
MR. FRYER.
MR. INGRAM.
SIR EDWARD LUCAS.
DR. MACDOUGALL.
SIR DANIEL MORRIS.
PROFESSOR NEWSTEAD.
PROFESSOR POULTON. DR. SCOTT.
SIR ARTHUR SHIPLEY.
SIR STEWART Stockman.
MR. WARBURTON.
DR. MARSHALL (Director).
DR. NEAVE (Assistant Director).
MR. PARKINSON (Secretary).
1. BEFORE taking the business of the meeting, Lord Buxton offered the congratulations of the Committee to Dr. Marshall on his recent election as a Fellow of the Royal Society--an honour which the Committee would no doubt regard as a compliment to the Bureau as well as to Dr. Marshall himself.
2. The Minutes of the thirty-seventh General Meeting* were approved.
3. The half-yearly Report of the Director was received (copy annexed). (a) Finance. In amplification of the section on Finance, Dr. Marshall stated that there had been an error in Appendix III to his Report for the year ended 31st March, 1922; the estimated balance of the Bureau Fund on the working for each year for the period 1922-1925, should have been shown as £1,696 instead of £874, the amount standing to the credit of the Tropical African Fund having been erroneously entered as an item of annual expenditure.
At the same time, the question of a reduction in the Zanzibar contribution from £500 to £250 had been raised; there was a possibility that the contribution from Southern Rhodesia would be reduced from £300 to £200; and it was not impossible that the Government of India might discontinue after the end of 1923 its contribution of £500. The financial position was nevertheless satisfactory; and he wished the Committee to consider the advisability of filling one of the two Senior Assistant posts (£400 to £600 plus bonus) which had, for the sake of economy, been left vacant. He had no one in mind to whom an offer could at the moment be made; but the extra assistance would be most welcome, the work of the Bureau already being seriously in arrear.
In reply to a question asked, it was stated that the Government of India had refused on financial grounds to increase its contribution from £500 when the Dominion and Colonial Governments increased their contributions in 1921. it was known that the Indian Entomologists appreciated highly the work of the Bureau, and had passed a resolution in favour of increasing the contribution to £1,000.
The opinion was expressed, that if the Government of India should contemplate withdrawal of their grant after 1923, they should be strongly pressed to reconsider the matter.
Lord Buxton enquired whether the contributions were received in the year for which they were due. The Secretary stated that although several were paid in late in the financial year, it had hitherto been possible to collect all contributions, * No. 45. + Annexure 2 to No. 43.
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with the exception of that from one of the Colonial Governments, within the financial year for which they were paid.
As regards the appointment of a Senior Assistant, it was decided to place this on the Agenda for the next General Meeting.
(b) Publications.(i) As to the Review of Applied Entomology, the Director remarked that Dr. L. O. Howard had again, told him how extremely useful it was to all workers on entomology in the United States.
(ii) The advertisements in the publications of the Bureau had brought in £36 in the first nine months; the total for fifteen months, however, was £91. In the circumstances, the Director considered that the results might be regarded as quite satisfactory.
(iii) The handbook on tsetse flies by Monsieur Hegh which Major Austen had translated and revised, had had a good sale. It had been sent to the leading periodicals interested in such subjects and had been well reviewed both in this country, and in the United States and Germany.
(a) Parasites. Since writing his report, the Director had heard from New Zealand that from one batch of 60 earwig parasites, no less than 52 had been success- fully hatched out. This was eminently satisfactory.
No news had yet been received as to the Pear Slug cocoons which had been consigned to New Zealand; and up to the present, it had not been possible to do anything here as to the Pear Leaf-Curling Midge. As to the latter, Mr. Fryer explained that there might be at any time some local epidemic, but that recently, whatever the reason, there had been no cases of the pest recorded in this country.
(d) Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress.-Lord Buxton informed the Committee that he had, as Chairman, provisionally agreed on their behalf to Dr. Marshall being granted the necessary leave of absence to visit Australia for the Congress; and he felt sure that the Committee would approve of the longer route proposed by Dr. Marshall which would enable visits to be paid to Canada, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii. This, however, would involve additional expenditure on travelling and maintenance beyond the sum of £250 granted by the Treasury.
It was agreed that the necessary leave of absence should be granted to the Director to visit Australia, and to travel by the route proposed, and that he should be authorized to spend up to £100 from the funds of the Bureau on travelling and incidental expenses over and above the sum granted by the Treasury.
(Proposed by Mr. Warburton: seconded by Professor Poulton).
4. The Secretary informed the Committee that the Government of Zanzibar had suggested that the contribution of £500 now paid should be reduced. Before
the Entomological Conference in 1920, Zanzibar had contributed £100 per annum; the minimum therefore which Zanzibar could pay under the condition made by the Treasury, when the grant from Imperial funds was raised from £500 to £1,000 would be £200, i.e., double the old contribution. Admittedly, £500 was too much for Zanzibar to contribute, having regard to the value of the services which the Bureau could render to the Protectorate. The proposal which the Colonial Office represen- tative wished to make was that for the years 1923, 1924, and 1925, the contribution from Zanzibar should be reduced to £250.
A further suggestion of the Protectorate Government that the rate of contribu- tion should be, reviewed every three years could not be accepted in view of the resolution adopted at the Conference in 1920 that contributions should be subject to review at quinquennial conferences.
It was agreed that the contribution of Zanzibar for the years 1923, 1924 and 1925, should be reduced from £500 to £250.
(Proposed by Dr. Scott: seconded by Sir S. 'Stockman).
5. Lord Buxton informed the Committee that the question had been raised of incorporating the Bureaux of Entomology and Mycology with the Imperial Institute. The proposal would be most disadvantageous from the point of view of the Bureaux, and after discussion with Sin Herbert Read and the Directors and Secretaries of the Bureaux, he had, ogmpiled tamemorandum which had been forwarded to the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State' to consider and report on the future of the Imperial. Institute...Fle. had subsequently given evidence before the Committee, with the Directors. Copies of the memorandum were available now for distribution, and he hoped that the members of the Committee would take copies before they left the meeting. He considered the case against any kind of amalgamation with the Imperial Institute very strong indeed, and thought that the evidence which had been given would convince the Committee.
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