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who was away investigating a cattle tick that has become, a serious pest in the northern districts. My intended visit to the Cawthron Institute at Nelson, South Island, was abandoned because Dr. Tillyard had already left there for Australia. On the 3rd August we sailed from Auckland for Sydney in company with most of the New Zealand and Hawaiian delegates to the Congress. Our thanks are due to the New Zealand Government for kindly refunding all our expenditure on railway journeys in the Dominion.
We reached Sydney on the evening of the 7th August, and on the following day a reception was held by the Royal Society of New South Wales in order to give a formal welcome to such of the Overseas Delegates as had arrived. The entomo- logists also arranged a meeting of all their local men to enable them to make the acquaintance of, the visiting entomologists.
On the evening of the 9th we left for Melbourne. There the four official delegates from this country (Col. Sir G. Lenox-Conyngham, F.R.S., of Cambridge; Dr. E. J. Butler, C.I.E., Imperial Bureau of Mycology; Mr. H. Marriott, Imperial Bureau of Mineral Resources; and myself) were most kindly invited by His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Forster, to stay at Federal Government House during the session of the Congress. It is hardly necessary to say that we were most hospitably entertained, and everything possible was done for our comfort and convenience. The inaugural meeting took place on the 13th August and the session extended to the 22nd. The entomological programme at Melbourne was a comparatively light one, most of the papers having been reserved for the meetings in Sydney. The opportunity was taken to see something of the work being done by the Government Entomologist for Victoria, Mr. C. French, Junr., and by Mr. G. F. Hill, Entomologist to the Melbourne Museum, a valued correspondent of the Bureau, who has done excellent work on the blood-sucking flies in Northern Australia; and various interesting excursions were arranged for us.
The number of visiting entomologists was disappointingly small, there being only five besides myself: Messrs. E. M. Ehrhorn and O. Swezey, from Honolulu; Dr. Oshima, from Japan; Dr. R. J. Tillyard, from New Zealand; and Mr. R. Veitch, from Fiji: There was no entomologist among the six Dutch delegates, and there were no delegates at all from the French possessions or the Pacific States of South America. On the other hand, there was a very good attendance of Australian entomologists, though unfortunately several were unable to come.
On the 22nd August the Congress adjourned to Sydney, where Mr. W. W. Froggatt, late Government Entomologist for New South Wales, most hospitably acted as my host and gave me the benefit of his very wide knowledge of Australian insects. For the Sydney meetings I was honoured by being asked to act as Chair- man of the Entomological Section, Mr. Froggatt being the Secretary. The pro- gramme was a very full one, and a number of interesting papers were read and useful discussions took place, but it is unnecessary to specify these here as the pro- ceedings will be published later. There can be no question that the Congress was a very great success, and every credit is due to those who were responsible for the excellent organization, and universal appreciation was expressed of the extra- ordinarily generous private hospitality that was lavished on every visiting delegate throughout his stay.
As usual in such conferences, much of the most useful work was done outside the meeting rooms, by the exchange of information and ideas in the course of con- versation, and there can be no doubt that the Congress has served to make the work and objects of this Bureau better known to Australian entomologists, with the result that there is likely to be much closer co-operation between us in the future, to our mutual benefit. The newly appointed Government Entomologist for New South Wales, Mr. W. B. Gurney, and his assistant, Mr. Macarthy, kindly gave us an opportunity of seeing over their Department: and I was glad to be able to visit, the laboratories of Mr. Nicholson, Lecturer in Entomology at Sydney University, and of Dr. E. W. Ferguson, Director of the Department of Public Health and the lead- ing authority on the Australian Tabanide, who has long been one of our regular correspondents.
After the termination of the Congress expeditions had been arranged in various directions, and I elected to go across the continent to Western Australia, because the two official entomologists there had been unable to attend the Congress and we had so far had no relations with them. I left Sydney on the 2nd September and reached Perth on the 7th. Although the Congress was over Mr. Langler, of Perth,
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most generously insisted on treating me as his guest during my stay there. Mr. Sutton, the Director of Agriculture, kindly made the necessary arrangements to enable me to travel to any part of the State, and himself took Dr. Easterfield, of New Zealand, and myself out to see the actual working of the Group Settlement system which is such an excellent feature of the West Australian immigration scheme. Mr. L. J. Newman, the Government Entomologist, and his assistant, Mr. J. Clark, also spared themselves no pains in showing me everything of entomo- logical interest in the district round Perth.
I sailed from Fremantle with Dr. Butler on the 25th September and reached Colombo on the 4th October, where we stayed twenty-four hours. We were met by Mr. F. A. Stockdale, the Director of Agriculture, who had very kindly arranged to motor us up to Peradeniya, near Kandy, a distance of about 60 miles. There we were able to inspect the very fine entomological and mycological laboratories that have recently been erected, and we were most favourably impressed with the very efficient organization of the scientific work of the Department. It is to be hoped that Mr. Stockdale will continue to receive the necessary support to enable him to carry through to completion the general scheme which has been so well begun. Unfortunately. the entomologist, Mr. J. C. Hutson, was on leave in England, and his assistant, Mr. F. P. Jepson, was ill in bed.
day.
I left the ship at Marseilles on the 20th October, reaching London the following
APPENDIX I.
Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the half-year ended
Government Grants Interest and Dividends
30th September, 1923.
Bulletin of Entomological Research
Review of Applied Entomology Salaries
Library
Queen's Gate Office
Travelling Expenses Office Furniture Specialists' Fees General Expenses Sundry Publications Provident Fund Export of Parasites
Receipts.
Expenditure.
£ 8. d.
£ 8. d.
6,645 2 7
121 10 9'
131 11 11
105 12 0
112 5 10 653 19 3 3,595 8 10
68 18 7
293 5 4
9 11
4
29 6 0
75 0 0 54 6 4
46 8 0 179 14 9 201 10
7
£7,003 17 8
£5,319 14 10
APPENDIX II.
General Financial Position as at 30th September..1923.
d.
Cash in hand :-
Invested in Four per cent. Funding Loan
Cash on deposit
:..
Cash with Crown Agents
Cash receivable :-
Government Grants unpaid
Interest and Dividends, say
Estimated liabilities for remainder of
financial year:-
Salarics for seven months
Stationery Office
Review (14 parts and indices) Bulletin (5 parts and index)
£ S.
4,100 0 0
30 0 0
1,300 0 ย
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750 0 0
£ S,
d.
2,500 0 0
3,500 0 0
973 6 5
5,681 19 7 100 0 0
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