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Annexure 2 to No. 17.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEE.
A MEETING of the Finance Sub-Committee was held at the Colonial Office on the 4th of February, 1915, to consider the question of financing the Bureau after 1915.
The contributions made to the Bureau are as follows:-
(a) Grants promised for five years from 1914 (1914-15)
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APPENDIX IV.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
General Financial Statement as at 31st March, 1915.
Cash in hand
Net sales of Bulletin (estimated)
Outstanding liabilities:-
Salaries for March
Dr. Lamborn, salary not drawn
Unexpended balance of Carnegie
Fund
Stationery Office (estimated)
Sundry accounts
Estimated balance
£
s. d.
£
s. d. 3,560 11 6 1.25 0 0
6
243
10
90 0 0
758 2 2
200 0 0
40 13 8
2,353 14 2
£3,685 11 0
3,685 11
6
to 1918 (1918-19):
Nigeria
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Zanzibar
£500
350
100
50
100
£1,100
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
APPENDIX V.
IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Statement of Expenditure and Receipts in connexion with the Review of Applied Entomology, Volume II. (1914).
(b) Grant promised for three years from 1914-15 to
1916-17:-
Imperial Treasury (for Exchequer-aided Pro-
tectorates in East Africa)
(c) Grants promised for three years from 1913-14 to
1915-16:-
Canada
Imperial Treasury
Union of South Africa Australia
£1,000
Payments.
Receipts.
Printing Parts ́ I.-XII,
Printing indexes (estimated)
£
8. d. 299 18 2 80 0 0
£
s. d.
Dulau & Company :-
Six Australian States
New Zealand
Newfoundland
India
Hong Kong
Commission on sales
23 15
6
Commission
Postages
exchanges
on gratis copies and
Warehousing and insurance
78 12 0
76 1
0
6 6 0
Malay States
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
Mauritius
Seychelles
Fiji
Sales:-
£500
500
350
200
300
200
50 500
50
100
50
100
50
25
50
£3,025
Volume I.-39 A and B
19 10 0
11 A only
3 13
4
(d) Grants promised for three years from 1915 (1915-
16) to 1917 (1917-18):-
13 B only
2 14 2
Cyprus
£100
Volume II.-154 A and B
77 0 0
Malta
20
23 A only
7 13 4
£120
37 B only
7 14 2
24 separate parts
0 12 6
(e) Grants promised for no specified period:-
West Indies
£250
Egypt
50
544 12 8
118 17 6
Sudan
50
Deficit
£544 12 8
425 15 2
544.12 8
£350
(f) Special grant from Mr. Andrew Carnegie for six
years from 1911 to 1916
£1,000
Reference :-
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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Of these contributions those guaranteed by the Imperial Treasury (£500). Canada (£500), Union of South Africa (£350), Australian Commonwealth (£200), Australian States (£300), New Zealand (£200), Newfoundland (£50), India (£500), Hong Kong (£50), Malay States (£100), Straits Settlements (£50), Ceylon (£100), Mauritius (£50), Seychelles (£25), and Fiji (£50), amounting in all to £3,025, will expire at the end of the current year.
An estimate of expenditure for the year 1916-17 was presented by the Director, from which it was clear that if these contributions are not renewed the Bureau will not be able to meet the expenditure necessary to carry on its work next year.
It was hoped that at the Conference of Official Entomologists, which has unfor- tunately had to be postponed, the question of placing the Bureau on a permanent