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basis and of increasing the sums contributed to its upkeep might have been discussed. But the Sub-Committee felt that it would not be politic to raise these matters in present circumstances, and, accordingly, they recommended that the Secretary of State should ask the Governments whose contributions will expire this year to renew these contributions for three years from 1916-17 inclusive, and that, when the replies have been received from those Governments, a similar application should be made to the Imperial Treasury.
The Secretary of State has acted upon this recommendation, as will be seen from the copies of despatches* circulated with the agenda for this meeting.
A second matter of importance was considered by the Sub-Committee, viz., the Stegomyia survey in the Far East, with which as yet comparatively little progress has been made.
The foreign Governments which have promised their co-operation have not yet given any material assistance; but, at the request of the Secretary of State, the British representatives at Paris, the Hague, and Tokio, have again brought the matter to the notice of the Governments to which they are accredited, and it is to be hoped that real assistance will be forthcoming. The Director held, however, that if the survey was to be carried out satisfactorily, a special officer must be detailed to visit the ports of call in Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies, Indo-China, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and he recommended Dr. A. T. Stanton, Bacteriologist at the Institute for Medical Research at Kuala Lumpur, as a very suitable officer for the work.
On the recommendation of the Sub-Committee the Director furnished a memorandum to the Colonial Office on this subject, and this has been sent by the Secretary of State to the High Commissioner of the Malay States for his considera- tion. Copies of the Director's letter and the Secretary of State's despatch are cir- culated with the agenda, and need no further comment. If the reply to the despatch is favourable the Sub-Committee will have to meet and consider the provision of funds; and as Dr. Stanton's salary at the Medical Research Institute is understood to be £660, with £125 duty allowance, the Bureau may have to provide a consider- able sum for the execution of this survey, even if the Straits Settlements and Malay States Governments agree to share the cost of the investigation.
The covering approval of the Committee to the recommendations of the Sub- Committee in respect of the financing of the Bureau and the Stegomyia investiga- tion is desired; and at the same time it is suggested that the Committee should authorize the Sub-Committee to take whatever action may be thought desirable in allocating funds for the Stegomyia investigation, in order that the matter may be proceeded with as expeditiously as possible.
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No. 19.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
[Copy to Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 11th May, 1915.. L.F.]
SIR,
Downing Street, 10th May, 1915. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to request you to inform the Army Council that his attention has been drawn to the appointment of two members of the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, namely, Professor R. Newstead, F.R.S., and Captain E. E. Austen, of the Artists Rifles, for entomological work with the troops on the Continent in connexion with fly and other insect-pests. 2. A list of the members of the Committee appears in the enclosed publication,* and it will be seen that the Committee includes most of the leading experts on entomology in this country.
3. Mr. Harcourt understands that the Committee would be happy to render any assistance to the War Office which it is in their power to give, and he thinks it probable that the Army Council would be glad to have the advice of so strong a Com- mittee in devising measures for the control of insect pests and in co-ordinating the work. In any event, they trust that they may be furnished with information from time to time as to what is being done in the matter.
4.
It is possible that the Army Council might also wish for practical expert assistance in the Dardanelles or Egypt, and in that case Mr. Harcourt would be willing to ask the Committee whether they could arrange for one or more members of the staff of the Bureau to be seconded for service with the troops, on the under- standing that their appointments were kept open for them and their normal salaries from the funds of the Bureau paid to them in full by the Bureau while they were so employed.
5. In addition to the Director of the Bureau, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, two experts on the staff of the Bureau are now in this country :-Mr. S. A. Neave, the Assistant Director, who has had a wide experience of entomological field work, and Dr. J. J. Simpson, who has for some years been carrying out entomological work for the Bureau in West Africa.
6. If the Army Council wish to avail themselves of the assistance of the Com- mittee and the Bureau, Mr. Harcourt would suggest that a member of the War Office might discuss the matter in detail with one or two representatives of the Committee and the Director of the Bureau.
I am, &c..
HENRY LAMBERT,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
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SIR,
No. 18.
SEYCHELLES.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 7th May, 1915.)
(No. 64/1915.)
Government House, Seychelles, 12th April, 1915.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Miscellaneous despatch of the 3rd March, and to state, in reply, that this Colony wil be prepared to con- tinue the annual contribution of £25 for a further period of three years (1916-1918) to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
I have, &c.,
C. R. M. O'BRIEN, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Governor.
*See Nos. 8 and 11.
Nos. 5 and 0.
* No. 8.
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No. 20.
CANADA.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 18th May, 1915.)
(No. 318.)
Government House, Ottawa, 5th May, 1915.
WITH reference to your despatch No. 190, of the 4th March, with regard to the maintenance of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I have the honour to transmit, herewith, copies of an approved minute of the Privy Council for Canada making provision for the grant of an annual contribution of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) for a further period of three years, pending the consideration of the question of the establishment of the Bureau on a permanent basis.
I have, &c.,
ARTHUR
*Review of Applied Entomology, Vol. III., Series B, March, 1015.
† No. 11.