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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

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2. We are prepared to meet the initial cost of adapting the lectures and slides

to Indian purposes which is estimated, we understand, at £100, and we have ascertained that the local Governments are generally desirous of participating in the scheme and are willing to take a certain number of the lectures and slides. We request there-

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fore that you will be so good as to cause the lectures and slides to be adapted to Indian re- quirements, and when this has been done we would ask that forty-three copies of the former with the same number of sets of slides may be distributed directly to local Governments in the manner shown in the margin.

3. The cost of the lectures and slides supplied to cach local Government should be debited to the province concerned, but the initial charge of £100 on account of the cost of adaptation will be borne by imperial revenues.

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SIR,

No. 101.

We have, &c.,

COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.

[Answered by No. 113.

MINTO. KITCHENER.

A. T. ARUNDEL. DENZIL IBBETSON. H. E. RICHARDS.

E. N. BAKER.

C. H. SCOTT.

C. L. TUPPER

Downing Street, August 9, 1906. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant* respecting the adaptation of the lantern lectures and slides to Indian requirements, and to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Morley that Mr. H. J. Mackinder is being asked to take the matter in hand and to supply the India Office with the required number of sets of lectures and slides for transmission to India.

Lord Elgin desires, at the same time, to express his pleasure that the Indian Government are co-operating in the scheme of visual instruction.

I am, &c.,

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SIR,

No. 102.

H. BERTRAM COX.

COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.

[Answered by No. 103.]

Downing Street, August 9, 1906. WITH reference to previous correspondence with regard to the development of the scheme for visual instruction, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to enclose a copy of a letter* which has been received from the India Office, and to request that you will be so good as to arrange for adapting the lantern lectures to meet Indian requirements, and for the supply of the required number of sets of lectures and slides to the India Office for transmission to India, in accordance with the desire expressed in Mr. Morley's letter.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

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MY DEAR Lucas,

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No. 103.

MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. C. P. LUCAS.

(Received August 18, 1906.)

[Answered by No. 104.]

London School of Economics, Clare Market,

Kingsway, W.C., August 17, 1906.

IN regard to the order from the Indian Government for forty-three sets of our slides and an Indian edition of the lectures, I have been thinking over the charge for clerical assistance, which you will remember was sanctioned by the Com- mittee in connection with the six sets of slides which went out to the Eastern Colonies. I have some little difficulty in estimating precisely the charge which should be made in connection with further sets, because the secretary who undertakes this work also does other work for me. Moreover, I cannot without undue trouble separate the cost of postage, typewriting, &c., although they must be considerable But I think on the whole that the fair thing would be to charge 10s, a set. It is true that a certain amount of the clerical work is in connection with the production of the editions, but the greater part has to do with the slides. Every set of slides must be inspected before it goes out, and as it includes 350 separate subjects, the total task in connection with 43 sets will not be a small one. Moreover there are always questions arising with regard to the breakage of negatives and the correction of positives. If I remember rightly £10 was allowed by the Committee in connection with the Eastern Colonies order, but of course the work on those first six sets was proportionately much greater. On the other hand, since I shall attempt to get a reduction on taking quantity in connection with the Indian order, the inspection of the slides when delivered will have to be very careful. If you agree to this 10s. scale, which will be more than covered by the reductions in price which we have already obtained and are likely still to obtain, I propose charging at the same rate in connection with the Mauritius, West Indian, and West African editions.

The Mauritius edition has already gone out, and the slides and lantern are ready but for two breakages which will cause a week's delay. The West African slides are ready, but the printing of the edition has been delayed because the man who had charge of the matter at Waterlow's was away on his holiday. He is back now, and the work will proceed. The material for the West Indian edition is all in, and the slides are mostly finished, but we have had to reject a few, and there will therefore be a week or two's delay. But I hope that everything in connection with these five sets and the depôt set will be complete before the end of this month.

The order for India is relatively simple, on account of its magnitude and the fact that we have only one new edition to think of in connection with it. to have it well in hand by the time our Committee meets in the autumn, but I I hope anticipate that the colour slides will take some months to prepare. am therefore giving the order for them at once.

Yours, &c.,

H. J. MACKINDER.

P.S.-J have just received a copy of a despatch* from the Governor of the Straits Settlements covering various criticisms of the slides. I am delighted to have criticisms, but I think there is a good answer to most of those from the Straits, which I shall send officially in about a fortnight, when my secretary is with me again.

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No. 104.

MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.

MY DEAR MACKINDER,

Downing Street, August 20, 1906. YES, I quite agree, and I am sure that the Committee will agree, to the charge for clerical assistance which you propose. I am assuming—and indeed your letter* implies-that the maximum which we have agreed upon in the case of each edition will not be exceeded.

Yours, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

• No. 100.

• No. 97.

† See No. 103.