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selected for the Eastern Colonies, it would be desirable that he should be supplied with a duplicate set, which would be available for purposes of comparison.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
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Mr. Secretary Morley will be glad to learn what answer should be returned to this enquiry.
I have, &c.,
C. J. LYALL,
Secretary,
Judicial and Public Department.
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No. 112.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
TH
Reference :-
C.O.885
17 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
BRITISH GUIANA: MAURITIUS: TRINIDAD.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to GOVERNORS SIR F. M. HODGSON, SIR C. BOYLE, and SIR HI. M. JACKSON.
(General.)
SIR,
Downing Street, November 23, 1906.
26th July*
WITH reference to my despatch, "General,” of the 14th June† last, and to
16th Mayt
the West Indies previous correspondence on the subject of the adaptation for Mauritius
the West Indies of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom prepared by Mr. H. J. Mackinder for use in the schools of the Eastern Colonies, I have the honour to enclose, for the information of your Government, your information, your information,
the accompanying copy of the accounts for
the special edition, so far as it can be at present ascertained, which has been received from Mr. Mackinder, and which, you will observe, is well within the estimate. Detailed accounts will be forwarded to you by the Crown Agents for the Colonies in due course.
British Guiana 2. The Crown Agents have reported that the shipment to Mauritius
Trinidad slides of the lantern, slides and copies of the book of lectures will shortly be com-
lantern, slides pleted.
3. As soon as the scheme has been given a fair trial in the Colony I shall be glad to receive a full report on its working.
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No. 113.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 27, 1906.)
[Answered by No. 117.]
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
SIR,
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., November 27, 1906. WITH reference to the letter from the Colonial Office, No. 28609, dated the 9th August last, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a telegram from the Government of India, dated the 23rd instant, enquiring whether the lantern lectures and slides which are being adapted to Indian requirements will be provided in the current year.
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↑ No. 93.
L.F. transmitting copy of Nos. 80 and 81.
Enclosures 5, 1, and 4 respectively in No. 106.
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Enclosure in No. 113.
TELEGRAM FRom the Government of IndIA,
(Dated November 23, 1906.)
Our educational despatch, No. 9, 14th June last, regarding the scheme for promoting knowledge of Empire among school children. Will lantern slides be provided in current year?
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No. 114.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE COMMITTEE ON VISUAL INSTRUCTION.
When the Indian edition of the lectures on the United Kingdom has been com- pleted, the Committee will have issued a series of five editions applicable to practically the whole of the tropical portions of the Empire. It is therefore neces- sary for the Committee now to consider its future policy, and I therefore submit the following remarks:-
1. It appears desirable on several grounds to issue to the press in this country a notice of the work done, but the immediate consequence will be a certain demand for the purchase of the lectures and for the purchase or loan of the slides, and we should be prepared beforehand to meet this demand. A suggestion has been made that an English edition of my lectures should be prepared. "I am inclined to think this impracticable, because the point of view throughout is that of the tropics. The labour of changing the point of view would be considerable, and could not, I think, be made remunerative, partly because a set of slides is too costly for the sales to be very large, and partly because the printed lectures alone could have no great circulation in competition with a Reader for elementary schools which I have written for publication next month.
2. Under these circumstances, I suggest that we should publish in this country the Indian edition of the lectures, binding up with it such of the first lectures of the other editions as might be suitable, and that we should make an arrangement with Messrs. Newton to sell these books of lectures, and to sell or let on hire sets of the slides. We should frankly retain the tropical point of view, which would not be unstimulating to the lecturer. Messrs. Newton might account to me on behalf of the Committee, and pay a royalty both on the lectures and the slides, of which royalty I might pay over a portion to the Crown Agents for the benefit of the three Eastern Crown Colonies. I think that in this manner we should, at a reasonable expenditure of trouble, satisfy a demand which is certain to arise, but is also, in my opinion, likely to be of a limited character.
3. As regards the great Colonies in temperate latitudes, the point of view is so different, at any rate in the case of Canada and Australia, that I am inclined to think the lectures would practically have to be re-written, and that if there should be a demand for such adaptation, it should be regarded as a fresh enterprise entirely. Of course it would be open to these Colonies to purchase from Messrs. Newton sets of the slides and lectures as issued for Indian use. The case of South Africa is no doubt different, and it would be desirable to ascertain definitely before the issue of the Indian edition and of the notice to the press in this country, whether South Africa will take an edition of these lectures under the present scheme.
4. With reference to the other aspect of the Committee's work, namely, the
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