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artist can produce ten originals of one kind and another, and he actually works 180 days in the year, then he will require three years for the work (10 by 180 by 3 5,400). It is proposed that we should pay him £300 a year (or, accurately, £25 a month). His pay will thus amount to £900. His travelling expenses and subsis- tence allowance I would put down roughly at £500 a year, or £1,500 in all. Here, of course, the Royal Mail offer will come in, but I shall regard this as additional to the £1,500. Finally, there will be the cost of superintendence and of writing the lectures. For these I would submit for consideration that there should be paid £100 a year by way of retaining fee for general services of all kinds, and £5 a lecture for authorship. This would mean £300 for retaining fee and (5 by 36) £180 for author, or £480 in all. Let us now add up the prime costs and we have £900 plus £1,500 plus £480. or £2,880. Add something for the Secretary of the Committee and we have a total of, say, £3,000. On the other side, allowing for interest to be earned by our capital, we shall have, I think, at least £3,750 in the Princess of Wales Fund, or a margin of £750 at least.

So much for prime cost. We come now to manufacture and sale of the slides. I would suggest that they should be sold by our makers at a cost to be agreed upon with us, 20 per cent. being added, of which 10 per cent, should go to the Princess of Wales' Fund, and 10 per cent. to the author of the lectures, in order that he may have an interest in any great success which may crown our efforts. The artist might be given an equivalent interest by allowing him to hold an exhibition of the originals (at a suitable time, which would advertise our scheme and not injure it), and by allowing him to sell the originals but not the copyright.

I throw all this out merely as a basis for discussion, and I propose withdrawing from the Committee to-morrow when the discussion has progressed so far as to render that course desirable. Perhaps if you thought well to read this letter to the Committee, the matter would be placed more impersonally before them.

Yours sincerely.

H. J. MACKINDER.

P.S. I have said nothing as to sales of the printed lectures or of the cost of printing, but those would only be small items on each side of the account. The number of copies sold and to be printed would not be large, from the very nature of the case.

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No. 160.

H. J. M.

MINUTES OF MEETING HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE,

JULY 31ST, 1907.

PRESENT:

The Earl of Meath (in the Chair).

Sir Cecil Clementi Smith.

Sir Philip Hutchins.

Dr. Heath.

Dr. Roberts.

Mr. Struthers.

Mr. Mackinder.

Mr. Lucas, and

Mr. Wilkinson (Acting Secretary).

The minutes of the meeting of July 18th, having been circulated previously, were adopted.

The minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee on July 29th were circulated at the meeting.

Appointment of Sir Charles Holroyd to the Committee.

It was proposed by Mr. Lucas, and agreed to unanimously, that Sir Charles Holroyd be invited to become a member of the Committee.

Mr. Lucas undertook to issue the invitation if the Secretary of State approves.

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Appointment of an Artist in connection with the Princess of Wales' Fund.

Mr. Mackinder reported on behalf of the Sub-Committee that ten candidates had been interviewed, and that Mr. Hugh Fisher had been selected as being, on the whole, the candidate most likely to meet the requirements of the Committee. He also explained that, in view of Mr. Fisher's position in the artistic world, the Sub-Committee recommended that he be granted a salary at the rate of £300 per annum instead of £240, as previously suggested.

Mr. Lucas suggested the advisability of a medical examination, but it was generally agreed that this need not be required.

Dr. Heath raised the question of references, but in view of the fact that Mr. Fisher was personally known to Sir Charles Holroyd, it was considered that these might be dispensed with.

After a lengthy discussion as to the terms of Mr. Fisher's appointment the following were agreed to:-

Mr. Fisher to be appointed for such a period as the Committee may decide, not exceeding in all three years from

of £300 a year payable in monthly instalments.

at the rate

The first two or three months of this period to be in training in this country under the direction of Mr. Mackinder. Subsequently to this first period he will be required to visit such parts of the King's Dominions and Protectorates as the Committee may direct, and in the order they may direct.

While travelling on the work of the Committee outside this country he will be given his out-of-pocket travelling expenses, and such subsistence allowance as may be decided by the Committee from time to time.

Should his services be dispensed with without good cause, three months' salary will be paid him in lieu of notice.

During the period of his engagement, his whole time will be at the disposal of the Committee, and his entire work and the copyright in it will be the property of the Committee.

Subject to being satisfied with his services, the Committee will favour- ably consider the question of an exhibition of his work at the end of his engagement, in which exhibition he will have an interest.

Throughout the period of his engagement he will work entirely under the general direction of Mr. Mackinder, acting for the Committee.

It was agreed that Mr. Lucas should write to Mr. Fisher in the above terms, after consulting the Legal Adviser of the Colonial Office, and being given discretion as to terminology and small details.

It was agreed that answers should be sent to the other candidates as recom- mended by the Sub-Committee, and that Mr. Lucas should report what was being done for the information of the Committee who organised the fund.

Arrangement with Mr. Mackinder.

Mr. Mackinder having withdrawn, Mr. Lucas read to the Committee a letter from him of 30th July, making proposals as regards his own position in relation to the scheme. The Committee, with appreciation of his work and of the sugges tions which he made, agreed, after conferring with him, that he should receive £300 as a retaining fee, in quarterly instalments, extending over three years for general management; that he should be paid £5 for writing each lecture; and, the Committe having further agreed to the principle of paying him a royalty on the sales of the slides, but not having sufficient data on which to decide as to the amount of the royalty, it was agreed that one year after the publication of the first set of lectures the amount of such royalty should be settled, the basis to be a percentage varying in inverse proportion to the amount of sales. The question of payment for secretarial work stood over.

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