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these lectures should only be given by a member of the Education Department (or other Government official). If this is done it cannot fail to encourage the spirit of patriotism in the scholars attending the clementary schools of the Gold Coast Colony.
As a final note I should like to state that the lantern worked splendidly, and that with very few exceptions the slides were very clearly shown upon the screen.
D. J. OMAN,
August 13, 1907.
Gold Coast Education Department.
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No. 175.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.
Downing Street, September 5, 1907. MY DEAR MACKINDER,
YES. I agree to issuing only the Indian Edition with a fresh preface. When it is ready we ought to put an advertisement in the papers.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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Attached to 27529
No. 173.
SIR CHARLES HOLROYD to MR. C. P. LUCAS.
(Received August 29, 1907.)
DEAR MR. Lucas,
THANK you for
has been appointed.
National Gallery, August 28, 1907. letter of the 20th instant.* I am glad to hear Fisher
your
Please thank the Visual Instruction Committee for the honour they have done me in inviting me to join in their work. I shall be very pleased indeed if I can be of service in any way.
31866
No. 17.
Yours, &c.,
CHARLES HOLROYD.
MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. C. P. LUCAS. [Answered by No. 175.]
MY DEAR LUCAS,
London School of Economics, Clare Market, W.C.,
September 5, 1907.
I AM here for three or four days, and then go back to the country. I spent last Tuesday with Fisher and Newton, and have arranged for our experiments to begin, so that artist and slide maker may be in complete accord as to their methods.
As regards the issue of our existing series of slides in this country. Hitherto we have described it as the Composite Edition, and have proposed to prefix to the six lectures descriptive of Britain and of the defences of the Empire not merely one lecture on the approaches to Britain, but two, giving the approaches from the East Indies and from the West Indies to the home country. I see that just now there is a show on at the Polytechnic of a series of slides made by a man who has lately visited British Guiana and the West Indies. It strikes me that our casually- obtained series will be compared disadvantageously with the Polytechnic series, and I therefore advise the omission of the West India preliminary lecture, and that we should issue for use in this country simply the Indian Edition with a fresh pre- face. If you agree to this there will be no difficulty in placing the edition on sale next month. I am arranging to cheapen the series for this country by substituting if possible for some of the Sanger Shepherd slides certain new slides to be made by Fisher and Newton. This will have the incidental effect of giving a practical aim to their experiments.
Please, therefore, let me know whether you will approve of my substituting the Indian Edition for use in this country in place of the proposed Composite Edition.
Yours, &c.,
H. J. MACKINDER.
MY DEAR LUCAS,
No. 176.
MR. H. J. MACKINDER to MR. C. P. LUCAS.
[Answered by Nos. 180 and 181.]
Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S.W., September 6, 1907.
I HAVE made the following arrangements with Newtons as regards the issue of the Indian edition in this country, subject, of course, to your sanction as Treasurer. They are in accord with decisions of the Committee as minuted for 28th November, 1906.
1. We will print off copies of the book of lectures which Newtons will sell for 1s. each, accounting to us less 10 per cent. A royalty of 25 per cent. will be due to me, and the remaining 65 per cent. will go to the Eastern Colonies Fund, which will bear the small cost of printing and binding; the type is standing.
2. Newtons will manufacture at their cost the slides, and will sell them either as a complete set of 380 slides or by single complete lectures, but not other- wise. An entire set will cost 40 guineas, including boxes for storage; and the separate lectures, including boxes, will cost severally £7 10s., £6 10s., £5 10s., £3 10s., £11 10s., £3 10s., £5 10s., or, in the aggregate, £43 10s. These prices assume that in Lecture V, I succeed in substituting for five of the expensive Sanger Shepheard slides five new ones made by Newton's from material supplied by Hugh Fisher in the course of his experiments. Newton's will pay us a royalty of 121 per cent., of which half will go to me and half to the Eastern Colonies Fund. Newtons will mark a copy of the lectures so as to show which of the slides they admit to be our copyright, at any rate as against them. It will suffice actually to register a few slides in each lecture in order to protect the whole for all practical purposes.
If you agree to all this, will you please have a letter sent to Newton's embodying these terms for them to accept, of course omitting the subdivision of royalties as between the fund and me. I ought in due course to have a corresponding letter.
I am seeing Fisher again to-morrow, and then go away for 10 days. The enclosed letter from him has been written at my request and explains itself. I propose that an expenditure of not more than £10 be authorised at this stage for his expenses as set out in this letter. Under the circumstances, time being valuable, I am telling him to assume that sanction will be given up to this amount. If you disagree please let me know at St. James's Court, if possible, by to-morrow night.
Kindly take note that my Secretary will also be away on leave during next week.
When I return I should like to settle our procedure with you as regards these matters of financial routine.
Yours, &c.,
DEAR MR. MACKINDER,
Enclosure in No. 176.
H. J. MACKINDER.
10, Hammersmith Terrace, September 5, 1907. WITH reference to photographic training, apart from the special lessons
am to have later on from Mr. Thompson, I think I would do well to work under the
two best men in Walker's place at Sussex House near here.
Emery Walker was, as I told you, willing for me to see what was being done without any question of a fee and is averse to taking any; but I want altogether more time and attention than can be expected by an interested visitor.
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