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ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE (TROPICAL AFRICA). General financial statement as at 30th June, 1911.

Cash in hand:--

Crown Agents

Scientific Secretary

Cash receivable:-

Treasury Grant

Sundry subscribers (estimated)

financial year:—

Salaries

Bulletin and general expenses

Balance in reserve

Contribution from Zanzibar

Estimated liabilities for the remainder of the

1,716

3 3 9

s. d 0 10

1,000 0 0

100 0 0 60 0 0

£

s. d.

1,215 0 0

500 0 0

1,164 4 7

£2,879 4 7 £2,879 4 7

Cash receivable from Mr. Andrew Carnegie (since paid) Passage money and allowances for A. Ruther-

Financial statement in respect of the Carnegie Scholarships as at 30th June, 1911.

£

s. d. 1,000 0 0

£ s. d.

185 12 4

312 10 0

120 3 4

381 14 4

£1,000 0 0 £1,000 0 0

ford and R. H. Strickland paid to date Allowances for Rutherford and Strickland up

to 31st December

Passage money and allowance for G. H.

Grosvenor up to 31st December Estimated balance at end of calendar year

24091

No. 95.

CEYLON.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 24 July, 1911.)

(No. 414.) SIR,

The Queen's House, Colombo, Ceylon, 5 July, 1911. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch" Miscellane- ous," of the 22nd of March, 1911,* addressed to Sir H. E. McCallum, forwarding papers showing the nature of the work carried on by the African Entomological Research Committee.

2. With reference to paragraph 3 of your despatch, suggesting consideration whether co-operation with the Committee is desirable, and if so, what would be the best means of effecting it, I have to inform you that the Governor consulted the Executive Council on the subject, and was of opinion that co-operation on the part of this Colony was unlikely at the present time to result in material advantage. An entomologist is attached to the staff at Peradeniya, as also is a mycologist. The Government, moreover, maintains a bacteriological institute and a veterinary depart- ment. All these officers and institutions are fully occupied, and the Governor was of opinion that little could be done in the way of co-operation with the African Entomo- logical Research Committee without imposing an undue burden upon one or more

I have, &c.,

of them.

HUGH CLIFFORD, Officer Administering the Government.

23995A.

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No. 96.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS-GENERAL AND

GOVERNORS.

[Copy to Governor-General, Australia, 29 September, 1911. L.F.]

Canada.

Victoria.

New South Wales.

South Australia.

Queensland. (Miscellaneous.)

[MY LORD] [SIR],

Western Australia.

Tasmania.

Union of South Africa.

New Zealand.

Newfoundland.

Downing Street, 6 September, 1911.

I HAVE the honour to transmit to [Your Excellency] [you], for the considera- tion of your Ministers, the accompanying papers* relating to a scheme for the more extended investigation of the noxious insects which occur in different parts of the Empire.

2. So far as the Crown Colonies and Protectorates are concerned, the work which must form a basis for the scheme outlined in the second enclosure in this despatch is being actively prosecuted by the Entomological Research Committee.

3. In the case of the West and East African Colonies and Protectorates, the contributions from or on behalf of which to the work of the Committee amount to £2,000 a year, large collections of noxious insects have already been made and identified, and steps are being taken to secure as far as practicable the co-operation of the other Crown Colonies and Protectorates.

4. With regard to the present scheme, which concerns the Oversea Dominions and States and India, and is designed to supplement the work which is already being done in the case of the Crown Colonies, you will observe that the proposals now made involve an annual expenditure of £1,200 a year, but that they are admittedly of a wider scope than those concerning which the sums of £500 a year and £1,000 a year were mentioned in the course of the proceedings at the meeting of the 14th of June.

5. This larger scheme has been put forward because it seemed clear that the general opinion of the Conference was in favour of a more extended programme, but your Ministers will understand that it is a tentative suggestion intended to elicit a more precise expression of opinion from the several Governments.

6. For various reasons, such as the pressure of work in connexion with the Imperial Conference, it was not found possible to arrange for a full representation of the Oversea Dominions and States at the meeting of the 14th of June, but the interest shown in the question by those representatives who were present leads me to hope that the scheme now submitted will prove generally acceptable. Should this prove to be the case, I would suggest that the expenditure involved might be allotted in the following manner :--

£

Canada

300 per annum.

The six Australian States, £50 each India

300

+1

300

11

South Africa

150

100

50

"2

£1,200

55

New Zealand Newfoundland

Total

7. I cannot but think that co-operation in scientific matters between the different parts of the Empire is likely to have beneficial and far-reaching results, and that the present schenie, if carried through, would be an important step to that end.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

• No. 78.

* Enclosure printed here and No. 88.