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No. 101.
TRINIDAD.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received October 17, 1911.)
[Answered by No. 110.]
(No. 368.) SIR,
Government House, Trinidad, 30th September, 1911. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your "Miscellaneous " despatch of the 1st instant,* directing my attention to your despatch of the 22nd March last,† with regard to the suggestion that this Colony should participate in the work of the African Entomological Research Committee.
2. The Agricultural Society are strongly in favour of the proposal, and have recommended that a grant for the purpose might with advantage be made from public funds. The Board of Agriculture have under their consideration certain proposals put forward by their Entomologist which it is understood the Commissioner of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies proposes to submit for discussion at the forthcoming Agricultural Conference to be held in January, with a view to the formation of an Entomological Research Committee for the West Indies to co-operate with that in Africa.
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No. 102.
GEORGE R. LE HUNTE,
Governor.
MINUTES OF THIRD MEETING OF SUB-COMMITTEE B OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE.
The third meeting of Sub-Committee B was held at the Colonial Office on Tuesday, 24th of October, 1911.
PRESENT:
Colonel PRAIN (Chairman).
Sir JOHN Bradford.
Hon. N. C. ROTHSCHILD.
Mr. MARSHALL,
Mr. PARKINSON.
1. In accordance with a reference of the General Committee, the Sub-Com- mittee considered the replies received to the Secretary of State's despatch of the 22nd of March, 1911,† addressed to the West Indian and Eastern Colonies on the subject of co-operation between these Colonies and the Committee.
2. An examination of the replies showed that no contributions to the funds of the Committee from any of the Colonies concerned could be hoped for, at any rate for the present, though one or two, notably the Federated Malay States, were willing to incur a limited local expenditure.
3. The general attitude of the Sub-Committee was to meet, as far as possible, the wishes of the Colonies which had replied favourably, both by furnishing infor mation when asked for and by identifying insects sent home for that purpose, pro- vided that the demands made on the time of the Scientific Secretary and his assistants was not excessive. It would thus be left open to the Committee to advise the Secretary of State to make its continued assistance conditional upon some kind of monetary grant from those Colonies if, at any time, the work became too much for the present staff to cope with.
4. Taking the individual replies, the Sub-Committee recommended that they should be treated on the following lines :-
(a) Imperial Commissioner for Agriculture, West Indies.
The suggestions made by Dr. Watts should be accepted.
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(b) Leeward Islands.
(c) Windward Islands.
The acceptance of Dr. Watts's suggestions will meet with the approval of the Governors of the Leeward and Windward Islands, and nothing further, therefore, is required in replying to these Colonies, except that the offer of Dr. L. Nicholls of St. Lucia to co-operate with the Committee should be specifically accepted.
(d) Barbados,
The offer of co-operation on the part of the local Committee should be accepted, but the Governor should be informed in reply to the first of the questions in paragraph 5 of his despatch that the only modification in the proposals of the local Committee that appears to be necessary is that the Entomological Committee for the present are not in a position to under- take the identification of insects other than those of economic importance. (e) Trinidad.
The receipt of definite proposals should be awaited.
(f) British Honduras.
The offer of assistance on the part of the Acting Colonial Surgeon should be accepted.
(g) British Guiana.
The matter should be left open pending further consideration by the local Government, as indicated in paragraph 3 of the despatch. (h) Federated Malay States.
The suggestion made by the Acting High Commissioner should be accepted, but he should be informed that at present the Committee is not in a position to depute one of the officers now in its service to visit the Federated Malay States.
At the same time the Sub-Committee felt that to wait until either Mr. Simpson or Mr. Neave was available might mean undue delay, and they, therefore, left it to the Committee as a whole to decide whether it is desirable to ask the Federated Malay States Government if they are pre- pared to wait till one of those officers is available or to secure as soon as possible the services of an additional competent entomologist.
No. 103.
MINUTES OF THE NINTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLO- GICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, ON THURSDAY, 26TH OCTOBER, 1911.
PRESENT:
The EARL OF CROMER (Chairman).
Colonel ALCOCK.
Mr. AUSTEN.
Dr. BAGSHAWE.
Sir JOHN BRADFORD.
Sir DAVID Bruce.
Dr. HARMER.
Professor Nuttall.
Professor Poulton. Lieutenant-Colonel PRAIN.
Honourable N. C. ROTHSCHILD.
Mr. SCOTT.
Dr. SHIPLEY.
Mr. MARSHALL (Scientific Secretary).
Mr. PARKINSON (Secretary).
Mr. J. J. Simpson, Travelling Entomologist, West Africa, attended the
meeting.
1. The minutest of the 8th General Meeting were approved.
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