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a letter from the Board of Agriculture, Brating that they see no objection to the Colonial Office proposal, but that, as the Commission on Phytopathology has fallen through, they do not expect that the General Assembly will be prepared to deal with the question of international action on plant disease, and they are accordingly not sending any specialist to Rome; asks whether it is still desired to send a repre- sentative.

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE

RELATING TO

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

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SIR,

No. 1.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING GOVERNOR. [Copy to Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 23 October, 1911.]

(No. 246.)

Downing Street, 25 October, 1911.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 78, of the 28th ultimo,* and to state that I have learned with satisfaction that your Ministers are prepared to co-operate in the scheme for a more extended investigation of noxious insects in different parts of the Empire, and that they agree to the proposed allotment of the expenditure involved, under which Newfoundland will provide £50 per annum.

2. A further communication will be addressed to you when replies have been received from the other Governments concerned.

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No. 2.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE, HELD AT

COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, 26ти OCTOBER, 1911.

PRESENT:

Dr. HARMER (Chairman);

SIR JOHN BRADFORD ;

Colonel PRAIN;

Hon. N. ('. ROTHSCHILD ;

Mr. MARSHALL;

Mr. PARKINSON.

THE

1. The minutes of the last meeting of the Finance Sub-Committee were

approved.

2. Covering approval was given to the issue of £50 from the funds of the Com- mittee (Carnegie Scholarships) to defray the expenses of Mr. G. H. Grosvenor's tour with Dr. L. O. Howard in the United States.

3. Mr. J. J. Simpson had represented that, as the result of his tour in West Africa, a large proportion of his kit needed replacing. received an allowance to meet the cost of outfit, both personal and scientific.

On first appointment he

No. 99 in Miscellaneous No. 231.

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It was

† No. 93 in Miscellaneous No. 231.

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