5
A further communication will be addressed to you on the subject as soon as replies have been received from the other Governments concerned. I have, &c.,
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No. 9A.
L. HARCOURT.
(No. 14.)
SIR,
Downing Street, 24 January, 1912. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 82, of the 28th November,* on the subject of the proposed scheme for a more extended investigation of noxious insects in the Empire, and to state that it will be brought to the notice of the Entomological Research Committee.
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No. 8.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
(No. 7.)
SIR,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 26 February, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 11.]
Government House, Adelaide, 23 January, 1912. WITH reference to your "Miscellaneous" despatch of 6th September last,* I have the honour to report that my Ministers inform me that they are prepared
to support the scheme for the investigation of noxious insects in the British Empire, and to contribute £50 per annum towards its cost.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 4.)
(Received January 27, 1912.) [Answered by No. 9.]
SIR,
Governor-General's Office, Pretoria, 8 January, 1912. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith, with reference to your Miscel- laneous despatch of the 6th September, † a minute from Ministers, dated 5th January, 1912, on the subject of the investigation of the noxious insects in the British Empire.
(Minute No. 14.)
I have, &c.,
GLADSTONE,
Governor-General.
Enclosure in No. 8.
Prime Minister's Office, Pretoria, 5 January, 1912. Ministers have the honour to acknowledge receipt of His Excellency the Governor-General's minute, No. 33/142, of 5th October last, on the subject of a scheme for the more extended investigation of the noxious insects which occur in different parts of the Empire, and in reply to state that they will be pleased to co-operate in this important matter and contribute the sum of £150 per annum towards the expenditure involved in connection therewith, in terms of the despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies of 6th September last.
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No. 9.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
J. C. SMUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
(No. 52.)
MY LORD,
Downing Street, 2 February, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch, No. 4, of the 8th January, and to state that I am glad to learn that your Ministers have decided to co-operate in the scheme for a more extended investigation of noxious insects in the Empire and to contribute the sum of £150 per annum towards the expenses of the scheme.
• No. 4.
↑ No. 96 in Miscellaneous No. 231.
↑ No. 8.
I have, &c.,
DAY H. BOSANQUET,
Governor.
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No. 10.
MINUTES OF THE TENTH
GENERAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMO-
LOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1912.
Present:
The EARL OF CROMER (Chairman).
Mr. AUSTEN.
Dr. BAGSHAWE.
Sir JOHN BRADFORD.
Dr. HARMER.
Dr. MACDOUGALL.
Sir JOHN MCFADYEAN.
Sir DANIEL MORRIS.
Professor NUTTALL.
Lieutenant-Colonel PRAIN.
Mr. READ.
Hon. N. C. ROTHSCHILD.
Dr. SHIPLEY.
Mr. STOCKMAN.
Mr. WARBURTON,
Mr. MARSHALL (Scientific Secretary). Mr. PARKINSON (Secretary).
1. Before the business of the meeting began, Dr. Shipley stated that he wished
to express the pleasure felt by the Committee on learning that their Chairman and Professor Newstead had been made Fellows of the Royal Society, and to offer them the Committee's congratulations. Lord Cromer replied, thanking Dr. Shipley and the Committee on his own behalf and on behalf of Professor Newstead, who was unavoidably absent from the meeting.
2. The minutest of the 9th General Meeting were approved.
3. Mr. Marshall submitted his quarterly report (copy annexed:) The Com- mittee approved his recommendation that the salary of his assistant (Mr. Campion) should be raised from £120 to £150 per annum as from the 1st of April, 1912.
4. Dr. Shipley read a report from the Selection Sub-Committee dealing with the appointment of Mr. C. Strickland as Travelling Medical Entomologist in the Federated Malay States and the appointment of a new Carnegie scholar (copy annexed).
5. Mr. Marshall submitted a report on his visit to the West Indies in January as representative of the Committee at the West Indian Agricultural Conference at
No. 96 in Miscellaneous No. 231.
† No. 103 in Miscellaneous No. 231.
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