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The Secretary's allowance was continued for six months to the 31st of March, and Sir Charles Lucas gave notice that he would be prepared to propose an increase in the allowance if the financial position and prospects would permit.

The sale was reported of the slides of two single lectures of the "India" set, and of two complete sets, to the War Office and to the Warwick County Council respec- tively, of the "Sea Road" slides. A set of the slides of the lecture on Ceylon had also been sold. During the last twelve months 838 copies of the book on India had been sold, and during the first three weeks after publication 115 copies of the book on the Sea Road.”

'Sir Everard im Thurn said that he had inspected most of the slides for the Australasia lectures. They varied in excellence, but were, on the whole, good. Mr. Sargent was in a position to insert the numbers of the slides in his proof, and the final proof could be disposed of in a few weeks. It was decided that Mr. Sargent should be informed that he need not wait for the arrival of photographs which were expected from Australia.

Sir Everard im Thurn said that during his holiday Mr. Sargent had written practically the whole of the lectures on Cañada. Slides had been made from Mr. Fisher's Canadian photographs, and Mr. Sargent had inspected the photographs at the office of the High Commissioner for Canada, and had found there nearly all the additional photographs required. Sir Charles Lucas had obtained from the Views in Nova Governor of Newfoundland views of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scotia and in British Columbia were still required, and it was decided that Mr. Sargent should call on the Provincial Agents.

The lectures on South Africa had not yet been written, but Mr. Sargent was prepared to begin work on them very soon. It was understood that the Committee would have no exclusive right over the photographs which the Union Government of South Africa would supply, but the Committee agreed with Sir Philip Hutchins's view that no great importance need be attached to this question of exclusive rights. Sir Everard im Thurn said that no such rights could be obtained over the photographs of South Africa, which had been lent by a member of the British Association.

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Eight Lectures on India. The complete set of 480 slides, in eight padded boxes, may be had for £50, or the slides to accompany the several lectures will be sold for six guineas each lecture. Single slides will not be sold. The same series of slides is also supplied uncoloured (except the maps, which are coloured in all cases), for 65s. per set or £28 for the complete series of eight lectures.

Six Lectures on the Sea Road to the East.-The complete set of 369 slides may be had for £29 10s. The slides to accompany the several lectures will be sold at the following prices: First lecture, £4 17s. 6d.; second lecture, £5 5s.; third lecture, £4 10s.; fourth lecture, £5 7s. 6d.; fifth lecture, £5 15s.; sixth lecture, £4 15s. The slides will also be sold in sets in which the maps alone will be coloured. The prices in this case will be: For the complete set of 370 slides, £20; first lecture, £3 10s.; second lecture, £3 88.; third lecture, £3 6s.; fourth lecture, £3 10s. ; fifth lecture, £3 12s. 6d.; sixth lecture, £3 13s. 6d.

The slides sold on behalf of the Committee may also in all cases be purchased separately in batches of not less than two dozen.

4. I am to add that copies of the lectures on Australasia, Canada and the Union of South Africa will be forwarded to you as soon as they have been issued. Those on Canada and on Australasia are in an advanced state of preparation.

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SIR,

No. 51.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.

Downing Street, 22 October, 1912. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant,* respecting the book of lectures entitled "The Sea Road to the East."

I am to state that the wishes of the Army Council have been noted, and that copies of any further books which may be issued by the Visual Instruction Committee will be forwarded to the War Office.

No. 50.

COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY.

SIR,

Downing Street, 10th October, 1912. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th of September.* on the subject of the work of the Visual Instruction Committee.

2. In reply, I am to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that your letter was brought before the Committee at their meeting on the 2nd of October, and that the Committee gladly give permission for the making of extracts from the lectures furnished to the Admiralty so that suitable lectures for Naval purposes can be compiled. The Committee understand that the com- pilation made will in no case be offered for sale to the public, but will be reserved for departmental circulation.

3. The Committee regret that under their existing agreements they are not in a position to lend the negatives to the Naval Lantern Lecture Establishment, but slides can be purchased from Messrs. Newton and Company, 3, Fleet Street, E.C., on the terms shown in a note prefixed to each volume, which are as follows:-

Lantern Lectures on the United Kingdom.-The complete set of 377 slides, many of them coloured, may be had for £35. The slides to accompany the several lectures will be sold at the following prices: First lecture, £6; second lecture, £5 15s.; third lecture, £4 15s.; fourth lecture, £2 15s.; fifth lecture, £10 15s.; sixth lecture, £3; seventh lecture, £4. Single slides will not be sold.

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I am, &c.,

HENRY LAMBERT,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

No. 52.

SURREY EDUCATION COMMITTEE to THE CHAIRMAN OF THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.

MY LORD,

that

County Education Office, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon-Thames,

26th October, 1912.

WITH reference to your Lordship's letter of June last,† I am directed to state my Committee gratefully accept the kind offer made therein to present a set of lantern slides to illustrate the six lectures on " The Sea Road to the East" prepared by the Visual Instruction Committee.

My Committee will arrange to use these slides in the various secondary and evening schools under their control, and are confident that they will prove of educa tional value.

The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Meath,

Ottershaw, Chertsey.

• No. 48.

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I am, &c.,

J. J. SHAKESPEARE,

for the Secretary.

† Not printed.

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