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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.

Reference :-

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of State, transmits herewith copy of a letter from the Board of Agriculture, dated April 4, respecting the Commission on Phytopathology at. Rome.

Reference to previous letter: Colonial Office, March 31 (4263/13).* Foreign Office,

SIR.

April 9th, 1913.

Enclosure in No. 143.

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries,

Whitehall Place,

London, S.W.,

4th April, 1913. I AM directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to advert to your memorandum of the 18th February last, and to say that they will be prepared to co-operate in the Phytopathological Commission which will be held in Rome on the 25th instant at the initiative of the French Government, and they suggest that Monsieur Cambon might be so informed.

The Board propose to send as their representatives to this Commission Lieu- tenant-Colonel Sir David Prain, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Mr. A. G. L. Rogers, the head of their Horticulture Branch. These ollicers will be able to discuss the scientific and administrative questions that may arise, and will be able to advise the representatives of this country at the General Assembly of the International Agricultural Institute on any resolutions or recommendations which

be adopted at the Commission.

may

The Board have also considered the memorandum of the same date enclosing a letter from the Colonial Office, and I am now directed to say that they see no objection to the proposal to send a representative of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology to Rome, should Mr. Harcourt think it desirable that the Bureau I am, however, to should be represented at the Phytopathological Commission. point out that the two officers already referred to will act as assessors to the English Delegate at the General Assembly in May, and that the Board have no information that it is proposed to discuss the question of establishing an Inter- national Commission for acquiring and disseminating information regarding insect and fungus diseases either at the Phytopathological Commission or at the General Assembly. Monsieur ('ambon's letter indicates that the subject under discussion will be the text of a proposed extension of the Berne Convention of 1881 relating to the control of the phylloxera pest.

I am, &c.,

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

T. H. MIDDLETON,

Assistant Secretary.

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A memorandum summarising the position of this question was circulated to members of the Sub Committee before the meeting.

It was felt that there might be certain advantages if the funds were amalga- mated, especially from the point of view of accounting; but, having regard to the statements made in official letters from the Colonial Office to the Treasury when the question of forming the Bureau was under consideration, the Sub-Committee agreed that the funds specially contributed by or on behalf of the Tropical African Colonies and Protectorates should be kept separate for the present from those of the Bureau. It was further agreed that the "Carnegie fund” should be kept separate from the other funds under the control of the Committee.

The following division of the moneys in the hands of the Committee (to take effect from the 1st of April, 1913) was finally accepted by the Sub-Committee :—

A. Bureau Fund-

Imperial Treasury .

Canada

West Indies Egypt Sudan Ceylon

£

500

500

South Africa

350

Australian Commonwealth

200

Six Australian States

300

New Zealand

200

Newfoundland

50 250

50

50 100

Federated Malay States

100

Hong Kong

50

Straits Settlements

50*

Mauritius

50*

25

50

£2,875

Seychelles Fiji

B. Tropical African Research Fund--

Imperial Treasury

Southern Nigeria

Gold Coast

Sierra Leone

Gambia

Zanzibar

25

£ 1,000

500 350

100

50

50

£2,050

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MINUTES OF THE TWELFTH MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COM- MITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE at 4 p.m. on THURSDAY, 11TH APRIL, 1913.

PRESENT:

Dr. HARMER (Chairman).

Sir D. PRAIN.

Mr. READ.

Mr. MARSHALL.

Mr. PARKINSON,

1. The Minutest of the 11th meeting of the Sub-Committee were approved.

2. The Sub-Committee considered the question of amalgamating the funds of the Bureau with those obtained for or hy the Entomological Research Committee before the institution of the Bureau.

• Reminder of No. 128.

† No. 121.

C. Carnegie Fund-

Mr. Andrew Carnegie

£ 1.000

As regards the allocation of expenditure between these funds, the Sub-Committee resolved-

(1) that the Crown Agents for the Colonies should be allowed to continue their present practice of regarding the moneys at the disposal of the Com- mittee as one fund irrespective of the tripartite division agreed upon above;

(2) that the necessary allocation of expenditure to the appropriate fund should be made by Mr. Marshall, to whom the Crown Agents' accounts would be submitted every quarter;

(3) that the Carnegie fund should be charged with all expenditure connected

with the Carnegie scholarships;

• Not vet approved by the Governments concerned.

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No. 144.