CO885-(21-23) — Page 9

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE

RELATING TO

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

12x

33019

SIR,

No. 1.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING GOVERNOR. [Capy 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.

34023/11

No. 2.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE,

HELD AT

THE

COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, 26тп OCTOBER, 1911.

PRESENT:

Dr. HARMER (Chairman);

SIR JOHN BRADFORD ;

Colonel PRAIN;

Hon. N. C. ROTHSCHILD ;

Mr. MARSHALL ;

Mr. PARKINSON.

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 (Carnegic 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. On first appointment he received an allowance to meet the cost of outfit, both personal and scientific.

• No. 99 in Miscellaneous No. 231.

30949

It was

† No. 93 in Miscellaneous No. 231,

A

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TITLE C.O.885

21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

Serial No.

From or to whom,

Despatch No., &o.

Date.

xvi

1913.

145

To Foreign Office...

April 15

146

Imperial Bureau of

April 17

Entomology;

Selection Sub-

Committee.

147

Foreign Office

April 26

Subject.

Page.

States, in reply to No. 1-43, tha! although discussion at the Conference will be limited as indicated, it is considered desirable that the Bureau should send a representative; and requests, there- fore, that all the necessary information as to the Assembly may be furnished for transmission to the representative, Minutes of the third meeting

126

127