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FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE

RELATING TO

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

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MINUTES OF THE

No. 1.

FIFTEENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, held at the COLONIAL Office at 12 noon ON THURSDAY, 18T MAY, 1913.

PRESENT:-

The EARL OF Cromer.

Colonel ALCOCK.

Dr. BAGSHAWE.

Dr. HARMER.

Dr. MACDOUGALL. Professor NUTTALL. Professor POULTON. Sir DAVID PRAIN.

Mr. SCOTT.

Dr. SHIPLEY.

Mr. THEOBALD.

Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. PARKINSON.

1. The minutes of the 14th General Meeting were approved.

2. A report was received from the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee. (Copy annexed.) The recommendations of the Sub-Committee for the separation of the moneys at the disposal of the Committee into the Bureau fund, Tropical African Research fund, and Carnegie fund were approved.

3. Sir David Prain read a report from the Sub-Committee appointed at the last General Meeting to consider the relationship of the Bureau to the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. (Copy annexed.) A despatcht from the Officer Administering the Government of Canada was read by the Secretary, showing that the Canadian Government had not intended to send an expert to represent them on the Phytopathological Commission, in the belief that the Bureau would send a representative who would be able to act on behalf of the Canadian Government. At the time that the despatch was written, the Canadian Government were not aware of the fact that the proposed Commission had fallen through.

Mr. Marshall observed that, in his opinion, it was an inopportune moment for the Bureau to force itself upon the Institute, and he was in favour of awaiting developments. If the proposed Commission on Phytopathology were going to be held, the position would be different, but there appeared to be no prospect of the General Assembly discussing the question of an organisation for the prevention of plant diseases, and in these circumstances he saw no need for the Bureau to be represented.

Dr. MacDougall informed the Committee that he understood from the Board of Agriculture that they were averse from sending experts to Rome for the Assembly, as it was most necessary that there should first be a meeting of experts (presumably British experts in this country) who could investigate the matter carefully at leisure and draw up a definite policy to be submitted at a later date to the Rome Institute.

The Committee agreed that no representative of the Bureau should be sent to Rome on this occasion, but that Mr. Marshall should see Sir Sydney Olivier, the British delegate to the Assembly, explain to him the position of the Bureau generally and its attitude towards the Institute. and put before him the suggestion which the Sub-Committee had made for practical co-operation between the two organisations, viz., that the Bureau might furnish the Institute at fixed intervals, either through the medium of its Review or in any other convenient way, with a summary of the

• No. 120 in Miscellaneous No. 271.

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