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question of the renewal of the grants from the Imperial Treasury and certain of the tropical African Colonies and Protectorates to the Entomological Research Committee for a further period of five years.

2. As you are no doubt aware, the Committee was formed by my predecessor in June, 1909, and in the first instance the various grants, amounting to £2,000 per annum, were promised for five years. This period is now about to expire, and the Committee has recommended that the grants should be renewed. I have no hesita tion in endorsing this recommendation. It is not necessary for me to detail the work which the Committee has carried out during the short time which it has been in existence; but I enclose for reference a copy of the report which was presented to Parliament in November, 1912;* this report summarizes the progress made since the formation of the Committee in 1909.

3. I may, however, take this opportunity of informing you that since the begin- ning of this year the Entomological Research Committee has been incorporated for all practical purposes in the larger organisation known as the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, the general objects of which will be found set forth in paragraph 15 of the enclosed report, and if the grants for entomological research in tropical Africa are renewed, it is proposed that the use of the name Entomological Research Committee shall be definitely dropped, as it is only likely to lead to confusion. The Managing Committee of the Bureau is identical with the Committee as originally constituted, except that Professor Maxwell Lefroy, F.Z.S., late Imperial Entomo- logist to the Government of India, has been appointed to it since he returned to permanent employment in this country. Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, who was Scientific Secretary of the Entomological Research Committee, has been made Director of the Bureau. The Head Office is the same as that used by the Committee at the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, but it has been necessary to rent a Publication Office at 27, Elvaston Place, S.W. I am glad to be able to state that the Bureau has made a most successful start with the work which it intends to undertake, and the general opinion as to its value may be gauged from the fact that the Imperial Government, the Indian Government, the Egyptian and Sudanese Governments, and all the Colonial Governments (with the exception of those tropical African Colonies which have hitherto supported the Entomological Research Com- mittee, and which if, as I anticipate, the grants are renewed will now contribute to the Bureau) have agreed to give it their financial support.

4. I understand that at present Zanzibar contributes the sum of £50 per annum to the Entomological Research Committee, but I am of the opinion that this should be increased to £100, having regard to the sums contributed by or on behalf of other Protectorates and Colonies in tropical Africa. I trust that you will agree with me in thinking that the Zanzibar Government should guarantee financial support to the Bureau for a period of five years, and that the contribution should be fixed at £100. In the absence of any special reason to the contrary, you should make provision accordingly in the Protectorate Estimates for next year.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

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No. 38.

THE AGENT-GENERAL FOR TASMANIA to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 13 September, 1913.)

[Answered by No. 38.]

Office of the Agent-General for Tasmania,

56, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.,

September 12th, 1913.

SIR,

WITH further reference to your letter of the 3rd instant (No. 29862/13),* regarding the representation of Australian interests on the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I have the honour to inform you that the subject was brought up at the meeting of Agents-General held yesterday, and I was requested by my colleagues to represent them on that Committee.

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No. 37.

I have, &c.,

JOHN MCCALL,

Agent-General.

NEW ZEALAND.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR NEW ZEALAND to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received 20th September, 1913.)

[Answered by No. 39.]

Westminster Chambers, 13, Victoria Street,

London, S.W., 19th September, 1913. REFERRING to my letter of the 17th July last,† your reply of the 22nd idem, No. 24732/1913, and to previous correspondence with regard to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I am directed by the High Commissioner to inform you that he has received advice from the New Zealand Government that it has been decided that the ex officio member in New Zealand of the Managing Committee will be Mr. A. H. Cockayne, the Biologist to the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce at Wellington. The letter adds that there is no one in New Zealand occupying the position solely of Government Entomologist, but Mr. Cockayne's duties embrace this branch of work. The High Commissioner will accordingly be glad to be informed that Mr. Cockayne's membership of the Committee has been noted by the Bureau.

I am, &c.,

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SIR,

No. 35. NIGERIA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 9 September, 1913.)

(Southern Nigeria. No. 427.)

London, 8th September, 1913.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 599, of the 29th August, and to inform you that provision will be made from the funds of Nigeria as a whole for the contribution of £500 in aid of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, as desired in your despatch.

I have, &c.,

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT-GENERAL FOR TASMANIA.

Downing Street, 24 September, 1913.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, § stating that you have been requested by the Agents- General of the other Australian States to represent them on the Managing Com- mittee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, and to inform you that the arrange- ment which has been made by the Agents-General is noted and will be communicated to the Committee.

I am, &c.,

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