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3. The Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee reported that the Sub-Com- mittee wished to recommend that when members of the Committee residing in the country came up to London specially to attend meetings of the Committee (or Sub- Committee) they should be paid return railway fare (1st class) and necessary cab fares from the funds of the Bureau. The Committee approved this proposal.
4. Dr. Shipley read a report* of a meeting between a Sub-Committee and the proprietors of the Trinidad Sugar Estates, when Mr. J. C. Kershaw gave an account of his investigations into the froghopper pest in Trinidad.
The Committee were of the opinion that the selection of Mr. Kershaw for this work had been fully justified and that Mr. Marshall should write to him and express the Committee's satisfaction with what he had done.
5. The question of calling a conference of Dominion and Colonial entomo- logists in the summer of 1915 was considered. The suggestion had been made by one of the Dominion entomologists, who proposed that the conference should be held in the summer of 1915, both because that was the year of the Imperial Conference and because there would also be an International Entomological Conference at Vienna about that time.
The Secretary informed the Committee that he understood that the authorities at the Colonial Office saw no objection to the proposal and would, indeed, welcome it; and Sir John McCall expressed the opinion that it would be most useful if the entomologists of the different Dominions could meet and talk over the various problems with which they have to deal in their respective countries.
The Committee approved of the proposal generally; but it was decided that Mr. Marshall should first write to Dr. Gordon Hewitt, Mr. Lounsbury, and Mr. Froggatt to obtain from them suggestions as to subjects for discussion, and that a Sub-Committee should then consider these suggestions and draw up a pro- gramme which could be sent out to the Dominions and Colonies when inviting their co-operation. The following Sub-Committee was appointed for this purpose:—
Dr. Shipley, Professor Lefroy, Sir John McCall, Sir Daniel Morris, Sir David Prain, and Mr. Marshall.
6. The Committee approved of the programme sketched by Mr. Simpson for his next tour of service in West Africa, viz., that he should proceed to the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast and then devote himself to investigations connected with various species of Glossina, keeping mainly in view the practical side of the work.
7. The Committee approved of Professor Lefroy being appointed a member of the Sub-Committee which selects the "Carnegie Scholars."
8. The report on the work of the Bureau for the year 1913 and the reply† of the Secretary of State were received.
Annexure to No. 70.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Review of During the past three months the work in connexion with the " Applied Entomology" has materially grown, as may be judged from the increase in the printing account (Appendix B); indeed, for the November and December numbers more manuscript was available than could be edited in the allotted time. The completed first volume, taking both series, contains 788 pages, or an average of 65 pages a month. It seems probable that in the future the monthly output is likely to average from five to six sheets (80 to 96 pages).
of the "Review " is now fairly comprehensive, it is not yet Although the scope quite as complete as it might be, and untapped sources of information are still being
† Colonial Report [Annual] No. 781: [Cd. 7050-22].
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discovered every month. The following table will give some idea of the general extent of our work:
Country of Publication.
United States France
Great Britain Russia Germany
Abstracts published during 1913.
No. of Abstracts.
Country of Publication.
No. of Abstracts.
933
231
Holland and Belgium
25
147
West Indies
23
144
French Africa
12
72
Switzerland
12
65
Spain
10
British Africa
44
Austria-Hungary
9
India and Ceylon
43
German East Africa
6
Italy
43
Egypt
4
Canada
41
Hong Kong
2
Australasia
39
Cyprus
1
East Indies
39
Denmark
1
Central and South America
25
Japan
1
933
1,039
The difficulty in connexion with the Scandinavian literature (which is com- paratively small) has now been met by the offer of Dr. Ivar Trägårdh, Entomologist to the Swedish Experiment Station, near Stockholm, to make abstracts for us of all the requisite papers.
Two Japanese Entomologists have been approached with reference to supplying information as to entomological publications in Japan, but so far without result; and our Hungarian periodicals have not yet been dealt with, one translator having been tried and found unsatisfactory.
The expenditure
bare cost of printing and on the Review," shown in Appendix B, includes only the distribution. The gross cost of production may be estimated approximately at £1,500 per annum for an issue of 1,500 copies. In spite of the large number of free copies or exchanges distributed (about 720), the subscription list is slowly improving.
The number of subscribers to both series is 118; to A only, 14; to B only, 29; and the number of separate copies sold was-A, 40; B, 34.
The 72 consignments of insects received during the quarter contained over 25,700 specimens, large general collections having been received from Mr. S. A. Neave, from Mlanje, Nyasaland; Mr. W. H. Patterson, Government Entomologist in the Gold Coast; and Mr. C. C. Gowdey, Government Entomologist, Uganda. Among these there were some 6,200 blood-sucking insects, 1,700 ticks, and about 1,000 insects injurious to agriculture. Of the 43 contributors, 33 are resident in Africa, 5 in the West Indies, and 5 in our Eastern Possessions.
Among the blood-sucking flies is included a consignment of over 3,000 stegomyia mosquitoes from Hong Kong, which constitute about one-fourth of the collection made by the local authorities in connection with their mosquito survey. All the remaining material will be forwarded to our Bureau for identification.
Nearly all the foreign Governments which were approached by the Foreign Office with a view to obtaining information as to the distribution of stegomyia in the Far East have now replied favourably.
Dr. L. O. Howard has kindly supplied the British Embassy at Washington with a complete list of all the records for Siegomyia fasciata since 1900 in his possession.
The German Government have expressed their appreciation of the value of the proposed survey, and state that instructions have been sent to the Governors of their Eastern Colonies asking them to take such steps as they can to further the work.
The French Minister of the Colonies has expressed himself in similar terms; while the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs states that investigations will be made with all possible despatch into the distribution of stegomyia and other mosquitoes in Japan, and that the information thus obtained, together with speci- mens, will be sent to us from the Laboratory for the Study of Contagious Diseases.
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