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It is hoped that a certain amount of information with regard to Chinese_ports may be obtained through the good offices of the medical authorities in Hong Kong. M. Emile Licent, a Belgian missionary and a competent entomologist, who has just - left for China, has kindly promised to collect mosquitoes for us there, and to interest some of his colleagues in the matter. We have supplied him with such collecting apparatus as he required, and he has further offered to send us any agricultural pests he may meet with in the course of his scientific work.
Reference has already been made to the fact that our Bureau now possesses a fairly complete set of the legislative enactments that have been passed in the various portions of the British Empire for the control of plant pests and diseases. Pro- fessor H. Maxwell Lefroy has very kindly undertaken to collate this information, and has already done a considerable amount of work in that direction. The general scheme adopted is to give a brief summary in non-technical language of the various regulations in force in each individual Colony. From these all the essential points will be extracted and arranged in the form of a skeleton Act, which should serve as a useful model for future legislation on the part of those Colonies which have not yet dealt comprehensively with the subject. It is suggested that this summary should be issued by the Bureau as a separate publication,
An account is submitted of the expenditure and receipts for the quarter under review (Appendix A), together with a statement showing the general financial position (Appendix B). From the latter it will be seen that, after making allow- ances for outstanding and future liabilities, there will probably be a surplus of £1,100 in the Bureau Fund at the end of March.
Mr. J. J. Simpson has accepted the terms for his re-engagement for four years at a salary of £525-£25-£600. His leave expired on the 18th December, but in view of the fact that a great deal of his time at home has been taken up with the prepara- tion of his reports on his journeys through Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, the authorities at the Colonial Office sanctioned a two months' extension of leave. He will, therefore, sail for West Africa on the 18th February. In accordance with a previous resolution of this Committee, he will now devote his time entirely to the study of tsetse-flies, with the special object of devising practical means for their diminution. He suggests that the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast offer the most favourable field for such investigations.
No cable has yet been received from Mr. S. A. Neave in reply to the Colonial Office despatch offering him the post of Assistant Director of the Bureau.
The engagement of Mr. Ealand for the compilation of the index of insect pests, which has already been sanctioned by the Committee, has not yet been arranged. The reason for its postponement is that Mr. Ealand has been temporarily engaged by the British Museum to rearrange their collection of insect. pests. His work for the Museum, which will be of practical value for our entomological assistants, is expected to terminate about the middle of March, when he will take up his duties with the Bureau.
January, 1914.
APPENDIX A.
EXPENDITURE and Receipts FOR THE QUARTER ending 31ST DECEMBER, 1913.
Interest on Deposits
Carnegie Scholarships Fund
Salaries
Translations
Office Furniture
Library
Bulletin of Entomological Research
Review of Applied Entomology (printing)
Establishment Expenses (Elvaston Place)
Scientific Apparatus
General Expenses
Receipts. s. d. £
39 3 3
1,000 0 0
£ S.
370 11 2
Payments. d.
696 15 10
93 5 0
61 9 0
33 16
6
107 16
2
30
2 4
40 18
7
£1,039 3 3
12 7 8 В 76 15
£1,523 17 7
APPENDIX B.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS IN CONNEXION WITH THE REVIEW OF
£ s. d.
APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY FOR 1913.
£
s. d.
Printing prospectus and circulars
3 5 10
Printing 2,000 copies of the "Review"
January
22 9
February
20 13
March
18
0
April
20 12
May
23 2
June
July
August September
October
November
December (estimated)
Commission on sales, 20% on £71 13s. 4d.... Commission on gratis copies, at 8s. per 100 Postages Warehousing and Insurance
Subscriptions
Sales of separate parts
Deficit
...
APPENDIX C.
009955 ∞∞∞ 00 00 00 01 0
20 5
20 1 8
22 8 6
22 11 11 6 27 15 32
4 8
32 4 8
14
6
8
34 16 48
6 5
5 3
69 14
2
1 19 2 316 14 8
£388 8 0
£388 8
0
GENERAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT AS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1913.
Cash in hand
Cash receivable :-
£ s. d. £ s. d 3,720 0 0
Colonial Office (East African Protec-
torates)
Imperial Treasury
Straits Settlements
1,000 0 500 0
50
0
Hong Kong
Fiji
Dominica
Antigua
St. Kitts-Nevis
Publications, estimated
Interest, estimated
Estimated liabilities for the remainder of
the financial year :-
Salaries
Carnegie Fund Publications
Elvaston Place Office Library
Dr. Simpson's Outfit Travelling Expenses Translations
General Expenses
Balance of Tropical African Fund Estimated balance of Bureau Fund.
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50 0
50 0
10 0 10
0
5 0
100 0
30
0
0000000000
0
1,010 0 1,698 4 10
450 0
0
45 0 0
20
0
0
80
0 0
40 0
0
30
0 0
50 0
0
£3,423 4 10
1,000 0
0
1,101 15 2
£5,525 0 0
£5,525 0 0
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