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them to be good enough for us, and was having them done over again. That letter was received six months ago, and as nothing has yet reached us we have The Scandinavian literature is also much in recently made further inquiries. arrear, and we have been unable to obtain any reply from our Swedish abstractor, Dr. Ivar Trägardh, since December last. Of our triennial index, which was published in July, we have distributed four hundred and seventy-six free copies, and the postage on them amounted to about £12. The sales have been small so far only thirty-nine copies; but orders are still coming in, and it is probable that we shall dispose of a good many more, especially in the United States.
The losses from submarines have not been heavy. Twenty parts of our issue for India went down in the "Mongolia," and some copies of the triennial index for the West Indies must have been lost.
Finance.-In Appendix I. will be found an account of the money actually received and disbursed during the half-year; while Appendix II. indicates the extent of our available cash resources, with an estimate of all our outstanding liabilities and probable requirements up to the end of the financial year, showing an estimated surplus of £2,362.
The item for salaries includes the increases recently sanctioned by the Finance Sub-Committee, which amount only to £48 for the next six months. The Carnegie grant of £1,000 in respect of the year 1917 has not yet been received, and no appli- cation has been made for it, seeing that we are not yet in a position to expend it. No request has been received from the Government of the Federated Malay States for any payment on account of the expenses incurred for Dr. A. T. Stanton's stegomyia survey in Siam, French Indo-China, and the Dutch East Indies; but possibly they are awaiting its completion. It may be remembered that we arranged that he should postpone his investigation of the Chinese and Japanese ports until Unfor- h ecould take them in on his way home on leave during the past summer. tunately, owing to shortage of staff, he was unable to leave Kuala Lumpur, and there does not seem to be any immediate prospect of his being able to carry out the proposed inspection. He has now, therefore, decided to write up his full report on the areas already visited.
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APPENDIX II.
General Financial Position as at 30th September, 1917.
£ s. d.
Cash in hand Cash receivable :-
£ 8. d. 6,377 2 4
Australian Commonwealth, grant for 1916-17 ... Australian Commonwealth, grant for 1917-18...
200 0
200
300
0
150
0
375 0
100 0
Australian States, grant for 1917-18
Ceylon and Hong Kong, grant for 1917-18 Imperial Treasury, grant for 1917-18 Interest on deposits, say
Sales of Bulletin, say
...
Estimated liabilities for remainder of financial year :-
Salaries
Balance of Carnegie Fund
Stegomyia survey
Review of Applied Entomology Bulletin of Entomological Research Triennial index
Upkeep of Queen's Gate office Travelling expenses
Office of Works Library
General expenses Translations
Balance of Tropical African Fund Estimated balance of Bureau Fund
1,525 3 8 1,040 4 2
400 0 480 0 0 400 0
150 0
110 0
60 0
84 0
30 0
60
0
50 0
0200....0000
£4,389 7 10 1,000 0 0 2,363 14 6
50 0
oooo000
£7,752 2 4
£7,752 2 4 £7,752 2 4
APPENDIX I.
Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Half-Year ended 30th September, 1917.
Government grants
Interest on deposits
Office furniture
Review of Applied Entomology
Bulletin of Entomological Research Salaries
Queen's Gate office
Travelling expenses
Translations (Russian only)
Library
General expenses
Receipts.
£ 8. d. 3,516 5 8 115 3 3
Expenditure. £ 8. d.
24
8 5 0 7 2
17 13 2
460 10 10
196 4 0 1,532 19 2
101 3 0
21 12 11
75 2 6
14 7 6
£3,662 1
1
75 16 4
£2,495 9
5
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No. 82.
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.
DRAFT OF PROPOSED MEMORANDUM TO BE SENT TO THE MINISTRY OF RECONSTRUCTION.
DURING the course of the present century there has been a steadily countries, increasing recognition, especially in tropical and sub-tropical
and insect fungus
pests in relation of the immense importance of
to agriculture. In the British Isles, however, the advance in this direction has been far from satisfactory, and this is probably due to the fact that the enormous loss of agricultural products due to these causes has not been adequately realized; and, indeed, the very inadequacy of our organizations for dealing with these matters has rendered it difficult to secure exact information as to the losses incurred. It seems, therefore, desirable to draw attention in the first place to some of the estimates of damage that have been compiled by competent authorities.
Losses (in England and Wales) due to Insect Pests. Leather-jackets (Tipula oleracea).-It has recently been estimated that the minimum damage to oats alone caused by this fly in the northern counties of England is five per cent. of the crop, amounting to about 70,000 quarters for that area. damage in Scotland must far exceed this figure.
The
Diamond-back moth (Plutella maculipennis).—It has been calculated that the loss of turnips and swedes during 1914 in the following four counties, Cambridge (excluding the Isle of Ely), Essex, Norfolk, and Northumberland from the attacks of this insect totalled 530,000 tons; and the total loss for England and Wales in the same year must have exceeded 1,000,000.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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