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4. The Committee approved of the staff of the Bureau being paid the new bonus recently sanctioned for the Civil Service with effect from the date on which it has been granted to the Civil Service.

Annexure I.

1. IN the opinion of this Conference it is most desirable that similar conferences should be held in London once in five years.

2. This Conference would view with dismay the possibility that the Imperial Bureau of Entomology should, through lack of funds, cease or in any way curtail its present work, and recommends most strongly that steps be taken to establish the Bureau on a permanent basis.

3. In order to place the Bureau on a sound financial basis, this Conference recommends that all the contributing Governments should be urged to guarantee their contributions, subject to the proviso that any Government be at liberty to raise, through its representative, at quinquennial conferences, the question of modifying the amount.

4. This Conference, recognizing that the funds now contributed for the upkeep of the Bureau are quite inadequate, recommends that the annual contributions should be increased so as to provide a total income of not less than £13,000 per annum in order to allow for the necessary staff to carry on work on existing lines.

5. This Conference accepts the recommendations of the Special Committee that the Secretary of State for the Colonies be requested to establish a Provident Fund for the staff of the Bureau in lieu of pension rights.

6. This Conference agrees that full power should be left to the Director and Managing Committee of the Bureau to exercise their discretion as to the general scope and contents of the publications of the Bureau, and the expenditure involved thereby.

7. This Conference agrees that the appointment of a coccidologist to the staff of the Bureau is unnecessary, but considers that the Director should encourage members of his staff to pay special attention to particular groups, especially to those for the identification of which no specialist is available.

8. This Conference considers that the provision of an adequate number of trained men to carry into effect existing plant import legislation is of more immediate importance than the revision or extension of such legislation.

9. This Conference accepts the report of the Sub-Committee on the Convention prepared at the International Conference on Phytopathology, held at Rome, in March, 1914. (Copy of report annexed.)

Sub-Enclosure.

ROME CONVENTION SUB-COMMITTEE.

MR. H. A. BALLOU.

MR. J. C. F. FRYER.

MR. H. H. KING.

PROFESSOR H. M. LEFROY.

MR. C. P. LOUNSBURY.

DR. R. J. TILLYARD.

PROFESSOR R. D. WATT,

MEETING, Thursday, 3rd June, 10 a.m.

Mr. C. P. Lounsbury elected Chairman.

The text of the Rome Convention (French version) was examined clause by clause.

Meeting, Wednesday, 9th June, 5 p.m.

Professor H. M. Lefroy and Dr. R. J. Tillyard were absent.

The Sub-Committee report that in their opinion the present Rome Convention does not provide adequate protection to the British Dominions and Dependencies, and are further of the opinion that it is impracticable to frame any such convention

to which all countries may be expected to subscribe, and which at the same time would have material value.

CHAS. P. LOUNSBURY.

HAROLD H. KING.

ROBERT D. WATT.

J. C. F. FRYER.

R. J. TILLYARD,

H. M. LEFROY.

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Annexure II.

ESTABLISHMent and SalARIES FOR IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AS RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE appointed to REPORT ON THE FINANCES OF THE BUREAU.

Appointment.

1 Director

1 Assistant Director 2 Senior Assistants * 3 Junior Assistants †

1 Senior Abstractor...

1 Senior Clerk

2 Lady Abstractors..

2 Lady Clerks §

1 Despatch Clerk

1 Indexer

1 Library Assistant...

1 Preparatort

2 Shorthand Typists

1 Office Boy...

Notes:-

Balary.

£850-£50-£1,000 £600-£25-£800 £400-£20-£600 £300-£20-£400 £250-£15-£850

£200-£10-£800

£150-£10-£250

£120-£10-£200 £80-£7 108.-£120 £80-£7 108.-£120 £80-£7 10s.-£120 £80-£7 108.-£120 £60-£5-£100 15/- 2/6 25/- (per week)

F

Maximum

Minimum + Bonur.

Mean + Bonus.

+ Bonus.

.. d.

£ 6. d.

£ 5. d.

1,926

7

6

1,543 17

6

1,435 2

6

968 17

6

1,258 17

6

1,108 17

6

678 17

6

963 17

6

818 17

6

528 17

6

678 17

B

601 7 6

456 7 6 388 17

801 7 6

528 17

6

6

528 17 6

456 7

6

255 17

303 17 6 6

456 7 6

388 17

6

383 17

6

319 17

6

184 0 0

255 17

6

223 17

6

184 0

0

255 17

6

228 17

6

138 0

184 184 0 0 0

0

0

225 17

6

223 17

6

225 17

6

223 17

6

228 17 6

184 0

0

84/6

(per week)

46/- (per week)

All appointments to be non-pensionable.

57/6 (per week)

* 2 new appointments, one for Head Office and one for Publication Office.

+1 new appointment for Publication Officer,

1 new appointment.

§ For Plant Pest Catalogue (temporary).

Salaries

Annexure III.

COMPARATIVE Estimates OF EXPENDITURE. Estimate on present basis,

Estimate on new basis.

£

£

Provident Fund

4,317 (Mean Figure.) 9,300 do.

450

Review of Applied Entomology

700

700

Bulletin of Entomological Research Publication Office (Rent, etc.)

450

450

230

Library

120

500 150

70

70

100

1,280

£13,000

Translations

Identifications

General Expenses

B

—

150

£6,037

(General Expenses

and Reserve.)