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I.

II.

III.

IV.

Government,

General view of proposals.

Financial support.

Personnel

available.

Union of

South Africa

Favourable (i) All ex- Will provide

penses of in- vestigations in Zululand. (ii) £250 per

sunam for

five years.

British

Favourable Pro rata con-

Bouth

Africa

Company

(S.

Rhodesia)

tribution not exceeding £1,500 per annum for five years in- clusive of em- oluments of members of Southern Rhodesia Public Ser- vice engaged on the work.

staff neces- sary for Zulu- land investi- gations.

Will continue

with their present staff

V.

Remarks.

Will make all arrangements for Zululand investigations, which will be egun forthwith; co-ordination with activities in other centres with work of Bureau to be arranged later.

(1) Necessary provision, as in III, will have to be voted by Legislative Council annually, and British South Africa Company cannot

investigations therefore guarantee the sum now in pro- gre sa in Southern Rhodesia.

(2) One centre of research must be in Southern Rhodesia.

(8) Will co-operate in training of men.

(1) Considers scheme not on right lines.

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later on.

This idea seemed to impress him favourably, and he appeared to think that the salary asked for by Mr. Lloyd was not unreasonable. At the same time, he thought it was inadvisable that a stranger to the country should be left to start the work alone, and he suggested that it would be as well if Dr. Johnson should be seconded to assist Mr. Lloyd in his work.

4. The matter then resolved itself into a mere question of finance, and the Governor asked me to arrange for a meeting between Mr. Lloyd and Dr. Johnson in order that they might discuss what outfit and apparatus would be essential, and thereafter to frame an estimate of the probable cost during the current financial year, This meeting was held in my office on the following morning, and, assuming that Dr. Johnson had commenced work immediately on his return to Nigeria, where he will arrive at the end of this month, and that Mr. Lloyd were to follow him out at the end of September, it was estimated that the outlay up to the end of March next would not exceed £2,600.

5. Dr. Johnson then framed a formal statement of the scheme he had outlined. and left it at Sir Hugh Clifford's hotel.

6. The Governor had informed me that it would be impossible for him to give

If this were

a final decision on the subject until he had communicated with his locum tenens in Nigeria, in order to find out the actual position there at the moment, sufficiently favourable to allow him to approve of the proposal, he would then submit a scheme for the sanction of the Secretary of State. I have not received from him any communication since Dr. Johnson left the estimate with him, but I shall inform you immediately I have any further news from him.

I have, &c., GUY A. K. MARSHALL,

Director.

British

Unfavour-

South

Able

Africa

Company

(N.

Rhodesia)

(2) Criticizes adversely smallness of sum proposed for the work.

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No. 135.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 134.

THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

*

[Answered by No. 139.]

British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W., 2nd May, 1921.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd April, and to inform you that on Thursday, the 28th April, a meeting was arranged with Sir Hugh Clifford and Dr. W. B. Johnson to discuss the possibility of initiating tsetse fly investigations in Nigeria. The members of the Glossina Sub-Committee who attended were Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau, Dr. S. A. Neave, and myself.

2. Prior to arranging this meeting, I had taken the precaution of writing to Mr. LJ. Lloyd, who has done excellent work on tsetse flies in Northern Nigeria, and who is now in this country, to inquire whether he would be willing to undertake work of this kind in Nigeria, and, if so, what salary he would expect. To this letter he replied that he would be willing to go providing he received a salary of £1,000-£50- £1,200, but that he was under contract to give six months' notice to his present employers.

3. At the meeting, Sir Hugh Clifford at once stated that, since the scheme con- tained in his despatch of the 9th August, 1920,† to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the financial position had become much more difficult in Nigeria, and the revenue had materially decreased, so that it might not be possible at present to initiate such a costly scheme as he had then outlined. After some discussion, how- he agreed that it might be possible to make a start on a much smaller scale, and I suggested to him the employment of Mr. Lloyd for the purpose of making a preliminary fly survey, with special reference to the discovery of breeding grounds, in order that a suitable locality might be selected for a proper experiment station

ever,

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+ No. 116.

MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE

OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU MANAGING COMMITTEE

ENTOMOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON 19TH MAY, 1921.

Present:

SIR DAVID PRAIN (Chairman).

MAJOR AUSTEN.

DR. BAGSHAWE.

SIR JOHN Bradford.

SIR DAVID BRUCE.

MR. FRYER.

SIR SIDNEY HARMER.

PROFESSOR POULTON.

SIR HERBERT READ.

DR. SCOTT.

MR. THEOBald.

DR. MARSHALL (Director).

DR. NEAVE (Assistant Director),

MR. PARKINSON (Secretary).

OF

THE Chairman informed the Committee that letters had been received from Lord Harcourt and Sir Arthur Shipley regretting that they were unable to attend the meeting.

2. The minutes of the Thirty-Third General Meeting* were approved. 3. The half-yearly report of the Director was received. (Copy annexed.) (a) Dr. Marshall referred briefly to the main points in his report, calling special attention to the satisfactory way in which the move of the Publication Office to its new premises in 41, Queen's Gate, had been effected, and to the notable increase in the number of subscribers for the Review of Applied Entomology.

(b) As regards rates for the new premises, he stated that information had now been received from the Kensington Borough Council that premises had been rated

* No. 124.

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