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him to make any recommendation until March, 1923, when Mr. Golledge would have served for one year on the maximum of his present scale.

The Sub-Committee agreed to recommend to the Committee that the post of Assistant Librarian should be abolished and the post of Librarian substituted; that the scale of salary for the new post should be £120-£10-£200, and that Mr. Golledge should be appointed Librarian on this scale with effect from the 19th of May, 1921.

(ii) Advertisements (paragraph 6). It was explained that it was more con- venient to have advertisements at the beginning of the Review and Bulletin, as well as at the end, and that incidentally more value attached to advertisements at the beginning than at the end. The Director assured the Sub-Committee that there was no prospect of the advertisement pages becoming unduly numerous, and that in no event would they be placed elsewhere in the publications.

The Sub-Committee agreed to this modification of the procedure indicated at the previous meeting.

3. Proposals were submitted by the Director for crediting the accounts of permanent members of the staff of the Bureau with a percentage of the pay drawn in respect of service prior to the introduction of the Provident Fund.

The total pay issued to members of the staff up to the 31st of March, 1921, was stated to be approximately :-

Entomological Research Committee (1st October, 1909, to

30th June, 1913)

Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1st July, 1913, to 81st

March, 1921)

£

2,808

18,167

The details, which are subject to verification, are given in the table annexed. The Director pointed out that if five per cent. of salary paid up to the 31st of March, 1921, should be credited out of the funds of the Bureau, this being the percentage for compulsory contributions and for the contributions made from the funds of the Bureau under the Provident Fund Rules, the cost would amount to about £1,050. The Sub-Committee were informed that when the Crown Agents for the Colonies started their Provident Fund for temporary officials, only two and a-half per cent. of salary paid prior to the introduction of the Fund was allowed; but it was pointed out that the position of the temporary officials in the Crown Agents Office was different from that of the permanent members of the Bureau.

The Sub-Committee agreed that the position of the finances justified some such and it contribution, but they thought it better to proceed with caution in the matter; was decided to make the following recommendation to the Committee:-

"The Sub-Committee are in sympathy with the proposal that five per cent. of pay issued to present members of the staff of the Bureau from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 31st of March, 1921, should be credited to their accounts in the Provident Fund; but they recommend that two and a-half per cent. only should be credited forthwith, and that the question of credit- ing an additional two and a-half per cent. should be considered at the end of the financial year in the light of the financial position of the Bureau; and that of the sums so credited, the amounts in respect of service from the 1st of October, 1909, to the 30th of June, 1913, i.e., prior to the inception of the Bureau, should be debited to the Tropical African Fund.

SCHEDULE I.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

Staff Salaries, 1st October, 1909, to 30th June, 1913, inclusive.

Dr. G. A. K. Marshall

Dr. S. A. Neave

Mr. L. B. Wyatt

£ a. d.

1,070 16

8

1,587 7

4

149 6 6

£2,807 10 8

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SCHEDULE II.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

Staff Salaries, 1st July, 1913, to 31st March, 1921, inclusive.

Dr. G. A. K. Marshall Dr. S. A. Neave

Dr. B. P. Uvarov Captain H. S. Bushell Mr. Baguley Miss Breen Miss Constable Mrs. Darling Miss Elwood

Mr. Golledge

Miss G. M. Jeans

Mr. L. Nell

Mr. P. J. Newby

Miss E. Ralfs

Mr. L. B. Wyatt

No. 137.

£ 8. 5,584 4 7 4,495 7

435 0 3

5

327 19

5

191 10

6

991 4 11

477 5 10

360 16 10

4

441 1 0 697 9 900 2 9 1,681

5 10

180 19 3 708 18 1 693 10

0

£18,166 16 0

MEMORANDUM BY SIR JOHN ROSE BRADFORD, K.C.M.G, C.B., C.B.E, F.R.S.

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In order to investigate the numerous problems of Tropical medicine with success the following would seem to be some of the essentials required:

I. The provision of suitably trained investigators.

II. Adequate means for the prosecution of researches.

III.

The diffusion to workers of the results of the most recent investigations. IV. Provision for the supervision of specific investigations.

I-The Provision of Suitably Trained Investigators,

This is one of the most pressing needs at the present time, and may be con- sidered under two heads:

(a) Many problems in Tropical medicine require for their solution special knowledge in certain branches of science; as illustrations of this, protozoology and comparative pathology may be cited. For the adequate development of these important branches of applied science it is very desirable that a strictly limited number of special chairs should be endowed at one or more selected Universities in this country, on lines similar to those followed when the Colonial Office, in con- junction with the Royal Society, instituted the Professorship of Protozoology, formerly held by the late Professor Minchin, in the University of London. Such chairs exert a marked influence on the progress of knowledge, as they attract groups of workers specially interested in the subjects, who speedily become equipped with all the most recent knowledge of their subject.

(b) In addition to the endowment required for the maintenance of the chair and the necessary laboratories, it is also essential for scholarships or fellowships to be provided to maintain for a specified period promising workers. Such workers should be post-graduate students, who have already shown an aptitude for research, and they should be engaged in research work under the superintendence of the Professors. In this manner a reserve of suitably trained men would be formed. constituting a pool" at the Universities, from which the investigators required for any specific inquiry could be obtained, when their services in any given Colony are required. Some of the problems requiring investigations could be dealt with by them in their laboratories at home.

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