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Subscribers to Series A

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1919.

207

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1920.

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1921.

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Subscribers to Series B Total net sales

£219 9s. 9d. £287 198. 2d. £341 168, 5d. Advertisements were published for the first time in both series during the year, and the sum of £33 158. Od. was received in respect of these, covering a period of only nine months.

On the basis of the Stationery Office quotation referred to above, the cost of printing and paper for this volume would work out at 228. a page for text matter, and allowing £275 for the indices, the total cost will be £1,190; after deducting the receipts from advertisements and net sales (£375), this leaves a deficit of £715. The estimate for the current year has been placed at £800 to cover the probable increase in the size of the volume.

Sundry Publications. The pamphlet on tsetse flies, prepared by Major E. E. Austen and M. E. Hegh, is now well advanced, about two-thirds of the galley proofs having been received at the time of writing. It will be recalled that the Committee agreed that the cost of this publication. should be defrayed out of the Tropical African Fund.

During the year the following papers dealing with non-economic insects sent to the Bureau for identification have been published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History:-Four by Mr. J. R. Malloch on Asiatic and African flies; one by Mr. S. Maulik on a palm beetle from the Malay States; one by Colonel Winn- Sampson on bark beetles from Africa; and two by Mr. B. P. Uvarov on South African grasshoppers. These amount to 104 pages in all and have cost us £43 73. 9d., this including charges for authors' reprints and artists' fees for illustrations.

The "Abstract of Legislation in force in the British Empire dealing with Plants and Diseases," up to the year 1920, was published last October, and free copies were sent to all the contributing Governments. The outside demand has unfortunately been very small, only 30 copies having been sold, with a net yield of £2 12s. 9d. The publication has been subject to somewhat vigorous criticism on the part of Mr. C. P. Lounsbury, of the Union of South Africa, and while it is felt that some of his strictures are not really valid, there is no doubt that the abstracts might be improved in some directions from the point of view of the working entomologist, and opportunity will be taken of Mr. Lounsbury's visit to this country early in June to obtain from him precise details of the alterations which he considers to be necessary.

Library. There has been a considerable increase in the Bureau Library during the year under review, the total number of bound volumes being 2,752, an increase of 505. The most important single donation was one of 40 volumes of the Entomologisk Tidskrift, presented by the Entomological Society of Stockholm. The policy of advertising in the Review for missing back numbers of various journals has been fully justified, and numerous lacunæ have been filled by this means, thanks to the generosity of various correspondents.

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The pamphlet series, now estimated at 4,200, has been completely overhauled, and the existing catalogue revised and brought up to date. An authors' card index of entomological papers in the serial journals is in course of preparation, and about per cent. of the bound volumes, representing some 6,500 cards, have already been catalogued in this manner. The provisional catalogue of serial publications has also been revised, but the work of cataloguing has been limited owing to the steady growth of the library and the consequent increase of routine work for the Librarian. Staff of the Bureau. The question of salaries is being dealt with by the Finance Sub-Committee, so need not be discussed here. Attention must, however, be drawi

to the fact that the steady increase in the routine work in the Publication Office will necessitate further clerical assistance in the immediate future, and approval is therefore sought for the appointment of an additional boy in the lowest clerical grade.

The present financial position does not appear yet to justify the appointment of a Senior Assistant, as suggested at the Conference, and the matter would perhaps be better deferred until a more substantial surplus has been accumulated. over, a proposal involving expenditure in another direction has just been put forward by Dr. Tillyard, of New Zealand, which is recommended to the careful consideration of the Committee.

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parasites of any American pests, he has only to write to Washington or California and he can get plentiful supplies free of cost; on the other hand, if he wants parasites from Europe, there is no one in Britain to whom he can look for assistance of this nature. His only course in the circumstances is to appeal to the generosity of the American Bureau of Entomology, who may be able to help him owing to their having a temporary branch organization in the South of France in connexion with their campaign against the European corn-borer, which is now doing so much damage in the United States. As Dr. Tillyard rightly says, this can hardly be regarded as a satisfactory state of affairs, and he asks whether our Bureau could not possibly organize a Beneficial Insects Supply Department. As his letter has only just been received there has not been time to prepare a proper report, but it is hoped that at the meeting of the Committee it may be possible to submit some suggestions for their consideration.

APPENDIX I.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st March, 1922.

Government Grants

Interest on deposits

Review of Applied Entomology

Bulletin of Entomological Research Salaries

Carnegie Students Queen's Gate Office Library

Office and Library Furniture Travelling Expenses Translations

General Expenses Provident Fund Sundry Publications Tropical African Fund

APPENDIX II.

Received. £ 8. d. 12,809 13 10

Expended. £ 8. d.

307 2 7 414 0 1 249 6 1

647 4 0 683 12 0 7,618 15 4

1,235 0 0

728 10 11

234 14 0

79 3

11 6 10

4

12 11 3

98 19 11

782 11 11

43 7 9 177 8 2

£13,780 2 7 £12,353 3 5

GENERAL FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1922.

Cash with Crown Agents Cash on deposit

Invested in 4 per cent. Funding Stock

Government Grants outstanding

Petty Cash

Outstanding liabilities:-

Salaries for March

£ 8. d. £ 8. d.

1,255 13 3,000 2,500

3

0 0

0 0

1,025 0 0

9

3 0

511 8 0

Balance of Carnegie Fund

1,375 4 2

Government Grants paid in advance

1,250 0 0

Review of Applied Entomology-19 parts

and index

1,855 0 0

Bulletin of Entomological Research–

1,006 0 0

63 0

2 vols, and 2 indices

Abstract of Pest Legislation

Office of Works

Stationery Office

0900

229 19 50 0

£6,140 11 8 7,789 16 3

822 13 10

826 10 9

More-

Balance of Tropical African Fund Balance of Bureau Fund

£7,789 16 3 £7,789 16 3

Dr. Tillyard states that there is urgent need in New Zealand at the present time for parasites to control certain introduced European pests, namely, the common earwig, the pear slug and the pear midge. He points out that if he requires

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