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already been remitted to the Chairman of the Board for current expenses out of the £200 sanctioned for this purpose at the 5th General Meeting of the Managing Committee.

30th November, 1922.

APPENDIX I.

E. J. BUTLER.

Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Half-year ending

Government Grants

Interest

30th September, 1922.

Sales of Review

Salaries

Apparatus and Furniture

Books (Library)

Review (6 parts)

General Expenses (office expenses, travelling, fuel, light, telephone) Pension contribution to India

Office

Miscellaneous (travelling ex-

penses of Managing Com- mittee of Bureau)

Receipts.

£ 8. d.

Expenditure.

£ s. d.

1,046 15 7

94 0 6

20 9 4

1,660 19 7 190 3 1

21 8 41 235 2 10

56 2 4

114 5 6

£1,161 4 5

15 0 0

£2,293 1 9

APPENDIX II.

General Financial Position as at 30th September, 1922.

Cash in hand-

Invested

Crown Agents

Balance at Barclay's Bank, Kew,

and in petty cash

Cash receivable-

Government Grants unpaid

Interest (approx.)

Sale of Review to end of finan-

cial year, say,

Estimated liabilities for remainder

of financial year-

Apparatus and Furniture

Review (7 parts and Index)

Salaries

£ 8. d.

£ 8. d.

6,000 0

0

280 15 0

183 14 6

2,100 0 0

100 0 0

50 0 0

1,794 0 0

90 0 0

59 0 0

100 0 0

430 0 0

Miscellaneous-

(Travelling Expenses of Com-

mittee, etc.)

25 0 0

Estimated cash balance 31st

March, 1922

£2,498 0 0

6,198 0 6

£8,604 9 8

£8,894 0 8

£8,694 9 8

Library

General Expenses

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No. 70.

HALF-YEARLY REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF MYCOLOGY FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1923.

Finance. All the Government grants for the financial year 1922-23 have been received with the exception of the contribution of the Egyptian Government, which is still outstanding. The reserve fund of the Bureau has increased to £5,782 2s. 34d. as against £5,409 8s. 24d. on the 31st March, 1922.

The Government of Fiji has been obliged owing to financial stringency to reduce the amount of their contribution from £125 to £50, and the income from Government grants for the current financial year will be £4,975. It will be seen from Appendix ÏV that a balance of approximately £500 is anticipated on the working of the Bureau for the current year.

In Appendix I the total receipts and expenditure of the Bureau since its foun- dation are shown in the form of a balance sheet calculated to 31st March last. Appendix II gives the actual receipts and expenditure during the past financial year; the receipts from Government grants are below the normal figure because several Governments paid their contributions for the year before it opened, and these sums were credited in the accounts of the previous year.

The amount guaran-

teed for the year was £5,100, so that expenditure was well within our true income. In Appendix III the financial position of the Bureau on 31st March last, allowing for outstanding liabilities and amounts due to us on that date, is shown, so that the balance of the Bureau Fund can be seen. It amounts to £5,782, but is not,

I think, unduly large in view of the fact that our income is voted annually by the contributing Governments, and it is perhaps a wise provision against temporary suspensions to keep about a year's income in hand.

As the past year saw the completion of the initial expenditure on equipment and books voted by the Committee at previous meetings, a summary of this account may be given. The total voted was £815, namely, £500 at the third meeting in November, 1920, and £315 at the fourth meeting in June, 1921. The expenditure required to furnish the rooms already occupied and for the purchase of microscopes, incubators, glassware, and the like was £589 19s. 4d., while £193 148. 21d. was spent on books, or a total expenditure of £783 138. 7d. The recurring sums of £50 for apparatus and furniture and £80 for books, which have been estimated as our annual requirements under these heads, should suffice until the time comes to fit one of the small rooms on the top floor with a working bench, gas, and water, and to complete the museum cases on this floor; these will not be required until next year, in all probability.

In the estimates for the current year, printed as Appendix IV, a surplus is shown of estimated receipts over estimated expenditure of £508 9s. Od. time of writing there is some uncertainty whether the Treasury will sanction the At the full cost of my journey to Australia via Vancouver as one of the British delegates to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress. The advantages to the Bureau of this tour will be practically doubled by visiting Canada, Fiji and New Zealand en route so as to get into personal touch with our correspondents and colleagues in those parts. and I beg to ask for sanction to charge any part of the cost of the journey disallowed by the Treasury to the Bureau funds. As the Treasury is meeting the cost of the journey to Australia and back by some route, and the differences by the different routes are not large, the excess chargeable to the Bureau should not be heavy in any event. I cannot at present foresee any circumstance that would cause our expen- diture to exceed our income in the coming year, unless any of the contributing Dominions or Colonies withhold their contributions.

Staff-There have been no changes in the staff at the Bureau during the past half-year, except that Miss Hawker resigned her appointment as clerk and was succeeded by Miss Colt in October. I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my great regret that we have lost the services of Mr. E. A. Simson of the Colonial Office, who has been Secretary to the Bureau since March, 1921, and whose co-operation in our work was of the greatest value to the Bureau.

As the

Publications. The preparation of the index for Volume I of the Review was commenced in December and the MSS. was ready for press in March. Review is itself, in a sense, an index of all references of importance in our branch, the number of entries required for a detailed subject index is very large, averaging

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