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If, however, it is found by experience that the £500 per annum payable to the sub-committee for its regular expenses, including its secretary's salary, is insufficient for its needs, the Committee at home should be at liberty to draw UUUUH upon the

other sum of £500 which remains under its control for the pur-

pose of making good the sub-committee's deficit.

One of several suggestions made to us was to the

effect that the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education

and Culture might be asked to undertake the duties with which

we propose to entrust our corresponding sub-committee. It

appears to us that this arrangement might prove embarrassing

or unworkable in practice, and we therefore do not endorse it;

but as we have been assured by members of the China Foundation

that they would gladly co-operate with us in every possible way,

we strongly recommend that our sub-committee should be directed

to avail themselves of this offer and should not hesitate to

apply to the Foundation for advice and help when occasion

arises. If, as suggested above, some of the members of the

sub-committee are selected from persons who are themselves

trustees or officers of the Foundation, co-operation should

be greatly facilitated.

Just before we left China on our homeward journey

a suggestion was redeived from the Secretary of the Universi-

ties China Committee to the effect that either the Chinese

Government Reconstruction Council For the Academia

Sinica (Nanking) might be appointed corresponding committee to

the Committee at home. This proposal apparently emanated

from M. Henri Bonnet, Director of the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, who thought that the Academia Sinica would form a Satisfactory corresponding committee both for the Universities China Committee and for his own Institute, and that whether the Reconstruction Council was selected as our corresponding committee or not it should be kept informed of the progress of our educational activities in China. While adhering to our own view that our corresponding sub-committee should have its