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(Circular. —Treaty.) SlB '~ w,. * • Foreign Office, S.W. 1, 17th November, 1919. With reference to the circular despatch, Treaty, of the 10th October, 1905, in which instructions were given that a passport should not be granted to a British subject who is also a subject or a citizen of the State m which you exercise consular jurisdiction, I am directed by the Secretary oi State tor foreign Affairs to inform you that a British passport should be similarly refused to a British subject of dual nationality if the purpose is to proceed to the other country to which he owes allegiance Applicants tor British passports should therefore be required to state in their application whether they possess any nationality other than British, and a paragraph to this effect is being added to the rorm ot application for consular passports (Form C). I am> & c . His Majesty's Consul at . ' J A C Tilley

(Circular.) SlR '~~ TOY . . . Foreign Office, S.W. 1, sth February, 1920. With reference to circular despatch, Treaty, of the 17th November last, on the subject of the issue ot passports to British subjects of dual nationality for travelling to countries other than that of their second nationality, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to inform you that, in cases where the evidence is clear that an applicant possesses some other nationality in addition to British any passport that may be issued should bear an endorsement that it is not valid for the second country to which the holder also owes allegiance. I am> & Ct; His Majesty's Consul at . ' hledinge op Penshuest.

No. 21. New Zealand, No. 73. My Lord— Downing Street, 17th April, 1920. With reference to Your Excellency's despatch, No. 211, of the I,Bth November, 1919, I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that it is n n M c n to n d T m th& High Commissioner «>r New Zealand that Sir David Pram, C.M.G, CLE, F.R.S, has accepted the invitation to act as New Zealand's representative on the Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology. 2. Note has been taken of the nomination of Mr. A. H. Cockayne as the ex officio member of the Committee in New Zealand. r . „ I have, &c, Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. MILNER Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, C.B.E, M.V.O, &c.

No. 22. New Zealand, No. 77. My Lord,-— Downing Street, 23rd April, 1920. I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, the accompanying copy of a letter which has been received from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, representing the desirability of collating and rendering available for study the scientific; data collected by the Germans in their former colonies. 2. A letter has been received from the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, Burlington House, London, supporting the resolution passed by the British Association, i havej &C-; MILNER. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, G.B.E, M.V.O, &c

Enclosure.

British Association for the Advancement of Science, bm '~~ „. .. Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W. 1, 31st March, 1920. We are directed by the council of this association to inform you that at its recent meeting m Bournemouth the association was made aware of the large quantity of geographical, anthropological, and other scientific intelligence which has been found to have been collected under official auspices by the Germans m their former colonies, and has come into the possession of various Govern merit Departments m Great Britain and in overseas dominions. While the case of German possessions in the Pacific was more particularly brought under the notice of tin- association, the Council feels that the scientific data collected in other countries also, which have been the scene of British opera-