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Its aims were defined by Dr. (now Sir George) Parkin as the utilization of the " experience and experiment in educational organization " made in the different parts of the Empire, and the placing of the lessons learned, and a knowledge of the progress made, at the service of all. " The first duty of the Central Bureau would be to collect university information from every part of the Empire and to put it in a suitable form for easy distribution." The bulk of this information is contained in the Empire Universities Year-book. Also, the temporary exchange of professors and other teachers was to be arranged ; the migration of students from one university to another facilitated. One of the most important functions of the Bureau is to supply information regarding opportunities for advanced study and research. The Bureau is in a position to supply or procure information and advice for British students who contemplate migrating to other lands for the purpose of undertaking special courses of advanced study and research. There is in every university of the Empire a correspondent of the Bureau, who undertakes to keep the committee informed of all important developments in university work, and a summary of this information is incorporated in the Universities Year-book. The latter is supplied gratis to all universities of the Empire, and in exchange to many of those in the United States and other foreign countries. Pamphlets prepared by the several Home universities on the opportunities they afford for advanced study and research have been distributed by the Bureau. Information prepared with the co-operation of the universities and colleges of the Empire, and possibly foreign countries, regarding the management, discipline, and expenses of residential hostels for students is distributed as far as funds permit. Appendix 111. —List of Centres of Research. The Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and Wales, in England and Wales; of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews, in Scotland ; and of Belfast, Dublin, and the National University, in Ireland. The University Colleges of Exeter, Nottingham, Reading, and Southampton. The British Museum (Natural History), London. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Imperial Institute, London. Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. The John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton, London. The Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. The Marine Station of the Scottish Marine Biological Association, Millport, Great Cambrae Island, Bute, Scotland. The National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge. The Scottish Society for Research in Plant-breeding, Corstorphine. The Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford. The Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew. The Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Wisley, Ripley, Surrey. The Horticultural Research Station, Cambridge. East Mailing Research Station, Kent. The Experimental and Research Station of the Nursery and Market-garden Industries' Development Society Cheshunt, Herts. Campden Eruit and Vegetable Preservation Research Station, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. The Low-temperature Research Station of the Food Investigation Board, Cambridge. The Shirlev Institute of the British Cotton Industry Research Association, Didsbury, Manchester. The Linen Industry Research Association, Lambeg, Belfast. The Forest Products Research Laboratory, South Farnborough, Hants. The British Flour-millers' Research Association, Sopwell, St. Albans.
No. 18. New Zealand, No. 67. Sir, — Downing Street, 26th March, 1926. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of the Imperial War Graves Endowment Fund Bill, together with copies of an extract from the House of Commons official report of the 15th of March containing the debate on the second reading. I have, &c., L. S. AMERY. Governor-General His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D.5.0., M.V.0., &c.
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