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Chief among the subjects dealt with are Technical Education in 

 Tropical Agriculture, Organisation of tropical Departments of 

 Agriculture in relation to Research, Agriculture Credit-Banks and 

 Co-operative Societies; Sanitation on Estates, Legislation against 

 Tropical pests. Fertility of Soils, Rubber, Cotton and other fibres; 

 Cereals, Sugar, Cocoa, Tobacco, Oil seeds. 



The Capitalist is a need in the Tropics; and experts from most 

 of the warmer parts of the world were at the Congress to meet him ; 

 consequently a not inconsiderable part of the time of the sessions was 

 occupied in his education; with this was interwoven the devout wish 

 to attract scientific workers to the immense field open to them. The 

 proposed College of Tropical Agriculture appeared conspicuously in 

 the discussions, whereat both East and Weft laid claims to it. 



As regards legislation against Plant diseases and Pests, the 

 Congress met with no clashing interests. Never was there before any 

 meeting a subject where discussion started with a more common 

 purpose. It ended in the adoption of a motion by Dr. Warburg 

 that a Committee should be appointed to formulate proposals in 

 regard to points of difficulty in applying the suggestions of the 

 International Phytopathological Convention of Rome. The paper 

 which led the discussion will appear in the Transactions. 



Pages 132-156 give the whole discussion on the subject of the 

 variability of plantation rubber, and Professor Dunstan's summing 

 up "that the time is premature for considering what may be called 

 standardization." 



A series of resolutions (pp. 385-407) closed the Congress: — 



i. To appoint a Committee to collect information on the or- 

 ganization of Government Departments of Agriculture. 



ii. To appoint a Committee to report on the question of 

 estate sanitation. 



iii. To arrange for the exchange of publications. 



iv. To appoint a Committee to collect information on agri- 

 cultural co-operation including credit, against the next 

 Congress. 



V. To appoint a Committee to support the London Com- 

 mittee which is promoting the establishment of an 

 Imperial College of Agriculture. 



vi. To appoint an International Committee to consider how 

 far the proposals of the International Phytopathological 

 Conference of Rome, 1914, are applicable to the Tropics; 

 and that the official delegates should be asked to report 

 this to their Governments. 



