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4. I now have the honour to transmit to you the Report of the 
Committee, who were unanimously of the opinion that steps should 
be taken at an early date to found a Tropical Agricultural College 
in the British West Indies. 
4. The Committee refer to the Agricultural Colleges which 
have been established in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and Louisiana. 
They draw attention to the fact that the establishment of the 
proposed College is a matter of concern to the Empire at large, 
and of special interest to the other tropical Colonies and to the 
United Kingdom. 
As regards the site of the College, the Committee recommend 
that Trinidad should be chosen if the Colonial Government is 
prepared to afford adequate support and other reasonable facili- 
ties. The Committee regarded Jamaica as in many respects the 
most suitable Colony for the purpose, but they came to the con- 
clusion that considerations of inter-colonial transit would make 
it very difficult to place the College there. 
The Committee make recommendations in some detail for the 
Junior and senior courses of instruction, an advanced course, and 
arrangements for post-graduate studies of special subjects. They 
strongly recommend that a Sugar School should be provided and 
equipped with a complete plant on a small but working scale. 
They also suggest that, if the College were established in Trini- 
dad, a branch for Oil Technology should be added. 
Colonies on a suggested basis of } per cent. of their revenues 
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most recent knowledge in the science of tropical agriculture and 
technology. It must not, of course, be supposed that college 
