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REPORT OF THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
COMMITTEE. 
To the Riaut HonovrasiE Viscount Miner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., 
Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
My Lord, 
The Committee appointed by your Lordship on August 25th, 
1919, to consider the desirability of establishing a Tropical Apri- 
cultural College in the British West Indies, and matters connected 
therewith, beg leave to submit their Report as follows. 
2. The Committee comprises the following members : — 
Dr. A. E. Shipley, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Chair “man, 
Master of Christ’ s College, Cambr idge, and Deputy Vice- 
Chancellor. 
Lieut.-Colonel Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.1. MaRS, 
Deputy-Chairman, Director of the Royal Botanic Gar- 
dens, Kew. 
Sir Norman Lamont, Bart., Member of the Legislative 
Council of Trinidad and Toba ago, 
a on Gideon Murray, M.P., late Administrator of 
Lue 
Sir ouch Pit el G.C.M.G., M.P. 
Sir Henry Frank Heath, K.C. B: Secretary to the Depart- 
ment of Scientific and Industrial Research. 
Sir Francis Watts, K.C.M.G., D.Se. ae Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture for the West Indie 
Sir Edward Davyson, President of the caine Chambers 
of Commerce of the West Indies. 
Dr, C. A. Barber, C.I.E., Sc.D., F.L.S. , Sugar-Cane Ex- 
pe r India. 
— Scher Rutherford, Chairman of the West India Com- 
ittee. 
i. ae pr wemaay oe Deputy-Chairman of the 
West India Comm 
Mr. Eliot Arthur de Pia Chairman of the Jamaica Stand- 
ing Committee of the West India Committe 
Dr. J. B. Farmer, M.A., D.Se., F.R:S., Profeiaer of 
Botany, Imperial College of Science and Technology. 
Captaih A. W. Hill, M.A., Se.D., F.L.S., Assistant Direc- 
tor of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
r wo H, Himbury, General Manager of the British 
Cotton Growing Association. 
Mr. J. W. McConnel, Member of the Empire Cotton Grow- 
ing Committee, Board of T rade. 
Mr. G. Moody Stuart, West Ser ee Proprietor. 
Mr. Algernon E. Aspinall, O.M. Go Bike Hon. Secretary, 
Secretary of the West India Committee. 
Sir Henry Frank Heath, K.C.B., was unable to attend any of 
the ae and was Bs Soa by Mr. A. Abbott. Dr. OC. 
— I.E., Sc.D., F.L.S., was sont a member of the 
