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8. At the first meeting of the Committee, held on September 
16th, Dr. A. E. Shipley, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., and Lieut.- 
Colonel Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S., were ap- 
pointed Chairman and Deputy-Chairman respectively, and Mr. 
Algernon E. Aspinall, C.M.G., B.A., Honorary Secretary. 
4. The terms of reference to the Committee are set out in your 
Lordship’s letter of August 25th, 1919, to the members of the 
Committee as follows : — 
of tropical produce of every kind, including especially sugar and 
its by-products rum and molasses, cacao, coffee, cotton, coconuts, 
rice, citrus and other fruits—notably bananas, and dye-woods, 
of which commodities constitute the raw materials em- 
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provision for the prosecution of research, and for the training 
of scientific investigators in matters pertaining to tropical agri- 
culture amid suitable surroundings, and for creating a body of 
