TUESDAY, JUNE 23, MORNING SESSION. 

 Inaugural Meeting. 



THE inaugural meeting of the Congress was held in 

 the Jehanghier Hall of the Imperial Institute on 

 Tuesday, June 23, at n a.m. The chair was 

 taken by the President, who was supported on the plat- 

 form by the principal officers of the Congress, and 

 among others present were Lord Emmott, Lord Sudeley, 

 Sir George Reid, Sir Sydney Olivier, Sir Horace 

 Plunkett, Sir Hugh Clifford, Sir H. Hesketh Bell, Sir 

 Henry Blake, Sir George Denton, Sir Frank Swetten- 

 ham, Sir Frederic M. Hodgson, Sir James Wilson, 

 Sir William Schlich, Sir W. Haynes Smith, Sir J. 

 Muir Mackenzie, the Hon. C. Gideon Murray, Sir E. 

 Rosling, Mr. J. Arthur Hutton and Mr. Wilson Fox. 



The Representatives and Delegates to the Congress 

 (see p. 7) were formally received by the President and 

 introduced to the Congress. 



The President then delivered the following 



OPENING ADDRESS 



By PROFESSOR WYNDHAM R. DUNSTAN, C.M.G., 

 M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 



President of the International Association for Tropical 

 Agriculture, Director of the Imperial Institute. 



My Lords and Gentlemen, 



The International Congress of Tropical Agriculture, 

 which we meet to open to-day, is the third which has 

 been held under the auspices of the International 

 Association for Tropical Agriculture, the first having 

 taken place in Paris in 1905 and the second in Brussels 

 in 1910. At the close of the Brussels Congress the 

 members of the Association did me the honour to elect 

 me as President of the Association in succession to the 

 veteran M. de Lanessan, who, as Governor-General of 

 Indo-China and afterwards as Minister responsible 

 for the French Colonies in the Government of the 



