Societies and Banks will form the subject of another 

 meeting, at which Sir Horace Plunkett will take the 

 chair. Sir Ronald Ross will preside at a discussion on 

 Sanitation and Hygiene on Tropical Estates. 



The Congress is especially indebted to the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies, one of our Honorary Vice- 

 Presidents, who is to preside at a meeting at which the 

 cultivation of cotton is to be discussed. Mr. Harcourt 

 has shown great personal interest and has rendered 

 valuable assistance in the organization of this Congress. 



Sectional meetings will be held to discuss papers on 

 cotton, rubber, cocoa, tobacco and fibres. At the meet- 

 ing at which cocoa is to be considered the chair will 

 be taken by Sir Hugh Clifford, the Governor of the 

 Gold Coast, where cocoa cultivation has made enormous 

 strides in recent years. At the meeting at which papers 

 on Jute and Hemp Fibres will be read Mr. C. C. 

 McLeod, Chairman of the London Jute Association, 

 will take the chair. 



A special paper will be read on the Work of the 

 British Cotton Growing Association by the Chairman, 

 Mr. J. Arthur Hutton, at which Lord Derby, the 

 President of the Association, will take the chair. Lord 

 Emmott, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and 

 a member of a firm of cotton spinners, will be among 

 the speakers. Other special papers are on The Fibre 

 Industry of British East Africa, by Mr. Alfred 

 Wigglesworth ; on The Utilization of Sun Power 

 for Irrigation and other Purposes in Tropical Agri- 

 culture, by Mr. Frank Shuman ; and on the Karakul 

 Sheep, by Professor Wallace. 



In order to get through our work it will be necessary 

 to meet in the afternoons as well as in the mornings, 

 and to commence the proceedings as a rule at 10.30 in 

 the morning, with an interval of about an hour in the 

 middle of the day and of half an hour in the afternoon, 

 the work of the meetings terminating at 6 p.m. 



SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. 



In the four years which have elapsed since the last 

 International Congress met in Brussels many important 

 developments in tropical agriculture have taken place 



