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A paper on the subject by the Director of the 

 Agricultural Department of the Gold Coast is to be 

 read at one of the sectional meetings of the Congress, 

 when we shall have the advantage of the presence of 

 Sir Hugh Clifford, the Governor of the Colony which 

 looks, under his guidance, to other developments in 

 agriculture, in which he is known to take so great an 

 interest. 



If, in concluding tnis review, I refer to tobacco and 

 sugar, it is only to draw attention to a community of 

 interests in temperate and tropical agriculture, which 

 it was another object of the organizers of this Congress 

 to foster. We are glad to welcome on our General 

 Committee and at our meetings a number of distin- 

 guished representatives of agriculture in this country. 

 Tobacco is one of several crops which have taken their 

 place in temperate as well as in tropical regions. It 

 has, of course, been known for long that the tobacco 

 plant could be grown in sub-tropical and temperate 

 regions, but recent developments indicate that certain 

 kinds of tobacco may not only be grown, but success- 

 fully cured of satisfactory quality in a number of new 

 areas, among which may be mentioned Canada, South 

 Africa, including Rhodesia, and Ireland, whilst pro- 

 mising trials are being made in this country. The 

 subject is one which needs increased attention in the 

 tropics, especially in relation to the growth of cigar 

 tobacco. 



In the short period under review great strides 

 have been made in the region of tropical medicine and 

 hygiene. Our knowledge of several important tropical 

 diseases is now sufficiently complete to enable remedial 

 and preventive measures to be taken with so great a 

 success that, provided certain precautions are taken, 

 life in the tropics is deprived of many of its dangers. 



THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE A CENTRE FOR INFORMATION. 



As we are assembled for our Congress in the Imperial 

 Institute, I may draw attention to the necessity for 

 a sort of central clearing house for collecting and 

 supplying trustworthy information on all subjects 

 connected with tropical agriculture, and especially with 



