Departments, the necessary facilities and assistance 

 should be provided. It will no doubt be said that this 

 involves additional expense, but it is expense which it 

 is well worth while to incur in the interests of the 

 countries concerned. 



The amount of expenditure in connection with 

 Government Agricultural Departments in the British 

 tropical colonies, though greater than it was, is still 

 very small in relation to their importance, and to the 

 large amount of valuable work which is being done. 



In India the College for higher instruction and 

 research, established at Pusa in Bengal, is now entirely 

 devoted to research on questions of general importance 

 to India. The Central Research Institute, as it 

 is now called, is performing work of great value 

 to Indian agriculture as a whole. At the same 

 time its efforts should not lead India to overlook 

 the fact that with the great diversity of conditions which 

 prevail throughout that great continent, research is also 

 called for in each of the Provincial Departments of 

 Agriculture, where scientific investigation should be 

 chiefly directed to problems of local importance. The 

 results of investigations conducted in one district of 

 Bengal often require re-investigation in their relation to 

 different conditions in other places. The Research 

 Institute at Pusa cannot in any case be expected to deal 

 with all the agricultural research which is called for 

 throughout India, and the prosperity of the Provincial 

 Departments of Agriculture is intimately connected 

 with the power which is given to them of acquiring 

 new knowledge with special reference to problems of 

 local importance. 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE INTERNATIONAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The deliberations of the Congress are to extend to a 

 large number of important subjects relating to the 

 various aspects of tropical agriculture and industries. 

 It will be within the province of the meetings of the 

 Congress to recommend the appointment of Special 

 Committees to collect information on any subject in 

 which it may be considered useful to take action with 

 a view to a report being presented either to the next 



