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concerned to realize that we are very much in earnest with 

 regard to our wish and desire to do our best for tropical 

 agriculture. We realize very strongly in Great Britain that 

 for various reasons, political and otherwise, large sums of 

 money are being invested in tropical agriculture, and the 

 different colonies in the tropics are simply touting for men 

 who will be able to serve them. I can speak, of course, more 

 particularly of my own college, the Royal Agricultural College 

 at Cirencester, which is the pioneer college, and which, having 

 no local ties, is more free perhaps for this Imperial work than 

 some of the others. I think, gentlemen, it is important 

 very important to understand that the ordinary training of a 

 college in agriculture, provided it embodies really sound 

 scientific work, is able to turn out very satisfactory agricul- 

 turists indeed. I can only tell) you that a number of our own 

 students, who have not had any specialized training in tropical 

 agriculture, have done good work in the various colonies that 

 engage in tropical agriculture, one being Mr. Kelway 

 Bamber, who is known, I believe, pretty intimately to Mr. 

 Lyne; also Mr. James Mollison, formerly Inspector-General of 

 Agriculture for India; Sir J. Muir Mackenzie, K. C.S.I., who 

 had an important post in the Bombay Presidency (he was on 

 the Council of the Governor); Mr. Despeissis, who did work 

 in the tropical parts of Australia; Mr. Neville, who was in 

 the Sudani, and: so on. But, in spite of that, it is clearly 

 desirable that there should be a little tincture of tropical work 

 in the preliminary training, though I very much oppose and 

 resist any attempt to give training with a " bias " that horrid 

 word which has been introduced by our Board of Education 

 with regard to " rural bias," and so forth. I submit, gentle- 

 men, that training in tropical entomology is the same as train- 

 ing in any other entomology. There is only one entomology 

 known to me, and I speak as a professional zoologist. When 

 you give a "tropical bias," you simply give tropical illus- 

 trations and so forth, and I fancy that a man who has been 

 properly trained in this country in any branch of science is 

 competent to take up tropical work in that science. 



But I really must traverse one or two points in the paper of 

 Mr. Dudgeon. The chief thing to which I object there is 

 that it is a bit too cut-and-dried, and I do not think that we 

 have come to the cut-and-dried stage yet. I do not know that 

 a diploma should be an absolutely essential preliminary to 

 going to a tropical college, because the training will differ 

 according to the aim in view. A man may wish to be an 

 expert planter, or an administrator, or he may wish to go in for 

 research; and it does not follow that the best way of pursuing, 



