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say, research is on the back of a diploma. In my opinion the 

 matter should be left exceedingly elastic. 



There is only one other word I should like to add, namely, 

 that it seems to me that, instead of debating whether it is 

 better to go to the East or to go to the West, we should have 

 as many colleges as we want as many as are indicated as 

 necessary. I do not know that all of them need be so ex- 

 tremely 'expensive. Now is an opportune moment, because 

 there are many fortunate people, I understand, who will now 

 only have to pay is. 3d. income tax instead of is. 4d., and 

 numbers of these will no doubt devote the 'other penny to 

 tropical agriculture. I also trust, gentlemen, that we shall 

 find in the development of tropical agriculture one other 

 powerful means of securing peace, and as a zoologist I cannot 

 but recall the enormously good work done by some of the 

 zoological marine stations, particularly that at Naples. I am 

 quite sure that the fact of students of different nationalities 

 having worked side by side in the laboratories there has done 

 much to promote good feeling between the various countries, 

 and I hope that the different nations will be able similarly to 

 co-operate in regard to tropical agriculture. I can only assure 

 you, Sir, that the College I represent is extremely anxious to 

 continue in future the training, and the better training, of 

 British students in order to qualify them to take up work of 

 this kind. 



Professor P. CARMODY (Director, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Trinidad) : Mr. President and Gentlemen I think I will 

 begin at once by conceding that the East may have a college 

 of its own, and I will mention to you a few reasons why I 

 think we should have a second college in the West Indies. In 

 Trinidad during the last twenty years we have been taking 

 very active steps in agricultural education, and have gone far 

 to establish the work that a college will do. I think we have 

 gone even farther than Mr. Lyne, who says that he has all 

 his plans prepared and a site chosen for his college. We have 

 the building already erected. It was not specially erected for 

 a college, but it is large enough for the purpose. We have 

 around it an estate, belonging to the Government, of 3,000 

 or 4,000 acres of land, on which sugar and various small 

 crops are grown, partly for experiment, and partly by peasant 

 proprietors. We have sites for dwellings quite close to the 

 building which we intend to have occupied as a college. 

 We have a cocoa estate belonging to the Government, on 

 which we have at the present time something like 90,000 

 trees, and on that estate practical education has been given 

 for some three or four years to young men in the colony 

 who wish to become overseers or managers of estates. I 



