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President will endorse it, and perhaps you may be persuaded to 

 adopt it at once without discussion. It is an evident proposi- 

 tion that this Congress should appoint a Committee to deal 

 with this subject, and I do not think anyone is likely to 

 oppose it. 



The PRESIDENT : Gentlemen I should like to support very 

 warmly the proposal which Sir Ronald Ross has just made, 

 that a Committee should be appointed to consider the various 

 details of the very important question which we have discussed 

 this morning. It is quite obvious that in a Congress of this 

 kind we cannot hope to discuss thoroughly every subject which 

 comes before us, but when we realize, as we do this morning, 

 that there is an important subject which requires more con- 

 sideration than we are able to bestow upon it, our best plan 

 is to appoint a Committee to deal with it. I have, there- 

 fore, the greatest pleasure in supporting Sir Ronald Ross's 

 proposal, that a Committee should be appointed to deal with 

 this question, the Committee to report on or before the 

 occasion of the next International Congress. 



The CHAIRMAN : If you will allow me, I will put that at once 

 without discussion, as our time is already finished. I do not 

 think anyone will oppose it. That is passed nem. con. 



The PRESIDENT : Before we conclude this part of our busi- 

 ness, perhaps the meeting will allow me to propose a very 

 hearty vote of thanks to the reader of the paper, and to those 

 who have taken part in the discussion, and also to Sir Ronald 

 Ross for so kindly coming here this morning and presiding at 

 this meeting. 



This was carried by acclamation. 



Mr. F. D. EVANS : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen I am very 

 much obliged to you for the way in which you have received 

 this paper by Dr. Sansom and myself. I am only sorry that 

 there has not been more active hostile criticism on parts of 

 it, because, unless we are up against a certain amount of 

 opposition, I have always found that very little is accomplished. 

 There are at the door a number of publications of the Agricul- 

 tural Department of the Malay States which may possibly be 

 of interest to some of you in connection with the proposal 

 which was mad>e by our President yesterday with regard to 

 the- establishment of an agricultural college. Also, if any of 

 you are interested in the actual methods which we employ in 

 the Malay States to drain land, I should be delighted to explain 

 them in the Reading Room immediately after this meeting. 



