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the point of view of the pastoral system; forest system (in 

 particular protection against winds and the fixation of sand 

 dunes) and the agricultural system. 



(b) Study of the different species of plants cultivated in 

 Tripoli and of those existing in other parts of North Africa and 

 elsewhere, which might be introduced with advantage. 



(c) Economic and agricultural study of the formation of 

 irrigated and dry plantations; that is to say, the relative costs 

 of starting and working these two systems. 



(d) Meteorological service which will include a central obser- 

 vatory, six district observatories, and sixteen stations at which 

 temperature and rainfall will be recorded. 



The Administrative Section will have its Office at Tripoli, 

 and will be in direct connection with the administrative units in 

 the various districts. The Technical Section will have its 

 Office outside the oasis of Tripoli, at the former Turkish 

 Agricultural School, and will have under its control experi- 

 mental stations suitably distributed over the various districts 

 in addition to the meteorological service for the whole region. 



In the Colonial Budget for the financial year 1914-15 the sum 

 of 716,000 lire has been included for carrying on the work 

 of the Department. This sum will be increased during future 

 years as the various services are established or improved, and 

 will assist in increasing the importance of Italian colonization 

 in Tripoli. 



[DISCUSSION.] 



Professor P. CARMODY (Director of Agriculture, Trinidad) : 

 Mr. President The papers we have heard this morning are 

 extremely interesting, and the only fault that I have to find 

 is that we have only about an hour to consider them. There 

 is a great deal in them that one would have liked to have 

 studied beforehand, and I think it would be advisable to con- 

 sider whether something more than a mere abstract of the 

 papers should not be provided where the subject is of unusual 

 importance. The two subjects that we have had this morning 

 are so large that it is really difficult to do justice to them, 

 unless we had a previous opportunity of considering the views 

 that were to be expressed by the readers of the papers. The 

 paper by Dr. van Hall is full of suggestions, and so is the 

 paper by Mr. Dudgeon from Egypt. Now what I would like 

 us to do at some future Congress would be to study the 

 methods of organization in connection with Agricultural 

 Departments that have been adopted by the different nations. 

 I think if we had the results before us of the work done by 

 different nations in different tropical countries we should be 



