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progress, if you will make allowance for the conditions under 

 which we are working. 



Another point I would like to mention is this : that I think 

 the members of our International Association for Tropical 

 Agriculture would be brought a little more closely together 

 if it were made a definite rule that we should exchange publica- 

 tions with each other as an international body working on the 

 same lines. Of course, as you know, most of us do so at 

 present; but I think if it were made a general rule that every 

 member of the Association w'ho is conducting experimental 

 work should send his publications to every other member of 

 the International Association we should be in closer touch with 

 each other, and when we met at the end of four years we should 

 know a great deal more about each other's work even than 

 we do at present. 



The PRESIDENT : I should like at once to dispel any im- 

 pression there may be that I underrate in any way the agricul- 

 tural work that has been done in the British Colonies by 

 Government Departments of Agriculture. On the contrary, 

 I have the greatest admiration for that work. What I wished 

 to emphasize was that, owing to lack of funds at present, it 

 was not possible to provide adequately for research; and what 

 I wanted to indicate was that more money ought to be allotted 

 for that purpose. Professor Carmody has quite rightly said 

 that a very large amount of excellent work has been done with 

 very small endowment, and I expressed that very definitely in my 

 Address. I quite agree with him in thinking that we do want to 

 get information as to how the Government Departments of 

 Agriculture in all tropical colonies are organized, the salaries 

 paid to their officers, and the total amount put at their disposal 

 by their respective Governments. I think that is a piece of 

 information which would be exceedingly useful in many 

 directions, and I am going to suggest to Professor Carmody 

 that if he thinks it desirable to put that into the form of a 

 resolution, it might be carried out by means of a Committee 

 appointed for getting all that information together. I am not 

 aware of any publication at the present time which gives us 

 these facts. 



Sir JAMES WILSON: Mr. President With reference to the 

 particular point of collecting information as to research 

 in tropical countries, I do not know whether (members 

 of this Congress are fully aware that we have an in- 

 stitution already in existence at Rome for that very 

 purpose. That institution, the International Agricultural 

 Institute, has been established by all the governments of the 

 world, including most of those countries which have tropical 

 colonies, and very considerable information is furnished to it 



