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about all that goes on in relation to agriculture in every 

 country. Now that is the very body to collect this information. 

 It published the other day a monograph 1 on the services of 

 different phytopathologists that is to say, on the arrange- 

 ments different countries have made for obtaining information 

 on this subject, and that was obtained by the Governments 

 themselves. Now the very best means that this tropical 

 Congress has of getting such information is to address the 

 International Agricultural Institute at Rome which has a 

 staff always there and ask them to collect through their 

 Government delegates the information which you desire. I am 

 sure from the experience I have had of the Institute, and from 

 conversations with my fellow delegates on the Committee 

 there, that the Institute would receive such an application with 

 pleasure, and the delegates would probably impress it upon 

 their Governments. I make this as a practical suggestion, 

 which I think would form the best means of carrying out the 

 proposal which Professor Carmody has put forward. 



The PRESIDENT : I think it might be considered whether the 

 International Agricultural Institute at Rome would be able 

 to do what Professor Carmody has in view; but I would like 

 to point out that at the discussion on phytopathology which 

 took place the other 'day (p. 107) it appeared that the Agri- 

 cultural Institute at Rome had proposed a Convention which 

 would not be applicable to some tropical countries, and that 

 specific information with regard to tropical countries had not 

 been collected by the Institute of Agriculture at Rome. I 

 pointed out that the International Association for Tropical 

 Agriculture, under whose auspices this Congress meets, is very 

 considerably older than the International Agricultural Institute 

 at Rome, and was specially formed to deal with matters con- 

 nected with tropical agriculture. If by means of co-operation 

 with the International Agricultural Institute at Rome our 

 work could be simplified, no doubt it would be a good thing, 

 but whether the International Agricultural Institute at Rome 

 is exactly the best body to discuss what has been done in 

 regard to tropical agriculture is a matter upon which I am not 

 convinced. We have already an association for collecting such 

 information our own International Association for Tropical 

 Agriculture but I think the suggestion of Sir James Wilson 

 is one which ought to be considered by the Committee 

 appointed to determine the best way of getting what we wish. 



Dr. E. J. BUTLER (Imperial Mycologist, India) : With regard 

 to Sir James Wilson's observation and the President's explana- 

 tion, the volume which' Sir James Wilson referred to was a 

 complete account of the organization of phytopathological 



