PUBLICATIONS DEVOTED TO TROPICAL AGRICULTURE 

 AND RESEARCH. 



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By W. R. DUNLOP, 



Scientific Assistant to the Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



The number of journals, official and unofficial, dealing with 

 tropical agriculture is large, and is still increasing. The 

 writer is of the opinion that there is need for centralization; 

 that the literature belonging to any group of colonies should 

 be issued as far as possible through a central office, and a clear 

 line drawn between literature which is local and that which 

 is general in its application. 



Another requirement is greater specialization, particularly 

 in respect of papers on applied chemistry, biology, etc., which 

 should only appear in journals devoted to these branches of 

 science, and not in purely agricultural or commercial journals. 

 Amendment in this respect would simplify reference work, and 

 would give each kind of information its proper status. 



The writer gives the three principal sources from which 

 literature on tropical agriculture originates, and calls special 

 attention to the importance of the summarizing publications, 

 which are of great value owing to the scattered nature of 

 information on the numberless subjects which come within the 

 sphere of tropical planting and research. 



The greater portion of the paper is devoted to an 

 enumeration of those periodicals which deal especially with 

 the various tropical crops of major importance. These notes 

 appear under crop headings, viz., rubber, cotton and fibres, 

 sugar, tea and rice, coffee and tobacco, coconuts and bananas, 

 cacao and citrus fruits. The final section of the paper includes 

 a list of the principal publications devoted essentially to plant 

 pests and diseases. 



AGRICULTURAL SANITATION IN THE GOLD COAST. 



By W. H. PATTERSON, 



Government Entomologist, Gold Coast Colony. 

 [No abstract supplied by the author.] 



