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These four resolutions were approved and adopted 

 unanimously by the Congress. 



The PRESIDENT : I have to propose, as President of the 

 Congress, three formal resolutions which I am sure will be 

 acceptable to everyone. The first is : 



" That the Delegates and Members of the Third 

 International Congress of Tropical Agriculture desire 

 to record their high appreciation of the hospitality so 

 generously provided by His Majesty's Government at 

 the opening of the Congress. They also desire to 

 convey their best thanks to Mr. Harcourt, Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies, and to Lord Emmott, Under- 

 secretary of State for the Colonies, for their personal 

 interest and assistance." 



The second is : 



" That this Congress desires to record its thanks to 

 His Grace the Duke of Bedford for his courtesy in 

 inviting a party of Delegates and Members to visit his 

 Experimental Fruit Farm at Ridgmont on June 27, 1914, 

 and to Mr. Spencer Pickering, the Director of the Farm, 

 for his kindness in conducting the party and explaining 

 the work of the farm and the experiments carried out 

 on it." 



The third is : 



' That this Congress desires to record its thanks to 

 the Trustees of the Lawes Agricultural Trust for their 

 courtesy in inviting a party of Delegates and Members 

 to visit the Experimental Station at Rothamsted on 

 June 27, 1914, and to Dr. E. J. Russell for his kindness 

 in conducting the party over the Laboratories and 1 the 

 Station and describing the nature of the work carried 

 on. Also to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, for his courtesy in arranging for the visit of a 

 party of Delegates and Members to Kew Gardens on 

 the afternoon of June 27, 1914." 



'v These resolutions were in turn put to the meeting and 

 carried unanimously. 



The PRESIDENT : Now we come to subjects on which 

 motions have been brought forward by members of the 

 Congress for consideration at this meeting. The first motion 

 deals with the proposed establishment of an Imperial College 

 of Agriculture in the British tropics. I personally need say 

 little or nothing on the subject, because it formed an 



