M. BRENIER (Indo-China) : As I understand it, this matter is 

 of some urgency. Might it not perhaps be useful that Govern- 

 ment representatives at this Congress should be invited to make 

 known to their Governments the terms of this resolution ? If 

 the Governments are going to adopt the Convention without 

 knowing there is any objection in scientific quarters to it 

 perhaps the report will come too late, whereas if the Govern- 

 ment representatives at this Congress immediately make 

 known to their Governments what the resolution of the 

 Congress is, we might be in time to influence any action that 

 may be taken. ;> 



The PRESIDENT: That is a very useful suggestion; it will 

 require an addition to the resolution as proposed and seconded. 



This course having been agreed to by the proposer and 

 seconder, the following addition was made to the motion : 



" And that the official representatives attending the 

 Congress should communicate this resolution to their 

 Governments." 



The resolution, thus modified, was put to the meeting by the 

 President and carried unanimously. 



The PRESIDENT : The next subject for consideration is the 

 question of the desirability of proceeding to form a British 

 Institute of Tropical Agriculture. This again is a subject 

 to which I alluded very fully in my address as being in my 

 view an urgent necessity at the present time, both in the 

 interests of the subject and of those who are engaged in it. 



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

 Mr. President The matter has been very fully explained by 

 yourself, and I think it is quite clearly understood by all the 

 members of the Congress that it is desirable that such an 

 institute should be formed. It is hardly necessary for me to 

 remind you that there is not a single class of professional man 

 and even not always professional men who are working 

 at a subject for a common purpose, who have not banded 

 themselves together into a society or institute of some kind for 

 the purpose of advancing their interests. There are dozens 

 hundreds of societies of the kind. The latest one that has 

 been formed, and which is very nearly similar to our own, 

 is the Institute of Petroleum Technologists. Recently the 

 search for petroleum has necessitated the finding of workers in 

 all parts of the world, and it has been very difficult indeed to 

 find men with a sufficient knowledge of petroleum to be able 

 to satisfy that industry. In consequence of that a school or 

 college has been formed in this country for the purpose of 

 teaching the mining of petroleum. And arising out of that 



