But no congress that I ever had anything to do with has 

 been entirely satisfactory to those who have taken part in it, 

 and those of us of British origin have perhaps a particular 

 tendency to criticize all that we ourselves do and take part in. 

 And if you will allow me to mention them, there are two 

 problems which, it appears to^me, will have to be considered 

 before the Congress meets again '. We shall have to consider 

 how to get through our business in a week; we have had 

 a very large number of papers, but my own feeling has 

 been that the time for discussion has not been suffi- 

 ciently long, and yet it was practically impossible to 

 provide any more. Some of our Continental friends 

 desire to make proposals with a view to improving this 

 matter of discussion at the next meeting of the Con- 

 gress. There is another aspect of our work which I 

 personally feel is very important, but again, time is the 

 difficulty ; and that is the few opportunities one has had of 

 personal intercourse with those one meets from abroad but 

 rarely. Speaking for myself these opportunities have been 

 too few, and I find that the smoking-room which was provided 

 at the beginning of the Congress has not been so largely 

 used as one could wish. The reason for that is that we have 

 met from about ten o'clock in the morning till about six 

 in the evening, and there has been but a very short interval 

 for lunch, and a shorter interval (often encroached on) for 

 tea, so that there has been very little opportunity for us to 

 meet in other ways. That is a matter which we ought in 

 some way or other to try to improve. 



We have had the great pleasure of receiving a number of 

 very distinguished authorities in tropical agriculture, and the 

 Congress has been a very great pleasure to me and, I know,% 

 all connected with it, and, so far from pronouncing a funeral 

 oration, I already look forward to the time and place of the 

 meeting of the next Congress. There seems to be a general 

 opinion that it should meet within the next three years. 

 Where it shall meet cannot at present, I think, be decided. 

 Some of our Continental friends wish to make some sugges- 

 tions with regard to that, but I do not think that we can 

 to-day, even if time allowed, decide the time and place of 

 our next meeting. But wherever it is, we will hope that the 

 meeting will be, at least, as large and successful as the 

 present Congress. 



M. E. LEPLAE (Belgium): I have to say in the name of 



