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planters and the Colonial Office to the influence 

 of the leading members of the Committee 

 of Colonial Agriculture (Kolonialwirtschaft- 

 lichen Komitee). Apparently there was an 

 impression that only such questions of tropical 

 agriculture should be countenanced as had 

 obtained the approval of the Committee, and 

 that the least that could be clone in connection 

 with any other investigations and endeavours 

 was to place difficulties in the way. Under 

 these circumstances I was particularly pleased 

 to gain the support of Mr. Monteiro de 

 Mendonca of Lisbon, the proprietor of the 

 well-known cacao plantation, " Boa Entrada" 

 in San Thome. Just as some years earlier, 

 when engaged in studying the cultivation and 

 manufacture of indigo and tea, I was most 

 kindly received by the English in India, so, on 

 this occasion, it was by the Portuguese. Thanks 

 to this I commenced work in San Thome in 

 1903, and the conclusions I had arrived at as 

 the result of the investigations I carried out 

 in 1899 in the Cameroons, and continued in 

 Germany, were fully confirmed. 



Researches on Cacao Fermentation at San Thom. 



To enable me to carry out the oxidation 

 process, two oxidation chambers were erected 

 in San Thome, fitted with a heating apparatus, 

 by means of which the temperature in both the 

 chambers, either singly or together, could, 

 when desired, be raised to, or maintained at, 



