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to provide for or, beUer still, to try and entirely replace 

 this amount the people at home must learn a little of 

 what the Tropics has meant to them and done for them, 

 in men, money, and foodstuffs, and so be induced to give 

 West and East each an Agricultural College, and an 

 Institute of Scientihc and Commercial Research. We 

 have already suggested that the West Indies should follow 

 the example of the Federated Malay States, Canada, 

 South Africa, and the Australian States, and have a 

 museum of specimens and samples attached to a bureau 

 of information and publicity in a wide-windowed shop 

 facing the popular side of a leading thoroughfare. By 

 some such means alone can we advertise the unique 

 advantages offered by these possessions as centres for 

 planting and trading, and so draw to them those men, 

 with capital of their own or at tlieir command, who will 

 be available and anxious to settle down, but not within 

 the four walls of a city clerk's office or storekeeper's 

 establishment and the everlasting streets of a big city or 

 town. 



